By MACKENZIE CARPENTER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Is Terri Kaduck the Michelangelo of shirt pressers?

Her boss thinks so.

"She is an artist," says Todd Fennell, owner of Martinizing Dry Cleaners in Pine, near Pittsburgh. "She's been with us for 30 years and I've often told her very few people could do what she does."

Madison Avenue, take heed: The American Medical Association has weighed in on the controversial and widespread practice of photoshopping models and actresses -- Kate Winslet, Faith Hill and others -- to make them look younger, thinner and/or more voluptuous.

Karl Rove was the only Bush administration staffer who had it on Air Force One on Sept. 11, 2001. Barack Obama famously resisted giving up his after being elected president in 2008. And the paparazzi captured Sarah Jessica Parker's twins chewing on hers.

Laura Miller of Salon.com recently wondered whether reading "great" books makes you a better person. Obviously not, since we all know plenty of well-read jerks.

SISSINGHURST, England - It has been the warmest April here in 100 years, prompting all sorts of gloomy, doomy reminders in the media about how beautiful weather always precedes a world war or two (The Times, April 17: "1911's Perfect Summer: As the mercury rose, they danced on the edge of the abyss. ...").

LONDON - A long-running fairy tale culminated at Westminster Abbey on Friday: A handsome young prince married a beautiful young commoner amid massive jubilation. And, presumably, they will live happily ever after.

But where, exactly?

LONDON - Behind the pomp, pageantry and glamour of a royal wedding lurks something called Austerity Britain.

It's a Britain where shops, senior centers and libraries are closing, rioters are protesting the tripling of student fees and 81 billion pounds' worth of spending cuts -- with the most drastic to begin this month -- are under way to address a gargantuan deficit.

LONDON - Dame Edna was there, nibbling pink cupcakes, weaving through the cavernous, gilded rooms and telling Jay Leno's "Tonight" crew that she knew where Kate Middleton and Prince William were going on their honeymoon.

Where?

"Libya."

LONDON - Knit your own royal wedding.

Need we say more?

LONDON - "A 'Who's Who' of tyrants and their cronies," blazed one headline. "Riffraff at the royal wedding but no Tony Blair," screamed another.