Contrary to popular belief, not all loners have a pathological fear of social contact. "Some people simply have a low need for affiliation," says Jonathan Cheek, a psychologist at Wellesley College. "There's a big subdivision between the ...
Sexual attraction remains one of life's biggest mysteries. We might say we go for partners who are tall and thin, love to cook, or have a mania for exercise, but when push comes to shove, studies show, the people we actually end up with possess few of ...
EnlargeSUBSTITUTE TEACHERS Project K-Nect students use the phones to make videos of one another explaining math concepts. | Photographs by Imke Lass EnlargeLIFELINE Thanks to the phones, Southwest High math teacher Suzette Kliewer is available to ...
How to explore the world: Developing a sense of wonder can be its own reward. Decades before Evan Schaeffer started practicing law, he developed an interest so all-consuming it verged on obsession: snakes. By the time he entered the fourth grade, he ...
As a child, Meghan Swann had suffered several bouts of strep throat, and when she was a teenager, she thought she felt another one coming on. The main symptom was familiar a dull sore-throat pain. But this time something was different; there seemed to ...
Myriad is digging in its heels. The company refused comment on this story, but it “strongly believes its patents are valid and enforceable and will be upheld by the courts,” said Richard Marsh, Myriad’s general counsel, in a statement. History ...
On June 7, 2005, Julie Turner of Sheffield, England, told her partner, Darren Akers, that she was heading out to do some shopping. But as the clock inched toward midnight and Ms. Turner, 40, failed to return, Mr. Akers began to panic. Two days later, ...
When Brookey Lee West’s mother, Christine Smith, disappeared from her Las Vegas apartment in 1998, Ms. West had a convincing explanation: She had sent Ms. Smith to stay with her son, Ms. West’s brother, in California. The story seemed to hold up at ...
In the 1980s and 1990s, a faceless killer stalked young women in the Seattle-Tacoma area. Dozens of women, mostly prostitutes, eventually disappeared, sometimes only a few days apart, sometimes only once or twice a year. The killer had a consistent ...
Around 2 a.m. on March 8, 2008, officers at the East Palo Alto, Calif., Police Department received a computer alert. Barrages of gunshots had just been fired in the 2100 block of Capitol Avenue and nearby at the corner of University Avenue and Bell ...
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