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'Widowed'? No, That Box Can't Tell The Tale of a Heart (Washington Post) - For our 10th wedding anniversary, he gave me a delicate gold bracelet that encased 35 perfect, tiny diamonds.

Counting down and planning the BIG DAY (The Virginia Gazette) - Introduce both families and announce your engagement. Begin a budget. Create a guest list. Select a tentative date. Choose your wedding party.

Music Review: Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (Blogcritics.org) - Band of Horses' anticipated second album doesn't Cease to impress. As great of a history as Sub Pop has 2007 is surely a banner year for it.They own the unique distinction of having three of the current most iconic indie rock bands on their roster: The Shins, Iron and Wine, and Band of Horses, each of which has released an (excellent) album in mid-late 2007.Sub Pop also has a knack - for better ...

Md. Mom Aids Bid For Health Coverage (Washington Post) - A Maryland family caught in the partisan crossfire over a children's health-care bill in Congress is now stepping back into the divisive debate, advocating this time for state legislation that would expand coverage for adults.

This week's reviews: Carrie, Bob & Alison, Gary, Shooter, Steven Curtis, Dwight and Kevin (USA Today) - The week's releases shifted strongly into the country spectrum this week (even the Robert Plant & Alison Krauss duets album has a strong country/roots flavor). Here are the Zagat-like capsules: Carrie Underwood's second album "delivers on all counts," even...

Lost! Found! (The Morning News) - Surely more than one person in Northwest Arkansas forgets things, misplaces items, loses them. John wears his third wedding ring -- for his first marriage. He also has a penchant for losing sunglasses, and he likes expensive ones. Buy a new pair? "Forget about it!" his wife says.

Week in Review (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) - ENERGY Kohl's to add solar panels Continuing the most sweeping rollout of solar power...

Review: 'Things We Lost' too melodramatic (The San Francisco Examiner) - Danish soap virtuoso Susanne Bier, of "Brothers" and "After the Wedding" fame, has made her first Hollywood film, "Things We Lost in the Fire," and, once again, she works the tear-jerk mechanism expertly. But Bier's trademark emotional richness and dramatic potency are missing from this grief-and-recovery story. Consequently, it's just a middling weepie.

The second time around (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) - Second marriages, while beautiful, require a lot of thought, planning and adequate time before the wedding to determine compatibility.

Oregon Recreation Report (Corvallis Gazette-Times) - Flows in the North and South Santiams have been holding pretty steady and are still fishable. Anticipated rains this week will likely bring river levels up. Recycling of fish from the Minto and Foster traps has been discontinued for the year, but steelhead are still in the rivers and in good shape.