Going with the flow (Guardian Unlimited)
It will come as little consolation to the victims of the recent floods in Britain, but there may already be a solution to the apparent creeping inundation of these islands: not to flee the rising waters but to rise above them.

LPHI Announces Stock Split, Cash Dividend and Annual Shareholder Meeting Results (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WACO, Texas----Life Partners Holdings, Inc. announced today that its previously announced 5-for-4 stock split will be paid on September 27, 2007 to shareholders of record as of September 14, 2007.

Battle of Blue Licks (The Cincinnati Post)
The Revolutionary War battle that claimed a son of Daniel Boone will be re-enacted this weekend, and the park museum will unveil new exhibits to detail how the fateful day unfolded.

Investing in a dead certainty (Stuff)
A fund through which you can buy up the life insurance policies of rich Americans. Whatever will the financial world dream up next? John McCrone reports.