If it is plausible technically, I'd like to suggest that a small number of news items by put in a scrolling line like we see on the apple.com page ('Hot News Headlines'). Just the headline, so no "Howard Stearns etc etc" just 'Croquet editing and creation of 3D Objects' and 'Exupery Talk; Brussels 2006 Smalltalk Party' etc.
This would take very little room and yet provide links to a good number of news items. I'd hazard a guess that it would allow editors to leave the main page alone and simply change the content of some other file.
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