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Budget clothing chains are great for basics and terrible for tailoring. A practical guide to what's worth buying cheap — and what isn't.

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?

Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks' provocative 2011 book on the African American marriage decline — and his controversial advice: 'marry out.'

After the August 2011 debt-ceiling debacle, Obama's approval sagged — and Democrats in tough districts started keeping their distance.

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.

Bodyguard crossed Rs 200 crore, making Salman Khan's third straight blockbuster. The commercial logic of Bollywood now bends around one man — who is

Why would competing organisms ever help each other? The evolution of generosity — kin selection, reciprocity, and why cooperation outcompetes selfishness.

In 2011, newlywed Reese Witherspoon toured a $14M Malibu home then occupied by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Inside the celebrity real-estate carousel.

Kim Robinshaw lost eight stone after 'virtual gastric band' hypnotherapy in 2011. A remarkable anecdote — but anecdotes are not evidence.

A Miami-Dade teacher was dismissed after his past in adult entertainment surfaced. Where does a legal past end and fitness to teach begin?

Tabloids fretted over Angelina Jolie's thinness in 2011 — while celebrating the thinness they claimed to worry about. The double bind, examined.

Toning shoes, green tea extract, diet pills — the weight-loss industry sells shortcuts the evidence doesn't support. What actually works is unsellable.

The fear that meatless cooking is less satisfying or less flavorful has proved groundless. What vegetarian food actually requires is technique, not apology.

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.

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

Baltimore made headlines in 2011 with three-bedroom homes listed at $5,000. The catch: foreclosures, repair bills, and neighborhoods in freefall.

Reuters reported in August 2011 that Apple's Asian suppliers were building a cheaper 8GB iPhone 4 — a play for emerging markets ahead of the iPhone 4S.

Professor John Speakman's energy-expenditure research found we are not less active than in the 1980s — we just eat a third more. The fork beats the treadmill.

Shubhli Bhalla on judging people by their souls instead of their dress size — a meditation on beauty, spirit, and what actually lasts.

'Follow your passion' is the standard career advice. But research shows unmanaged passion can invite exploitation, burnout, and worse negotiating outcomes.