Sep 8th, 2008 · Men's Fitness magazine tackles a sensitive subject that is not often discussed: depression and men. In this week's Behind Closed Doors segment, Chris Strauss of Men's Fitness, mental health writer John Head, and Nathaniel Reynolds, who suffered from depression, explain why depression seems to be rising among men, and why it can be challenging for men, especially black men, to accept help.
Aug 18th, 2008 · Almost by accident, the National Park Service stumbled upon a largely untold piece of U.S. history: Fort Hunt, a park in Virginia, had been a top-secret interrogation camp during World War II. The Park Service is trying to piece together the camp's past.
Aug 11th, 2008 · Three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology figured out a way to hack the fare cards for Boston's subway system and were set to tell a conference how they did it. But a judge silenced the students. Kim Zetter of Wired.com offers her insight.
Aug 4th, 2008 · Patience is a virtue — especially for an order of monks who lived in perpetual silence until the 1960s. On an island near Wales, one community of Trappists now manages a thriving mail-order Internet business. Their sales of homemade perfumes and sweets were slowed by a sluggish dial-up connection. So they upgraded to broadband.
May 19th, 2008 · It's been one week since a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in China. Monday marks the first of three days of mourning that will be observed for the victims.
May 7th, 2008 · No matter what gasoline costs, many of us just have to pay. But Jay Weinberg is not going to sit behind the wheel and take it. The Indiana man was unhappy with the price of gas. So he climbed to the roof of a convenience store, and with the aid of a guitar and a megaphone, he serenaded customers with a song called "Price Gouge'n."
Apr 29th, 2008 · After weeks of silence, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is publicly defending his controversial comments from the pulpit, remarks that Sen. Barack Obama has had to answer for on the campaign trail. Rev. Frederick Douglas Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Texas, discusses how the controversy affected Obama's campaign and how Americans view the African American religious tradition.
Apr 24th, 2008 · In "Get Your Head Around It," Headlights' Tristan Wraight mourns the connection lost between friends and lovers who've outgrown each other: "In silence, we both walk away." Under his words, the instruments fix together into a massive wall of sound.