CONCORD, N.C. It's 7:45 a.m. Tuesday. School buses clutter local roads as the sun climbs over the horizon. The front doors to NASCAR's research and development center are locked, but not for long.

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NORFOLK Wanted: Special events coordinator for Virginia Zoo. A bachelor's degree in marketing or communications and two to three years' experience in special events preferred. Some evening and weekend work required.

By Staci Dennis
Correspondent
T.E. Jones loves all things fishing. But incorporating that into a theme for his Homearama 2009 house, The Lindsay, just didn't fit. So the builder cast his ideas on designers and reeled in a winner with the creation of The Mancave.

By Jason Reid The Washington Post LANDOVER, MD. As some of his teammates hurried to dress and others answered reporters' questions after a 9-7 victory Sunday over the St. Louis Rams, Redskins right guard Randy Thomas seemed preoccupied with more than the struggles of an offense still searching for answers under second-year coach Jim Zorn.

By Jan Gaillard Correspondent VIRGINIA BEACH Bollywood is here at last. International ballroom dance champion and Bollywood choreographer Sandip Soparrkar is on a working holiday in Hampton Roads, teaching the dance sensation from India at DanceSport VA.

VIRGINIA BEACH Culottes, jumpers, Peter Pan blouses. With local Catholic schools opening today, the required student uniforms have been flying off the shelves at Rose Uniform, where the clothing world is limited to a handful of plaids and solids.

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A crash at an intersection knocked out power to more than 1,000 homes and businesses this morning, dispatchers said.

The crash at South Lynnhaven Parkway and Braves Trail was reported shortly before 7 a.m., dispatchers said. No injuries were reported in the crash, but power lines were down across one of the roads.

Faced with calculating a long-forgotten algebra equation or applying a vaguely-remembered science concept to a work task, a great many well-educated people do the sensible thing and turn to the office math whiz. Now, along with occupying a highly valued place in the office ecosystem, those with math and science skills are also heavily in demand as teachers.

"SCENE 1 ON A SHIP AT SEA: A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard. Enter a Ship-master, and a Boatswain." Master: Boatswain! Boatswain: Here, Master: What cheer? Master: Good, speak to the Mariners: Fall to't, yarely, or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.