Miep Gies, tiny, white-haired, gentle and courageous, is now 91 years old. An unfamiliar name to most people, but without this remarkable woman, there would be no The Diary of Anne Frank. During the Nazi occupation of Holland the Austrian-born Dutch woman risked her life daily to hide Anne Frank and her family from [...]

Tadd Fujikawa stood 50 feet away from the cup on the other side of the 11th green, staring at a birdie putt that not even the best players in the world expect to make.
Then again, the kid is used to defying the odds.
He was born 3 1/2 months premature and given only a 50 percent [...]

A 65-year-old Quebec man who received a new long-term mechanical heart last month is being described as the only living Canadian without a pulse.

Mechanical heart recipient Gerard Langevin shows a model of the mechanism he has implanted in him at a news conference in Montreal
Dr. Renzo Cecere implanted the “Heartmate II” mechanical heart into Gerard [...]

Brain damage caused on the football field ultimately led to the suicide of former NFL defensive back Andre Waters, according to a forensic pathologist who studied Waters’ brain tissue.
Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh told The New York Times that Waters’ brain tissue resembled that of an 85-year-old man and that there were characteristics [...]

The Freedom Writers Diary is the amazing true story of strength, courage, and achievement in the face of adversity. In the fall of 1994, in Room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California, an idealistic teacher named Erin Gruwell faced her first group of students, dubbed by the administration as “unteachable, at-risk” [...]