Newspaper mad-libs

This is not a randomly-generated news story. But yes, I am going to dissect it for just such a purpose.

Is it possible that a former Brigham Young University co-ed and Miss Wyoming beauty queen charged in the 1970s with kidnapping and raping a Mormon missionary in England has resurfaced as the woman who made news this week for paying a Korean lab to clone puppies from her deceased dog's DNA?

As it turns out? Yes. Kudos to the Obscure Store.

How bad is the newspaper business?

McClatchy owns 49.5% of the Seattle Times. At the end of 2006 they estimated that investment to be worth $102.2 million. Last December they revised that to $19.3 million.

They've just revised it again, for $9.9 million. That's 10% of its value from two years ago.