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Sports White Sox are feeling queasy without Quentin Chris DeLuca: This little White Sox club that wasn't supposed to do much in the American League Central has survived its share of injuries to somehow keep its hold on first place.
Lost route, then rout So a manager, a coach and a rabbi go into a bar ... Make that a car. And leave out the rabbi. ''I don't know what happened,'' manager Lou Piniella said. ''I probably shouldn't have taken the nap.''
Left is all right with St. Clair You might not think much of John St. Clair as a left tackle, but it's at least worth noting that is the first position the St. Louis Rams thought of for him when he was drafted eight years ago. A third-round pick from Virginia, St. Clair's first job with the Rams was backing up Orlando Pace. No, it didn't allow for much of an opportunity to get on the field right away, but that's where the Rams figured he could develop at the start.

Lifestyles Funky flying machines take to the sky over Lake With colorful costumes, eye-catching flying contraptions and a lakefront location, Red Bull Flugtag Chicago 2008, today at North Avenue Beach, should be mesmerizing for kids. The boisterous competition presents a bounty of outrageous homemade, human-powered flying machines. They will be launched from a 30-foot-tall ramp over, and mostly into, Lake Michigan. Most of the flugtag (German for "flying day") machines don't actually fly, and many of the competing teams don't expect them to soar.

At Home Interior Affairs: Wall-to-wall timekeeping Most oaks in area are at least 160 years old Religion Why did God allow another Gulf disaster? Ali, Farrakhan honor Elijah Muhammad's son Horoscopes Holiday Mathis horoscopes for September 6 Georgia Nicols horoscopes for September 6 Astrological questions

Entertainment UK's Brand to host MTV Video Awards America, meet Russell Brand. In his native England, he's a comedy giant -- instantly identifiable by his Einstein-like tousle of black hair and formfitting, chest-baring, glam-rock clothes -- a television host and stand-up comic with his own radio show and weekly column in the Guardian. In the United States, he's that British guy who was in the movie ''Forgetting Sarah Marshall.'' But that all could change at 8 p.m. Sunday, when Brand hosts the MTV Video Music Awards.

VMAs offer glimpse of music and mayhem
Weekend Leading ladies take 'Stand' against cancer My kind of gown Fall films offer plenty to sink your teeth into Books Write locally, dream globally Jesus for president Chicago author: 'One Nation, Under God' by Keir Graff Classical Pianist Vladimir Feltsman worships at the altar of Bach Stage Joys, perils of 'Farm' life unfold in theater Pendergrass' life recounted in stirring musical A flawed Rockwellian portrait Galleries

Business Googling Google When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and technology. Perhaps Google's biggest test in the next decade will be finding a way to pursue its seemingly boundless ambitions without triggering a backlash that derails the company.
Do you remember your first...Google?
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