Top Picks ~ Week of October 16, 2006

By Helaine Olen John Halko was halfway through renovating an expanded space for Comfort, his mostly organic eatery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when the credit crisis

Here is the year-to-date price change in commodities and stocks: Crude oil up 43% Ethanol up 21% Heating oil up 44% Natural gas up 77%

By Anthony Wood A new satellite designed to take detailed, near real-time measurements of rain and snowfall on a global scale whilst mapping the interior