The Sept. 11 attacks were overwhelmingly tragic events in this country's recent history; and yet the U.S. military action that followed two years later has brought misery, either directly or indirectly, to people elsewhere in the world, most notably to the already downtrodden, forgotten and desperately poor women -- particularly widows -- of Afghanistan. Their plight, which has mostly gone...

Contrary to popular notions, lots of steak in the diet might not be so bad for the heart after all, according to the results of a new study published in a recent issue of The New England Journal of Medicine . The two-year, Israeli-conducted diet comparison carried out by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Nuclear Research...