Charles Ridley is one third the man he used to be. He’s lost 500 pounds and, as a result, has gained his life back, he says.
For as long as he can remember, he was always overweight. Diet after diet, his weight was like a yo-yo. When he was a kid he was picked on so [...]

Tired of waiting for more attention, the cat stretched, walked across the still form and up onto the table. It sniffed the shiny cylinders the man had used, and then stepped onto the machine into which the man had been speaking.
Its curiosity satisfied, the feline jumped to the ground, but in doing so, a paw [...]

Kurtis the Stock Boy and Brenda the Checkout Girl
In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy was busily working when a new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry-out at register 4. Kurtis was almost finished and wanted to get some fresh air, so he decided to answer the call. As he [...]

Of all the reasons I was disappointed when West Wing went off the air, watching a fictional president I could believe in was number one. For that hour watching the show, I lived in my dreamland of having a president that inspired me, was a great leader and had the knowledge to carry out policies [...]

They can’t sleep, can’t concentrate and are wracked by bouts of anxiety or depression, and like anyone with a destructive bad habit, China’s increasing number of Internet addicts need help, and need it fast.
The world’s most populous country also has the world’s largest Internet population, with 298 million users at the end of 2008 — [...]