Sony hopes sports stars bring holiday cheer (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Sony Corp. is betting on 16-year-old golf dynamo Michelle Wie to drive home sales of its cameras, laptop computers and flat-screen TVs during a holiday season critical to its turnaround.

Shedding stress at Shasta`s hot springs (Norwalk Advocate)

Soak and swim until worries, maybe inhibitions, wash away A middle-age couple, each dressed in nothing but a thin sheet, stood on the riverbank and contemplated the rushing water of Parks Creek. From my spot on the nearby bathhouse deck, I could see the dry-erase board where someone had scribbled the water temperature: 40 degrees.

Buy-buy to summer: Time for back-to-school shopping (The Taunton Gazette)

TAUNTON - Ian Easter, 5, dug through a pile of colorful folders, packs of crayons, rulers big and small and pens of all shapes, sizes and colors before making his choice: a calculator.

Arts ` Letters Daily (15 Aug 2006)

As an event, 9/11 was a perfect entry point into the softness and indulgence that mass media most like to exploit. It`s been a long funeral... more Ann Coulter says liberals have devised a new atheist religion, with sacraments of abortion, feminism, coddling criminals, and sex with dogs!... more Trivia books - which strip meaning from knowledge, giving us info, but the not the context we need to apply it - are part of a general dumbing down. Call it Jolt Culture... more