The volume of trading on the New York Stock Exchange dropped to one-sixth of its usual rate while the golfer Tiger Woods was holding his press event the other day. It appears that his treatment for sexual addiction is based on the well-trodden path of the 12-step program—the staple diet of recovering alcoholics.
In addition to [...]

Winter Olympics luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili died in an accident on a bend in the track at the Whistler Sliding Center, Vancouver, Canada, before the opening of the games. The sled he was riding came off the track and the young man was catapulted into an unpadded metal support beam and perished.
According to his father, [...]

The Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has recalled millions of defective cars to fix an accelerator problem: “We’ve halted production of [new] models this week to focus on fixing the problem for the vehicles that are on the road. Our entire organization … has been mobilized. We’re doubling our quality control efforts. Ensuring your safety is [...]

Almost certainly it was the liberal English writer Charles Wentworth Dilke (1843-1911) and not, as popularly thought, Mark Twain or Benjamin Disraeli, who first said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Recently, in a joint session of the US Congress on healthcare reform, Representative Joe Wilson startled the assembly by calling [...]