American Idol Update

Jordin Sparks, pictured.
World-renowned artist Diana Ross will work with the Top 12 finalists this week on AMERICAN IDOL tonight 8/7c, and will perform on the results show tomorrow 9/8c. The contestants will perform songs from the Diana Ross and the Supremes songbook.

Join the Army . . . Get Raped

“Comprehensive statistics on the sexual assault of female soldiers in Iraq have not been collected, but early numbers revealed a problem so bad that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld ordered a task force in 2004 to investigate. As a result, the Defense Department put up a Web site in 2005 designed to clarify that [...]

Blacks Fight More At End of Life

After lives in which they often struggle to get medical care, African Americans and other minorities are more likely than whites to want, and get, more aggressive care as death nears and are less likely to use hospice and palliative-care services to ease their suffering, according to a large body of research and leading experts.
As [...]

How Saddam Coped in Prison

This article, which appeared in various news outlets in January, is about an Army Sargent who was responsible for guarding Saddam Hussein. In it, the Sgt. describes the manner in which Saddam coped with his captivity. It is quite interesting.
“Saddam, who was executed on Saturday, claimed that cigars and coffee kept his blood pressure down, [...]