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My Turn
‘My Parents Met in the Vietnam War, Dad Couldn’t Accept That I’m Biracial’
“Things got out of hand over there,” my father told me in a rare moment of honesty.
9 min read
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Science
Selling Oscars Fashion Before It’s Left the Red Carpet
Canny startups and big brands race to sell red carpet fashions to online buyers – all before the ceremony is over.
11 min read
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Science
Why Nearly Half of Us Hear Voices (and How to Fix It)
Our correspondent went along to the sixth annual Hearing Voices Congress to meet the people talking back.
15 min read
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Science
The Whisper Whisperers
The people who talk back to the voices inside their heads want you to stop calling them crazy.
11 min read
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Science
YouTube Creates Its Own Celebrities – Complete With Screaming Fans
Most people over 30 would struggle to recognise them, but YouTube, with six billion hours of video per month being watched, is creating its own celebrities
6 min read
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World
Jens Breivik: ‘I Am Also the Victim of My Son’s Actions’
Jens Breivik, father of the man who killed 77 Norwegians in 2011, speaks about a national and personal trauma
7 min read
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World
Gay Asylum Seekers Forced to ‘Prove’ Their Sexuality
Refugees from countries where homosexuality is illegal are fighting to change a humiliating system
7 min read
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Sports
Putting Themselves Second: Meet The Guides Racing Alongside Blind Athletes
Blind people have dogs, blind athletes have fellow sprinters. Why do guide runners put themselves second?
8 min read
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World
The Aristocats Who Call the Ritziest Suites Home
Every hotel wants five stars and loyal customers, and a cat on the concierge’s desk may be the way to win them
5 min read
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Entertainment
Following Outrage Over Conchita, Russia Is Reviving Its Own Straight Eurovision
‘This is the end of Europe. We cannot tolerate this endless madness’
6 min read
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Sports
Brand Sugarpova: How Maria Sharapova Became the World’s Highest-Paid Female Athlete
Maria Sharapova has been the highest-paid female athlete in the world 10 years in a row. Here’s why.
16 min read
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World
Can Fashion Save the Coliseum?
Fashion houses and luxury goods companies are lining up to preserve Italy’s ancient monuments
5 min read
Entertainment
Winner Takes It All?
At Eurovision every move, every lyric, every note (rigged or not) scores political points
16 min read
U.S.
Sexual Abuse: Trusting Memories
Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) may be as trustworthy as memories that persist from the time of abuse, reports the journal Psychological Science.
1 min read
Sports
Cuddle my world
Maybe the first night of your freshman year was awkward. At least you didn’t ask a stranger if you could caress his shoulder. But, according to REiD Mihalko and Marcia Baczynski, founders of Cuddle Party, that’s your loss.”We need more touch in our lives.
2 min read
U.S.
Ptsd: For Social Workers, The Price Of Caring
Listening to a victim of sexual assault or a survivor of a natural disaster, social workers hear traumatic stories. Recounting these upsetting events helps victims heal, but, says a recent study, can hurt social workers in the process.
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Sports
Weddings: You, Me and Poochy
Fido’s more than man’s best friend: increasingly, he’s the best man or a groomsman, too. Incorporating pets into wedding ceremonies has become this year’s hottest wedding trend–and one that experts predict is unlikely to tail off.
2 min read
Sports
Keep On Truckin’
Stephen Fraser, 38, is earning a college degree–and without even leaving his Freightliner. He’s one of 500 students enrolled at In-Cab University, the first accredited college catering to the trucking community.
1 min read
Sports
The Classroom: Other Schools of Thought
Since the publication of “Origin” in 1859, Darwin’s theory of evolution has brought trouble to American classrooms. In 1925, 15 states considered legislation to forbid public schools to teach the theory.
3 min read
Sports
No Kitchen, Water Views
When Justin Omps, 28, moved aboard the Tycho Brahe last September, he transformed the timeworn tugboat into a floating frat house. Docked on the Potomac River at Washington, D.C.’s Gangplank Marina, Omps’s 60-foot boat boasts an electric barbecue and a thatch-roof tiki bar lit by jumbo Christmas lights–and, inevitably, a trash bin overflowing with beer cans.
3 min read
Sports
BOOKS
At the stroke of midnight on Friday, Harry Potter fanatics will descend on bookstores to claim “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth installment of J.
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