Cooks adjust for trans fat ban in new year: ; Md. restaurants say switch will add expense to monthly supplies

WASHINGTON - Starting New Year's Day, the toast at Tastee Dinerin Bethesda, Md., will be buttered with something unusual: butter.

With the first phase of Montgomery County's restaurant ban ontrans fat going into effect Tuesday, the diner's Bethesda and SilverSpring branches will switch from the margarine that has been thenorm for more than 35 years to genuine butter, owner Gene Wilkessaid.

"It'll cost more, about 5 cents per breakfast," Wilkes said ofhis return to a real dairy spread, which is about twice as expensiveas his margarine. "We're talking about a lot of toast here."

Wilkes estimated the switch to a trans-fat-free menu will add$1,500 a month to his …

Blacks also know about terror

Yes, America, we Blacks also have known terror -- constant, murderous terror that failed to move the sensibilities of most white citizens of the United States.

Last Friday I stood at the graves of two famous African Americans in Mims, Fla., where I bowed my head in homage to two martyrs, both unarmed bloody victims of American-style racial terror.

While I was invited to Daytona Beach to address the 29th Annual Freedom Fund Dinner of the local NAACP, I insisted on first visiting the graves of Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette. The little community of Mims is just 45 minutes from Daytona Beach by car.

As I stood there in silence with host NAACP President Cynthia …

Green oil recycler opens plant in northeast Ohio

The United States' first plant with the capacity to recycle used transformer oil opened this week in northeastern Ohio, bringing some coveted green jobs to an area that has lost many industrial jobs.

The Hydrodec plant has the capacity to recycle 8 million gallons of transformer oil each year. Transformer oil insulates and cools transformers, which switch electrical supply from low to high voltage for transmission over long distances.

"There isn't anyone else out there that can do what we do," said John Cowan, president of Hydrodec North America, a subsidiary of London-based Hydrodec Group Plc.

The plant removes contaminants in a …

Sentencing delayed over nye death

A Cheddar man found guilty of manslaughter at Bristol Crown Courthas had the date of his sentencing put back.

Samuel Binning, 21, was to be sentenced last Monday but a reporton him has been delayed.

He will now be sentenced on Friday, August 12.

Binning, now living in Crediton, Devon, has …

Three homers for Brewers' Jenkins

Geoff Jenkins put an emphatic end to his hitting slump.

Jenkins hit three home runs, and Olympic hero Ben Sheets pitched 61/3 strong innings for his first major-league victory in the hostMilwaukee Brewers' 8-4 victory Saturday against the Montreal Expos.

Jenkins, who was 3-for-4 with six RBI, homered in the first,fourth and fifth innings to join the Toronto Blue Jays' CarlosDelgado, the Pittsburgh Pirates' Aramis Ramirez and the ColoradoRockies' Todd Hollandsworth as players to homer three times in a gamethis season.

"I felt good in batting practice today," Jenkins said. "You neverknow when a situation like that is going to happen, especiallyagainst …

2 killed, 10 foreigners hurt in China road crash

BEIJING (AP) — State media say a vehicle collision on a highway in northern China has killed two Chinese and injured 10 foreigners.

Xinhua News Agency says the van carrying the foreigners collided head-on with a car Monday near Erenhot in Inner Mongolia province along the Mongolian border. The two Chinese citizens in the car died on the scene.

The foreigners …

Review: `Other Guys' a buddy-cop movie that works

If the mismatched-buddy cop movie seems egregiously overdone, the idea of a parody of that genre would seem especially needless, which is what makes "The Other Guys" such a wonderful surprise.

On paper, this could have been painfully lame. Will Ferrell is doing a variation on his tried-and-true film persona: the overly earnest guy who is totally confident and oblivious to his buffoonery. Mark Wahlberg, meanwhile, is playing with his screen image as a tough guy and a hothead, doing a version of his Oscar-nominated role in "The Departed." And the joke you see in the TV commercials, Ferrell blasting Little River Band's mellow '70s hit …