This week's feature topics are...

Local news : The art of compromise with teens
Parents whose teenage children spend hours on the phone or Internet, wear spaghetti-strap dresses and go crazy over comatose heart-throb singers need not despair. Help is at hand. They should talk to their children and try to reach a compromise.

Calendar : September 8
In 1943 Italy surrenders to the Allies. Oh except for France, no one ever surrenders to France.