objectives, the bill requires national standards to be set for food sold at schools, including meals and vending machine snacks.

It already allows incidental sales of raw milk-a few gallons here and there-but Jim Doyle, the governor, has vetoed a bill that would have allowed it to be sold more widely.

Municipal-bond markets continued to rally, however, on the news that Wilbur Ross and Bill Gross, two big investors, were ploughing money into municipal bonds that are being sold-off cheaply.