Merriam Webster Words Of The Year,At first blush, the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il would appear to have little in common with Keith Olbermann, Steve Jobs and Moammar Gadhafi. (Well, maybe a little in common with Gadhafi. But stay with us here for a minute.)

Despite their distinct characters and contributions to the larger world, however, all four men earned the label "mercurial" in such numbers as to send online dictionary searches for the word through Merriam Webster's virtual roof in the days following their newsmaking.

"The word had four huge spikes this year and it's been fascinating to connect it with the news," says Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam Webster. "Mercurial as perfectionist for Steve Jobs, as performer for Olbermann, as madman for Gadhafi and as dictator for Kim Jong-il."

Sokolowski and his Merriam Webster colleagues track which words generate the most user lookups by the hour, day, month and year. As the year winds to a close, they compile an annual top 10 list of words most frequently queried (merriam-webster.com/info/2011words.htm).

Urban meyer ohio state, ESPN is reporting that Ohio State has contacted former Florida Gators coach Urban Meyer, and that there is strong mutual interest in him becoming the next Buckeyes coach.

A countdown of the places where the coldest temperatures on Earth have been recorded.
Where is the coldest place on earth, Venturing outside in the cold this winter, with record-breaking low temperatures stretching from Maine to southern Florida, may take some courage, but these recent lows are nothing compared to the ones on this list.

Debrahlee Lorenzana + New York Division of Human Rights, A new front has opened in the war between sexy banker Debrahlee Lorenzana and Citigroup.

The voluptuous Citi stunner is calling on the state Division of Human Rights to investigate her claim she was fired after complaining that male coworkers couldn't control themselves around her rockin' bod.

Wearing a very tight Zara pencil skirt and 6-inch heels that she says would be banned at the bank, Lorenzana returned to the media spotlight with her new lawyer, TV talking head Gloria Allred.

"No woman should have to suffer what Debrahlee has had to endure," Allred said Monday.

Penn state scandal, Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno will speak at his regular weekly press conference Tuesday, his first public appearance since the arrest of his longtime assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, on child sex abuse charges.
Paterno was named in the indictment that brought charges against Sandusky and two university officials for what police allege was a cover-up of at least one instance of Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy on campus in 2002.

Sandusky is charged with molesting at least eight boys over 15 years, at least three of whom were brought to the attention of employees at Penn State who failed to report the incidents to police.

Athletic Director Tim Curley and Vice President of Finance Gary Shultz were both charged with failing to report the abuse and lying to a grand jury when asked about what they knew.