One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.”

He's the slacker of the bunch, and a cross between a sad sack and a prophet.

“I knew it wasn’t about me, a 22-year-old girl from a small town in Tennessee who just wants to help the world. But you can’t help but take it personally.”

Matt Gross is "seeking low-cost high adventure on a 12-week road trip across the United States." His next stop is Tennessee. Can you suggest something?

The CIA acknowledged that the dates of Ms. Wilson’s employment had mistakenly been disclosed, although a spokesman said that did not mean the information was no longer classified.

“Frankly,” said the spokesman, Mark Mansfield, the release of the information in 2006, in response to a query from Ms. Wilson about retirement benefits, was “an honest-to-goodness administrative error.”

The device still lacks the control needed for pro sports or safecracking, but it's an honest-to-goodness bionic arm.

From here on, it’s nothing but “National Bingo Night” (an actual, honest-to-goodness ABC show airing at 8 p.m. Fridays), and “Pirate Master” (an actual, honest-to-goodness CBS show premiering May 31).

"It's nice to see a billionaire jump up and down with honest to goodness excitement, not like, 'Oh yeah, I just made another million bucks today."

Honest to goodness, these people have nothing better to do than debate how close strippers should be allowed to get to patrons and how much they can take off and when.

"They’re trying to get the cat back into the bag.”

In Israel, a man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leaped through a window and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.

"This kind of thing doesn't happen every day," said Arthur Du Mosch, 49, a nature guide.

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