Ordained as a minister and acquitted in a $2.7 billion fraud, fired HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy is done with the corporate boardroom. Now, he says, it's all about God.

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Aside from being the largest of all octopuses, the giant Pacific octopus is also recognizable by its typical reddish-pink color. The octopus is equipped with special pigment cells, called chromatophores, just below the surface of the skin that allow it to…

American actor, musician, and activist (1970-1993)

Registration to practice law in a US jurisdiction

Black Death and AIDS are global pandemics that have captured the popular imagination, both attracting extravagant hypotheses to account for their origins and geographical distributions. Medical scientists have recently attempted to connect these two great…

Execution by firing squad, in the past sometimes called fusillading (from the French fusil, rifle), is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war. Execution by shooting is a fairly old practice. Some reasons for…

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How can one driver get it so wrong? An all too familiar road sign may not make sense, but it is meant to get you thinking.

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 -- July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952.

Italian Roman Catholic saint and founder

This article proposes a framework for theory and research on risk-taking that is informed by developmental neuroscience. Two fundamental questions motivate this review. First, why does risk-taking increase between childhood and adolescence? Second, why ...

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Now banned under federal, state laws, invasive mammal found near Cloquet could have wreaked havoc in wild

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In 1994, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Los Angeles. This caused a blackout in the region and woke up the city's residents

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The new doc looks back at when Justin Timberlake pulled off a piece of Janet Jackson's costume during the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show, exposing her nipple-ring adorned breast for nine-sixteenths of a second, and she paid the price for years to come.