APhoto Fix: Mattel announced its partnership today with Clear Channel Entertainment Productions for Barbie(r) doll's live debut on the stage with "Barbie(tm) Live in Fairytopia!" Mattel will bring the magical world of Fairytopia(tm) to life in approximately 80 cities across North America beginning in Spring 2006.

"Mr. President, I've come to understand that was a poor choice of words. Last Friday, I tried to make this very clear that I understood that those analogies - the Nazis, Soviets, and others - were poorly chosen. I issued a release, which I thought made my intentions and my innermost feelings as clear as I possibly could" -- teary U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin apologizing for comparing Gitmo to Nazis, Soviet gulag and Pol Pot killers here.

1. Political 'Toon Fix: Daryl Cagle & Co. provide their views of Gitmo here and American obesity here.

2. Humor Fix: Right Wing News surveyed 200 right-of-center bloggers re: who is screwing up America and came up with this here.

3. My Way Fix: This Day in History here, Today's Birthdays here and Word of the Day here.

4. Top of the News Fix: 9/11 study urges safer skyscraper rules here, Study: Cell phones distract drivers here, GOP leaders ditch private-accounts plan here, "Runaway Bride" feared being a bad wife here, and Missing Scout evaded rescuers here.

5. "Wage Gap" Fix: There's a good reason why men earn more than women, according to iconoclastic John Stossel/Townhall, here.

6. Opinion Fix: Christopher Hitchens/Slate (DaVinci Code v. Downing Street Memo), Newt Gingrich & George Mitchell/USA Today (Making UN useful again), Dick Morris/The Hill (Beware of helping Hillary), Ronald Aronson/International Herald Tribune (Jean Paul Sartre at 100), and Bill Clinton/NY Times (Tsunami: 6 months later).

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