Health & Spirituality
Fighting Cervical Cancer With Vinegar and Ingenuity
A vinegar-based screening test costing a few dollars could bring cervical cancer detection to millions — where most of 250,000 annual deaths occur.
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Business
On IPOs: If You Are Going To File, Make Sure You Price
Price too low and you leave money on the table; price too high and the stock sinks. A plain-language look at how IPOs are priced and why the number matters.
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A Student’s Suicide at IIM Bangalore Sparks a Conversation on Campus Mental Health
After a student's 2011 suicide at IIM Bangalore, hard questions were raised about pressure, relationships, and support at India's elite institutions.
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Mother, Son go out for Pizza leaving the relative to die
In Madison, Wisconsin, a woman and her son were charged after her sister's body lay hidden in their home for three months — while they went out for pizza.
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Bollywood
Kareena Kapoor at No.1
Bodyguard's record ₹21.6 crore opening made Kareena Kapoor Bollywood's undisputed No. 1 heroine in September 2011 — with four Khan films lined up next.
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Business
What Not to Buy at Budget Clothing Stores
Budget clothing chains are great for basics and terrible for tailoring. A practical guide to what's worth buying cheap — and what isn't.
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Boyfriend's a woman and no idea for six years! Maybe love is blind?
Why do stories of partners dating for years without knowing a basic truth fascinate us — and what do they reveal about how love actually works?
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Is Marriage for White People?
Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks' provocative 2011 book on the African American marriage decline — and his controversial advice: 'marry out.'
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Democrats Distancing from Obama
After the August 2011 debt-ceiling debacle, Obama's approval sagged — and Democrats in tough districts started keeping their distance.
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Childhood Sweethearts Separated by Disapproving Father Finally Wed — 63 Years Later
Bill Labram and Peggy Fryer fell in love in 1947 and were split by her father. Sixty-three years later, both 80, they finally married.
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Bollywood
The Salman Phenomenon — Bollywood's Only True Phenomenon Right Now. Hope He Recovers Well
Bodyguard crossed Rs 200 crore, making Salman Khan's third straight blockbuster. The commercial logic of Bollywood now bends around one man — who is
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What Goes Around Comes Around
Why would competing organisms ever help each other? The evolution of generosity — kin selection, reciprocity, and why cooperation outcompetes selfishness.
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Entertainment
Reese Witherspoon Wanting to Buy Brangelina's $14 Million House
In 2011, newlywed Reese Witherspoon toured a $14M Malibu home then occupied by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Inside the celebrity real-estate carousel.
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Food
Overweight Teacher Loses 8 Stone After Being Hypnotised into Believing She Had a Gastric Band
Kim Robinshaw lost eight stone after 'virtual gastric band' hypnotherapy in 2011. A remarkable anecdote — but anecdotes are not evidence.
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Former Adult-Film Performer Fired from Teaching in Middle School
A Miami-Dade teacher was dismissed after his past in adult entertainment surfaced. Where does a legal past end and fitness to teach begin?
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Entertainment
Unhealthy? Angelina Jolie — Super Thin, Sub-Zero Size
Tabloids fretted over Angelina Jolie's thinness in 2011 — while celebrating the thinness they claimed to worry about. The double bind, examined.
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Food
It's Not the Toning Shoe, the Green Tea, or the Pill That Makes Weight Loss Happen
Toning shoes, green tea extract, diet pills — the weight-loss industry sells shortcuts the evidence doesn't support. What actually works is unsellable.
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Food
Cooking Without Meat Is Not Less Satisfying, Less Flavorful, or Less Easy
The fear that meatless cooking is less satisfying or less flavorful has proved groundless. What vegetarian food actually requires is technique, not apology.
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Three Earthquakes in Three Days — More Than a Coincidence?
Colorado, Virginia, California: three US earthquakes in three days in August 2011. Seismologists had a clear answer — and it wasn't what the anxious expected.
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Business
Sex — the Form of Payment for Pizza?
A 2011 press story claimed delivery drivers were routinely offered sex as payment. The poll behind it never held up — but the doorstep dynamic it described
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