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Intheir book, The Stigma of Genius, the biographers Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R.Steinberg, and Deborah J. Tippins puzzled over the dichotomy between Einstein'spublic charm and charisma and his

Afarmer living in northern Japan, Kubo agreed to see me in a friend's office inthe town center. He seemed friendly, with a frequent grin that displayed amouthful of silver. His graying crewcut topped

The Public Be Damned (Vanderbilt) ? This took place in a littlecountry pub, a tiny little pub, in which the beer was pumped up from the cellarby a very old servant of the pub.? Andunfortunately

Ask Well I have high cholesterol, but when I tried statins, I didn't like the side effects. What are non-pharmaceutical ways to lower my cholesterol? ? Peoplewith high cholesterol often fall into

An Australian woman won the first-ever world's ugliest lawn competition. Kathleen Murray's yard of sparse yellow grass, shriveled plants and bandicoot-dug divots is now the land of legend. The contest

Notonly are the busboys, laborers, and other black railroad workers as much thereal McCoy as Pullman porters, their numbers include the original real McCoy.Elijah McCoy was trained as an engineer,

Indoing our research and reporting for this book, we came to see that life'sjourney for affluent, well-educated American families is like a stroll along awide, smooth path, forgiving of missteps. But

GeniusIs an Abnormality ? ? Itis likely that genius is an abnormality. If the genes that cause autism andother disorders such as manic-depression were eliminated, the world might beleft to

Twopioneering scholars, Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley, spent more than two yearsobserving forty-two families. Hart and Risley taped the parents' interactionswith young children, transcribed the

Ask Well Everyone says that the DEET inbug spray is awful, but my own research seems to suggest that it's well testedand safe. Am I giving myself a little bit of cancer every time I use it? ? A

Imagine you're at a nice restaurant trying to enjoy your meal, and some kids at the next table are raising a ruckus, and you don't know whether to leave or complain. A restaurant in North Georgia has

Attheir peak, Pullman sleepers accommodated 100,000 people a night, which wasmore than all the nation's top-notch hotels combined. That meant stocking 4,195,873towels, 466,362 blankets, and 145,315

InOklahoma, criminal defendants can be assessed sixty-six different kinds offees, ranging from a "courthouse security fee" to a "sheriff'sfee for pursuing fugitive from justice." There's even a fee

FourCornerstones of Social Awareness ? Achievingsocial success is dependent upon certain core attributes of the person withASD. In our book, Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships, my co-author

RashidaYaye, a girl in the West African country of Niger, was born with one of themost common birth defects in the world: clubfoot. About one baby in a thousandis born with this deformity, with one

Hitch Your Wagon to A Star (Emerson) ? There is a very famous directorof exciting thrillers, who does most of his work in Hollywood, called AlfredHitchcock. ? Now Alfred Hitchcock is a

Ask Well ? I had a C-section about a yearago; my scar sometimes hurts, itches and even smells. What's going on? ? If you've had a cesarean section,you may have expected your wound to be healed

Imagine losing a diamond ring worth more than $800,000. That's what happened to a woman in Paris. The woman was staying at the famed Ritz Hotel and left her ring on the nightstand in her room. When

Thecustoms officer was another government agent the porter was supposed to standin for. That meant rooting out gambling and, during Prohibition, purgingPullman compartments of alcohol. It also meant

"Bythe early twentieth century America educated its youth to a far greater extentthan did most, if not every, European country," Claudia Goldin andLawrence F. Katz write in The Race Between Education