The too short life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mike McAlary (played by Tom Hanks), who died of colon cancer in 1998, at the age of forty-one, is replayed through the memories of his friends and colleagues.

NEWYORKER: Lucky Guy

The Obama administration must chose: Will it commit to measures to ensure the future viability of America's deterrent, or risk defeat of its arms control agenda at the hands of forty-one Senators who understand that nothing less is acceptable?

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: START over

Because December 8th was the Catholic solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, classes were canceled and the forty-one seminarians and ten professors at Saint Beuno's School of Theology could while away the wide hours of morning and afternoon in holy obedience to hobbies and exercise in the glens and pastures of northern Wales.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Exiles'

At six shows an hour, five hours a day, five days a week, forty weeks a year, that works out to at least eighty-one thousand pockets picked.

NEWYORKER: A Pickpocket��s Tale

At some forty-four hundred words, not counting amendments, our Constitution is one of the shortest in the world, but few Americans have read it.

NEWYORKER: The Commandments

Forty-one-year-old Tom Glavine missed his chance at a milestone last night.

NPR: Major League Baseball Milestones Delayed

Forty-nine percent and 61% of overweight and obese adolescents, respectively, had at least one risk factor, compared to just 37% of normal-weight kids.

CNN: Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. teens facing diabetes