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You can't 'boost' your immune system like a phone battery — and trying can backfire. What actually keeps immune function working: sleep, movement, food, and

On October 3, 2014, Modi launched Mann Ki Baat, the monthly radio address that became a fixture of his premiership. A TI essay, from the archives.

In October 2014, Thomas Eric Duncan became the first Ebola case diagnosed in the US — and Dallas panicked. What actually happened, from the TI archives.

In 2014, a Los Angeles Craigslist ad openly offered PayPal cash for posting fake 5-star Yelp reviews. TI's original piece, from the archives.

In 2014, women-empowerment videos flooded YouTube. A TI essay asks the harder question: what happens after the watching?

In October 2014, Mark Zuckerberg visited India to address the Internet.org summit and meet PM Modi — his bid to connect the world's 5 billion offline.

On September 28, 2014, PM Modi told 20,000 at Madison Square Garden that PIO cardholders would get lifetime visas and the PIO and OCI schemes would merge.

Samantha Lewthwaite went from the widow of a 7/7 bomber to one of the world's most wanted terrorism suspects. TI's 2014 profile, reviewed as an archive.

Gifted children think differently — and that comes with emotional challenges: sensitivity, teasing, perfectionism, existential worry.

Emma Watson's 2014 UN speech launching the HeForShe campaign reframed feminism as a human issue, becoming one of the most-shared videos of the year.

On September 19, 2014, Obama and Biden launched 'It's On Us,' a national campaign asking young men to intervene to stop campus sexual assault.

Turmeric is one of the most studied spices — but 'as effective as 14 drugs' misreads the science. What curcumin research really says, and why

A 2014 TI op-ed on the Deepika Padukone vs. TOI cleavage-photo row — and the uncomfortable question of Bollywood's own objectification of women.

In September 2014, six Naperville women opened Janani Inc., a Vastu-compliant Indian grocery on 95th Street. A TI community notice, from the archives.

In 2014, Burien, Washington passed a trespass law that made body odor in public spaces grounds for expulsion — until the backlash won. From the TI archives.

Plantar fasciitis plagues new runners. Heel cups, ball massage, contrast therapy, and night splints — TI's 2014 guide to foot pain, reviewed.

After the July 2014 rape of a 6-year-old at a Bangalore school, police booked more than 180 schools for failing to implement child-safety guidelines.

In 2014, 18-year-old Ravi Jagadeesan of Naperville won a $50,000 Davidson Fellow Laureate award for original mathematics research on Galois invariants.

In September 2014, pediatric hematologist Myles Bradbury pleaded guilty to sexually abusing 18 child cancer patients at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Five health myths revisited with current evidence: exercise and the brain, the wine debate, how much exercise is enough, potatoes, and brown vs. white sugar.