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WDSRA recruited runners and walkers for the 2nd Annual DuPage Human Race 5K in Downers Grove, backing programs for people with disabilities.

April 10, 2013 · 2 min read

Veteran teacher Gerald Conti's resignation letter: 27 years at Westhill High, and a farewell to a profession he says ‘no longer exists’.

April 10, 2013 · 5 min read

McMaster's Stuart Phillips explains why lighter weights, more reps to fatigue, build muscle as well as heavy lifting — with less injury risk.

April 8, 2013 · 1 min read

Blended-family chaos meets The Prince: one mom's Machiavellian experiments — Target budgets, school rivalries, and one well-timed white lie.

April 8, 2013 · 9 min read

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

April 3, 2013 · 8 min read

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

March 14, 2013 · 2 min read

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.

March 13, 2013 · 2 min read

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.

March 13, 2013 · 1 min read

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.

March 11, 2013 · 2 min read

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

March 8, 2013 · 2 min read

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

March 7, 2013 · 2 min read

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

March 5, 2013 · 2 min read

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.

March 5, 2013 · 3 min read

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

March 1, 2013 · 2 min read

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

February 20, 2013 · 1 min read

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

February 18, 2013 · 3 min read

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

February 16, 2013 · 1 min read

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.

February 14, 2013 · 2 min read

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.

February 14, 2013 · 4 min read

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

February 6, 2013 · 3 min read