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All that time you spend answering personal e-mail, balancing your bank statement, leaving pithy comments on RockyTalk Live isn't cyberslacking after all, says an Ohio State study.

In fact, it turns out everyone does it, from senior managers to entry-level employees - and researchers figure that means management attempts to clamp down on Internet use may be missing the mark.

Drive slower, change the air filter, check your tire inflation.

We're all looking for better gas mileage - I get 26-ish commuting on Santa Fe (most days just before rush hour traffic kicks in) in a 10-year-old Accord - especially with gas prices snaking above $4.

Some hyper-mileage drivers suggest turning off your engine if you're going to be stopped for more than 10 seconds and cycling your air conditioner on and off (I prefer rolling down the windows and opening the sunroof unless it's above 90).

Ted Haggard is back in Colorado Springs and, for the moment, he's not talking.

"I can't talk to you. I am forbidden from talking to the media," Haggard said Saturday evening after answering the doorbell at his home on Old Ranch Road in north Colorado Springs.

He declined to elaborate.

Haggard and his wife, Gayle, still are listed as the owners of the five-bedroom, three-bath home whose market value was assessed at $715,000 earlier this year, according to the El Paso County Assessor's Office.

It sits behind a gated entrance on 5.1 acres two miles from the 14,000-member megachurch Haggard originally founded in his basement.

He was asked to leave in late 2006 after admitting to unspecified "sexual immorality."

In a Jully 22, 1972 file photo Milwaukee Police officers lead comedian George Carlin off the Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee, Wis. He was arrested after using allegedly profane language during his act at Summerfest

Sad day for all of us who bought George Carlin's classic comedy records in the 1970s, watched him become a free-speech icon with the seven words you can't say on television - a list that's now shrunk to at least five and maybe four - and admired how his mind wandered hilariously through a maze of cultural and linguistic touchstones.

Carlin, who had a history of heart trouble, went into St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica on Sunday afternoon complaining of chest pain and died later that evening, said his publicist, Jeff Abraham. He had performed as recently as last weekend at the Orleans Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. He was 71.

"He was a genius and I will miss him dearly," Jack Burns, who was the other half of a comedy duo with Carlin in the early 1960s, told The Associated Press.

Carlin's jokes constantly breached the accepted boundaries of comedy and language, particularly with his routine on the "Seven Words" - all of which are taboo on broadcast TV and radio to this day.