“I can make the case that if there were guns in that room other than his, fewer people would’ve died, fewer people would’ve been so...

“I would like the last Guinea worm to die before I do.” – former President Jimmy Carter on his campaign to wipe out the parasitic disease...

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The great American writer John Updike never won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He should have. When Updike came to Idaho a few years...