1Feel

By Chris Buckley BAODING, China (Reuters) - Dusty villages far from China's capital are paying their own price for the government's plan to stage a postcard-perfect Olympic Games, enduring shrunken crops, drained wells and contention over lost land...

2Peach Milk

U.S short-term interest rate futures rallied strongly for a second day on Thursday, buoyed by fresh hints that the economy and the jobs market might have hit a mid-winter pothole.

3Jam Smile

The most original collection for fall 2008 staged in New York this past week has to have been that by Marc Jacobs, a series of experiments with volume, palette and knobby eccentricity.

4Love

BURBERRY designer handbags large nova check messenger bag. Nova check on treated fabric with dark brown leather trim and dark brown cotton webbed strap. The Burberry name is embossed on the leather flap cover and on the webbed strap. Burberry is also embossed on the bronze colored hardware.

5The Heart's Voice

The crystal skulls are replicas of human skulls that have been carved out of quartz, a clear (when pure) crystal of silicon dioxide. There are hundreds of them in circulation; some of them very modern and others carved thousands of years ago.

6Maria

A recent survey, by the hitherto unheard-of company ?Comfy Quilts?, has identified the most loathed kitchen gadgets. Although beating off stiff competition from the waffle iron, at the end of the day, it was the electric can-opener that carried off the prize.

7Pale Crimson

WASHINGTON - Perennially cash-strapped Amtrak has found a new way to generate revenue - by turning an entire train into a moving billboard.

8Blessing Of The Sun

Effortlessly seasoned, perpetually gaunt Goth-rock purveyor Nick Cave turns 50 this year, and what better way to mark the half-century milestone by initiating a side project that constitutes a return of sorts to his raucous, chaotic Birthday Party days of the early 80s.

9Catnap

?OK, that?s it, Ismail. You killed dozens of our people, some shot in the knees and thrown from rooftops, wrecked our nice offices and watched our sex tapes. I asked you to say that you were sorry! Oh no, you wouldn?t apologize. And now you go and spoil the dedication of the memorial to the father of the Palestinian nation..."

10Heart Of Glass

11Spiral

SINCE Diogenes recited his verses from a bathtub to the Ancient Greeks, poetry has been a fast moving up and running "out there" art form.