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Perhaps youthful celebrities like Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan are more to be pitied than blamed. Certainly, one branch of their education has been sadly neglected: No one has ever taught them how young ladies climb out of vehicles -- knees together, both legs lifted simultaneously, torso swiveled, feet placed firmly on the pavement. In recent days, this oversight has evolved into something of a public spectacle. Websites devoted to celebrity gossip have featured plenty of pictures of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan climbing out of cars. The problem is this: Young women like Lohan and Spears are, in fact,...

Sometimes it helps to take a step back and see the big picture. One way my wife does this is by regularly reminding us both of how lucky we are to be Americans. This has the salutary effect of making a lot of our problems---problems that seemed bigger the moment before---appear in a larger context to be not so bad. A lot of people worry about money. As we are chasing it, needing it, not having enough of it, we start to imagine how good it would be to be very wealthy. And I will say that if one starts...

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Britney Spears reportedly rushed her baby son to hospital - because he was constipated. The pop babe is said to have panicked when four-month-old Sean Preston wouldn't stop wailing, and was terrified he was ill. She called a bodyguard who drove her straight to Los Angeles' Malibu Urgent Care Centre. But nurses at the clinic told the singer there was nothing wrong with the tot - he was just struggling to fill his nappy. One nurse is quoted in Britain's Daily Star newspaper as saying: "It seems he was just straining to fill his diaper....