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Before settling down, most women collect a small education in men: the best friend, the bad boy, the ex, the fling, and finally the keeper.

Naperville's Simply Vedic hosted a singing talent hunt celebrating Indian classical music — giving young diaspora performers a stage and a community.

Aishwarya Rai's 2011 pregnancy raised a real Bollywood question: can a top actress keep a major career after becoming a mother?

Research links advanced paternal age to higher risks of autism, schizophrenia, and other conditions in children. The science of the male biological clock.

A delayed study set off debate over whether meditation protects the heart. The honest picture: stress reduction is well supported; cardiac benefits aren't.

A reader's review of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Palace of Illusions: the Mahabharata retold through Draupadi's fierce, questioning voice.

Neuroscience suggests handwriting engages the brain in ways typing doesn't — from letter recognition in kids to deeper learning in older students.

Melbourne writer Sweta Lal on trading a corporate career for writing — and why believing you can is the first step. An archived contributor essay.

The USDA retired the 19-year-old food pyramid for MyPlate: a simple four-section plate icon unveiled by Michelle Obama and Tom Vilsack.

Floyd Cardoz won Top Chef Masters with wild mushroom upma polenta — a milestone for Indian cuisine in American fine dining.

Groupon rejected Google's $6 billion and IPO'd at over $12 billion. Skeptics of its daily-deal economics were proven right — here's why.

Canadian researchers found bilingual dementia patients showed symptoms about four years later than monolingual patients. What the evidence says, and its limits.

As Germany's E. coli outbreak grew, so did the politics: Putin's vegetable ban, Spain's fury at false blame, and Merkel's crisis task force.

It's not just the bullied kids who sleep badly — the bullies do too. Poor sleep erodes impulse control, and behavior follows.

Co-sleeping is normal across much of the world, but the safety evidence is nuanced. Room-sharing vs bed-sharing, SIDS risk, and what research supports.

In May 2011 a killer E. coli strain swept northern Germany. Cucumbers took the blame — but the real culprit was fenugreek sprouts.

Mark Zuckerberg's 2011 personal challenge: eat only meat from animals he killed himself. The pig roast that started it, and the goat that followed.

Their husbands went to Tihar in the 2G spectrum scam. What happens to the wives left managing the fallout, the fees, and the silence.

A Diebold technician stole $200,000 from Bank of America ATMs and replaced the cash with photocopied $20s. It took ten months to catch him.

Meghana Athreye on the lifelong human search for God — and why every borrowed description, however beautiful, falls short of the thing itself.