Religion is much on the brain these days. As some of you know, a while ago I started editing the "Faith Walk" column that appears every Saturday in our pages. My predecessor, Bill Norton, did an all-call every year and selected 12 people from the community to write about what their belief system means to them in their everyday lives. The group I inherited included a scientist named Chuck Lunney, who proudly identifies himself as an atheist. This weekend was his turn, and he used the occasion thttp://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2008/04...

Psychologist Dan Gottlieb hosts the award-winning mental-health call-in show Voices in the Family, which airs on Philadelphia's WHYY-FM. Since a near-fatal auto accident in 1979, he's been paralyzed from the chest down. Gottlieb has had nearly three decades to come to terms with the changed circumstances of his body â€" but now, he fears, that body may be growing tired. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.ushttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...

The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance said today that it has completed its review of the Commission's cross-border tender, exchange offer and business combination rules, and has prepared recommendations for consideration by the Commission. The cross-border tender offer rules apply to offers for the securities of foreign companies that have U.S. security holders. Director of Corporation Finance John White said that the goal of the review was to determine whether changes could be made thathttp://lawprofessors.typepad.com/securitie...