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New ideas about health, like physical culture and the paleo approach, appear at times of massive cultural change. Both movements look to the past for how to eat, exercise and live more naturally.

A lot of people have called basketball player Jason Collins a hero for coming out as the first openly gay male athlete in a major American sport. But the Barbershop guys ask if it's heroism or hype.

South Carolina's 1st Congressional District hasn't elected a Democrat since 1978. But in a race against scandal-ridden former Gov. Mark Sanford, Democrats think their candidate, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, has a chance to pull it off in Tuesday's special election.

The American Urological Association released new guidelines that, if they're heeded, would dramatically reduce the ranks of men who would be candidates for PSA testing. The prostate-specific antigen test can catch cancer early, but it frequently gives false alarms.

The principal of a small, private school in Washington decided that it was so beautiful outside, kids should take the day off to enjoy it. He called it a "sun day."

Border agents will now have to make sure a student visa is valid before allowing a foreign student into the country.

Marine Capt. Cam West lost one of his legs to a bomb in Afghanistan. Now part of the Semper Fi Fund, he's inspiring others with similar injuries to look ahead with hope.

Marinda Righter said she saw her mother in Carmen Blandin Tarleton. She called the transplant "a gift."

A white off-duty constable shot and killed a paraplegic black man in Fayette, Miss., in 1965. Despite new witnesses who have memories of what happened that day, there's still not enough evidence to say whether Jasper Burchfield's claim of self-defense is true.

For this round of our short story contest, write a piece of original fiction in which a character finds something he or she has no intention of returning.