pparently at Planet Fitness in the Dutchess County village of New York, you can lift, squat, crunch and sweat all you want. But whatever you do, do not grunt. In fact, the no-grunting policy is readily displayed, along with "no bandannas, do-rags, or screaming," on the long list of dos-and-don'ts posted right inside the Planet Fitness door.

On Tupperware Brands Corp. 's 60th year, the company held a design contest that asked Tupperware sellers and users to be creative with the plastic containers. CEO Rick Goings said the design contest was an effort to "get Tupperware seen in a very different kind of a light. "

Pope Benedict on Wednesday wore an old Saturno hat in St. Peter's Square, Vatican during his weekly audience with the public. The Holy Father surprised tens of thousands of people who gathered at the square by wearing an odd, "wide-brimmed" red hat while on his "pope mobile. " The hat is commonly known in Italian as a "saturno" due to its resemblance of the planet Saturn.

A 28-year-old environmentalist from Machynllet, Powys in England, is planning on traveling some 9,770 miles by land to be a bridesmaid at a wedding in Australia because she does not want to contribute to air pollution by flying. Barbara Haddrill said the trip would take her six weeks to accomplish at a cost of $3,800.

Peter Schweizer, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," says Al Gore is simply not living the same lifestyle he asks others to live in his latest movie, "An Inconvenient Truth. " In an article for USA Today, Schweizer writes, "if Al Gore is the world's role model for ecology, the planet is doomed. For someone who says the sky is falling, he does very little. "