VENTURA, Calif. - Carolina Canosa turned 13 this year. She has "Twilight" posters hanging on her bedroom wall and loves the Jonas Brothers, manicures and frozen yogurt, like any other teenager.

Carolina also albinism -- a condition that results in vision problems and little color in her skin, hair and eyes -- and that's what people always seem to notice first.

The police auction of a souped-up motorized recliner, confiscated because the owner was drunk, is back on track, now that the La-Z-Boy company's concerns have been satisfied.

TOKYO - Practice your chopstick skills before you go to Tokyo, although all restaurants keep at least a couple of forks set aside.

-- Unagi donburi. Donburi means "food arranged on steamed rice." Unagi is eel. Some people freak out because eels look like, um, snakes. Cooked, it's just a piece of fish, sweet-sauced and served over rice, often with shredded omelet to the side. Delish.

TOKYO - Tokyo is huge. If you stand on the top level of the highest skyscraper and do a 360-degree turnabout, you will see city to the horizon. It has parks, but no suburbs. High-speed roadways run through canyons of architecture, but numerous side streets, large and small, define neighborhoods, and each 'hood has its own main street and koban, police station cubicle.

Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time

Platform: PlayStation 3

Genre: Platformer

Publisher: Sony

ESRB Rating: E for Everyone

Grade: 4 stars

Could the time have finally arrived for roasted bone marrow to be served in every household on Sunday nights?

Bad boy chef Anthony Bourdain calls the Roast Bone Marrow and Parsley Salad at London's St. John restaurant his "death row meal." That's high praise for a man who has eaten his way around the world a few times.

LAS VEGAS - In the latest sign of the economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries across the Las Vegas Valley, jostling with illegal immigrants for a shot at a few hours of work.

Experts say the slow starting but seemingly inexorable trend is occurring nationwide.