Addison Oelrich, almost 2, cried out, "I see Daddy! I see Daddy!" before the stairs were wheeled up to the plane. When 1st Sgt. Jeff Faretra stepped down, his wife, Katherine, grabbed hold and hugged him.

"I just want him home," she said.

Two out of three people with diabetes will die from a heart attack or stroke. For years, doctors were unsure if pushing blood sugar down to normal levels could reduce this cardiovascular risk.

A seven-year Veterans Affairs study, appearing in the January issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests there are no benefits for a certain population — namely, older patients who have had diabetes for a long time and have trouble with low blood sugar.

McClellanville — More than 30 consumers and health care professionals gathered last week to tackle a daunting question: What is the biggest problem with the nation's health care system?

Their answer was succinct: There is no system.

Fragmentation and inefficiency are endemic, the group said. One participant described a revolving door of medical clinics, hospitals and private physicians. And no one knows what the others are doing.

Nothing’s official yet, but it’s expected that former WWE Intercontinental champion and TNA heavyweight champ Christian Cage will return soon to WWE.

Christian (Jay Reso), whose contract with TNA recently expired, is banking on a much higher-profile status with WWE than the one he held when he left the company at the end of 2005.

Mired in mid-card territory, with little upward mobility in sight, Christian refused to re-sign a WWE contract three years ago when he felt he had gone as far as he could in that company.

It was unlike anything Wall Street had ever seen: In past crises, its bosses had banded together to save their way of life. This time, the financial hole they had dug for themselves was too deep. It was every man for himself.

Many of the employers conducting their first layoffs say they first tried other ways to cut costs, such as freezing salaries or drumming up work for idle employees.

A Mount Pleasant teenager's desire to help others took him and his family half-way across the globe last year and provided thousands of Chinese villagers with access to a basic human need: clean water.

Take a look back at the year in Faith and Values reporting, focusing on international, national and local stories about religion and culture, encapsulations to serve as souvenirs of a complex, joyful, trying, promising and occasionally frightening year.