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In Mumbai, parents paying Rs 12,000–18,000 in school fees were outsourcing single Std X projects for Rs 26,000 — a booming cottage industry around schoolwork.
Asha Bhosle, the Guinness-record most-recorded artist in music history, was to be felicitated with a lifetime achievement award at the 2012 Screen Awards.
A Naperville family of four — Iqbal Habib, Zeenat, and their children Fareeza and Ashaz — lost their lives in a road accident in India while on vacation.
How the hydrogen bomb works — fission-triggered fusion, the 1961 Tsar Bomba test at 50 megatons, and the paradox of mutually assured destruction.
Stanford researchers found that gazing at a photo of a beloved reduces pain — activating the brain's reward systems. Love really is a drug.
A University of Chicago study found that math-anxious female teachers can transmit the 'boys are better at math' stereotype to their girl students — who
From bottled water to extended warranties: twelve everyday purchases where the marketing outruns the value — and what to do instead.
Two suburban families — one Muslim, one Christian — became genuine friends. A quiet Christmas-week story about what interfaith friendship actually looks like.
A look at Mama Poppins, the drop-in childcare service at Fox Valley Mall — and what mall-based babysitting says about how suburban families live now.
A Christmas letter to Santa from our corner of the world — on what children really want, what adults have forgotten, and the milk and cookies on the counter.
Persistence closes deals — but applied to dating, it becomes harassment. What high-pressure professions do to personal behavior, and the psychology of power
Straight A's don't always mean a great education. On grade inflation, helicopter parents, and what teachers wish parents understood about the parent-teacher
How Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao's 2011 announcement of son Azad's birth via IVF surrogate opened India's mainstream conversation on surrogacy's ethics, law,
The Penn State abuse scandal forced a national reckoning — and pushed parents to have the conversations about bodily autonomy that help children disclose abuse.
By the early 2010s, business leaders and educators agreed the US was falling dangerously behind in STEM — an explainer on the state of science education.
A Thanksgiving reflection on a child's gratitude list by Shlok Sharma — family, friends, school, and the specific things that make the days good.
Bolly Volley returns: the two big releases since the last edition were Ra.One and Rockstar. A look back at both — Bollywood's costliest spectacle and Imtiaz
Reader review of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha: an enchanting, emotional journey from 1929 Japan through the postwar years into the world of geishas.
Dr. Wenyuan Shi's UCLA lab tested a peptide mouthwash (C16G2) that wipes out Streptococcus mutans — the main cause of cavities — while sparing the rest of
The 2011 Penn State abuse scandal left parents asking how predators hide inside trusted institutions — and what to tell their children.