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A simple eye-makeup playbook: the products worth spending on, a no-drama daily routine, and one rule for balancing bold eyes with the rest of your face.

Chubbiness, Japan's plus-size girl band: ten marshmallow girls chosen from 3,500 auditionees in 2013 as a pushback against the industry's worship of thinness.

Dream interpretation is pop psychology, not settled science — but the classic readings of five common dreams run from Freud to the modern dream dictionary.

Stability balls are great fitness tools — but used wrongly with heavy weights, they can explode. A trainer explains the Garcia injury and safe ball use.

The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see. A quiz and a reflection on how to actually experience a new place.

From a fit-at-60 Pinky Roshan to a 72-year-old doing push-ups: age is just a number, and exercise works at every stage of life.

In 2013, NYC's mayoral race put Eid, Diwali, and Lunar New Year on the school-calendar agenda. Here's what the debate was — and how it ended.

Want kids who love reading? Let them read what they love — research shows fiction builds empathy and creative thinking, and habit starts early.

The 'Chai, Chat with Books' club reviews Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn's devilish thriller of a marriage gone bad, deceit, and two narrators you can't trust.

A toy Barbie Jeep got a mock parking ticket for blocking a neighbor's driveway — and the 2013 story became a Rorschach test for neighborhood culture.

Leo Grand, a homeless man in NYC, chose coding lessons over $100 cash — and built his first app. The inspiring story was real, and more complicated than the

In 2013 Tylenol added red caps warning of liver damage from acetaminophen overdose. Here's why the most common household painkiller can be dangerous.

Two bizarre drunk incidents in Sweden, reported in 2013: a man caught urinating on fruit in a supermarket, and another who peed on pizzas a year earlier.

An Indian-origin teacher at Manford Primary School in the UK went into labor in her classroom and delivered her baby boy, Jonah, with colleagues' help.

A practical packing guide for travelers: match clothing to weather, carry the essentials, pack for your trip length — and travel light.

Booties, not full boots, are fall's must-have shoe: how to wear ankle booties casually and formally, from flats to heeled styles.

Jacob Barnett was diagnosed autistic at 2 and told he'd never talk. At 14, enrolled at IUPUI since 10, he was being tipped for a Nobel Prize.

Carson Huey-You became TCU's youngest student ever at 11, studying quantum physics. He graduated college at 14 and earned his master's at 17.

An 8-year-old in Slaughter, Louisiana shot his 90-year-old grandmother after playing Grand Theft Auto IV. Later, investigators learned he thought the gun

Warner Bros. announced in August 2013 that Ben Affleck would play Batman opposite Henry Cavill's Superman in Zack Snyder's 'Man of Steel' sequel.