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How recipes keep memories alive
Treasured recipes and memories of the top chefs in the U.S. are shared in the digital cookbook: “The Endless Table: Recipes from Departed Loved Ones.” The cookbook hopes to use food, and dinner parties, to help people open up about death and plan for it, before it’s too late.

Parents gay? The kids are OK, study says

Could you be allergic to these everyday things?
Everybody knows somebody with an allergy to pollen, dust, pet dander, or peanuts (maybe you even have one of these common ailments yourself). But you may be surprised about some of the lesser known materials, foods, or environments that an cause allergic reactions in certain people.

Does parenting style say anything about candidates?
Parenting experts say a candidate’s parenting philosophy can signal their approach to leadership, but caution that good parenting does not guarantee a great leader.

How to raise a body-positive kid
How’s this for a scary statistic: Studies show that kids as young as 5 say they don’t like their bodies.

Do schools’ BMI screenings of students even work?
I remember opening the envelope holding my daughters’ report cards from their New York City elementary school a few years ago and stumbling upon a fitness report. The so-called “FITNESSGRAM” tallied my daughters’ height, weight and body mass index, or BMI. I had no idea we would get such a report or that my daughters were weighed at some point during the school year to come up with the measurements.

AIDS in the ’80s: The rise of a civil rights movement
In the 1980s, when Dr. Jesse Peel was in his 40s, he realized something startling. The gay community organizer and psychiatrist in Atlanta had lost more of his contemporaries than his aging mother at the time. It was the height of the AIDS epidemic. Peel said he would sometimes attend two or three funerals for friends in a week. People were getting sick, deathly sick, long before the disease even had a name.

Why we can’t stop body-shaming
Showing a little flab? Enjoying the skin you’re in?

Helping refugee kids find their footing in the U.S.
When refugees receive what they call the “golden ticket” to the United States, they hope to put their hardships behind them and start a better life.

What it means to be gender-fluid
For some people, gender is not just about being male or female; in fact, how one identifies can change every day or even every few hours.

Opinion: One way to close the pay gap for women
New research shows pay gaps are much lower when more women serve on corporate boards; the effect trickles down through company to help other women.

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When, where and why women earn less than men
April 12 is a day most women would rather not celebrate.

Bible, ‘Fifty Shades’ among most challenged books of 2015
Among the topics addressed in the Bible: fornication, masturbation, murder, moneylending, deceitful families, dishonest authorities and — especially — religion.

Happy 100th birthday, Beverly Cleary!
Beverly Cleary, the children’s author whose books about Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins and others captured the spark and struggles of “kids like us,” doesn’t mind if you celebrate her birthday.

The 10s, they are a-changin’: Women on currency

What’s still made in America

Competitive eating champ Matt Stonie: ‘A one-man team’

Who are the modern faces of labor?

The case for gender-neutral marketing

What I wish I’d known before college

‘Streetwise’ revisited: Teen prostitute finds motherhood, stability

Does photo show outlaw Jesse James with his killer?

Banned Books Week champions challenged literature

Why your cat needs an iPad

The library catalog card? Time to pull it from the files

Celebs: ‘I’m with Lizzie’ to combat bullying

A helicopter dad embraces free-range parenting

15 years after rescue, Elian Gonzalez still a hero in Cuba

Minimalism in the closet and around the house

How to increase thankfulness and why it’s good for your health

Why kindness matters even more after Thanksgiving

Rose Quartz, Serenity are colors of the year

The Other Side: Where do amazing coincidences come from?
Are they part of some cosmic drama shaped by unseen hands? Or are they the result of a desperate need to find meaning in odd connections?

Angry obits: ‘In memoriam’ meets TMI

Barbie is a role model, sort of. Here’s why

Female commander is a first for Texas A&M

Week 31: From Proverbs to prophets
The beautiful poems of the Book of Psalms and common sense of the books of Proverbs and Sirach have given way to the prophets.

Week 32: Between the world and the Word
Sometimes, my day job and this passion project dovetail perfectly. Last week one of those times: parts of the Book of Isaiah matched perfectly with this week in the world.

Week 33: Jeremiah’s long-winded lamentations
Jeremiah, the prophet, lives forever in the dictionary. He is the basis of the word: jeremiad.

Week 34: Finding hope in Lamentations
At the end of last week, I made the joke that I thought I had already been through the Book of Lamentations while reading Jeremiah.

Do Mormons support female priests?
Do Mormons support admitting women to their church’s all-male priesthood? It depends on how you ask, according to a new study.