The White House plan offered a mixture of tax increases and spending cuts to slow the growth of government debt.

WSJ: For White House and Ryan, Deficit Became Personal

Sanctuary Spa at Camelback Mountain, Arizona, employs lime as the cornerstone of its Sabai Thai Ritual: A client's feet are soaked in lime and oil, exfoliated with a mixture of fine white clay and lime, and then massaged with an herbal poultice and lime-infused oils and lotions.

FORBES: The latest spa treatments are easy to digest.

At Piedmont High School in the Oakland Hills, there are 14 students in this first-year Mandarin class, a mixture of Asian, white, African-American and Indian.

NPR: Chinese Classes Grow in Popularity with U.S. Students

Proposed in January in a White Paper on higher education, the idea aroused a mixture of despair (from universities that think they already do everything possible to attract the miserably small number of qualified but underprivileged applicants available) and fury (from middle-class parents, who felt thrift and diligence were being penalised).

ECONOMIST: Social engineering

Firing a mixture of balls from a specially-made bowling machine he found the white balls deviated from a straight path much more than the red ones.

BBC: Does the white ball behave differently?