FROM its inception, the stock market was meant to be a place where businessmen could raise capital by selling shares in their enterprises, and where investors could turn a profit when those enterprises prospered. The market still serves both purposes, but today it is judged less by what it does for businessmen seeking capital than by what it accomplishes for investors seeking gain. In a time of high and rising taxes, investment in stocks is one of the few ways ...

A woman uses a vibrator so intensely that she ends up in an emergency room. A priest steals money from his church's collection box so that he can pay for prostitutes. A young father of three small children sneaks out at night for anonymous sex in public bathrooms. He contracts AIDS and infects his wife. Both of them are dying. Why do otherwise normal men and women do such things? Why do they let their sexual desires destroy their families, ...

Five years ago, on the night of June 1, 2003, a Phoenix housewife named Stephenie Meyer had a dream: a young woman was talking to a beautiful, sparkling man in a sunlit meadow. The man was a vampire. They were in love, and he was telling the girl how hard it was for him to keep from killing her. Meyer had not written anything much before then. Her main creative outlets were scrapbooking and making elaborate Halloween costumes. ...