16/12/2008 | So we now have desperate parents attempting to bribe teachers to get their children into a selective high school. What a sad indictment of our education policies, the holy grail of which is parental choice.

Korey Outerbridge was in Iraq when the idea came to him: He needed to write a children’s book. “We had phone tents when we deployed, for soldiers to call back to the states,“ Outerbridge said. Crossword-puzzle and race-car magazines lay scattered about the phone tents. Soldiers would thumb through them while they waited to contact to their families, the 29-year-old Newport News native recalled.

As you sit down for breakfast, why not test your knowledge of Habs history with a Canadiens crossword? Don't get discouraged, there will be another one next weekend and every Saturday after that.

A flair for words will only get you so far in the competitive Scrabble world. To compete with the best area players at the popular crossword board game, you need much more than word knowledge, said Dominick Mancine, one of the directors of the Boulder Scrabble Club. The best also are experts at anagramming -- unscrambling letters to create words. They're spatial thinkers, knowing the best ...

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Joan R. Clark Rhode, 78, of Lafayette, died Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009, at Seton Specialty Hospital.

Q. I generally enjoy my work, but I routinely feel kind of fuzzy in the afternoon. I'd like to be more productive in the second half of my workday. Any suggestions?

Fans of casual, family-friendly games are about to see their circle of fun widen with a slate of new Hasbro-branded digital play experiences on a variety of platforms from Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS) in 2009. Leading the charge is SCRABBLE , which rocketed to the No. 1 position on Pogo.com ™ with more than 2.5 million players laying down virtual tiles since its June 2008 launch. The ...