Reuters/REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz – The Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, is pictured though a flag depicting fugitive former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, during a...
Getty Images – Boston marathoners finish their race After a bruising election campaign that took a good part of two years, America deserved a rest. The country didn’t get one, unless you count the government shutdown – which almost...
Firefighters attending to Asiana Airlines jet (Photo by Wendell Hom) Wendell Hom trained at a Yongmudo martial art camp in Seoul, went diving and surfing in Bali and took muay thai boxing classes in Bangkok. “It’s been a month,” he...
Clinton Kelly and Stacy London on “What Not To Wear.” Hopeless, even defiant about fashion? Your last salvation ends this summer. After 10 seasons of advising women (and some men) about the social stigma of light-wash jeans and the...
Controversy over the boundaries of grief How much is too much grief? And how long do you wait before you decide? Among all the changes in the fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the most controversial...
By Vera H-C Chan and Claudine Zap In 1952, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders weighed in at a wispy 50 pages. In 1994, DSM-IV numbered 943 pages. The DSM-5 will actually be less than that — still, when comparing the...
Year in Review 2012: Top 10 Searches The United States is sometimes criticized for its citizens’ apparent lack of interest in politics, at least beyond the celebrity angle. But “elections” was this year’s most-searched...