WASHINGTON - The federal agency overseeing the investigation into Chinese drywall has approved a screening test for homes with potentially tainted drywall, according to Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.

Shortly after the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a report Monday detailing its investigation, Sen. Nelson said that he had spoken with the agency's chair, Inez Tenenbaum

The news that an Atlantic Coast Conference officiating crew missed the call twice on a Clemson fumble last week against N.C. State wasn't surprising to anyone who had a decent look at the television replays.

This is Bob Lyon's version of a midlife-crisis sports car.

"This is the craziest thing I've done in my life," the 47-year-old commercial painter joked after a crane lowered a 19-foot, 1-ton wind turbine onto a pole behind his waterfront vacation home in Port Richey, Fla.

B. Smith has her hands in almost every part of the home -- the bedroom, the kitchen, the bathroom. Now the lifestyles expert is extending her reach with two furniture lines. The B. Smith Home Collection for Hammary was unveiled at the recent High Point, N.C., Furniture Market. Hammary is a division of La-Z-Boy.

Lazy Sunday afternoon. Curled up with my laptop at the coffee shop. Think I'll check out what my peeps are doing on Twitter.

Baron Davis writes to always line up your beard at your chin line to give your beard a sharper look. Nice. Shannon Elizabeth informs that American Airlines saved $40K in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class. Good to know.

KANSAS CITY - Somebody with a microphone asked Pittsburgh Steelers safety Tyrone Carter if the better team won here Sunday. It seemed like such a jarring question considering the Kansas City Chiefs are a miserable team that came in 2-7 and the Steelers like to think of themselves as Super Bowl contenders. Or at least did.

In a humid faux-tropical haven set in a Toronto basement and lit with near-blinding artificial sunlight, Herbert Kronzucker has begun to save the world.