The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex After 70
Sex can drop off in our final decades. But for those who keep going, it can be the best of their lives.
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CreditMarilyn Minter for The New York Times Into the Belly of the Whale With Sjón
The Icelandic novelist, poet and Björk collaborator is a surrealist for our time.
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CreditMatthieu Gafsou for The New York Times The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible.
U.S. service members and veterans have long insisted that the military’s garbage-disposal fires in war zones made them ill. Why were their claims stonewalled for so long?
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A Sci-Fi Visionary Thinks Greed Might Be the Thing That Saves Us
“Am I dipping into the spiritual realm and the infinite game of life? Damn right I am.”
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Must I Donate a Kidney to My Awful Brother?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what you owe to a sibling who didn’t treat you right and how to handle a potential bullying situation at your child’s school.
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CreditIllustration by Tomi Um The EthicistLemon Pepper Makes Everything Better �� Especially Wings
Zesty, buttery lemon-pepper wings are Atlanta’s soul. But you can use the seasoning on just about anything.
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CreditLinda Xiao for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Sophia Pappas. EatWhat Is Miss America, if Not a Beauty Pageant?
Maybe the contest should coldly, openly reward women for being beautiful. Give them money. Don’t pretend that this is about what you can earn through hard work alone.
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CreditPhoto illustration by Anthony Gerace ScreenlandHe Used to Run Several Times a Week. Now He Could Barely Stand.
Could an unusual drug habit account for such a rapid decline?
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CreditIllustration by Radio TipPoem: My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task
This poem is an example of how abundant emotions can be conveyed by stripping language down to the bone.
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CreditIllustration by R. O. Blechman PoemJudge John Hodgman on How to Make Your Exit
Which cult classic should you steal a line from to leave them wanting more?
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