1.   Evelyn King of Springtown, Texas, recalls a dish she used to make called salmon pie.

2.   For that reason, traditional telephone equipment companies like Nortel and Lucent and Internet equipment makers like Cisco are working to make Internet calling more than just a curiosity.

3.   He also described his new acquisitions, including a company called MiTek that makes steel plates used in roofing trusses, and XTRA, which leases truck trailers.

4.   In hardscrabble mountainous parts of northern Italy, like the Valtellina area in Lombardy, dark buckwheat flour is still used to make pasta called pizzoccheri.

5.   In the plant Arabidopsis, a laboratory favorite, researchers found genes resembling ones used by animals to make structures called glutamate receptors.

6.   They make blood cells called platelets less prone to clotting, and also act as antioxidants, countering the artery-damaging potential of highly reactive free radical chemicals.

7.   The enzyme artifically altered in the experiment is commonly found in starch and is used to make sugars called oligosaccharides, NEC said.