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Beth Teitell: On Not Looking Old
Author Beth Teitell has decided to take on the malady that often afflicts American women: “Fear of looking our age.” Teitell, who is 47 and writes regularly for the Boston Globe, spent a year exploring the American obsession with youth — the Botox Industrial Complex — for her new book, Drinking Problems at the Fountain of Youth .
Mother’s Obesity Raises Risk of Birth Defects
The health risks of being obese are certainly well known by now — diabetes, heart disease, stroke and hypertension, to name a few. But the dangers are even greater for pregnant women and particularly for their developing babies. A new analysis, published Feb.
Israel’s Election Dashes Hopes for Peace
Israel’s election on Tuesday ended in a near draw, with the two front runners — centrist Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni and hawkish Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu — each claiming victory.
Congress’s New Love Affair with Twitter, for Better or Worse
In today’s carefully stage-managed Washington, the last thing anyone expects from members of Congress is candor or spontaneity. So perhaps it’s not all that surprising that Representative Pete Hoekstra unwittingly triggered a maelstrom of criticism last weekend when he Twittered about his trip to Iraq
GOP Governors: Split over Obama’s Stimulus Plan
When President Barack Obama took his stimulus road show into Florida on Tuesday, Governor Charlie Crist was waiting, tapping his foot. Crist, a Republican, is actually six months ahead of Washington in the stimulus game: in August, in response to his state’s economic implosion, he launched Accelerate Florida, which is pouring out more than $28 billion in stored-up state funds for the kind of infrastructure and school-construction projects that are still being debated inside the Beltway. At the time Crist announced Accelerate Florida, few if any fellow Republicans seemed to condemn the idea.
25 More Things I Didn’t Want to Know About You
Apparently I was wrong. Facebook users actually love reading 25 things about themselves. I never expected to receive so many e-mails defending a person’s right to read about how much his high school biology lab partner hates goat cheese
Why Geithner’s Rescue Plan Spooked the Markets
Timothy Geithner to America: We’re going big, aggressive and expensive.
Obama’s Stimulus Address Shows His Power at the Pulpit
In the final years of his second term, it was not unusual to find George W. Bush’s motorcade routes lined with protesters chanting their objections or spelling them out on handmade signs. On Monday, President Barack Obama traveled to one of the most economically imperiled parts of the country — Elkhart, Ind
Why Global Warming May Be Fueling Australia’s Fires
The raging infernos that have left more than 160 people dead in southern Australia burned with such speed that they resembled less a wildfire than a massive aerial bombing.