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• LONDON (AP) -- You're in bed. You reach over to turn out the light, and you are turning off the exact same light Michael Phelps turned off the night before he won the gold that made him the most decorated Olympian ever. That's the dream, at least.
• Meet the reality: Now anyone can own a piece of Olympic history. You just won't know exactly whose piece it is.
• More than 1 million items from the athletes' village and Olympic Park are on sale right here, right now, and they'll be ready for collection right after the Paralympic Games end in early September. Night stands? They got 'em. Lamps? Umpire's

chairs? Beanbags? Yes, yes and yes.
• Almost all of the bits and pieces that helped make the London Olympics what they are -- items from the places where people ate, where they competed, even where they slept -- are available for the taking in what is effectively a massive post-Olympics fire sale. In the end, much of what made up the Olympic sites will be dispersed throughout Britain and beyond to anyone who puts down some cash.
• "It occurred to me that the general population would want to buy furniture from the London games," says Paul Levin, who runs sales operations for Ramler Furniture, the company that won the contract to source, then lease furniture to the London organizing committee.
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• GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) -- The rusty stains on Shirley Carter's home are a permanent reminder of her fight with the local steel mill, just down U.S. Highway 17 near the boat docks. No matter how many cans of industrial-strength acid she went through, the red tint on her property never seemed to go away.
• In 1998, Carter and her neighbors sued Georgetown Steel, then owned by the company Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney co-founded, Bain Capital. They sought millions in cleanup costs and accused the mill's owners of leaving their historic Southern neighborhood looking like it had been hit by a "chemical bomb."

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