A 2008 Harris Interactive survey sponsored by CarMD.com found that 10 percent of the 2,041 U.S. adults polled were driving a car whose "Check Engine" light was on. An alarming 50 percent of those whose cars were showing signs of an impending breakdown indicated the light had been on for over 3 months. Another 10 percent said the light had been on between 1–2 months. Kristin Brocoff, marketing ...

According to Yale University law professor Anthony Kronman, students who begin their college careers today suffer from one glaring omission in their studies. Nowhere will they study the meaning of life. American colleges have so embraced a research-driven model of scholarship that metaphysical interests, once the subject matter of the humanities, have been all but eliminated from higher education. ...

Like most couples preparing for a wedding, Dave Best and his fiancée were probably worried about whether or not everyone would show up on time for the ceremony on July 6, 2008. They didn't need to worry about their friend Dave Barclay, though. He was so excited about the wedding that he showed up a year early!

When Dave Best wrote Barclay, telling him about the July 6 wedding in Wales, Barclay ...

When adults were asked by researchers what they would do if diagnosed with an incurable disease, the percentage who said:

• They would pursue treatment at any cost: 52
  
  
• They would do nothing: 12
  
  
• They would spend all their savings in pursuit of pleasure: 6
  
  
• They would try something they ordinarily wouldn't: 5
  
  
• They would quit their job: 1
  
  
• They would do none of the above: 22

In March of 2007, in the Kuban region of southern Russia, at least 62 people were killed by a fire that quickly blazed through a home for the elderly. The greatest tragedy was that it could have been prevented. Authorities say a night watchman ignored two fire alarms. When the third alarm sounded, and the watchman saw flames, he finally took the necessary action for evacuation. Even then, other staffers ...

In the movie Click, Michael Newman (played by Adam Sandler) is given a true "universal" remote control that has the power to influence real life. He can mute peoples' voices, fast-forward through annoying conversations, and even rewind through past experiences.

In this scene, Michael is talking to Morty (played by Christopher Walken)—an employee of Bed, Bath, and Beyond who originally gave him ...

In 1874, a fire started that would burn for more than a century.

The fire was located in China's Liuhuanggou coalmine. It was not the only coal fire in that area, but it blazed the longest and became the largest, fueled by nearly 2 million tons of coal every year.

Besides consuming coal, the fire annually produced 100,000 tons of harmful gases and 40,000 tons of ash.

Beginning in 2000, Chinese firefighters ...

Along Came Polly tells the story of an unlikely romance between Reuben Feffer (Ben Stiller) and Polly Prince (Jennifer Aniston). Reuben plans out the details of his days and tries to play life safe, but then along comes Polly. She's a free-spirited friend from childhood who shakes up his world.

In one hysterical scene, Reuben and Polly are standing by his bed, which is covered in decorative pillows. ...

It is said that Satan once called to him the emissaries of hell and said he wanted to send one of them to earth to aid women and men in the ruination of their souls. He asked which one would want to go. One creature came forward and said, "I will go." Satan said, "If I send you, what will you tell the children of men?" He said, "I will tell the children of men that there is no heaven." Satan said, ...

Sitting on the hard wooden bleachers at Fort Benning while attending the United States Army Airborne School, we prepared for our first parachute jump. Soon we would soar hundreds of feet above the red Georgia clay and hear the jump-master bark out the orders, "Stand up! Hook up! Check equipment! Stand in the door! Go! Go! Go!" Understandably, the instructors had our undivided attention.

The Airborne ...