The Hyundai Assurance benefit is worth up to $7,500 and is based on Hyundai's determination of what your vehicle is worth "based on the average of your dealer's appraisal and the values from leading industry guides," the company says. That amount is applied to what you owe. You pay the difference if it's more than that.

You have to finance or lease the car to qualify.

The offer is limited to those who involuntarily lose their job, get transferred overseas, become disabled, lose their driver's license due to physical impairment, are self-employed and file for bankruptcy -- or accidentally die.

In 2008, Queen Latifah helped convey Jenny Craig's core message of weight-loss and the impact it has on one's health. Having lost her great-grandmother to type II diabetes, she understands the impact of illnesses related to weight. By successfully losing 20 pounds and dropping 20 cholesterol points through the Jenny Craig program, she demonstrated that making small lifestyle changes, along with diet and exercise, can reduce the risk of obesity-related illnesses, like diabetes, high cholesterol and heart disease.

Obama offered up a Hyde Park eatery called Dixie Kitchen. And though the 15-year-old restaurant didn't benefit from any free publicity years ago, it no doubt will wind up on the radar screen of a lot of restaurant patrons when the lost episode finally airs twice on WTTW on Jan. 16, again Jan. 18 and once more at 4 a.m. Jan. 20, the day Obama is sworn in as president.

In case you're wondering, a WTTW spokeswoman couldn't tell us exactly why the "Check, Please!" episode with Obama never aired. But for its belated debut this month, the show's producers have apparently re-edited the episode and added more existing Obama footage to enhance the show's appeal just a bit more.

"You can bet that I'm going through hell," Swayze told Barbara Walters in an interview airing on ABC Wednesday night. "And I've only seen the beginning of it." In his first interview since his grim diagnosis last January, a gaunt Swayze, 56, said he realized his health was faltering late in 2007. It wasn't until that New Year's Eve, which he celebrated with his wife, Lisa Niemi, that the pain in his stomach became unbearable. "I tried to have champagne, and it would be like pouring acid on an open wound," Swayze said.

From then on, his health deteriorated at a frightening pace. Devastating bouts of indigestion set in. His weight started to plummet. "I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye," Swayze said. "And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong."

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Because the cancer had spread to his liver, surgery was not an option. So Swayze endured an aggressive course of chemotherapy and took the experimental drug Vatalanib. His weakened body responded well to the treatments, allowing him to accept a role in the new TV series, "The Beast."

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"I don't know what's on the other side," he said. "It tests everything I believe in and that here is something unique in all of us that does not, does not die." "What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me. I can take it, and I can keep going."

"We continue to have great sell-through and are starting to see [strong] growth in the Web business," said Tracy Edwards, vice president and divisional "merchandise manager at Barneys New York. She cited Phillip Lim Kids, Little Ella Moss, John Galliano and Little Marc Jacobs among leading lines, with downsized versions of designer brands in hot demand. "Over the last six to 12 months, kids' wear, as you might expect, is outperforming women’s wear, which is outperforming men's wear," stated Richard Chamberlain, a London-based equity analyst at J.P. Morgan.

"Kids' wear is still king," echoed ex-Bonpoint designer and artistic director Domitille Brion. Noting the recent mushrooming of trendy kids' wear brands, Brion, who this spring launched Soeur, a "very Saint-Germain" label targeting 10- to 16-year-olds, sees the fashion-ization of the kids' wear category as inevitable. "There are a lot fewer kids' brands than adult brands so there's space to fill, and there's a whole mini-me [phenomenon] going on where women want to see their kids as extensions of themselves," said the designer-cum-consultant, who is due to open a second Soeur store in Paris' 16th arrondissement.

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From the denim to the luxury fields, a range of nontraditional players is among the sector's new kids on the block. These include Acne, Anne Valerie Hash, Clements Ribeiro and Surface to Air, whose first line, Fangs, a medium-priced range comprising organic T-shirts, sweatshirts and jeans illustrated by Gordon Hull, will hit stores this spring. In November, Jean Paul Gaultier unveiled its first children's wear license, signed with Groupe Zannier. The debut collection will hit store's next fall.

Milano, 36, will marry David Bugliari, an agent at the Creative Arts Agency. The couple have been dating for more than a year.

No further information about their nuptials - including a wedding date - has been announced.

Milano was previously married to Cinjun Tate. The couple split in 1999.

Apple has historically priced nearly all its songs at 99 cents each. Under a new pricing plan, songs will cost either 69 cents, 99 cents or $1.29, depending on how desirable they are considered. Apple is likely to sell the "vast majority" of the songs for 69 cents, people familiar with the matter said. But they cautioned that the handful of the most sought-after songs -- which generate the vast majority of sales on the service -- would likely cost $1.29.