Interesting

The Melody, a new Bronx co-op, is NYC's first building designed to fight obesity — with jazz in the stairwells and gyms indoors and out.

Mango mousse, mango lassi, and shrikhand — three Indian fruit desserts that ask more of the ripe fruit than of the cook, perfect for summer.

Reese Witherspoon will take the MTV Generation Award at Sunday's Movie Awards — joining Bullock, Stiller, Sandler, and Tom Cruise.

Hrithik Roshan's TV debut as a dance-show judge came with advice from Cat Deeley: be honest, be constructive, and remember personality wins votes.

Consumer Reports ranked Jenny Craig the top commercial diet plan in 2011. The honest verdict: structure helps, but maintenance stays unsolved.

Cosmetic surgery was once overwhelmingly female. A growing share of patients are men — and the industry is courting them openly.

A TOI story on Akshay Kumar's mango-loving humility has all the hallmarks of planted PR — until the humble farmer friend owns hundreds of acres.

Voice calls are dying and carriers know it. Why unlimited minutes aren't generosity — they're the carriers admitting the minute is obsolete.

A 2011 study of 357 adoptive families found marital strain at 9 months predicted babies' sleep problems at 18 months — and not the other way around.

First impressions form in seconds, and clothes do a lot of the talking. Why presentation is communication — and why the judgment it invites isn't fair.

Lemon juice is a popular kitchen remedy for acne — mildly antibacterial but risky in the sun. What the chemistry actually supports, and the caveats.

Years of dabbling in decluttering led to a bigger idea: extreme downsizing. On ruthlessness, Martha Stewart fantasies, and living with less.

Harvard Business School pushed executive education into China and India in 2011 — with very different receptions, and a $50 million Tata gift back home.

Tanuja and Kajol, Dimple and Twinkle, Hema and Esha — five Bollywood mother-daughter pairs where the resemblance, on screen and off, is uncanny.

From Chennai to Srinagar, funeral prayers for bin Laden divided India's Muslims in May 2011 — Geelani's call, Omar Abdullah's rebuke, and quiet resistance.

A catch-up phone call, a courier who drove 90 minutes to use a cellphone — and a tall man pacing a walled courtyard. How the CIA zeroed in on Abbottabad.

Inside New Oriental's $6,100 cram course: two months, six days a week, and SAT math scores 114 points above American applicants — plus a debate about what

After leaving California's governorship, Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to the screen with The Last Stand and Escape Plan — a comeback built on range, age,

Ram Gopal Varma called Raveena Tandon stunning — reviving a conversation about the 1990s star who refused Bollywood's script for fading leading ladies.

Why patience is the most learnable ingredient of a lasting marriage — from Gottman's positive sentiment override to letting your partner change.