
Is the Child Tall Enough for School? A School in India Put Height Restrictions on Admissions
A school in India reportedly used height as an admissions criterion. Why the policy failed every test — developmentally, ethically, and legally under the
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A school in India reportedly used height as an admissions criterion. Why the policy failed every test — developmentally, ethically, and legally under the

Esha Deol, daughter of Hema Malini and Dharmendra, married businessman Bharat Takhtani in June 2012. Notes from the pre-wedding mehendi in Mumbai.

The 'nagging' label frames repetition as a character flaw instead of what it usually is: the response to commitments that were never kept.

Nora Ephron died June 26, 2012, at 71. Readers who returned to her final book, I Remember Nothing (2010), found the quiet goodbye she never announced: 'What

A 2012 Tel Aviv University study found that a big breakfast including dessert helped obese dieters lose more and keep it off — but the caveats mattered more

Why does 'lucky skin' look so effortless? Dermatologists point to seven boring daily habits — sun protection, sleep, hydration, and food-first nutrition.

Research keeps finding the same thing: kids of emotionally engaged dads do better on nearly every measure. Being present isn't enough — being there is.

For its 100th anniversary in 2012, Paramount gathered 116 of its greatest stars on the studio lot for a landmark group portrait — a century of Hollywood in

Lady Gaga's 2012 fragrance Fame — launched with pre-release talk of blood and semen notes — was commerce as performance art. It worked.

North Dakota's 2012 Measure 2 would have abolished all property taxes — voters rejected it 76% to 24%, but the sentiment behind it refuses to die.

How one Oregon woman's absurd $2.1 million fake state tax return sailed through the review process — and what it exposed about refund fraud.

Reports of a Gauri Khan–Priyanka Chopra reconciliation are trivial in detail but revealing in structure — Bollywood's gossip economy, gendered, decoded.

India's famously low-crime villages — like doorless Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra — run on community trust and panchayat dispute resolution, not locks.

A Journal of Labor Research study found regular exercisers earned about 9% more than non-exercisers — likely through energy, cognition, and productivity.

In June 2012, buzz grew that Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan would marry on October 16, though Kareena stayed silent at a Sony Vaio event.

The foraging movement went mainstream: many plants dismissed as weeds — dandelion greens first among them — are edible, nutritious, and genuinely delicious.

In June 2012, a world-renowned parasitologist was ejected from a Barnes & Noble children's section — because a shopper felt 'uneasy' about a man alone.

Research complicates the more-is-better view of exercise: excessive training carries real risks, scientists warned, though inactivity remains the bigger danger.

The manhunt for Luka Rocco Magnotta ended June 4, 2012, in a Berlin internet cafe, where the accused killer was arrested while reading news about himself.

A survey found 96% of women feel guilt daily vs 70% of men. Is it conscience, conditioning, or the impossible standard of doing everything at once?