Sailor Says Bittersweet Farewell to His Boat

A U.S. Navy warship plucked Richard Van Pham, a 62-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, from the waters off Costa Rica on September 17, 2002. He was 2,500 miles ...

Actress Natalie Portman on Life After Death

Natalie Portman, the actress who plays Padme Amidala in the Star Wars movies, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, is uncomfortable with the notion ...

Supermodels Suffer for External Beauty

In a joint interview, supermodels Kim Alexis, Carol Alt, and Beverly Johnson—who collectively have appeared on more than 2,000 magazine covers—spoke ...

Commitment Means Work

Though skeptical of his teenage son's newfound determination to build bulging muscles, one father followed his teenager to the store's weight-lifting ...

Christina Ricci's Self-Mutilation

In a Rolling Stone interview, Christina Ricci talks about self-mutilation and pain when a teenager:

She stretches; her sleeves ride up; there are raised ...

Imperfect by Design

Have you ever noticed the pock-marks, or dimples, covering the surface of a golf ball? They make the ball look imperfect. So, what's their purpose? ...

Jesus for President

The following physical description of Jesus Christ conjures up the image of a charismatic candidate for president. The description comes from a forged ...

The Miraculous Human Body

The average human heart pumps over 1,000 gallons a day, over 55 million gallons in a lifetime. This is enough to fill 13 super tankers. It never sleeps, ...

Only the Body Dies

Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody, of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that moment I shall be more ...

Don't Kill the Horse

It is possible to throw our lives away foolishly by burning the candle at both ends. When Robert Murray McCheyne, only thirty years old, lay dying, he ...