News Bits: Debate More Letdown Than Showdown

- The second presidential debate: "remarkably sedate", "low-voltage", "tedious"
- The Federal Reserve and other world banks enact an emergency rate cut
- Work with glowing jellyfish leads to Nobel Prize in chemistry
- Caution: No cold medicine for kids under 4
- Wal-Mart says shoppers are sticking to necessities
- Vanishing Saturday Night Live sketch stirs controversy
- Esquire names Halle Berry as this year's Sexiest Woman Alive
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