This book is a collection of true accounts about everyday life: work, family relations, friendship, tough challenges, and the amazing daily dramas that life throws our way.

A new report shows that children attending school near Ground Zero on9/11were muchless likely to have a mental disorder than children anywhere else in New York City.

Memorial Day is about remembering those who died for our country and why they believed it was worth dying for.

Quality of life improved for Afghan women since the fall of the Taliban. Can the same be said about all Muslim women?

An eminent anthropologist prescribes a set of nine behavioral "vitamins" based on what we needed to prosper as a species in our native environment, which he identified as East Africa, out of which our ancestors apparently spread some 100,000 years ago.

If President Clinton, during his visit to Russia this week, were to confine himself solely to the official script, he would turn himself into a prop in a passion play enacted by the Kremlin.

Written fifty years ago, Vasily Grossman's "Life and Fate" has more to say about human freedom than any other novel of the century.

Chechnya, a Connecticut-sized province stretching from fertile farmland south into craggy mountains, was home to about 1 million people a decade ago. In nine years of fighting, hundreds of thousands have been displaced, thousands have been "disappeared" by Russian troops and about one-fourth of the population is believed to have died.