Participatory budgeting - a programme for mass participation in municipal budget allocation - is another major ingredient in the toolkit.

BBC: Alternative views of the economic crisis

As an alternative to petroleum-based components, cellulose is the plastic's major ingredient.

ENGADGET: NEC builds a better bioplastic from plant stems and cashew nut shells

Tests for horsemeat in processed meat products have now been expanded to look at foodstuffs labelled as containing beef as a major ingredient.

BBC: Beef being put through a mincer

It is sunny nearly all the time, avocado is a major ingredient on nearly every menu and unlike New York, where you may see a celebrity in passing (and ignore them, since that is the New York thing to do), in LA, it is hard to go a night without rubbing elbows with someone in the "biz".

BBC: This is Los Angeles week

Unfortunately for Bush, this third and final debate underscored both the prime ingredient for the presidency and the major difference between the two candidates: experience.

CNN: Bill Press: Gore finally hits his stride

It turned out that it was actually quite effective at lowering cholesterol and the reason it was effective at lowering cholesterol is that it was the same, it produced the same active ingredient as one of the drugs that a major manufacturer of pharmaceuticals used.

NPR: Slate's Medical Examiner: Doubts on Supplements