A Controversial ‘Cure’ for Multiple Sclerosis

The defining element of Adam Gottschalk's life today is that he has multiple sclerosis. This wasn't always the case. He lived a more-or-less-normal life for a while, even after his diagnosis, but like most people with M.S., he was always bracing for...

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Still Waiting for the Narrator in Chief

Illustration by Matt Dorfman. Original photograph by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post/Getty Images. Presidents generally don't like to admit mistakes, so it was interesting when Barack Obama owned up to one during an interview with Charlie Rose on...

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How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

Photo illustration by Peter Yang for The New York Times Drew Petersen didn't speak until he was 3½, but his mother, Sue, never believed he was slow. When he was 18 months old, in 1994, she was reading to him and skipped a word, whereupon Drew reached...

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Talk: Sister Florence Deacon, the Rebel Nun

In April, the Vatican accused your group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the country's most influential nuns' organization, of "radical feminism." Did that surprise you?I was surprised by us being called radical feminists. I could introduce...

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A Controversial ‘Cure’ for Multiple Sclerosis

The defining element of Adam Gottschalk's life today is that he has multiple sclerosis. This wasn't always the case. He lived a more-or-less-normal life for a while, even after his diagnosis, but like most people with M.S., he was always bracing for...

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Still Waiting for the Narrator in Chief

Illustration by Matt Dorfman. Original photograph by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post/Getty Images. Presidents generally don't like to admit mistakes, so it was interesting when Barack Obama owned up to one during an interview with Charlie Rose on...

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Practicing Yoga, Family Style

Jeff Minton for The New York Times The Killicks posing near the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta. From left, Sami, 15; Tobi, 13; Gil, 17; Von, 21; Glenna (mother); Tyler (father). Dropping in on the Killick family, 45 minutes outside Edmonton,...

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Safety Lessons From the Morgue

Eric Ogden for The New York Times Susan P. Baker, an epidemiologist who has spent more than four decades trying to find out why people are dying and what could be done to stop it. On a bright, chilly morning in February, Susan P. Baker sat in her...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Behind the Body Issue: Dan Buettner on Places Where People Live Longest

In this week's Body Issue, the magazine included an adaptation of new material being published in the second edition of Dan Buettner's book "Blue Zones." (National Geographic is publishing the book next month.) The article described a Greek island where...

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The Island Where People Forget to Die

Andrea Frazzetta/LUZphoto for The New York Times Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria. More Photos » In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis Moraitis came to the United States for treatment of a combat-mangled arm....

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My Multiday Massage-a-Thon

Illustrations by Paul Pope About a month ago, editors from this magazine, which employs me, and from which I am therefore loath to turn down assignments even when they are horrifying, assigned me to get a series of massages and other body treatments...

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Practicing Yoga, Family Style

Jeff Minton for The New York Times The Killicks posing near the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta. From left, Sami, 15; Tobi, 13; Gil, 17; Von, 21; Glenna (mother); Tyler (father). Dropping in on the Killick family, 45 minutes outside Edmonton,...

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Lives: Is My Son’s Purple Hair Asking for Trouble?

One evening in the spring of my son Joseph's freshman year in high school, he brought up something he said he'd been thinking over since the previous summer. "I really want to dye my hair purple," he said. When he was little, Joe wanted to paint...

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The Island Where People Forget to Die

Andrea Frazzetta/LUZphoto for The New York Times Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria. More Photos » In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis Moraitis came to the United States for treatment of a combat-mangled arm....

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My Multiday Massage-a-Thon

Illustrations by Paul Pope About a month ago, editors from this magazine, which employs me, and from which I am therefore loath to turn down assignments even when they are horrifying, assigned me to get a series of massages and other body treatments...

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Eat: Four Ways to Cook a Pumpkin, No Matter How You Slice It

Marcus Nilsson for The New York Times; Food stylist: Brian Preston-Campbell You're carving your jack-o'-lanterns now; soon you'll buy canned pumpkin for pie. Join the club. Almost no one in this country cooks fresh pumpkin. Yet the pumpkin —...

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Riff: How I Learned to Love Yoko Ono

Illustration by Tom Gauld Yoko Ono is not pretty, she is not easy, her paintings aren't recognizable, her voice is not melodious, her films are without plot and her Happenings make no sense. One of her paintings you are told to sleep on. One of...

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The 6th Floor Blog: Five-Ku: Short Poems on the Career of Russell Crowe

Bud White to John Nash;Maximus to "Insider."Rave reviews, all earned.Reportedly turnedDown the role of Wolverine.Hugh Jackman says thanks!Channeled young Brando.Will soon channel old BrandoReprising Jor-El.A shame his expertActing sometimes eclipsed...

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Practicing Yoga, Family Style

Jeff Minton for The New York Times The Killicks posing near the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta. From left, Sami, 15; Tobi, 13; Gil, 17; Von, 21; Glenna (mother); Tyler (father). Dropping in on the Killick family, 45 minutes outside Edmonton,...

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Eat: Four Ways to Cook a Pumpkin, No Matter How You Slice It

Marcus Nilsson for The New York Times; Food stylist: Brian Preston-Campbell You're carving your jack-o'-lanterns now; soon you'll buy canned pumpkin for pie. Join the club. Almost no one in this country cooks fresh pumpkin. Yet the pumpkin —...

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