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Chives produced by a New York company called Goodness Gardens have been recalled, the FDA announced, over fears they might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which can cause a serious infection called listeriosis. In pregnant women — who are 20 times more likely to contract the disease — listeriosis can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or a life-threatening infection for the newborn. The FDA says the chives were sold primarily by retailers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Alabama, Illinois and Virginia.

Journalist Lisa Ling says she felt like a "complete failure" after suffering a miscarriage six months ago.

Ling, who appeared on "The View" from 1999 to 2002, came back to the show Tuesday to talk about her experience. Her taped appearance will air Friday.

Ling says that after she'd been pregnant for nine weeks, she was told her baby had no heartbeat. She says she "felt more like a failure than I'd felt in a very long time."

On a cold night in mid-October, a couple hundred bejeweled women in gowns file into the Pierre with their dates for a very special 50th-birthday party. Before retiring to a three-hour lobster-and-steak dinner in the hotel’s main ballroom, they collect oversize spoons of foie gras as Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” blasts from overhead speakers in a robin’s-egg-blue reception room, with a bar festooned with the kind of miniature silver stars that teachers give exemplary students.