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McGrath never went to beauty school or trained professionally—the DJ suggested a makeup course, but it turned out to be too expensive. Instead, she

link to movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi review of Sushi Nakazawa

According to Yann Cornil and Pierre Chandon of the European business school Insead, saturated-fat consumption spikes by 16% for fans after the loss of

In 1978, a 65-year-old Ohioan named Walter Poenisch swam from Cuba to Florida—something no human had ever done—only to encounter criticism from a young

Much of all this is a religious belief in the unconditional power of organized science, one that has replaced unconditional religious belief in organized

the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers

wsj review section review on 11.16 by David Barash

In a roughly contemporaneous still-life painting by Adriaen van Utrecht, “Banquet Still Life” (at left), we see laid before us the most beautiful fruits

so satisfactory to be really of some importance, to have something to do that no one else can do quite as well.”

“This is all happening much later than I imagined it would,” said the boyish-looking and quite unassuming Mr. Lutvak. “I’m 54 and I’m making