Digital Musings of Tabitha Hawk

Authorities in Idaho are still absorbing the mess created by a tractor-trailer wreck that landed eight giant rolls of toilet paper in the Lochsa River. Eight rolls might not sound like a lot, but this truck was carrying unprocessed paper on its way to a plant, so each of them weighed in at more than 8,000 pounds. That's when dry: When saturated, the things can expand to four times that weight.