Powerful and upsetting, “The Passion of the Christ” is a movie about a Jesus who is, quite literally, dying to get up on that cross.

Focusing on the idea that Jesus was eager to fulfill his destiny and to do what was needed to save his people, Mel Gibson’s bluntly effective movie has to be the most single-minded cinematic version of the final hours of Christ ever.

Feeling guilty about that box of chocolates you have just sitting there on your kitchen table?

Chocolate has long been seen as an indulgence for most of us, a guilty secret for others and a complete addiction for some. It can seem to hold a special power over us.

LOS ANGELES _ The NBA executives are talking shop in the back seat of a taxicab in Shanghai, China. The cab driver eavesdrops and, as cab drivers often do, offers an unsolicited opinion.

“Steve Francis pass ball to Yao Ming!” he says in fractured English.

WASHINGTON _ President Bush on Tuesday urged Congress to approve a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, adding new fuel to the emotional election-year debate over gay weddings.

Declaring that “the voice of the people must be heard,” Bush said changing the Constitution was the only sure way to defeat state court rulings and local government actions that had expanded the definition of marriage to include gay couples.

Imagine if you could stay young forever. Luckily, it’s possible-if you’re born on February 29th! This year is a leap year and Sunday is leap day, the first and last one in the past four years.A leap year adds one extra day to the end of the month of February, every four years, with the occasional exception.