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It's never too early to think ahead, so here are some dates to keep in mind as you make plans for the millennium.

Colorado has new alimony laws on the books that will take effect in January 2014. It has a new formula to calculate spousal maintenance that some are considering groundbreaking.

Starbucks bought the San Francisco-based bakery La Boulange, and is serving their pastries in Starbucks stores around the country. Will this change consumers' demand for quality food?

With 7 billion people in the world, there's just not enough time for personal pillow visits from the Tooth Fairy anymore. So Jeff Highsmith, father of two, built a complex contraption that allows his sons to send their lost teeth to the elusive fairy in exchange for gifts.

Iraq and Afghanistan veterans may have trouble answering questions about what war was like — but Vietnam veterans say they weren't even asked. Composer and Vietnam vet Kimo Williams says he turned to music to explain his war experience, and that it continues to define his work.

In radio, we work hard to avoid verbal potholes, distracting interjections such as um, like and well. But what about starting a sentence with 'so' - is it a trendy speech fad or important transition?

The fear of science run amok has been with us as long as the practice itself. But who decides what are the reasonable ethical boundaries for science? Commentator Marcelo Gleiser grabs ahold of this question and advises that blindly placing constraints on certain types of inquiry will not save us from Pandora's Box. We have to be smarter than that.

First-time jobless claims were at 374,000 for the week ending Oct. 5, up from 308,000 the previous week.

The U.S. prison population is still the world's highest — with more than 1.5 million people behind bars. A study from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee looked at that state's incarceration rates and found they were the highest in the country for black men.