Douglas Dispatch (The Daily Dispatch)

Tortillas can be bought or made cheaply, so they make an excellent key ingredient for frugal recipes. You can make tortilla wraps by adding your favorite sandwich fillings. Tortillas are delicious as part of breakfast burritos, too.

Frugal is cool in cash-strapped US (Guardian Unlimited)

In the grip of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, America has undergone radical changes. Greed is no longer good and luxury is a shameful word.

New Year's resolutions take an outward turn in tough times (USA Today)

USA TODAY asked readers whether the tough economic times would shape their New Year's resolutions, and the answers were clear: Respondents were indeed planning changes in their lives in response to the times, cutting back in concrete ways and opening up in other, less tangible ways.

Monroe Community College locker room attendant leaves school $750,000 (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

John H. Koch, a locker room attendant at Monroe Community College, left $750,000 to the MCC Foundation when he died in 2007.

The tricky relation between religion and IQ (Guardian Unlimited)

OK, it's a naughty headline, but no less true than the one put on this survey at the aggressively atheist Sandwalk blog, which said " Atheists are smarter than agnostics ". Both readings are justified. A large-scale analysis of the religious allegiance and measured IQ of a representative sample of 3,742 American adolescents found a clear trend: the more fundamentalist denominations had the ...