Hobbit star Stephen Fry has admitted he tried to commit suicide last year.
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Bacharach about daughter’s suicide
Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional – not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages. He knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his daughter
Film review: Iron Man 3
IRON MAN 3 (M) (130 min) Directed by Shane Black. Starring Robert Downey jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley.
Moore and Kutcher set for ‘big battle’
Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are reportedly set for a “big divorce battle”.
British Teen With ‘Sleeping Beauty Syndrome’ Slumbers for Eight Months
Unbelievably a British Tenn, 15-year-old Stacey Comerford, fell asleep in April and awoke in May. The Sun reports on the case of Stacey Comerford, a teenage girl who’s afflicted with what’s known as ‘Kleine-Levin Syndrome’, or Sleeping Beauty Syndrome. People with the condition have “episodes” where they sleep for as long as 20 hours a […]
The Age Of Ritalin
What exactly does a normal child look like?
Trading for a High
In the basement of a Cape Cod on a suburban street in northern New Jersey, a teenage boy turns to a friend and asks impatiently, “What did you get?
Why Abby Won’t Talk
Abby Barnes’ hand shoots up nearly every time her teacher asks the 19 squirmy first-graders in her suburban Philadelphia public school to match letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make. Sitting up front with her pinchable cheeks framed by long blond hair, Abby, 7, looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer
Diagnostics: How We Get Labeled
Pardon the personal question, but have you ever had a sexual fantasy involving the use of a nonliving object–Anna Kournikova’s tennis outfit, say, or Tom Cruise’s Risky Business skivvies?
Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble
Correction Appended: Feb. 8, 2010 The Jerusalem syndrome is a psychological disorder in which a visit to the holy city triggers delusional and obsessive religious fantasies