The Yankees have no doubt pored over every word of Alex Rodriguez's contract in recent days, searching for something akin to an escape hatch.

WSJ: The Yankees' Coming Conundrum

This suggests that shops were able to shift such large volumes last month by heavy discounting, something that will not escape the attention of the "doves" on the MPC.

BBC: Huge surge in retail sales

Though meant, as a concept, to relieve mothers of the pressure to be perfect, the promotion, even half-seriously, of alcohol as an escape, something deserved as a reward for a long day of parenting, has helped make evident the biggest issue of all: That many women don't realize what problem drinking looks, or feels, like.

CNN: Why are more women drinking?