Even the most dedicated readers retain only grains of the thought that slurries through their brains, and I suspect that for the public lecture, memory approaches the vanishing point. I have attended ...

Stuck in the airport returning home from an emotionally exhausting day, tired and fighting an awful chest cold, my flight delayed to the wee hours of the morning, I stretched out on the seats in the ...

Steve Hartman is a correspondent for CBS News based in New York. Tonight's Assignment America is so special, 've asked if I can tell the same story every month 'til further notice. Seriously. I'm not ...

Time seems infinite when you’re a kid, elusive when you’re an adult, and precious when you’re near death. “Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think,” wrote ...

WSJ's Jeff Zaslow discusses his new book "The Last Lecture," about beloved Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor Randy Pausch. Last year, Dr. Pausch, who was told he had a few months to live, ...

Made famous by his “Last Lecture” at Carnegie Mellon and the quick Internet proliferation of the video of the event, Pausch decided that maybe he just wasn't done lecturing. Despite being several ...