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Three simple cucumber preparations for hot weather: a cucumber-radish raita, a quick kachumber-style salad, and a cucumber-mint cooler.

Blind-tasting research says the price tag changes how wine tastes more than the wine does: what the studies on expensive vs cheap wine actually found.

The bathroom scale is a noisy, misleading instrument. The case for tossing it — and judging your health by behaviors instead of a number.

Food neophobia — reluctance to try unfamiliar foods — peaks between ages two and six; researchers say picky eating is a normal stage, not a parenting failure.

The 2012 Summer Writing Program in Naperville wraps up on July 26 — with the possibility of year-round lessons, and student work to be published.

The research on lasting weight loss points away from rigid restriction and toward sustainable plans: total calories over time matter more than banning any

Marrying into Indian family life means marrying the family, the festivals, the food debates — and learning that 'compromise' has a much larger cast than two.

In early July 2012, Brad Pitt's mother Jane Pitt wrote to the Springfield News-Leader endorsing Mitt Romney and criticizing Obama on abortion and gay marriage.

Why US road-accident victims can win life-changing damages while India's Motor Accident Claims Tribunals award far less — and what the road toll costs families.

The latte factor is real — a $5 coffee is $1,825 a year. But the 'cut your lattes' framework also ignores the structural forces no budget can fix.

The 2012 internet loved 'never post this on Facebook' lists. The unasked question was harder: what is social media actually for?

A school in India reportedly used height as an admissions criterion. Why the policy failed every test — developmentally, ethically, and legally under the

The 'nagging' label frames repetition as a character flaw instead of what it usually is: the response to commitments that were never kept.

Nora Ephron died June 26, 2012, at 71. Readers who returned to her final book, I Remember Nothing (2010), found the quiet goodbye she never announced: 'What

Why does 'lucky skin' look so effortless? Dermatologists point to seven boring daily habits — sun protection, sleep, hydration, and food-first nutrition.

IIT Delhi's plan for a new Sonipat campus reopened a national question: can the IITs scale up access without diluting the excellence that made them elite?

India's famously low-crime villages — like doorless Shani Shingnapur in Maharashtra — run on community trust and panchayat dispute resolution, not locks.

Once a lovers' paradise, Bengaluru's Cubbon Park lost its quiet corners to traffic and Metro works — now a plan for 92 acres of fragrant gardens may win

A Journal of Labor Research study found regular exercisers earned about 9% more than non-exercisers — likely through energy, cognition, and productivity.

Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the 2012 French Open mixed doubles title 7-6, 6-1 over Santiago Gonzalez and Klaudia Jans-Ignacik — their second Grand