By JOE FAHY
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Pharmaceutical companies are spending increasing amounts on advertising targeted to consumers, despite concerns that some drugs approved for distribution could later be linked to serious health risks.

A number of heavily promoted drugs were marketed to consumers within a year after their approval by the U.S.

By DANIEL WEINTRAUB
Sacramento Bee
Thursday, August 16, 2007

I'll never forget the summer of 1992, when California state lawmakers and Gov. Pete Wilson were locked in a two-months-long stalemate over the budget.

With no authority to spend money, the state was paying some of its bills with IOUs, while most vendors simply went without compensation.

By KEVIN YAMAMURA
Sacramento Bee
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has a sizable lead in California's Republican presidential primary race, while Sen.

By TAHREE LANE
Toledo Blade
Thursday, August 16, 2007

New Year's Day has no lock on resolution-making.

The clean slate of a new academic year energized by anticipation is every bit as good a time for setting goals.

By THELMA DOMENICI
Scripps Howard News Service
Thursday, August 16, 2007

Dear Thelma: My daughter and son start their soccer and football seasons this month. I almost dread it because of the stress created on the sidelines by overzealous parent-fans.

The yelling -- positive and negative comments -- can easily get out of control.

By JEFF ST. JOHN
Fresno Bee
Thursday, August 16, 2007

At Fresno State University, a team of professors and students is taking an idea to sanitize wine barrels out of the laboratory and into the business world.

The barrel ozone sanitizing system project has its roots in research that began about three years ago at Fresno State's Department of Viticulture and Enology.

Now a team of students at Fresno State's Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship plans a market feasibility study and designing a prototype sanitizer.

"We can't talk a lot about what we're doing, but we're just going to move ahead with it," said Mike Summers, manager of the Lyles Center's Technology Development Center, which was started earlier this year to organize Fresno State business students to find ways to commercialize new products or technologies.

The concept behind the project is simple, Summers said: find a better way to keep oak wine barrels free of bacteria or other organisms that can ruin wine.

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