By Emily Lambert | Content provided by Forbes.com

If you're hyper-focused on your area of the world (be that MF Global fallout or Dungeons & Dragons) but are or have a high-school kid, it's time to take a short but important break. High school juniors, seniors and their parents will head out to college campuses soon to participate that annual rite, the school tour.

It's asking a lot to give these visits the focus and attention they deserve, but tuition is skyrocketing, and college debt levels are unsustainable. Too many students and their parents are about to pay top dollar for schools and graduation certificates that won't pay off for them in the long run, says Richard DeMillo, who directs the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Tech, also the former chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard and author of the book "Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities."

Movie reviewer Mercer Morrison from WDAM, our sister station in Hattiesburg, Miss., reviews the latest Alvin and the Chipmunks movie: Chipmunked.

For more of Mercer Morrison's movie reviews, see his YouTube channel here: Movie Madness w/ Mercer.

By Bill Washburn

Pruning during the winter months can help improve your plants shape, form and growth. Think of winter pruning as preventive maintenance. Many garden problems may be averted by pruning correctly during the formative years of trees and shrubs.

Benefits Of Pruning Corrective winter pruning can help promote plant health in the garden. Remove dead and dying branches that have been injured by disease, severely infested by insects, or damaged by animals and severe weather. Remove any branches that rub together and damage the plant's bark.

*Avoid topping trees during winter. Removing large branches during winter will leave stubs that can cause several plant health problems. It also can destroy the plant's natural shape and promote suckering or development of weak branch structure.