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In a new book, "Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers," Dr. John J. Ross of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital looks at how disease and mood disorder may have infected the lives, creativity and words…

EmbedVideo(5569, 482, 304); Writing a book is "a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness," George Orwell once said. The literary giant behind "1984" and "Animal Farm" was comparing his life's work to the…

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The Daily Frame

A professor looks at hundreds of paintings from students that have yet to be graded in Jinan, China. The paintings are part of the provincial entrance examination for colleges of fine arts.

One Million Moms for Gun Control, a group formed after the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., marches across the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Not even a week into President Obama's second term, the…