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I’m not supposed to play favorites with New York Times Cooking recipes — which is impossible anyway, given our vast database of winners — but reader, I must tell you how excited...

The two therapies were found to be equally effective, and only 12.5 percent of subjects dropped out of the written exposure group before completing a course of treatment, compared with 35.6 percent...

He lived with the condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease much longer than most and spread the message, an admirer said, that disability was “just a different way of living.”

Our daughter was married for 15 years, until her husband left her for another woman five years ago. She receives a monthly, court-ordered payment from him. He does not see their daughter,...

My colleague Julia Moskin says that restaurants are New Yorkers’ living rooms. With no space of our own, we look outward, to nearby public quarters where we can sit, read and lounge....

The small Midwestern gender clinic was buckling under an unrelenting surge in demand.Last year, dozens of young patients were seeking appointments every month, far too many for the clinic’s two psychologists to...

Close to the geographical heart of Australia, Alice Springs feels like a true desert town. Red earth laps its edges. The ocher walls of the West MacDonnell Ranges crowd its southern fringe....

This kind of quick reaction “allows you to meet people where they are, rather than trying to drag them over to where you are,” Ms. McLaughlin said. (The “Dark Brandon” phenomenon, which...

Ms. Rodsky recruited a dozen more people to start playing with their own index cards. As people came up with questions, she came up with rules. Do you have to hold a...

Parsley — the herb I use most, week in and out — is almost never on my shopping list these days. And the last time I bought canned tomatoes was probably 20...