By Kenneth Lowe, Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill. Jul. 29--DECATUR -- City staff and representatives of Archer Daniels Midland Co. in a meeting last week eliminated a new lake as a top option for increasing the city's water supply. Assistant City Manager Billy Tyus called the meeting productive.

By Suzette Parmley, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jul. 17--Sunoco Inc. announced yesterday that it had elected Lynn Laverty Elsenhans, a veteran oil industry executive, as the company's next chief executive officer and president, effective Aug. 8. Elsenhans replaces CEO and president John G.

By Valerie Wells, Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill. Jul. 5--DECATUR -- Computers rule the workplace.

By Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel May 18--CHILTON -- One of Wisconsin's largest breweries is tucked into a modern industrial building in this small town, and its beers never make it to the corner tavern or local liquor store.

By Rachel Melcer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb. 8--Imagine an oilseed, not part of the food chain, that can produce biodegradable plastic and improve the economics of making biodiesel. That is the vision of scientists at Cambridge, Mass.-based Metabolix Inc.