Just because your career takes an awkward turn doesn’t mean your baby’s birth can’t be a cherished event. Before you cancel your reservation at the Namibian birthing palace, we’d like a moment of your time.
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New York's currently: killing time, but multi-tasking Warren Buffett to give away fortune earlier than expected, and a large chunk is headed toward the Gates' Foundation. Whatever happened to legislation for lobbyist spending reform? Congress appears to have let it quietly die. Senate Democrats bristle at
Horror in many forms: tragic Hervé Villechaize; unwatchable Connie Chung; liquidating Verne Troyer; conjoined twins; younger brother gets his Barkley on
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New York City’s diamond district is a zone of secret laws, hidden shops, and real-estate chicanery. Watching as one-block buff and guide Stephen Kilnisan pulls back the curtain.
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When a loved one’s houseplants are divided up, what you get isn’t a condition of your standing as a relative, but of your ability as a gardener. Our writer has a story of memory and maintenance, and the discovery of a special bond.
My great-aunt Mary lives year-round on an island off the coast of Maine and still smokes while she watches the tennis or enjoys a nightcap. It’s given her an amazing speaking voice: her register’s permanently cracked from the cigarettes, with bass-y wobbles, but her Maine
New York's currently: a wonderful place to lose kids Iraqis say U.S. soldiers, found in "insurgent hotbed," were tortured and beheaded, then booby-trapped. Soldiers' families upset to learn news first from media, not military. Op: $135 million for Klimt's "Adele
