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By LEIGH GROGAN
Mail carriers hate this time of year. So do the folks who have to stock bookstore shelves.

Why? Because it's time to deliver those overloaded September fall fashion magazines.

We did this experiment several years ago, so we thought it might be fun to "weigh in" again with just how bulky they are.

To keep things official, the magazines were weighed in The Sacramento Bee's mailroom on the official scale _ not on something in someone's bathroom.

And keep in mind, for some of the mags, this is their biggest-revenue issue.

By GAIL ROSENBLUM
Years ago, marriage and family therapist Brier Miller was working with a couple who had made terrific progress. So Miller knew it might be time to end the counseling relationship.

Yet, she hesitated.

By MARY POWERS
Candace Hair's right eye still looked red and angry, but for the first time in her life she wasn't in the front row when fall classes resumed, and when she drove home she actually saw the road and the other cars.

Four days earlier she was lying in an operating room in Memphis, Tenn.

By LISA O'DONNELL
Monday, October 23, 2006
College freshmen have a lot on their plate, including too much food.

The Freshman 15 is a nifty phrase to describe the weight gain that many students experience during their first year in school.

Freshmen are dealing with a set of issues that most veteran students have sorted through, such things as living away from home, adjusting to course work and finding new friends.

Those stresses can lead to weight gain, said Daphne Oz, who wrote "The Dorm Room Diet," a book about living healthy in college.

By LISA O'DONNELL
College freshmen have a lot on their plate, including too much food.

The Freshman 15 is a nifty phrase to describe the weight gain that many students experience during their first year in school.

Freshmen are dealing with a set of issues that most veteran students have sorted through, such things as living away from home, adjusting to course work and finding new friends.

Those stresses can lead to weight gain, said Daphne Oz, who wrote "The Dorm Room Diet," a book about living healthy in college.

By MAUREEN GILMER
Sunday, November 05, 2006
They are broken, diseased and infectious. They should be held in quarantine. Known as rectified tulips, these afflicted beauties are the most unusual of all fall planted bulbs.

Food trivia questions from Food Network's "Unwrapped" show that airs on Monday at 9 and 9:30 PM ET/PT.

1. How many shopping malls are there in the United States?

2. A typical grocery store has how many products?

3.

By HELAINE FENDELMAN and JOE ROSSON
DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: I hope you can tell me something about this horse. It is approximately 31 inches tall and 36 inches long. The antiques dealer who sold it to me said it was found covered with dirt in a barn in France.

By LYNNE ROSSETTO KASPER
Dear Lynne: A Rocky Mountain vacation gave us a mess of our very own fresh-caught trout. A lot got frozen, and we're getting tired of frying the fish in bacon fat. What other ways can we cook these critters? _ Ornery Anglers in Evergreen

Dear Ornery Anglers: You can poach them in a white wine and garlic, or pan-fry in olive oil with tarragon and lemon slices, but right now I would cash in on all those cheap fresh herbs at farmers markets with this recipe.

By CINDY SUTTER
"If I could save time in a bottle ..."

Yeah, it's corny. Way corny. Like most places now, when those plump, oh-so-sweet kernels bursting in your mouth are a special pleasure of summer.