If we truly care deeply about the death of young children...

... what are the most effective things we can do? There's so much talk about gun control in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, but r...

Engaging in a trend called "Trash the Dress" — "where recent brides playfully destroy their wedding dress"...

... a beautiful woman dies: The distraught photographer, Louis Pagakis, told CTV Montreal that he did everything he could to save [30-year-o...

Diana Nyad fails — again — to swim from Cuba to Florida.

But the photos are fabulous (if you love survival ). She was aiming to be the first person to make the 103-mile journey without a shark cage...

"At the end of the day, the biggest impact you can make in anything is through kids."

Said the children's surgeon, who died yesterday in Lake Michigan, saving children.

"Rodney King — the man who was at the center of the infamous Los Angeles riots — was found dead this morning"... at the bottom of a pool.

"He was 47." "I just want to say, you know, can we, can we all get along? Can we, can we get along? Um, can we stop making it...

"This grasping at straws was just the capstone to what even liberal observers admitted was a week of self-immolation..."

I'm annoyed that I can't get into that article — about the SG's argument in the Obamacare case — because I don't have a sub...

Why so many deaths in triathlons... nearly all in the swimming phase?

Panic attacks. Officially, drowning, but the root cause may be panic: “My world is anatomic,” said Steven Shapiro, Vermont’s chief medical ...

"Sure a baby has a swimming reflex but that doesn't mean watching them swim isn't absolutely terrifying."

Says a Metafilter participant , linking to several videos. I watched these videos and didn't find them terrifying at all. These are peop...

"Two strapping young men who were practicing breath-holding exercises at a Staten Island pool yesterday to prepare for military training..."

"... were pulled out unconscious and one died -- after two lifeguards and 20 swimmers failed to spot them." ... It's not clear...

"So Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are in a row boat, and it springs a leak and starts to sink. Who gets saved? The American people."

Senator Kyl tells a poor joke and gets "a big laugh" at the National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat. Kyl's joke is......

"Painful physical and psychological tactics, including head slapping, simulated drowning, and frigid temperatures."

The White House admits today that it approved the use of "painful physical and psychological tactics, including head slapping, simulat...

The polar-bears-on-the-melting-ice-cap photo.

You've all seen it. This photo atop all the articles about the new report on global warming. (Go to the article to see the larger size....

"Tracy should never have had children. Tracy didn't like children. She didn't like no one. Tracy wasn't affectionate with nobody."

The words of a member of Tracina Vaughn's family. [P]rosecutors say... that Ms. Vaughn put her two boys in the bath on Sunday night and ...