INDIANAPOLIS - The defenses in Super Bowl XLVI will head into Sunday's game with similar philosophies: No one likes to get hit, especially a quarterback.

So Tom Brady of the New England Patriots and Eli Manning of the New York Giants understand that it not only will take skill but toughness to celebrate on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium in a shower of confetti.

INDIANAPOLIS - No player should feel more at home at the Super Bowl than New York Giants offensive tackle James Brewer, even though it would be a huge surprise if he were to be listed on the active roster for the game.

If there is such an animal as an economic report of unalloyed good news, the January unemployment report was as close as it gets, especially seen in the context of the recession and the tremendous hurdles in emerging from it.

The nation's hopes ran high in the historic year 2008. For the first time, we elected an African-American as our president. Hispanics clearly helped make it happen. They supported him nationally, 67 percent to 31 percent, over John McCain, while providing him with a clear electoral-vote edge in Florida, among other key states.

We are just a month into the new year and already you may have a to-do list that runs halfway across the office, a backlog of email and tasks left over from slacking off around the holidays.

It's enough pressure to trigger a nervous breakdown. What's a stressed-out, overwhelmed office worker to do?

Purge and prioritize.

Eleven years ago, Karen Erickson was told she had two years to live.

Erickson, 45, with lungs that work at less than 20 percent, was diagnosed with a disease so little known that the physician's assistant who delivered the news didn't get it quite right.

In the spring of 2010, thousands of online customers clicked on the terms of service at Game-station.co.uk and unwittingly sold their souls.