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Advertising In Fantasy and Reality, Its a Frenzy for Football
Football has been crucial to the American advertising-industrial complex, and with the N.F.L.s kickoff game on Sept. 5, the marketers have been in a huddle.


Dashboard Today in Small Business Cliffgate
The clock is ticking on the budget battles. Home prices are surging. How to maintain a brand.


Column Manziel's Punishment Beyond Laughable
Don't blink, or you may miss Johnny Football's suspension.


Frugal Traveler What I Learned Driving Through the Heartland
This summer, the Frugal Traveler drove from Louisiana to North Dakota, crossing into a number of states for the first time. What did he discover? Some lessons from the road.


The Catch, the Quake, the Breeze, the Stick
The end of an era for San Franciscos ballpark by the bay begins with the 49ers opener against Green Bay on Sept. 8 and ends in demolition after the N.F.L. season.


Endangered sea turtles nesting at record level along southeast U.S. coast
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Endangered sea turtles are nesting in record numbers along the southeast Atlantic Coast this summer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on Friday, although they still face environmental threats from ocean pollution and a possible rise in sea levels.


T Magazine Food Matters | Where Cold-Pressed Juice and Raw Food Are Art Forms
Amanda Chantal Bacon, who is about to open a second location of her cult Los Angeles shop Moon Juice, brings a chefs touch to her cold-pressed concoctions.


Taylor Farms, Big Food Supplier, Grapples With Frequent Recalls
Taylor Farms, a giant supplier of produce and other food products, has a recent record of recalls that industry experts call high.


Girl, 4, crushed by bulldozer in China
The death of a four-year-old girl run over by a bulldozer in rural China has triggered outrage on Chinese social media, rekindling anger over the issue of forced evictions.


Mom of autistic Canadian boy Letter writer 'cowardly'
An Ontario mom is speaking out after a family received an anonymous letter imploring them to move or euthanize their autistic son because of the "nuisance" the teen poses to the community.


UPDATE 1-PG shares briefly sink 5 percent in brisk trade
NEW YORK, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Shares of Procter Gamble fell nearly 5 percent in active trading during a brief period at midday on'm Friday.


UPDATE 2-Tessenderlo profit warning sends shares to 20-year low
* Expects core profit in 2013 to be 20 pct below last year


Nuclear Operator Raises Alarm on Crisis
Tepco, the operator of Japans tsunami-hit nuclear power plant, said there were more than 200,000 tons of radioactive water in tanks vulnerable to leaks, adding to a list of problems.


Warhawks Have Full Attention of No. 16 Oklahoma
Facing a ranked opponent on the road to open the season is no big deal for Louisiana-Monroe, which has Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops concerned.


Fighting 'leftover women' label
On the face of it, women in China seem to have cracked the code for success.


Wealth Matters Despite Drop in Commodity Prices, Farmland Values Rise
After the financial crisis, real estate was generally shunned. But global demand and other factors caused farmland prices to surge.


Japan displays its military firepower
Aug. 21 - Japan's military shows off its firepower in major exercise amid tensions with China over a territorial dispute. Jessica Gray reports.


Taylor Farms, Big Food Supplier, Grapples With Frequent Recalls
Taylor Farms, a giant supplier of produce and other food products, has a recent record of recalls that industry experts call high.


Green Column Wind Farms Take Root Out at Sea
Now on the same scale as gas- or coal-fired power stations, wind farms have grown large offshore. Though costs are slowly decreasing, the industry still has a long way to go to become competitive.


The Heart, She Holler Is Back on Adult Swim
The Heart, She Holler, the twisted soap opera parody, is entering its second season in Cartoon Networks Adult Swim lineup.


Justice Department talks with Microsoft and Google stall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice's talks with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have hit a wall as the government pushes back at the tech companies' demand for the ability to disclose the now-secret data requests they receive.


Use of sleeping pills highest among older Americans CDC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Older U.S. adults, particularly women, are more likely to use prescription sleep medications to try to get the minimum seven hours of sleep experts generally recommend, U.S....


Edinburgh Strategy Check Reviews, Take Chances, Hope for the Best
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe more than 2,800 performances of theater, music, comedy, dance and more spread among 275 venues is impossible to consume fully.


UPDATE 1-Ivorian agency, cocoa exporters dispute costs, prices
ABIDJAN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast cocoa exporters have rejected a price structure proposed by the industry regulator for the 2013/14 season, saying it underestimated their costs, and have called for government mediation, industry sources said.


Crime Scene The Luck of an Unlicensed Barber Runs Out
A police inspection of a barbershop in Ridgewood, Queens, turns up a suspect in a vicious assault in a Mexican restaurant.


ArtsBeat Weekly Ticket Sales Drop Under $1 Million for Broadways Spider-Man
A spokesman for the production linked the drop in sales to the recent injury of one of the performers.


A Wild Justice, by Evan J. Mandery
A landmark decision reignited the death penalty debate.


Roundup In Return, Dempster Delivers Win for Red Sox
Returning from a suspension for hitting Alex Rodriguez, Ryan Dempster pitched Boston to a victory over the White Sox.


Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
Aug 30 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 800 p.m. GMT on Friday


For News From Syrian Battleground, a Reliance on Social Media
The dangers of news organizations reporting in Syria have kept most journalists outside the countrys borders and heightened the need for third-party video.


The kings of scary-high bridges
The world's highest bridges don't scare two men who have traveled to some of the scariest on the planet. And sometimes, when nobody's looking, they climb them.


Williams Sisters Move On at US Open
After a late night playing singles at the U.S. Open, Serena Williams returned Saturday afternoon and teamed with sister Venus for a 6-4, 6-4 doubles victory over Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears.


GMO corn failing to protect fields from pest damage report
(Reuters) - Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report.


Shuttle lands at California air base
NASA officials Sunday waved off the first opportunity for space shuttle Endeavour to return to Earth, citing poor weather conditions.


Gingrich Will Be Back in the Crossfire on CNN
As a host of CNNs revived Crossfire, Newt Gingrich will become a member of the news media that he once criticized. And I hope to move it to the right, he said.


N. Korea 'in grip of drugs epidemic'
North Korea's sanction-hit regime has long been accused of drug trafficking as a source of hard currency, but a new report claims drug producers are finding a ready market closer to home and that as many as two-thirds of North Koreans have used methamphetamines.


Editors Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.


Slow pace of justice wears down Occupy Wall Street defendants
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Occupy Wall Street protesters who once vowed to "occupy" the courts by challenging their arrests on minor violations have since been defeated by the slow pace of justice, with many forgoing trial.


Large earthquake hits remote Alaska waters, no tsunami seen
ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - A large 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck early on Friday in waters 57 miles off the remote Alaska island of Adak, a former U.S. Navy station that is now a commercial fishing and maritime-service center, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.


NASAs Deputy Administrator Is Leaving Agency
Lori B. Garver, a top administrator at the agency who played a large role in drafting the Obama administrations controversial space policies, will leave next month.


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