Those infamous 17 Massachusetts high school girls who may or may not have intentionally made a pregnancy pact might have changed their minds if they had seen "The Baby Borrowers." ...more

June 25, 2008

We are deep now, deep into the season of lofty speech-making, of oratorical reflection and anticipation, of philosophizing that anticipates the moment when tassels will be turned from the side symbolizing near-graduate to alumnus. ...more

June 5, 2008

The Museum of Science & Industry's new exhibition is all about you. The first phase of "The Amazing You," a 12,000-square-foot exhibition at which guests are invited to explore the developmental stages of life, from the beginning through adolescence, opened on Saturday. ...more

May 26, 2008

Throughout my formative years, my father passed on to me many valuable lessons and words of wisdom that he learned as a child and accumulated through adulthood. ...more

February 22, 2008

TAMPA - A woman who stormed from a courtroom this morning in a profanity-laced tirade led the judge to quip that her actions helped explain why her son was charged with a string of felonies. ...more

February 7, 2008

Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn't save money, researchers reported Monday. ...more

February 5, 2008

Born with a rare kind of cataracts that defied treatment, Kenlyn South spent most of her life legally blind. ...more

December 13, 2007

Young galaxies, so faint that scientists struggled to prove they were there at all, have been discovered by aiming two of the world's most powerful telescopes at a single patch of sky for nearly 100 hours. ...more

November 29, 2007

"The Faraday Girls: A Novel," by Monica McInerney (Ballantine Reader's Circle, $13.95) ...more

November 25, 2007

It took the better part of a year for Chante Douglass to understand the Children's Village was different. ...more

November 21, 2007