Thanksgiving dinner is supposed to be a time for a family to come together peacefully and give thanks for all they have been blessed with. In my family, the peacefulness ends when one walks into the family room, where the younger cousins are watching the Power Rangers television program. That unfort...

In Brooklyn, New York, the six-year-old son of a policeman asked his father to give him real bullets because his little sister "doesn't die for real when I shoot her like Bruce Wills kills in "Die Hard" ". For years now, researchers have been trying to answer the question on...