Interesting

Back in 2012, a 99-cent Android app promised to rescue Thanksgiving with tandoori turkey, kalakand, and five more fusion recipes. The idea outlived the app.

In 2012, Walmart opened at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving and Target at 9. The Black Friday creep had officially swallowed the holiday itself.

In 2012, FDNY firefighter Anthony Harper said colleagues harassed him after he quit the firehouse meals and went vegetarian. The department denied it.

A rodent study reported by the New York Times found that exercise blunted the memory-impairing effects of a high-fat diet. Here is what it did and did not show.

Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor married in a quiet registered ceremony at his Bandra home on October 16, 2012, ending five years of speculation.

In 2012, Indian-Americans were petitioning the USPS for a Diwali stamp — a campaign, led by Ranju Batra's Diwali Stamp Project, that finally succeeded four

Farm stays and harvest holidays: why some travelers are trading beach resorts for dawn milking, muddy boots, and a week of a farmer's life.

Weight loss is not magic and never instant. If the weight took months or years to put on, losing it takes time too — steady habits beat crash diets.

Master Stephen Co — personal student of Pranic Healing founder Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui and bestselling co-author — brought his teaching to Aurora, Illinois.

In September 2012, a Karnataka High Court judge told an abused wife to 'adjust' — and was removed from family cases after the outrage.

In 2012, Wells Fargo contractors cleaned out a retired couple's Twentynine Palms home — twice — foreclosing on the wrong house in a wrong-address blunder.

Gaithersburg Elementary scrapped worksheets in 2012 and assigned only 30 minutes of nightly reading — and test scores held up.

On September 6, 2012, Union Minister Sachin Pilot became the first serving minister commissioned as a regular officer in the Territorial Army.

Stanford and Northwestern researchers taught volunteers a 30-character password without ever telling them — using a Guitar Hero-style game.

A 2012 European Heart Journal study of 43,265 people found a subset of obese people at normal risk of heart disease and cancer — if they were fit.

McDonald's announced its first all-vegetarian outlets near Amritsar's Golden Temple and the Vaishno Devi shrine — a milestone for the Big Mac empire.

Dhoom 3 took over downtown Chicago in 2012 — Aamir Khan's villain, Abhishek and Uday Chopra's cops, and a river shoot that stopped traffic.

Deep Foods started in 1977 with Bhagwati Amin's Gujarati snacks in New Jersey. It became one of America's largest Indian food brands.

Sony's Bravia XBR-84X900, unveiled at IFA 2012: an 84-inch 4K LED TV at 3840x2160 — four times Full HD — with 4K X-Reality Pro upscaling.

Suzuki's chairman donned a turban in New Delhi and talked history — Sanjay Gandhi, Maruti, and the Indian judge Japan still reveres.