The Pills of Last Resort
By DARSHAK M. SANGHAVI, M.D.
For desperate patients, the pace of clinical drug trials can be lethally slow. But there is a way for them to beat the clock.
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Broccoli’s Extreme Makeover
By MICHAEL MOSS
Broccoli is about to get a serious makeover — and maybe, just maybe, be a model of how to persuade Americans to eat better.
Jumper Cables for the Mind
By DAN HURLEY
Would you give your brain a jolt if a Harvard scientist said it could make you smarter, more creative and less depressed?
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A Simple Way to Perk Up an Old-Fashioned
November 7, 2013
Lee Harvey Oswald’s Wedding Ring, His Widow and an Anonymous Bidder
November 7, 2013
The Art of the Prosthesis
November 5, 2013
Diagnosis
The Tell-Tale Green Heart
By LISA SANDERS, M.D.
A very odd finding during routine surgery helps explain everything.
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What’s Your ‘Fitness Age’?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Scientific research — and on online calculator — lets you assess how well your body functions physically, relative to how well it should work, given your age.
It’s the Economy
Cracking the Apple Trap
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
Is it a coincidence when your iPhone stops working just as the new models come out?
Talk
Randi Zuckerberg: ‘I Really Put Myself Out There’
Interview by SUSAN DOMINUS
The first sister of Silicon Valley on online etiquette and why privacy is a Web 2.0 concern.
Eat
Choi Division
By SAM SIFTON
With his first book, “L.A. Son,” the progenitor of the Korean-Mexican taco updates the food of his childhood.
Innovation
Who Made That Referee Shirt?
By PAGAN KENNEDY
When the black-and-white-striped uniform made its first appearance on the field in 1921, the fans hated it.
The One-Page Magazine
Iggy Pop’s Smoking Web
Barack Obama’s most-liked Instagram images; Sylvia Plath, illustrator.
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From The Archive
The Quality Cure?
Roger Lowenstein’s 2005 article about the challenge of creating a national health care policy.
Editors' Picks
The Final Insult in the Bush-Cheney Marriage
By PETER BAKER
How Dick Cheney finally lost the president.
And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’
By FRED VOGELSTEIN
An age of darkness ended with a searing light, which shook the earth, and the great device was rendered unto thee.
Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?
By EILEEN POLLACK
Hint: The answer has more to do with “The Big Bang Theory” than with longstanding theories about men’s so-called natural aptitude.
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