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Is Ultraprocessed Food Really That Bad?
A Harvard professor challenges conventional wisdom.
Kids Turn New Pages
Parents in the 1960s generally expected their children to be passive observers who did as they were told. Today's parents are more likely to...
The Way of Trout
Strange to say, swimming through rough water may actually be easier than swimming across a calm pond. At least that's true for many kinds of...
Twigs Bent, Trees Go Straight
In a discussion of criminal-justice issues, former U. S. Attorney General Janet Reno once stated that the life trajectory for most criminals was...
Build It and They Will Hatch
Few of us could build a full-size house without a blueprint, yet birds construct elaborate and painstaking homes using only a beak and, perhaps...
The Middle-Class Trapdoor
In 2001, more men and women went bankrupt than filed for divorce or graduated from college (1.5 million versus 1.1 million and 1.2 million...
Profiling, Good and Bad
It's the beginning of a holiday weekend, and the line through the airport security checkpoint is backed up almost to the terminal door. After...
Authorial Synapses
William Faulkner didn't so much write The Sound and the Fury as erupt with it, pouring out the masterpiece in a matter of weeks, his words and...
Whales Aplenty
The hunters launched in mid August from Iceland and steamed into the North Atlantic. There were three ships, each tracing a different track...
Hypnosis Heals
Long considered by many the stock in trade of charlatans, hypnosis in fact can relieve the anxieties of patients in the midst of difficult...
Doctored Research?
The news, reported in the November 14, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), sounded startling. C-reactive protein (CRP)...