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Anne Heche | Miramax | Sopranos | Town and Country Anne Heche: Book Her Ready to Talk Look out Hollywood, and beyond. Anne Heche‘s book is almost ready. The intelligent, attractive Heche — who got her start on the soap opera Another Worldand then wound up in her own personal …

Are we Americans a selfish bunch, generally speaking? Is it all about us? That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. President Bush is over in Europe and as you may know, many Europeans dislike Americans and Mr. Bush for a variety of reasons. Few of them are valid, …

“You don’t have to be able to smell or see air pollution to die from it.” That’s that how the Associated Press reported news of the latest study on air pollution. The study in the New England Journal of Medicine(Dec.14) claims to be “consistent evidence that the levels of fine …

What do Bill Gates Sr., and Washington, D.C. have in common? They both have good intentions but they’re both killing us. Bill Gates’s dad for saying rich people should keep paying up — even after they’re dead. Washington for saying everybody should pay more — even while they’re alive. Both …

TEHRAN – The most talked about confrontation in Tehran these days began normally enough. A young woman walking down the street, hiding only half her hair, was accosted by the morality police, called a slut and told to cover up. The incident became interesting when the girl responded with a …

A very dark spot on Mars could be an entrance to a deep hole or cavern, according to scientists studying imagery taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The geological oddity measures some 330 feet (100 meters) across and is located on an otherwise bright dusty lava plain to the northeast …

Remember years ago this story about a guy who came out of some coma he had been in for something like 12 years. Twelve years. And he just wakes up and starts talking and talking. What was weird at the time is that he had pretty much picked up right …

NASA released a new book on Thursday to commemorate the last five decades of achievement in aeronautics, science and technology, and spaceflight since the launch of Soviet satellite Sputnik ushered in the Space Age. The U.S. space agency is also celebrating its own 50th anniversary in 2008. Sputnik’s historic launch …

Actor Yul Brynner, best known for his role in The King and I, died from lung cancer in 1985 after a life long addiction to smoking that began when he was 12. Just months before his death, he looked into the television cameras on Good Morning America and said, “Now …

Luther Ingram, the man who co-wrote one of pop music’s greatest hits, has died at age 69. Ingram, whose recording of “(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want to Be Right” was a No. 1 hit in 1973, died Monday in St. Louis. He’d had a kidney transplant several …