W. Bush and now a professor at the University of Rochester, asked me for a short piece on the meaning of baseball to me.

FORBES: It's How You Play the Game

For stress to be most beneficial, it's important to find meaning in your work, says Debra Nelson, a management professor at Oklahoma State University who has been studying stress for 30 years.

WSJ: How to Turn Bad Stress Into Good

While the middle finger may historically have symbolised a phallus, it has lost that distinctive meaning and is no longer even obscene, says Ira Robbins, a law professor at American University in Washington DC, who has studied the gesture's place in criminal jurisprudence.

BBC: When did the middle finger become offensive?

On Thursday, her doctor, Lisa Carey of the University of North Carolina Medical Center, described Edwards' condition as Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, meaning the cancer has spread beyond her breast and lymph nodes.

CNN: Edwards: Cancer 'no longer curable'