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India's women crime writers — Kalpana Swaminathan, Madhulika Liddle, Swati Kaushal — on plotting murders, female detectives, and gender myths in fiction.

Slow metabolism or just slow habits? The honest, natural ways to nudge your metabolic rate — strength training, protein, sleep — without gimmicks.

Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In argued women hold themselves back at work. The backlash said the system holds them back. Inside one of 2013's fiercest debates.

A 2013 travel startup's gamble: pick two destinations, pay before you know which one you get — for fares cut up to 40 percent. How GetGoing worked.

Short sleep is strongly linked to weight gain — and lab studies show why: less sleep means more eating, especially late-night snacking. The honest evidence.

Why do women still give up their names at marriage while men never do? On identity, history, and the quiet pressure behind the tradition.

The short version: Your memory of a meal counts toward feeling full. Recalling lunch in detail reduces later snacking; eating distracted increases it.

Dale Stephens, founder of UnCollege, argues that with the average graduate carrying $27,000 in debt, college is a gamble worth rethinking.

Romance author Sonali Dev shares seven rules for keeping the love alive when you're losing your mind — from holding hands to yelling it out.

The short version: The 5:2 diet — five normal days, two ~500-calorie days — produces weight loss, but no more than ordinary dieting.

In 2013, Beau Chevassus of Enumclaw, Washington, ordered a 48-shot, $47.30 Frappuccino — then the priciest drink in Starbucks history — and got it free on

In a candid 2013 interview, Nigella Lawson talked about conquering America, her famous figure, the losses that shaped her, and why we should eat less but

Jennifer Love Hewitt graced Shape's March 2013 cover in a bikini, crediting Buti — a yoga-dance-plyometrics fusion — and 60 minutes of daily exercise for

Forgetting names isn't a memory defect, says Kansas State psychologist Richard Harris — it's an interest defect. Care more about people and the names stick.

A Naperville book club takes on Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning 'The White Tiger' — and splits three ways over its brutal portrait of class and caste.

Author Anju Gattani on Walmart's India entry: why a retail giant's American playbook collided with Indian roads, kirana shops, and cultural walls.

A 55-year-old Temple City postal worker was arrested on suspicion of felony child cruelty after allegedly choking an 11-year-old girl at a Commerce park

A 2012 remark by a Karnataka High Court judge sparked outrage — but a national health survey found 54% of Indian women themselves said wife-beating could be

Pittsburgh police said a determined 6-year-old girl didn't hurt anyone when she crashed her mother's car while trying to drive across town to visit her father.

Why periods trigger stubborn breakouts — and the dermatologist-backed ways to prevent them, from salicylic acid to prescription options.