Alice Schroeder. Bantam.

960 pages. $35.

Warren Buffett made a smart choice when he chose Alice Schroeder as his biographer. He found a writer able to keep pace with the wild swerves in the Buffett story and the intricacies of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway business empire. Schroeder is as insightful about her subject's precise anticipation of current financial crises as she is about his quirky personal story. And she is a clear explicator of fiscal issues. This sprawling, colorful biography will mesmerize anyone interested in who Buffett is or how he got to be one of the world's richest men.

-- The New York Times

(Reprise Records)

Since its mid-'90s heyday, Oasis' albums have been comfortable, even pedestrian affairs, usually rescued by a couple of uncomplicated singalong stadium anthems. "Dig Out Your Soul," however, is the sound of a band rediscovering its snarl. Lead single "The Shock of the Lightning" sets the template: It may not have a chorus as such, but boy, does it make a fantastic racket in search of one. Much of the album sounds similarly wired, with such songs as "Bag It Up," "Waiting for the Rapture" and "The Turning" relocating the air of menace Noel Gallagher's songwriting seemed to mislay after "Definitely Maybe." DOWNLOAD: "The Turning"

-- Billboard

3 shiso or mint leaves, coarsely chopped

Juice of 2 limes

2 ounces Bacardi rum

1/2 ounce Zen Green Tea Liqueur

1/2 ounce simple syrup

Club soda

Lime twist

Muddle shiso leaves with lime juice in a bomber glass. Add rum, tea liqueur and simple syrup. Fill glass with ice and top with soda. Garnish with a twist of lime and serve with a straw.

Makes 1 cocktail.

-- Houston Chronicle

90 minutes. Rated R.

It's a big-budget apocalyptic horror movie that has plenty of shocks but no showy special effects -- a movie that relies on suspense, the cumulative effect of its unsettling premise and the suggestion of what's happening off screen to raise the hair on the backs of our necks. It opens on a calm morning in New York's Central Park, when suddenly people stop what they're doing and look for the easiest way to kill themselves -- a horrific moment the media immediately assume to be a terrorist attack through the release of a neurotoxin. Soon, more "events" occur, civilization and human psychology break down, Mother Nature is on the warpath and a high school science teacher (Mark Wahlberg) is left to make sense of what's happening. The DVD extras include deleted scenes and several featurettes.

-- William Arnold

Also new on DVD this week: "You Don't Mess With the Zohan," "The Visitor," "Normal," "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad," "Ray Harryhausen Collection," "30 Rock: Season 2," "The Simpsons: The Eleventh Season," "How I Met Your Mother: Season Three," "Martin: The Complete Fifth Season," "The Beverly Hillbillies: The Official Second Season," "The Munsters: The Complete Series," "Touch of Evil," Brotherhood: The Complete Second Season," "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane Season One."

-- P-I staff and

news services

Rated: Everyone Platform: iPhone/iPod Touch (Demiforce)

Indie developer Steve Demeter has earned raves for the way he puts gravity to work in his innovative match-three puzzle game "Trism." Use your finger on the touch screen to drag columns of colored triangles in six directions, making matches of same-colored triangles as you go. But you can earn more points by tilting your Apple device to and fro, allowing the pieces to slide into place in different ways.

"Trism" is a pretty, polished game and a fine example of how the iPhone and Touch are becoming viable-gaming platforms. "Trism" costs $2.99

in Apple's App Store.

-- Winda Benedetti

"PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE"

6 p.m. KOMO/4, KING/5, KIRO/7, BBC America, CNN, C-SPAN, FNC, MSNBC

The second debate between John McCain and Barack Obama features a town hall forum. The questions will come from voters who haven't decided which candidate is getting their vote for president.

"NCIS"

8 p.m. KIRO/7

Senator asks Gibbs for help.

"90210"

8 p.m. KSTW/11

Tracy hires a private investigator.

"HOUSE"

8 p.m. KCPQ/13

Ready for your close-up, Dr. House? A documentary crew is filming House and his wannabe fellows as they struggle to diagnose a teenager with a facial deformity who suffered a heart attack on the eve of reconstructive surgery.

"DANCING WITH THE STARS"

9 p.m. KOMO/4

Can Cloris Leachman stay for one more week? Please?

"THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA"

9 p.m. Bravo

Showing that not all self-involved women live on the West Coast or New York City, the reality series moves south for the season.

"DIRTY JOBS"

9 p.m. Discovery Channel

Mike travels to San Diego and works with the tar rigging crew on the oldest active merchant ship in the world, the Star of India.

"THE PROBLEM SOLVER VOTER GUIDE"

8 p.m. KOMO/4

The November general election and an in-depth look at the races and issues that will affect Washington state.

"THE CLEANER"

10 p.m. A&E

In this new episode, William brings Arnie into his home to detox, determined to save him from the fate that Mickey suffered.

-- P-I staff and news services

It's that time of year when the leaves turn orange and the offerings on your dinner plate can turn even more vibrant, too. And that's a good thing, because yellow-orange veggies -- including carrots, sweet potatoes and winter squash -- are great tasting and chockfull of carotenoids.

Why care about carotenoids? These good-for-you nutrients fight the DNA damage that can make your body old (or sick) before its time.

See, during the course of your lifetime, whether you spend it loafing on the Riviera or diligently working your way up the ladder, your DNA accumulates damage as Dr. Mike does pennies, but your DNA does it frequently when it gets copied to create a new cell.

It's like when you make a copy of a copy of a copy on the Xerox machine. Little flaws and imperfections start to show up, even if everything started out just fine. Same thing can happen with your DNA. And that's not such a great thing, because it can lead to that ultimate cell-replication error: cancer.

Researchers suspect that carotenoids -- the plant pigments that also give pumpkins and cantaloupes their rich orange hues -- may help protect against the kind of DNA damage that happens with age, so you can go on making clear, good copies of your cells longer. It's one more way that taking good care of your taste buds with the season's peak produce also takes the best care of your body.

TO SUBMIT QUESTIONSTO Mike Roizen and Mehmet Oz -- the YOU DOCS -- visit RealAge.com, the docs' online home. The doctors are authors of the best-selling "YOU: The Owner's Manual" and "YOU: On a Diet."