New fertility information bears well for older women
I often joke that working in women's media for six years has made me way too aware about how one's fertility declines with age. My husband and I decided to...
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Cry, baby, cry
NEW YORK — Last week, one of my good friends, who has a 6-week-old baby, went to a breast-feeding support group run by her local hospital. The nurse overseeing the...
Ionized, alkalinized water: Don’t swallow the hype
After so many years of neglect, water appears ready to emerge as a cutting-edge health food. Beginning with bottled waters derived from glaciers (tres European) to the recent "enhanced water,"...
Going out on a limb — with a safety net
"When I get nervous," says a young woman named Rebecca, "I shut down. I go blank." She sits in a circle of 20 in a dance studio in Manhattan. Everyone...
‘SimCity’ more like real life
"SimCity" has been lying to you. For decades, the legendary city-simulation game has given players the sense that they possessed real power over virtual people. When you played "SimCity" —...
Thinking about the unthinkable
At first I couldn't read Emily Rapp's memoir, "The Still Point of the Turning World," about her son, Ronan, who was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs disease at an eye doctor appointment...
Slate: The blind hiker
The Appalachian Trail spans more than 2,000 miles across 14 states, traversing woodlands and peaks from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. It is one of the...
Slate: The Date Whisperer
NEW YORK — "People feel weird when they meet me," 27-year-old Blake Eastman tells me. He's perched on a coffee table eating gummy bears. Sitting across from him on the...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
The bid's most visible opponents have spent years howling that the Olympics will breed graft and political corruption and bleed an already cash-strapped city dry. Chicago 2016's supporters, by contrast,...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
The current round of infrastructure madness finds The New York Times reporting earnestly (Jan. 28) and the Los Angeles Times editorializing frightfully (Sept. 14, 2008) about the crisis contained in...