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In 2012 Florida found about 53,000 deceased people on its voter rolls — a real administrative backlog that became political ammunition on all sides.

May 21, 2012 · 1 min read

Desmond Hatchett of Knoxville fathered 30 children with 11 women by 2012 — and his minimum-wage income left some mothers receiving .49 a month in child support.

May 20, 2012 · 1 min read

Denmark tried a fat tax in 2011 and repealed it in 2012; Mexico's sugary-drink tax worked better. The economics and the liberty debate behind taxing

May 19, 2012 · 1 min read

Facebook's $16 billion IPO debuted in May 2012 to Nasdaq glitches and a flat close at $38.23 — and the Drudge Report's verdict was brutal: 'IPO gives no

May 19, 2012 · 1 min read

After fifteen years away, Sridevi returned with Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish in 2012 — a film about dignity, invisibility, and the cost of being unseen

May 15, 2012 · 1 min read

No living writer knows censorship like Salman Rushdie. His decades-long argument: censorship protects the powerful, never the weak — and it has only

May 15, 2012 · 1 min read

High triglycerides raise heart-disease risk even when cholesterol looks normal. What they are, the NCEP ranges, and the food-first steps that bring them down.

May 14, 2012 · 2 min read

A May 2012 study: one US child under three lands in the ER every four hours from a bottle, pacifier, or sippy cup — mostly from falls while walking.

May 14, 2012 · 2 min read

Naperville students brought science experiments to the Late Show with David Letterman in 2012 — a small win for the idea that the lab can be a path to prime

May 11, 2012 · 1 min read

Two 2012 civil suits accused John Travolta of unwanted sexual advances during massages. Both were dismissed — a reminder that civil litigation is not

May 11, 2012 · 1 min read

A jogger collapsed in a London park in 2012 and Dustin Hoffman helped save him. What the story really says about bystanders, CPR, and acting in an emergency.

May 8, 2012 · 1 min read

Vidya Balan's 2012 relationship with studio executive Siddharth Roy Kapur quietly challenged a stubborn assumption: that the man must be the more prominent

May 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Child predators rarely act through sudden approaches — they groom. The warning signs experts highlight, and why awareness beats fear.

May 1, 2012 · 1 min read

Family-based behavioral programs — not diets, drugs, or surgery — are the evidence-backed first line for childhood obesity. What they involve.

April 26, 2012 · 2 min read

Brain scans show novels light up more than the language centers — fiction trains empathy, simulates experience, and rewires how we understand others.

April 26, 2012 · 1 min read

The beauty industry sells empowerment in a tube — but the daily ritual of makeup, products, and perfection has a price. An essay on the pressure.

April 23, 2012 · 1 min read

In April 2012, Korean IT News reported Apple's iPhone 5 might use Liquidmetal alloy — the rumor fizzled; the iPhone 5 shipped in aluminum that September.

April 22, 2012 · 2 min read

In 2012 China tightened visa enforcement for foreigners — and Americans in Beijing found renewals, paperwork, and work rules suddenly much harder.

April 18, 2012 · 2 min read

An Ohio State study found preschoolers whose teachers pointed out letters and words during storybook reading read better one and two years later.

April 17, 2012 · 2 min read

In a 2012 Science study, six Guinea baboons learned to distinguish correctly spelled four-letter words from nonwords — no speech required.

April 17, 2012 · 3 min read