A HEAD-BOBBLING COLLECTION
(The Victoria Advocate: Fri, 21 Sep) HOUSTON - By popular demand, there is a population explosion in the visitors' clubhouse at Minute Maid Park. The wall of fame in the office of Steve Perry, the Astros' visiting clubhouse manager, is standing room only. Bobblehead dolls are spreading like kudzu.

Ants are Enemy Pest No. 1
(The Press-Enterprise: Sat, 22 Sep) They paraded into the pantry, inundated the bathroom and marched their way under the covers and into bed. The six-legged pests even turned up frozen in the middle of ice cubes.

Fallout from the 'one-child policy'
(McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News: Thu, 20 Sep) A U.S. scholar has produced an interesting paper on the long-term consequences of China’s one-child policy, which has averted more than 300 million births, that is to say a mass of people equivalent to the entire U.S. population.

Commonwealth Celebrates Latino Community During National Hispanic Heritage Month
(PR Newswire via Yahoo! News: Thu, 20 Sep) To honor the local and global contributions of Pennsylvania's Latino community, Governor Rendell's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs today kicked off the commonwealth's celebration of national Hispanic Heritage Month.