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For 30 years, it was kept secret.

In the summers of the 1960s, Lee Mottern's family often visited their relatives in Elizabethton, Tenn.

In most medical schools, students recite the Hippocratic Oath together to mark the start of their professional careers.

Hi, it's Steve Edwards here pinch-hitting for the vacationing Justin Kaufmann.  As Justin laps up the sun and waves at an undiscolosed location, I've been covering his web production shifts, which keeps me up way too late most nights. It also has me scouring sites for interesting Chicago t

When Frank Calabrese Jr. was a teenager, his father came home one night and took him into the bathroom for a chat."He used to like to talk in the bathroom with the fan going and the water running in case there was any kind of bugs in the house," says Frank Jr.

In 1960, there were 400,000 lions living in the wild. Today, there are just 20,000."That represents a 90 to 95 percent decline," says National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dereck Joubert. "Unless we start talking about this, these lions will be extinct within the next 10 or 15 years."

The protests in Wisconsin between union members and mostly Republican state leaders are entering a third week.