NEWS LITE : JOB CLIMATE TOPS WORKERS' CONCERNS.

As we head into Labor Day weekend, this report from a survey of 10,600 workers, taken by the International Facility Management Association:

The biggest complaint workers have about the workplace is that it's too cold. The second biggest complaint about the workplace is that it's too hot.

Among the other complaints voiced was, ``Ghosts are in the facility at night.''

Hello Tom: Leykis on KLSX-FM

Longtime talk-radio ringmaster Tom Leykis returns to the local airwaves Tuesday, when he takes over the afternoon-drive slot on KLSX-FM (97.1).

As a result, the Tim Conway-Doug Steckler program will move to midmornings, replacing the recently departed ``Regular Guys'' immediately following Howard Stern at 11 a.m. weekdays.

Leykis' syndicated show is broadcast on 200 stations around the country, including Seattle where it is among the most popular radio programs in the city. He was last heard in Los Angeles on KMPC-AM until May 1996, but his program is broadcast in Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Diego and Lancaster.

``There's nothing better than talk on FM,'' Leykis said Thursday. ``But it has to be done right. You can't just go on the air and ask callers what their favorite color is.''

Leykis, who hosted a long-running show on KFI-AM (640) until 1992, said he is looking forward to taking advantage of KLSX's stereo broadcast capabilities. He will host a special KLSX program at 1 p.m. Tuesday, but his usual start time will be 3 p.m., beginning Wednesday.

Stewart reportedly setting up in Maine

Mount Desert Island in Maine may be gaining some major entertainment clout. This tiny village near Bar Harbor is awash in rumors that Martha Stewart is moving in.

The entertaining and decorating mogul is buying Skylands, the 61-acre estate owned for years by Texas oil tycoon Edward Leeds, the Bangor Daily News reported Wednesday. The property had been advertised for as much as $5.9 million.

The pink-granite summer ``cottage,'' with a sweeping view of the Cranberry Isles and beyond, has a dozen bedrooms, a wine cellar and an English-style pub. The estate comes with guest house, play house, carriage house and tennis courts.

Neither longtime caretaker Rodney Smith nor Stewart spokeswoman Susan Magrino would confirm that Stewart was buying the house, but residents believe it's a done deal.

But mail already started arriving for Stewart, said postmaster Mark Bradstreet.

Ex-Beatle no fan of '90s pop music

George Harrison, sounding ungenerous and old-fogeyish, trashes some of today's top pop groups, while boasting that The Beatles ``will last forever,'' in an interview this week with the French newspaper Le Figaro. Harrison, 54, calls the music of Oasis and U2 ``rubbish'' and ``not very interesting,'' adding: ``It's all right if you're 14 years old. I prefer to listen to (Bob) Dylan.''

The best thing that can be said of the Spice Girls, according to Harrison, is that ``you can watch them with the sound turned off.''

Harrison complains that ``Bono and his band are so egocentric. It's horrible . . . the more you shout, the higher you jump, the bigger your hat, the more people listen to your music. . . . Will U2 be remembered in 30 years? And the Spice Girls? I doubt it.''

Dylan not certain pope show will be

Bob Dylan sounds doubtful about that performance for Pope John Paul II next month in Italy. At first, Dylan said, ``If the Vatican is reporting it, it must be true.'' But he added: ``I'm not sure it's going to happen. I know I was the only American they asked, outside of Joni Mitchell.''

Discussing his recent health problems for the first time, the rock icon said that the fungal infection of his heart sac kept him off his feet for six weeks.

``I'm still taking medication three times a day,'' said Dylan, 56. ``Sometimes it makes me a little lightheaded and dizzy. And I need a lot of sleep.''

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PHOTO (1) Only 57 million calories

Franco Ricardo, top left, of Warwick, R.I., and Laura Palmer of Boston, right, put the finishing touches on a sculpture of the first family made out of brownies Thursday at a supermarket in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's Vineyard. The Clintons are vacationing on the island.

(2) Harrison

(3) Stewart