Life in the fruit bowl is no longer the pits, thanks to a University of Alberta researcher.

Grace Kelly's son Prince Albert II of Monaco is expected to attend the auction of a portrait of the late actress and princess, organizers said. Artist Peter Engels created the portrait in honor of Kelly's 80th birthday this year.

By Blank, G Kim WILLIAM WORDSWORTH . . . THE NAME OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL poet of the last two centuries is uncanny not just in its wistful alliteration, but also in its signification of words of worth. A better name for a poet there could not be.

A number of women (and men) have recently been contending that women who are just as productive as men are being employed on the average for only about 70 percent as much pay, and that the statistics prove it.