In the heart of central Florida a community of spiritualists with some of the world's finest psychic-mediums draws people from around the world to uncover the mysteries of their future. According to the century-old Cassadaga Hotel Web site, the town of the same name draws people who are on spiritual quests as well as those looking for self-discovery or old-fashioned romance. The town name means "stones beneath the water" and it is home to numerous psychic-mediums willing to aid people in going through the enchanted gateway to whatever it is they are looking for.

A Texas man credits the Internet for his victory over CompUSA, who he said sold him an empty box instead of a camera. Terry Heaton was delighted to learn that his local CompUSA store was liquidating. He had only planned to buy a laptop but soon racked up a $3,500 bill purchasing other sale items like a digital camera for his step-daughter.

A Cornish man claimed to have kept awake for 11 days straight in an attempt to better the Guinness record for sleep deprivation. The 42-year-old horticulturist, Tony Wright had begun his "stay awake" program on May 14 as part of his research on relationship between physical state and sleep. He had undertaken similar experiments in the past but for lesser durations.

An 18-year-old California woman, who was apparently under intense pressure from her family to get into a good school but could not get admission, decided to make her wish come true by faking it. The woman, who is known as Azia Khan to fellow students, not only posed as a Stanford University student for a month but she also lived in dorms, ate in dining halls and pretended to worry about exams. Khan in reality graduated in 2006 from Troy High School in Orange County.

It isn't often that a man asks for sympathy because he is addicted to pornographic Web sites. That might be a good because it's revealing such an addiction is more likely to generate disgust than sympathy. Except if the sex addict was feeding his habit at work while being paid by his employer to work. Then such an addiction is likely to generate unemployment, as was the case with an American working for IBM. When James Pacenza, 58, was caught using an online sex chat room at work, IBM fired him. But Pacenza, a Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, claims IBM should have kept him on and given him sympathy instead of giving him a pink slip.