We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.

[Yet the bars, goos, and ices are no substitute for real food.] Energy bars are manufactured products, ... What you're missing from any kind of manufactured product are the benefits from nature -- the chemicals that aren't vitamins or minerals, but are phytochemicals -- which are still beneficial to our health.

What I would far rather see is for someone to eat a sandwich and a piece of fruit, instead of that PowerBar. It's still something you can hold in your hand, but you're getting the whole grain from the bread, protein from the sandwich contents -- whether that's meat or cheese or fish -- and fiber from the whole grain and from the fruit.

Recovery work at the crash site will resume upon the arrival of a mortuary affairs team.

Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade,

Mullah Hajji Jilani, a former Taliban sub-commander of Paktika province has renounced violence against government of Afghanistan and joined the peace process on August 4.