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Orders for durable goods rose 2.2 percent in February, according to figures released this morning (PDF). Th AP has the details.

We have a simpler question. What's a durable good? Also: Why does it matter?

Durable goods, as the name suggests, are things that don't break easily. More specifically, they're products that are used for more than three years.

If this blogger's photo isn't on The Two-Way next Monday, assume it's because he's gotten very lucky and is headed for some exotic location:

Friday's Mega Millions jackpot will be a record $476 million. The previous high was $390 million, in 2007.

The Grinch returned all those stolen presents.

Now the family of Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) is hoping that the person or persons who took a Lorax statue from the garden of the late, great author's home also has a change of heart.

A new method of obtaining organs for transplantation is raising a host of ethical questions, including whether the donors are technically "dead."

For decades, organ donation has been guided by something called the "dead donor rule."

"We have this idea that you must be dead first — so before your organs can be removed, we agree that you are dead," said Leslie Whetstine, a bioethicist at Walsh University in Ohio.