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You can often tell when an article’s good by how much you’ve left out, and my cover story on Mike Bianco is missing plenty of material.

Illinois’ Senator Richard Durbin'spithy, “Is ‘the corner of happy and healthy’ somewhere in the Swiss Alps?” quickly became a sound bite with teeth.

For a while we thought this was the only way. They're candies. What else can you do but eat those bad boys — preferably as quickly as possible?

You can always tell when someone is writing about dollar stores who has never actually been to a dollar store.

The acquisition will firmly establish Lindt as the No. 3 chocolate candy manufacturer in the U.S. market—still behind Hershey and Mars, but now firmly ahead of Swiss rival and global food leader Nestlé.

When Forest Gump’s mother pointed out that life, like a box of chocolates, is full of surprises, I don’t think she even expected Lindt & Sprüngli to be the one to acquire Russell Stover Candies.

I’d like to point out another winning effort that happened last month, the World Cocoa Foundation’s CocoaAction initiative.

Each day I receive an electronic newsletter from Advocate Health Care, part of a pro-active program tied to my wife’s health insurance.

Each day I receive an electronic newsletter from Advocate Health Care, part of a pro-active program tied to my wife’s health insurance.

Look, I’m not going to come right out and tell you guys that everyone needs to start preparing for the day when candy sales are restricted to those 18 and over. But I do think we need to be worried about it as a possibility.