Pick a travel destination and you just might find a fellow traveler there who'd be willing to trade places with you through a vacation home exchange. An increasing number of websites (even Craigslist) can link you with others who want to see the world and save some cash by exchanging living quarters. And at a time when recession forecasts might have you clutching your weak dollar even tighter, a house swap could be the difference between going to London to see the queen or staying home.

"Accommodations are the single biggest expense of your trip," says Helen Bergstein, a Bayonne native and frequent house swapper who owns the 9-year-old vacation home exchange website Digsville.com.

Study: Bush Led US To War on ‘False Pretenses’

Her statements are contradictory. If you want a "uniter" and not a "divider," then Nancy Pelosi is your kind of Democrat since she has taken impeachment off the table.

But I also think the media's twisting of "the Clintons'" image into one of "divisiveness" indicates that the Republicans and their allies are afraid of what investigations Hillary might launch if she becomes president.

Mickey Kaus

There is nothing to love about it. There is nothing to look forward to. Nothing to anticipate. .... They do not know how to "build" and audience and part of it is creating tension in the very act of offering enticing things for readers to look forward to. Like Tuesdays Science section in NY, for example. Or Monday's publishing news. Even the fact that the crossword puzzle starts out easy and gets more difficult as the days soldier on. Nothing welcoming or challenging. It's messy and confusing. They don't even cover music until it's already OVER and you can't ck it out for yourself. Annoying! Who are the key players in local government? Who knows? You want to become attached - it's OUR city - but they can't manage to accomplish the most basic task of a newspaper: to answer the question What is Going On? Are they trying to compete with NY? Are they trying to be a local paper? They don't do either well.

Joachim 'Pim-Pim' Johansson forced to retire at 25

Swedish tennis player Joachim 'Pim-Pim' Johansson, who once reached number nine in the world, announced his retirement on Friday at the age of 25 because of a long-standing shoulder injury. Join the Club: Rugby, American sports, Racquet sports (25 Jan 08) Sports digest: Ibrahimovic double rescues Inter (21 Jan 08) Sports digest: Karlovic serves up Stockholm treat (15 Oct 07) "I can practice for a few weeks and play an individual tournament but after that my shoulder gets overworked forcing me to rest for a longer period of time," said the Swede who has been dogged by injury for three years. "Taking that into account it is hard for me to reach my objectives and for that reason it makes it impossible for me to continue my challenge." Johansson's shoulder problems started at the beginning of 2005 season, with the first of his three surgeries performed in July, 2005.

People: Cruz and Bardem "getting serious"

Fox NFL Sunday co-host Terry Bradshaw gets a nod for a "frightening" scene in which he feeds his aquarium fish while buck-naked and lis tening to hip-hop in "Failure To Launch."

Donald Sutherland can take a bow for letting it all hang out as a test pilot undergoing a physical in "Space Cowboys," proving he has "the Wrong Stuff," Dermody says. .

Wireless icebreaker: Missoula company's software signals real-life socialization

Rachel Kaufman, right, studies at Break Espresso coffee shop and bakery where customers can enjoy free wireless Internet access. Two Missoula software entrepreneurs have developed iFob, which alerts other users on wireless networks that you're nearby and receptive to socializing.
LINDA THOMPSON/Missoulian .

Glenn Greenwald Is So Right It Hurts

Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald has nearly every quality I like in a man: he's pretty, smarter than me, righteous, and he hates both that Washington Post ass Richard Cohen and Gawker. Glenn's crusade against The Politico—they're in bed with Matt Drudge (Mmm! Tasty!) and their barrier-to-print is too low and therefore error-full—has become a war against the shallow right-wing internets newspaper-destroying conspiracy of which we are a part!

Has he been to New York City lately? If he had, he would know just how seriously we in Manhattan take the permanent war of on terror.

Mired, but not divided

He named, and first espoused, the doctrine of soft power: the ability of a state, especially the United States, to pursue its interests by convincing others of the value of its ideas and the attractiveness of its culture, rather than by the exercise of force.

That is not to say that the next president's task will be easy. A jumble of Pandora's boxes struggle to break open. Let Islamic fundamentalists seize power in Karachi, and the nuclear weapons that come with it; let Iran detonate a device; let Iranian troops enter Iraq to protect the Shiites and Saudi Arabian troops respond to protect the Sunnis; let the aged, ailing, deeply corrupt House of Saud lose its grip on power; let Hugo Chavez consolidate a bloc of Latin American states hostile to American interests; let China's 750 million impoverished peasants rise up against the cities and the regime; let that regime – desperate to provide a distraction – decide to settle the Taiwan question once and for all; let Russia exploit its new oil wealth to launch a cool war to lessen American influence in Europe and Asia.

Bison season ends at sectional

Kuhl and the gang proved they were no one-hit wonders at the Nokomis Class 1A sectional Wednesday evening.Blake Kuhl scored 17 points -- as did his Dieterich High School teammate Ethan Heuerman -- to lead the Movin Maroons to their first sectional victory in school history, a 61-51 triumph over the Grayville Bison.Dieterich (21-10) will face the host team Friday evening for the sectional championship, the winner moving on to the Class 1A super-sectional in Carbondale on Tuesday.

Readers Respond to Council-Marine Recruiters Controversy

The Planet is only printing letters from locals regarding the ruling on the Marine Recruitment Station. Some of these letters were sent prior to the Feb. 12 City Council meeting and thus do not reflect the council's most recent ruling. Signed letters from non-locals and letters addressed to third parties will be published on our website. Unsigned letters will not be published. RESCIND THE VOTE Editors, Daily Planet: I just read the Fox News report concerning the Marine Recruiters in Berkeley. Berkeley City Council, what where you thinking? I cannot believe the shame that you have brought upon the citizens of Berkeley with your recent vote to ostracize and disrespect the Marine Corps recruiters working in Berkeley. The personal feelings of the mayor and councilmembers should not enter into the business of running the city.

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Hughes is a young, front line starting pitcher, one of the best pitching prospects in baseball, and had a fine performance in the playoffs. Cabrera is a young centerfielder who would have aptly filled a void left by Torii Hunter's departure. The Red Sox made two proposals to the Twins. One was Jon Lester, another young pitcher who would also be a front line starter on most other teams, who pitched great in the World Series, and other prospects. The other was Jacoby Ellsbury, an exciting young centerfielder who would have filled Torii Hunter's position more than aptly, and other prospects. I'm really not crazy about the Mets prospects. Phil Humber has not excelled at any professional level after a stellar college career at Rice. He also had Tommy John surgery. I'd rather have Hughes or Lester.