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What did women do before such hype and hope? How did our aging female ancestors cope when they looked into a glass darkly? By what right did a weathered face go from possessing “character” to pleading for revitalization? And when did we buy into the expectation of living longer, while not looking as though we had? more »

Daniel Handler specializes in a light-semi-irreverent tone that manages also to be perceptive and truthful, even as it entertains, in Why We Broke Up, a story of teenage love gone awry. Richard Morgan has crafted a story of the life of Daniel Boone in Boone, A Biography, to rival the best fiction, while demonstrating the most diligent scholarship and devotion to primary sources any reader could ask for. more »

Pennsylvania Plaza in Washington was a busy place on Monday, March 5, as Vietnamese, Orthodox Jews, CodePink, the Falun Gong, Jews for Jesus and one man who wanted to Bomb Iran all competed for space in hopes of catching President Obama's eye. more »

I got married not just for better or for worse, but for masonry, carpentry, flooring, tiling, painting, and staining. Well, it’s true that nearly everybody in 1950 could paint a room if they had to. It’s a matter of pride and gratitude to me that many things required two pairs of hands, and that I could be taught to be the second pair more »