Quoted: The US economy remains the world's most competitive, despite the country's soaring trade deficit, a study says.

Some really incredible rooms in the slide show...not classy, exactly, but interesting and colorful and fun.

If the increase in childhood alergies isn't related to the "helicopter parent" phenomenon that's developed in the last few years, I'll be hornswaggled, as my Grammy used to say.

Quoted: At a routine breakfast nearly eight years ago, Maureen Yandrisevits spread peanut butter and jelly on her bagel, wiped off the knife and then spread jelly on her 11-month-old son's bagel.

In a design to be unveiled today in the oil-rich emirate, David Fisher, an Italian-Israeli architect, has dreamed up a 68-story combination hotel, apartment and office tower where the floors would rotate 360 degrees. Each floor would rotate independently, creating a constantly changing architectural form.

Pretty amazing shot of Montenegro...

Quoted: Read and release your books into the wild! Tag your used books with a unique tracking number, then follow their travels through the world at BookCrossing, the world's biggest book club.

This could be helpful...and it'scool becaue it's not a government reg, it's voluntary on the part of the airlines.

Quoted: As the immigration debate polarises the US, one former illegal immigrant explains the pull of opportunities across the border.

This article highlights why it's so dangerous for the developed world to continue the debate of whether global warming is a result of man's carbon monoxide emissions or a natural fluctuation and to treat it as a political subject. Maybe it *is* a short-run warming in the long-run of the Earth's history. But short-run, long run, man-made or natural, warming is set to put the regions of the world already saddled with so many problems with another one. I think we in the developed world should cut the crap and help.