• Out with the nude: Michelle Manhart, an Air Force staff sergeant who appears nude in next month's issue of Playboy, has been relieved of her duties. Apparently her values don't quite match up with theirs.
• A bad idea: Members of Congress finally find an issue they can all get behind—opposing the surger-in-chief's new Iraq plan.
• Madonna vs. St. AnJo: Madge ignores the criticisms of her fellow celebrity adopter Angelina Jolie and urges everyone to grab as many African babies as they can hold.
• Stingrays beware: Effectively leapfrogging her mom's career, Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin, makes her TV debut on the Ellen Degeneres show.