And the angels sing

I'm prepared to take back a fairly large proportion -- OK, at least a few -- of the less-than-polite things I've said about AP style in recent years, because the AP has finally given the definitive answer that applies in nearly all cases of frantic questions about the split-verb superstition and its friends:

Q. In this sentence, "Federal enhancement grant funds soon will help..." or "will soon help" works better?
A: Flip a coin. I think the second is closer to conversational speech.

Everybody got it? Next time somebody gets the old undergarments in a wad about where the adverb goes, you say "flip a coin."

There are cases in which it really, really does matter. But they only make sense in light of the 95 percent of cases in which you really could flip a coin.