Nothing like the San Francisco to publish a front-page article with some stunning new concerns exploding on the local scene todayAs the supremely portable devices have spread across the Bay Area, the number of iPod robberies has soared. Listeners, often lost in the music and oblivious to their surroundings, tend not to realize how attractive a casually protected high-tech device worth hundreds of dollars can be to a criminal, police say.

In San Francisco, an increase in iPod robberies over the past two years prompted police to run undercover stings. BART officials have begun placing flyers at stations warning riders that the telltale white earbuds could make them targets for iPod theft. Yes, folks, it's 2007, and this stunning non-new news is splashed all over the front page of today's breakfast reading. In other non-new news, our nation's children are struggling with obesity; some say it's an epidemic! OMG!