Over the past few weeks, Cleveland police have dug up 11 African-American women's bodies at the home of a convicted sexual predator named Anthony Sowell. Thousands of miles away, during a visit to Hong Kong, young Chinese women asked me the same question over and over: How could these women be missing for so long and nobody knew? How could a woman's family tolerate even one day without knowing where... Read more.

It does not come as any kind of surprise that right on the heels of a federal advisory panel's recommending that most women wait to start screening for breast cancer till age 50, lots of women — and their doctors — are saying: "Forget what the experts say. Bring on the mammograms!" That's the American mindset. We want our tests even if we don't need 'em. But me, I'm very happy... Read more.

Bill O'Reilly supports a public option in the health care debate, given that it will provide cheaper insurance to those who can't afford it and isn't intended to replace insurance providers as the status quo for the majority; Tommy Thompson, W.'s secretary for Health and Human Services and a former four-term governor of Wisconsin, has praised the Senate's proposed reforms. Dr. Bill Frist, the former... Read more.

What's with all the zombies lately? That could be a question about one of the hippest retro fads that pop culture has going these days. Inspired by horror genres of past, zombies have lurched back to pre-eminence in books like "World War Z," video games like "Left 4 Dead" and blockbuster films like "Zombieland." Even the highbrow producers at National Public Radio recently... Read more.