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WITH THE creation of its new naked reality show, "Naked and Afraid," the Discovery Channel has made the creators of "Jersey Shore" look like Martin Scorsese. The show's premise is simple. The producers pick a man and a woman and drop them naked in the middle of nowhere, and give them 21 days to get to a predetermined extraction point. Judging by the publicity photo featuring a mud-slathered couple trying their best to look like Neanderthals, I'm sure it's a rip-roarin' good time.

Linden Hill, the Gladwyne estate once owned by Campbell Soup heir John T. Dorrance Jr., is on the market for $24.5 million. The secluded, 50-plus-acre property at 1543 Monk Rd., with its 14,000-square-foot, 20-room Norman-style manor house, formal gardens, orchards, two swimming pools, pool house, and tennis court, has been owned since 1999 by Robert L. and Susan Burch. Burch and his brother, J. Christopher Burch, were co-founders  Eagle Eye, a retailer of outdoors sportswear they have since sold.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Remains of two people have been found in an area burned by a wildfire that has destroyed at least 360 houses northeast of Colorado Springs. El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said one person who was reported missing Wednesday was found safe, but crews on Thursday found the remains of another person reported missing. About an hour later they found the remains of a second person, he said. The number of homes destroyed by the voracious wildfire, driven in all directions by shifting winds, was likely to climb as the most destructive blaze in Colorado history burned for a third day through miles of tinder-dry woods.

BUYING A CITY-OWNED vacant or abandoned property is about to get a bit easier with a new website that will allow potential buyers to see nearly all city-held properties on a map, with price tags and other information. Part of a long-awaited effort to create clear policies for dealing with the vacant land and abandoned buildings that blight many neighborhoods, the site will feature 9,000 properties, the bulk of the city's holdings. It will provide the opportunity to buy properties held by the Redevelopment Authority, the Department of Public Property and the Philadelphia Housing Development Corp., city officials said yesterday.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been leading the charge against the sexual assault crisis in the military, which has been struggling to curb the culture that yielded 26,000 cases of "unwanted sexual contact" in the ranks last year. A champion of the bill that repealed the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) has pushed welcome legislation to move decisions to prosecute sexual assault cases from the chain of command to independent military prosecutors. Unfortunately, despite bipartisan support, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D., Mich.)

Longtime soap opera actress Maxine Stuart, 94, died June 6. She had regular roles on The Young and the Restless and The Edge of Night. Her daughter, Chris Ann Maxwell, told the Los Angeles Times her mother died of natural causes at home in Beverly Hills. Ms. Stuart began her career in the New York theater. She had small movie roles but was best known for her TV work, which included guest appearances on shows such as Peyton Place, NYPD Blue, and Judging Amy. She received a 1989 Emmy nomination for her role as a piano teacher in The Wonder Years.

Morning rush hour service on the PATCO High Speed Line was disrupted Wednesday after squirrels chewed through signal wires, the commuter railroad said. "We must test every wire & are doing so as quickly as possible," PATCO said on its Twitter feed. PATCO apologized for the delays.

Federal prosecutors sent General Electric and Westinghouse executives to prison 50 years ago for conspiring to set higher-than-market prices for electrical generators built at their vast West Philly and Delaware County factories, sadly defunct. Now we learn that millionaire bank traders have been artificially fixing the price of money, like those industrial desperados of old. But no one's talking about prison. Last week the head of UK-based Barclays Bank resigned after admitting to U.S. and British regulators that his people for years sent phony data to the folks who calculate the London Interbank-Offered Rate (Libor)

In 2004, Sister Mary Scullion wrote a letter to the Philadelphia Housing Authority, asking for help. Could her nonprofit acquire two of the agency's boarded-up homes in the 2100 block of North 28th Street? Empty for years, the North Philadelphia houses would be part of a block-wide project to fix vacant homes for resale to low-income families. For seven years, Project HOME, which helps homeless people with services and housing, waited for a decision. And waited. "We never knew where we stood with PHA," Scullion said.

At lunchtime on May 15, 2001, CSX Locomotive No. 8888 eased down tracks in a rail yard outside Toledo, Ohio. The engine known as "Crazy Eights" picked up speed as it pulled 47 freight cars, two of them loaded with toxic chemicals, south toward Columbus. Only no one was on board. Jon Hosfeld, a native of Mechanicsburg, Pa., was in the rail yard eating his lunch. He wasn't supposed to be there that day. Hosfeld, 52, ran a CSX yard 67 miles south in Kenton; he'd come north to deposit a carload of children and Ohio's lieutenant governor in Toledo for a program aimed at raising awareness about the dangers of rail crossings.

SO, WHATEVER happened to Ben Hogan's 1-iron? Well, nobody knows for sure. And never will. All we do know is that somewhere between the fourth round of the 1950 U.S. Open and the next day's 18-hole playoff, it went missing. Along with his shoes, as it turns out. And it remained that way for more than three decades. In 1973, the executive director of the USGA, P.J. Boatwright Jr., wrote to Hogan asking if he would donate the club to the association's museum. That's when Hogan finally admitted he didn't have it. Ten years later, club dealer Bobby Farino purchased an old set of MacGregor woods and matching irons for $150 at The Players Championship.

Listening to reports of Nelson Mandela's failing health, I can't help thinking how different the world would be if the former South African leader could have been cloned. So many times, in countries plagued by sectarian conflicts and bloodshed, I've heard people say: "If only we had a Mandela. " Mandela's genius was his ability to forgive former enemies, along with a charisma that persuaded his black countrymen to do likewise - and convinced his white countrymen that he meant what he said.

Advocates for renters and lower-income people displaced by Sandy say they are glad the Jersey Shore is open for business. But don't forget the bulk of the people who live there, they say. In an extraordinarily tight rental market, one whose noose was pulled tighter by summer rental rates that kicked in last month, the advocates say not enough is being done to help those people. Many of the renters work in that same Shore tourism industry being touted by everyone from Gov. Christie to President Obama and Harlem Globetrotter Handles Franklin.

U.S. OPEN FEVER has hit Main Line homeowners like the rockin' pneumonia and the boogie-woogie flu, fueled by fantasies of making five-figure fortunes by renting their houses near the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore for the June 10-16 tournament. One online ad for a four-bedroom, five-bath colonial boasting a 650-bottle wine cellar suggested, "Chat with Tiger Woods and the rest of the U.S. Open golfers as they walk the 8th hole directly behind this home. " Another ad touted "formal and informal dining rooms" and "three living rooms with two grand fireplaces.