What exactly was on the envelope that got 3 state workers sick on Tuesday? Sounds like the opening line to joke, but this wasn't anything to laugh at. Police say state workers have been taken to a hospital after becoming ill in their Albany office when one of them opened a letter from a foreign country.
An elderly West Michigan man recently got a real shock when he found out that he had a 61-year-old son, despite trying unsuccessfully to have children with his wife throughout their marriage.
So your kid brings home an A+ paper and you hang a suicide note on the fridge, so what? Some folks are bent out of shape about this, but I think this exercise is useful.
According to this story from BBC News the assignment was to write a letter where you pretend you are terminally ill and only have a few hours left to live...