Emmett Copeland moved to Times Beach as a teenager in the early s. His parents opened a donut shop at the corner of Forest Road and Park Drive, serving Boston creams and coffee to the residents of the tight-knit community, nestled in a valley along the Meramec River, southwest of St. They even had a couple of pool tables, and one time, Minnesota Fats stopped by for a game. Copeland made friends with a kid who went by the name Boner T. Bunch lived at Cape Cod, a little motel on the edge of town.

My round face is the result of Italian genetics, so says my mother. When I was younger I felt my face gave the impression that the rest of me was chubby too. So I was always keen to do what I could to minimise them. I was shading and shaping long before the Kardashians came along and not half as well. These days, my cheeks seem to have slid down my face somewhat and taken up residence under my chin and around my jawline.

As some might reckon it, the beginning of the end for NASA's space shuttle program came 10 years ago Friday, at a. EST on Saturday, Feb. That's when strain gauge V12GA, a sensor in the shuttle Columbia's left wing, began registering a small but unusual increase in stress as the spaceplane descended from orbit to close out its 28th mission.