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Marina Shifrin quit her job at Next Media Animation with an interpretive dance to Kanye West's 'Gone' — and the 2013 video went massively viral.

Not seven pounds — about a third of a kilo. But holiday weight gain is the weight you never lose, and it compounds yearly. The measured evidence and what to do.

Flushable wipes don't break down and are clogging sewers across the US — costing cities millions. Keep wipes out of pipes.

In 2013 France moved to ban beauty contests for girls under 16. The trigger: a Vogue photo of a sexualized 10-year-old that shocked the country.

A preview of the 2013 Chicago South Asian Film Festival: Shahid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Club 60, Chor Chor Super Chor, and opening-night film Oass.

A Dutch endocrinologist argued sugar should be treated like a drug — with warning labels and a sugar tax. Here's his case, and what research says.

Forget celebrity diets. The National Weight Control Registry tracked 10,000+ people who lost weight and kept it off — their shared habits are the real key.

Nina Davuluri became the first Indian American Miss America in 2013 — and met the moment's racist backlash with grace: 'I have to rise above that.'

Facebook made us put our 'game face' on all the time — and a 2013 University of Michigan study found the more we used it, the worse we felt.

Retro Reel on Spielberg's Munich (2005): a chilling espionage thriller that becomes a genre-defying meditation on the moral cost of revenge.

In August 2013, a teenage girl accused godman Asaram Bapu of sexual assault. A look at the case as it broke — and the convictions that followed.

A 2013 CNNMoney report revealed startups like Lenddo and Kreditech were weighing your Facebook friends when deciding whether you get a loan.

In August 2013, the NSA admitted analysts had spied on their own love interests using agency tools — the internal nickname was LOVEINT.

Celebrity trainer Bob Harper says it's all about diet: you can't out-train a bad diet. How the calorie deficit works — and why exercise still matters.

The Shakti Mills gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in August 2013 shocked Mumbai. A retrospective on the crime, the convictions, and what followed.

In August 2013, Walmart launched its holiday layaway — free with no opening fee — four months before Christmas. The holiday creep had officially begun.

In August 2013, developer Patrick McConlogue offered a homeless man $100 or coding lessons — Leo chose the lessons. Here's how the viral story began.

A Delhi teacher slapped a student twice for doing English homework in political science class — and ruptured the boy's eardrum. Reported by TOI in August 2013.

In 2013, a Zurich boutique clerk refused to show Oprah a $38,000 handbag, telling her she couldn't afford it — sparking apologies and a global debate.

Tired of saying 'hurry up' instead of 'I love you'? A mom's vow to slow down and live in the present with her kids — inspired by Rachel Macy Stafford.