What does it mean to create new life when one parent is dying?
For couples who confronted grim diagnoses before the turn of the millennium, the option to preserve their fertility was much harder to find and less likely to succeed. But the...
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Horny reindeer, a cocaine-snorting Santa and a break-dancing Jesus … when did ugly Christmas sweaters get so raunchy?
The Santa Claus you see on Christmas sweaters lately is not the jolly old elf with a sack full of toys, an emblem of holiday cheer and generosity. He's kind...
Broken routines, crowded gatherings, funny smells: How to help autistic kids over the holidays
My autistic son loves to sing "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." It's ironic because for him, and for many families like ours, the winter holidays are more...
Where Christmas trees come from
Every year, millions of Americans purchase and decorate Christmas trees to ring in the holiday season. Whether they are bought at a lawn and garden store or a pop-up lot...
Christmas sweaters turn from earnest to varying degrees of raunchy
The Santa Claus you see on Christmas sweaters lately is not the jolly old elf with a sack full of toys, an emblem of holiday cheer and generosity. He's kind...
From Lincoln Logs to luggage, U.S.-China trade deal still leaves huge cloud over American business
Classic toys such as Lincoln Logs and My Little Pony bring children smiles every holiday season. But for the company that makes them, Florida-based Basic Fun! Toys, President Donald Trump's...
Alaska’s warming, but can’t quit Big Oil
NUIQSUT, Alaska - The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking. Rising temperatures...
Alaska’s warming, but can’t quit Big Oil
Oil drilling has brought great prosperity to Nuiqsut, but the town's very foundations are imperiled by oil's fundamental role in the global economy. In a nation coming to recognize the...
World’s highest weather stations reveal intense sunshine may be melting ice on Mount Everest
SAN FRANCISCO - Data from a network of newly-installed weather stations atop Mount Everest shows that the mountain experiences some of the most intense sunlight on the planet. As alpine...
As the population ages, more home health-care companies cater to travelers
As Angela Cox was preparing for her daughter's wedding near their home in Las Vegas, she began to worry about her aunt, who was flying in for the big day...