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When parents make every decision for the child — clothes, subjects, activities, friends — the child never learns to decide. College exposes the cost.

July 8, 2015 · 2 min read

In 2015, Carnegie Corporation's 'Great Immigrants: The Pride of America' award honored 38 naturalized citizens — including four Indian-Americans.

July 7, 2015 · 1 min read

Shahnawaz and Sofiya Patel of Preston took their sons to India to see their sick grandfather — and were prosecuted under the UK's term-time absence rules.

July 6, 2015 · 2 min read

A 2015 interview with Shaan Patel — the Las Vegas teen who scored a perfect 2400 on the SAT, then built 2400 Expert into a test-prep company.

June 29, 2015 · 4 min read

In 2015, New York City's consumer agency found Whole Foods stores routinely overstated package weights — overcharging from $0.80 for pecan panko to $14.84

June 24, 2015 · 1 min read

WotNow, the local Naperville social-calendar app, was hiring summer interns for 2015 — info desks at Naperville libraries, five hours a week minimum.

June 22, 2015 · 1 min read

On June 18, 2015, the Eye on India festival hosted actor Anupam Kher in conversation with journalist Victoria Lautman at Film Row Cinema in Chicago.

June 15, 2015 · 1 min read

In Gujarat, a gang-rape survivor who was denied an abortion was ordered to undergo an 'agnipariksha' purity ritual before returning home — a test of

June 14, 2015 · 1 min read

PASHA Orthodontics in Naperville invited high school seniors to apply for its 2015 college scholarship — $450, $350, and $250 awards for patients entering

June 4, 2015 · 1 min read

In 2015, 13-year-old Izabel Laxamana died days after a video of her father's haircut punishment went viral. Police later said the video was not the cause of

June 4, 2015 · 1 min read

A 2015 video showed a Volvo XC60 plowing into onlookers — not self-parking, just a dealer driver testing the car's braking system on real people.

May 27, 2015 · 1 min read

In 2015, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell pledged to remove artificial flavors and colors from their menus. Customer pressure — not corporate kindness — made it happen.

May 26, 2015 · 1 min read

In 2015 California tore out 2,100 football fields of lawn as the drought deepened. Gov. Jerry Brown said daily-watered grass would be a thing of the past.

May 22, 2015 · 1 min read

Some people say Wi-Fi makes them sick. The WHO says their symptoms are real — but there is no scientific basis linking them to electromagnetic exposure.

May 21, 2015 · 2 min read

A 12-year-old asked Quora what he could do now to join a top university later. The advice he got is worth reading at any age.

May 21, 2015 · 1 min read

Saudi Arabia posted job ads for eight new executioners in 2015 as beheadings surged — 85 executions by mid-May, nearly matching the whole of 2014.

May 18, 2015 · 1 min read

Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet dazzles with jazz, art deco and grandeur, but the storytelling falls flat. Our 2015 review of the Ranbir Kapoor starrer.

May 17, 2015 · 4 min read

Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.

May 13, 2015 · 4 min read

Niketa Jhaveri, a Naperville mom and UX designer, turned her five-year-old's endless questions into Brave Champs, an educational board game.

May 11, 2015 · 2 min read

Arup Raha reviews Shoojit Sircar's Piku — a father-daughter road trip built on great performances by Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, and Irrfan.

May 10, 2015 · 5 min read