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Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News
"Armey, Dick" • delight of at not being married to—and therefore not having to endure the "prattle" of—Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh is spontaneously...
What Do Old People Know, Anyway?
How To Live: A Search For Wisdom From Old People (While They Are Still on This Earth) Henry Alford Twelve Books; 262 pages The Gist: The older you get, we...
Incoming HHS Secretary Tom Daschle
Barack Obama's choice as Health and Human Services Secretary and director of a new White House Office of Health Reform has 26 years of experience in Congress —...
Postcard: Kogelo.
Blood flowed as election day dawned in Barack Obama's ancestral village in western Kenya. The presidential candidate's half brother, Malik, tied a bull to a...
In Obama's Kenyan Village, an Election Day 'Bloodbath'
Blood flowed as Election Day dawned in Barack Obama's ancestral village in western Kenya. The presidential candidate's half-brother Malik tied a bull to a tree,...
Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?
Across the industrialized world, women still live 5 to 10 years longer than men. Among people over 100 years old, 85% are women, according to Tom Perls, founder...
America's Medicated Warriors
I fear the fate of these brave soldiers 20 years from now ["June 16"]. In 2002 my brother Bill, a combat infantryman decorated with three Bronze Stars, took his...
Liking What White People Like
A few months ago, I decided that my new favorite blog was Stuff White People Like. If you don't keep up with all the snarky, zeitgeisty corners of the Internet,...
When Surgery Succeeds, But Healing Fails
TV medical shows can be pretty goofy, especially when you're a surgeon. Always amusing, to us anyway, is the great drama of the skin incision. This much you...
Grocer: John Mackey
A self-described six-time college dropout might seem an odd candidate to become the Bill Gates of the food world. But that's only one of the unorthodox steps...
As the World Warms
While the ugly fact of global warming may strike a blow to our self-esteem as a species, you have put together a guide to keep us from descending into negative,...
People: Oct. 30, 2006
THE LONG AND WOUNDING ROAD There are big guns in this divorce battle--PAUL MCCARTNEY has hired Prince Charles' old attorney and HEATHER MILLS MCCARTNEY Lady...
A Zen Palette
Molly Ringwald's sushi lunch was oh-so-sophisticated in The Breakfast Club, but that was 1985. Now that sushi has gone mainstream and Nobu has metastasized into...
Six Rules for Eating Wisely
Once upon a time Americans had a culture of food to guide us through the increasingly treacherous landscape of food choices: fat vs. carbs, organic vs...
A Water World Of Her Own
A free spirit and quite the pilgrim for most of her life, Shell Biles settled in Gerringong six years ago. She was looking for a place that wasn't as hot as...
Viewpoint: Why New Drugs Don't Live Up to the Hype
When a new generation of drugs for schizophrenia began appearing in the early 1990s, there was rejoicing—and relief. Finally, patients had alternatives to old...
Fit for Life
Our guide to everything you need to know about getting in shape garnered personal testimonials from active exercisers, compliments from fitness trainers and...
Here's the Beef
For years London was a hamburger wasteland. Remember the British take on American diners? Yech. The best most joints could offer was a fatty, premade beef patty...
Letters
Our guide to getting in shape garnered personal testimonials from active exercisers, compliments from fitness trainers and appreciation from those who are...
