It’s the Olympics…live! NBC just won the exclusive US media rights to broadcast four more Olympics after beating out bids from Fox and ESPN. As part of the deal, the network agreed to air every event live, says the New York Times, an acknowledgement of the kerfuffle caused by 2010’s tape-delay drama.

A formal meal in 30 minutes or less—how do you do that? The Wall Street Journal takes a look at the new trend in corporate dining, the 30-minute executive lunch, to figure out how restaurants can deliver (good) food so fast. Offering up a handful of dishes that are easily assembled or serving all four courses simultaneously as a sort of riff on the bento box are two popular ways to beat the clock.

Look what was rolling through Maryland yesterday. The Cumberland Times-News got a great front-page photo of the “Miracle on the Hudson” plane as it passed through town en route to the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 120-foot body of the plane made its way down Interstate 68 yesterday; the wings were shipped separately.

Maybe I’m getting old but I don’t like it when it’s too loud at a sporting event. Well, according to the New York Times, I should just stay home because arenas keep getting louder and louder. The NBA is one of the worst offenders, turning its games into a cacophony of sounds played at ear-splitting volumes, which experts fear could cause long-term hearing loss.

Drink eight glasses of water a day. Avoid fatty foods. Eat lots of fruits and veggies. We all know the basics of maintaining a healthy diet. But what if there was a diet specifically tuned to your particular health needs? The Tennessean says within a few years scientists will able to take a simple cheek swab and formulate a diet based on your DNA, one that can potentially lower your risk for a host of diseases.

Is roughhousing good for kids? That’s the premise of a new book says the Sacramento Bee, which claims boisterous play can instill “spontaneity, improvisation and joy” in your child. The doctors behind the book say when settling on a parenting strategy, the decision is often a one-or-the-other choice between learning or playing. But research has shown that roughhousing stimulates areas of the brain associated with “memory, learning, language and logic.”

USA Today puts an alarming number on its front page this morning: $62 trillion. According to a new analysis of the federal debt, that’s how much the US government owes in financial promises. The paper points out that a bank or any other financial institution would be required to disclose its liabilities and report a loss to its shareholders. Not the government, though.

Summer has not officially arrived yet but ice cream season has. And with the sweet and cold treat comes an unwanted side effect: brain freeze. The Minneapolis Star Tribune explains why we get brain freeze—it has to with the constriction of blood vessels—and a couple tricks to avoid it.

An Oregon man had his hands up, ready to surrender to a police officer who’d chased him down and was threatening to use a Taser when he began to question the man’s motives. Good thing he did. The Oregonian says the “cop” was actually just a citizen, armed with a smartphone app that mimics a police scanner.

Last week, I stopped by the MLB fan cave to update its denizens about what’s been happening in the world while they were on the couch, watching baseball. In honor of Plaxico Burress’ release from prison yesterday, Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal does something similar in today’s paper. And it’s really funny.

There’s a cool new breakthrough for quadriplegics detailed in today’s New York Times. Scientists have created a magnetic sensor that enables a person to steer a wheelchair with the flip of a…tongue. But first, patients must get their tongues pierced. Once in place, the magnetic rod lets them guide their chair with tongue movements.

Steve Jobs is such a master at unveiling products that his biography, penned by Walter Isaacson, the president of a DC think tank, has already made Amazon’s Top 100 list. That’s impressive, says the LA Times, because “iSteve: The Book of Jobs” won’t be released until March 2012.

Synching your devices doesn’t exist in the Post-PC world that Steve Jobs introduced yesterday. Living life on an iCloud means every time you take a photo or download a song or work on a document, the photo or song or document is immediately sent to your iCloud account via Wi-Fi where it is uploaded automatically to all of your Apple devices says the San Jose Mercury News. Oh and the best part? It’s free.

What did he expect would happen? The New York Post says a British man almost drowned after his newly purchased boat—the Titanic II—capsized over the weekend. The man says he’s just about had his fill of people asking him whether he hit an iceberg.

How fitting. In an age where the smartphone reigns supreme, we have a politician with a sext scandal, not just merely a sex one. After protesting his innocence for a week, Rep. Anthony Weiner has come forward and admitted that crotch shot was a self portrait sent, not by a hacker but by himself, says the New York Post. While he was coming clean, Weiner also admitted he has “exchanged messages and photos of an explicit nature with about six women over the past three years.”

