Married (Happily) With Issues
By ELIZABETH WEIL
Can you really improve your marriage? Is it risky to try? One wife takes her husband through the world of marriage therapies.
The New York Times Magazine
12.6.2009
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It’s Just a Texas-Governor Thing
By ROBERT DRAPER
How an unpopular Republican governor is fending off a primary challenge from a popular Republican senator who has the key players of the Bush administration behind her.
The Hostage Business
By NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE
Kidnapping in the developing world is a grim byproduct of globalization, and a strange and shadowy ransom industry has grown to protect and retrieve the victims. But are all the consultants and insurers really just part of the problem?
Letters
Sunday Puzzles
December 09, 2009, 11:48 AM
Coming to Terms With a Family's Secret
In a guest post, Sara Brown asks: if a child is born and no one knows about him, does he exist?
December 08, 2009, 3:14 PM
Does Parenting Make You Stupid?
Are you flabbergasted at how often you find yourself talking about your children? Do you see this as a problem or just a phase?
December 08, 2009, 11:05 AM
Why Women Wake When a Baby Cries
Women may be sensitive to sounds associated with a potential threat to their children while men are more finely tuned to disturbances posing a possible threat to the whole family.
The Way We Live Now
Cable Guise
By MATT BAI
How can you tell the difference between a member of Congress and a TV personality?
Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos
Book Learning
By DEBORAH SOLOMON
The C.E.O. of Amazon.com talks about reading his Kindle in the bathtub.
Diagnosis
Hidden Clues
By LISA SANDERS, M.D.
Would a doctor have looked at Sherlock Holmes and seen a condition to diagnose?
The Ethicist
Taking on Unlikables
By RANDY COHEN
May I recommend not hiring someone solely because of his or her politics?
Consumed
A Real Find
By ROB WALKER
A furniture maker hypes its wares by leaving them out with the trash.
Lives
The Missing-Piece Son
By RANDA JARRAR
A together kid and a holding-it-together mom have a talk.
Cooking With Dexter
The Boiling Point
By PETE WELLS
With a pot of water on the stove, dinner is doable. Almost.
Phys Ed
How to Prevent Stress Fractures
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
New studies offer hope that simple alterations might reduce a runner’s risk for the most common type of stress fracture.
From the Archive
Teaching Boys and Girls Separately
By ELIZABETH WEIL
The idea is gaining traction in American public schools, in response to the different education crises girls and boys have been reported to experience.
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