When the only thing better than a flip phone is no phone at all.
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How Can I Get My Aunt to Stop Sending Me Lavish Holiday Gifts?
A reader feels overwhelmed by the extravagant Christmas gifts she receives from an aunt living overseas.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Decided to Be Brutally Honest’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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How Qatar Keeps Its World Cup Stadiums Cool Enough for Everyone
A mechanical engineer at Qatar University used giant tanks of cold water to create a cooling system in one of the hottest places on the planet.
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‘You Bought the Wrong Nipple Clamps’
Our relationship was impossible, which of course is what made it possible.
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How Can I Stop Children From Bringing Toy Guns to the Playground?
A reader is frustrated by her children’s gravitation toward the toy guns a family brings to play with.
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Her Dreams of Infidelity’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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Hans Niemann Is the Bad Boy of Chess. But Did He Cheat?
An American teenager, Hans Niemann, defeated Magnus Carlsen, the world’s best chess player. Then Mr. Carlsen accused his opponent of cheating. It’s either overdue justice or paranoia.
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A favor de las relaciones que se quedan 10 por ciento cortas
Le tememos a las imperfecciones de nuestras vidas amorosas. ¿Y si mejor las aceptamos?
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Norland College Graduates Include Nannies for Boris Johnson and Prince George
At Norland College, future nannies take courses on early childhood education and cooking alongside learning to fend off kidnappers and shielding strollers from paparazzi.
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‘How Much Was That?’
A family obsessed with the cost of things learns a stark lesson in what’s priceless.
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We’re Out of Movie Stars. Whose Fault Is That?
There are fewer films now that allow an actor to grow a persona and a Tom Cruise level of stardom. It’s a crisis, and the movies know it.