Talk about a call to duty. The Wall Street Journal says the latest recruitment tool being wielded by hotel giant Marriott is an unorthodox one—it’s a video game. Similar to Zynga’s “Farmville,” the game is called “My Marriott” and it makes its debut this week on Facebook. Players—and potential employees—must figure out how to manage several aspects of the hotel business in order to win.

Coming into Facebook-to-Facebook contact with someone’s emotions can put you at risk of catching them says a new study. The San Jose Mercury News says emotions can be transmitted the same way germs are. Researchers have long posited that emotions can be passed on through body language and intonation. But now they believe social media works in a similar way.

Are you an extreme couponer? If so, you’re not alone says the Tampa Tribune. The rise of Groupon and its many imitators has made coupon-clipping the latest addiction, complete with its own crop of specialists. Experts stress buying only what you need.

“Calling in sick to work is perhaps the most unappreciated art form besides improv comedy,” says the Louisville Courier-Journal in today’s paper. So many of us do it that the paper thought we could use some help getting it right. To that end, they came up with several tips to “make your fake sick-day calls to the boss sound really legit.”

Working out in the heat can be hard on your body. And while most people know to look out for signs of heat stroke, few know about hyponatremia, says the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a condition where the sodium levels in your blood decrease. Sodium is lost when people sweat and don’t replace the electrolytes they shed, which means endurance athletes have to be extra cautious about replenishing their supplies. 

In “one of television’s worst-kept secrets,” Katie Couric is expected to announce her next move today says Bill Carter of the New York Times. Insiders say Couric has signed a deal with ABC. The details have not been publicized but the deal allegedly gives Couric a cut of the syndication profits, which could add up to tens of millions of dollars each year.

The Obama Fried Chicken Store. The Obama Deli and Grocery. The Obama Parking Garage. Turns out, there’s one name that spells small-business success: Obama. The New York Daily News found a dozen New York City businesses that use the First Couple’s last name for no reason other than the belief that any affiliation with the president will be good for business.

Big news about skin cancer today in the LA Times. Two drugs have proven to be so effective in treating an advanced type of skin cancer called metastatic melanoma that the trials evaluating their efficacy were stopped early because researchers felt it was unethical to withhold the drugs from people in the control group.

Good thing Donald Trump decided not to run for president. Or he might have been forced to explain why his new $100-million jet needed gold faucets and gold seat belts and suede-covered ceilings, just like John Edwards did with that pricey haircut. The New York Post got a look around the Donald’s new in-air digs, which he bought last fall from Microsoft’s Paul Allen.

Talk about a versatile bikini. The New York Post says a Brooklyn-based designer has come up with a bikini made from photovoltaic panels, which suck up solar energy, and conductive thread. That means you can get a tan and charge your iPod or your iPhone at the same time.

Why not? Tom Walsh of the Detroit Free Press says the president of GM wants to bring a Jetsons-like future to the Motor City. Yesterday he announced pilot program plans for the automaker’s self-driving EN-V pod concept, aimed at decreasing urban congestion. Walsh points out that Detroit, which has lost two-thirds of its population over the last fifty years, may not be the best place to test-drive the car of the future. VIDEO

Rihanna’s not anyone’s parent. That was the singer’s response to the outcry over her latest video, “Man Down,” which depicts a sexual assault victim killing her attacker. The LA Times says groups concerned with violent images on TV have asked BET’s parent company Viacom to pull the video. They’ve declined. VIDEO

The officer told him to sign with his signature. But Marshall May doesn’t have a signature yet—he’s only 10 years old—so he spelled out his full name. The Austin American-Statesman says May has come into the spotlight after he was ticketed for improperly wearing his seatbelt in the passenger seat of his family’s minivan.

How’s this for irony: China, exporting extraordinaire, can’t produce enough chopsticks. So they import them, from the small Georgia town of Americus. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says China’s problem is a lack of wood. That’s good news for Georgia Chopsticks, which is headquartered in Americus. The area has an abundance of poplar and sweet gum trees, both of which have “just the right balance of hardness and softness” to make disposable chopsticks.

Remember Joe the Plumber? Well, let me introduce you to his relative, James the Jeep worker. Actually, the two aren’t related at all but they share something in common: both were/will be used to hammer home political agendas on the campaign trail. The Toledo Blade says President Obama will feature James in a video for his 2012 re-election campaign.