MY parents came from a working-class area in the north of England. Being bohemians at heart and wanting to follow the sun, they quit their jobs in London in the mid-1960s and moved to the Mediterranean coast. I ... Read more
Dannon yogurt had a secret it didn’t want you to know. Until recently. Its Danimals Smoothies, a line of yogurt drinks in Technicolor packaging for the pint-size set, have gotten a little ... Read more
SABHA, Jordan — The parents were petrified the oldest of their seven children would be drafted into the Syrian Army. For their teenage girl, they feared rape and kidnapping. And the next oldest, verging ... Read more
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — Raghed Hilless was 6 months old when Israel arrested her father, Ahmed, for being involved with Hamas, the militant Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip. Now 5 ½, ... Read more
We live in an epidemiological bubble and are for the most part blissfully unaware of it. Diseases that were routine hazards of childhood for many Americans living today now seem like ancient history. And while ... Read more
BURKESVILLE, Ky. — Last Monday, Kristian Sparks and his sister, Caroline, visited a Fred’s Super Dollar store here. A store manager recalled that it was an ordinary shopping trip, saying that the ... Read more
A 5-year-old boy accidentally shot his 2-year-old sister to death in rural southern Kentucky with a rifle he had received as a gift last year, the authorities said. The children’s mother had stepped ... Read more
PEORIA, Ill. — Using plastic fibers and human cells, doctors have built and implanted a windpipe in a 2 ½-year-old girl — the youngest person ever to receive a bioengineered organ. ... Read more
State financing for preschool fell by more than $548 million, or close to 10 percent, in the 2011-12 school year, the largest annual drop in a decade, according to a report released Monday. ... Read more
WASHINGTON — If people who are too young to vote commit crimes short of murder, the Supreme Court said in 2010, they should not be sentenced to die in prison. That sounds straightforward ... Read more