Tuesday 15 September '09
We attacked the start of first grade with military precision. Up at 6:15 a.m., with pretty purple dress at the ready.Monday 14 September '09
Wild card Clijsters’s run takes her into the final as world No 2 Williams is penalised on match point for screaming at a line judge....Sunday
13 September '09Players bond over the Internet, where they spend hours together slaying monsters and collecting treasure....Sunday
13 September '09The scions of moviedom’s elite have increasing sway in casting decisions....Monday
7 September '09By seventh grade, Melanie Oudin was so sure she wanted to be a professional tennis player that she convinced her parents to let her try home-schooling....Sunday
6 September '09If it’s him, we’re going to have to rethink the hair. The styled courtier who gazes out of the portrait is undeniably a seducer, bouffant...Sunday
6 September '09Kaitlyn Maher, one of the top 10 finalists on America’s Got Talent, who has an upcoming Disney movie and debut album, is five years old.Sunday
6 September '09If machines ever become sentient, science fiction movies have conditioned us to expect one thing: Our new mechanical masters will..Sunday
30 August '09How Raleigh Marshall traced his ancestry to Paul Jennings, a slave who worked for former US President James Madison....Sunday
30 August '09How to be stylish and not wear animal hide and hair...Sunday
30 August '09After a rare hybrid orchid was spotted in a Maryland preserve, botanists are trying to protect it from ‘orchid heads’....Sunday
30 August '09Put a gecko on a level piece of glass and it might slip all over the place. Tilt that glass about 10 degrees and it will stay in place....Tuesday
25 August '09In most countries, stranding someone on a narrow platform 30 feet off the ground, exposed to the elements, would probably constitute a form of torture. But in Britain, it’s art.Sunday
23 August '09Only six people are allowed to see it every day, and only for six months of the year. It’s thousands of miles from big art scenes...Sunday
23 August '09Michele Perchonok sat contemplating a shrink-wrapped brick of freeze-dried mac ‘n’ cheese just outside the test kitchen at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.Sunday
23 August '09Scientists are playing an exotic game of pitch and catch between Illinois and Minnesota. Their catcher’s mitt is solid iron, weighs 5,500 tonnes...Sunday
16 August '09Three days before John F. Kennedy won his first campaign, the 1946 Democratic primary in Boston’s 8th District, the enormous Kennedy family threw an enormous party.Sunday
16 August '09Perez Hilton is not sorry. He is not sorry for trashing Miss California for saying marriage should be between a man and woman.Sunday
16 August '09Every night without fail, Jim Turner is there at the far corner of the bar, chain-smoking his Marlboros and sipping ice-cold San Miguel beer from the bottle, watching over the Little Ones.Sunday
16 August '09NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, has made radical new discoveries about a hellish planet a thousand light years away—proof, scientists say...Sunday
9 August '09When Tim Burton, one of Hollywood’s most distinctive directors, came to Comic-Con International last week with never-before-seen footage...Sunday
9 August '09The first comprehensive effort to identify and catalog every species in the world’s oceans, from microbes to blue whales, is a year from completion.Sunday
9 August '09A new kind of seaweed is spreading over hundreds of miles in the north. Scientists call it a “super female clone” because most of the new plants are genetically identical females.Tuesday
4 August '09When it was all over, when the last of the 43 world records had fallen at the Foro Italico during the eight-day swimming world championships....Tuesday
4 August '09Greece and Macedonia continue to fight over Alexander the Great....
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