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When I worked in television news, we always had a segment of the newscast to talk about some of the most interesting stories of the year. Although I'm not working in news these days, I still have some thoughts on the stories I saw and read during 2008. Here are my picks for those stories that were interesting and even weird to some degree: 1) A Beverly Hills doctor faces accusations that he...

In 1937, Ruth Hamilton traveled to Europe to visit family in Denmark and to embark on a fact-finding mission for her radio program in the States. Decades later, she wrote about her life-changing trip in her autobiography, "The Hamilton Saga." GrowingBolder.com is bringing you exclusive excerpts from the book. In part 1, she came face-to-face with the son of a famous painter. In...