Perihelion: (n.) The nearest point in a celestial body's orbit to the sun. In 1977, news anchorman Virgil Meadowlark suffered a mysterious convulsion on live television, shaking and babbling- some said speaking in tongues. The network issued a press release claiming that he'd had a stroke. It wasn't a stroke. Meadowlark disappeared from public life for several years until he released a self-help...