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NATIONAL
G20-STUDY (Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) -- PITTSBURGH: Calling the impending summit of world leaders an opportunity to learn and a potential wellspring of legislation, a councilman is floating a resolution to create a G-20 Fact-Finding Committee. 400.
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
SOFTWARE-SONGS (Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle) -- Computer programs already recommend books to read or DVDs to watch. But can a mathematical algorithm predict if a song will become a hit? 750.
COMPUTE (Derk, SHNS -- Column) -- Computer Central. Take a look at the best free anti-virus products on the market and the results. 500.
RESUMANIA (Messmer, SHNS -- Column) -- Dos and don'ts for resumes and cover letters. 400.
IN THE WEST
CAL-WATER (WEISER, Sacramento Bee) -- The stalemate over water reform in California focuses on dams. 600.
ENTERTAINMENT
MEATLOAF-TV (Sheridan, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) -- A Q and A with Meat Loaf, the man not the meal. 800.
OWEN-TV (Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- Column) -- Embargoed for Saturday release. PASADENA, Calif.: Jay Leno's move to prime time --call it bold or desperate -- shakes up the broadcast network landscape. 850. With photo: SH09I053OWEN.
RELIGION
RELIGION-FAITH (Mattingly, SHNS -- Column) -- On Religion. Showing respect for others in hot public debates. 750.
YOUNT-FAITH (Yount, SHNS -- Column) -- Amazing Grace. Britons leave home to seek help with suicide. 500.
LIVING
THINLYREAD (Grabow, SHNS -- Column) -- Thinly Read. Home improvement doesn't come cheap. 500.
ASKCARLEY (Roney, SHNS) -- Ask Carley. You can never ask any bride to change her wedding date. 150.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
CORNER-BOOKS (MacPherson, SHNS) -- Children's Corner. Kate DiCamillo's new book, "The Magician's Elephant," is full of delightful magic. 750. With photos: SH09I049CORNER, SH09I050CORNER.
HEALTH AND FITNESS
HEARTPUMP (Maher, St. Petersburg Times) -- TAMPA, Fla.: A pump helped to mend his broken heart. 700. With photo: SH09I051HEARTPUMP
AMINOACIDQUIZ (McManis, Sacramento Bee) -- Do you really need those amino acid supplements you see on the pharmacy shelf? Take this quiz and see. 250.
COMMENT
DESSERT (Dale McFeatters, SHNS -- Column) -- Just Dessert. What Obama was really saying in his speech to schoolchildren. 550.
HENRY (Henry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- Column) -- President Obama's speech to the school kids may go down as the moment where much of America went off its rocker. 800.
MAY (May, SHNS -- Column) -- President Obama must use his not inconsiderable powers of persuasion to make the case that Afghanistan is both worth winning and winnable. 650.
DELAISLA (de la Isla, Hispanic Link -- Column) -- A fight among bookworms. 650.
ERBE (Erbe, SHNS -- Column) -- The right and the left are both making mistakes. 600.
WALTERS (Walters, Sacramento Bee -- Column) -- The California legislature is now frantic, as if on meth. 400.
SCRIPPS HOWARD EDITORIALS
EDNASA (Dale McFeatters, SHNS) -- A blue-ribbon panel urges NASA to scale back on its plans for an early return to the moon. 300.
EDPOLIO (Dale McFeatters, SHNS) -- Pakistan has resumed polio vaccinations in the Swat valley after the Taliban banned the practice. 250.
EDITORIAL CARTOONS
09ECOBAMA (Charlie Daniel, Knoxville News-Sentinel) -- Rather than risking Obama brainwashing her kids, this mother kept them home so they could vegetate in front of the YV.
SPORTS
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
FBCCOLLCAPS09 (Lindsay, SHNS) -- Capsule previews of Thursday's Clemson-Georgia Tech and Friday's Colorado-Toledo games. 550.
FBCMCNULTY (McNulty, SHNS -- column) -- In the blink of an instant and a dropped pass, the fortunes of Miami and Florida State were changed late Monday night. 570.
FBCPATTON (Patton, The Press-Enterprise -- column) -- LOS ANGELES: USC a bit leery of Vince Young-clone Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor, who awaits the No. 3 Trojans Saturday night in Columbus. 590.
NBA:
IVERSON (Tillery, SHNS) -- MEMPHIS: Free agent guard Allen Iverson agrees to deal to join the Memphis Grizzlies. 250.
NFL
STEELERS (Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- analysis) -- Five things the Steelers must do if they want to defend their Super Bowl title. 690.
BASEBALL:
KNAPP (Knapp, San Francisco Chronicle -- column) -- Brewers raucous yet staged home-plate celebrations planting the seeds of discontent around baseball. 330.
SPORTS COLLECTIBLES
ASKBABE09 (Waxpak, SHNS -- Column) -- The Babe answers sports collectibles questions and adds a few notes. 700. With photo: SH09I048ASKBABE
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