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The Hall of Fame women's basketball coach who inspired her North Carolina State players and countless others with her graceful fight against cancer said she has halted chemotherapy and is instead undergoing hormonal treatments that are far less draining.

''This treatment versus the tough chemo drugs going in every week, it's so much better,'' Yow said Monday. ``The hard chemo just zaps your energy, a lot of side issues that you have to deal with. . . . Every day that I'm away from chemo, it seems that I have more and more energy.''

Her auburn-brown wig replaced by her natural, close-cropped silver hair, Yow spoke at her summer camp after a TV special aired about her fight with breast cancer, which was first diagnosed in 1987 and recurred during the 2004-05 season.

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This photo provided by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences? shows two fossils ? recently discovered in Peru ? that reveal that early penguins responded differently to natural climate change than scientists would have predicted. The smaller of the two, Perudyptes devriesi, was comparable in size to the living king penguin. The larger, Icadyptes salasi, would have been fearsome to encounter at more than 5 feet tall with a 7 -inch beak.

WASHINGTON ? Giant penguins as tall as 5 feet roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climes.

Known mostly for their presence in Antarctica, penguins today live in many islands in the Southern Hemisphere, some even near the equator.

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Sen. Tony Rand is not bashful about the role he plays in the state Senate.

"I make sure the trains run on time," he told a reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer, who recently profiled him.

Indeed he does. This Democrat from Fayetteville chairs the powerful Rules and Operations of the Senate Committee and is the leader of Senate Democrats. He has ranked as the Senate's second most effective member (behind Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight) since 1999 in surveys of lawmakers, lobbyists and reporters.

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Andrew Brackman became the fifth Moeller baseball player to be drafted in Major League Baseball's amateur draft, when the New York Yankees selected him 30th overall earlier this month.

Brackman joins Mike Bell, Adam Hyzdu, Ken Griffey Jr. and Barry Larkin as Crusaders to go in the draft's opening round.

He also is the fifth Mike Cameron-coached player to be drafted in the first round and he will be the last.

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-- Giant penguins as tall as 5 feet roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climes. Known mostly for their presence in Antarctica, penguins today live in many islands in the Southern Hemisphere, some even near the equator.

But scientists thought they hadn't reached warm areas until about 10 million years ago

Now, researchers report in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have found remains of two types of penguin in Peru that date to 40 million years ago.

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