Is Banked Cord Blood Worth It?
Illustration by Barry Falls
There was a lot of talk on Monday about stem cells. Today let’s talk about cord blood, a source of stREAD MORE
The Opt Out Revolution
The scene in this cozy Atlanta living room would — at first glance — warm an early feminist’s heart. Gathered by the fireplace onREAD MORE
Just Money
In the early days there were the leaflets, thousands of frantically scribbled posters, created of the need to do something. Then thREAD MORE
The Odds of That
When the Miami Police first found Benito Que, he was slumped on a desolate side street, near the empty spot where he had habituallyREAD MORE
Nuclear Stockpiling
I have the pills. At the moment, they are in my kitchen cabinet, where I keep the Tylenol and the Mylanta. I am thinking, though, oREAD MORE
When the Muse Goes on Strike
A MAGAZINE writer’s life is one of ebb and flow, and for many weeks my ideas have not been flowing. I need a story idea and I need READ MORE
Life Without a Father
Hockey equipment spills off the side porch of the stately but welcoming brick house in Pelham Manor, N.Y. There are a football by tREAD MORE
A List and a Photo to Never Forget
ARE we going to remember this time around? Are we going to cling to the lessons we learned last week? We have vowed to do better beREAD MORE
Haunted by Mold
Melinda Ballard parks her cream-colored Jaguar next to her deserted dream house in Dripping Springs, Tex. — a house she fled more READ MORE
Four-Legged Distractions
It is time that I introduce all of you to the newest member of my family. Riley Belkin Gelb is the 7-month-old wheaten terrier puppREAD MORE
The Made-to-Order Savior: Producing a Perfect Baby Sibling
Henry Strongin Goldberg was the first to arrive in Minneapolis. His parents decorated his room on the fourth floor of the Fairview-READ MORE
Your Kids Are Their Problem
Jason Gill is clocking 80 miles an hour in his green Miata convertible, heading north out of San Diego. The 31-year-old computer soREAD MORE
The Grapes of Marital Wrath
ROBIN KLEIN, a senior vice president at Chase Manhattan Bank, is loath to let her husband go grocery shopping. ”I’ve tried, but evREAD MORE
Parents Blaming Parents
On a warm Tuesday night in September, 120 people, nearly all African-American, fill the echoing auditorium at the Masonic Temple inREAD MORE
A Wild Ride on a Swivel Chair
I hear them before I see them — the 8-year-old, followed by the 5-year-old — as they clomp up the stairs that lead to my office. READ MORE
Getting the Girl
There is nothing sleek or high-tech about this third-floor conference room in Fairfax, Va., except, perhaps, the bright red laser pREAD MORE
A Brutal Cure
Operating room No. 5 at University Hospital in Denver is chilled almost to the point of refrigeration, but already the team of surgREAD MORE
How Can We Save the Next Victim?
ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON LAST SUMMER, tiny Jose Eric Martinez was brought to the outpatient clinic of Hermann Hospital in Houston for READ MORE
Charity Begins at … the Marketing Meeting, the Gala Event, The Product Tie-In
THE 2,100 GUESTS AT THE SUSAN G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s charity gala in Dallas in October expected a luncheon. What they READ MORE
Pregnant with Complications
Sophia sits in a booth in a dimly lighted Chinese restaurant, reluctantly talking about the details of her life. She is beyond tireREAD MORE
Death on the CNN Curve
IT WAS FAME that killed Robert O’Donnell, killed him as surely as that shotgun blast he fired into his brain on a dark, dusty, WestREAD MORE
Kill for Life?
THE NEW WOMAN MEDICAL CENTER OF JACKSON, Miss., has not yet opened on this autumn morning, when a pair of dark blue vehicles arriveREAD MORE
There’s No Simple Suicide
By the time the Rev. Ralph Mero arrived at Louise J.’s tiny Seattle apartment, she had already emptied the contents of the sleepingREAD MORE
The High Cost of Living
Dr. David MacDougall was taking a brief, well-earned nap on a couch in the neurosurgery department at Hermann Hospital in Houston wREAD MORE
‘Lace Over Steel’: The Women Mayors of Texas
BETTY TURNER, THE FIRST WOMAN to serve as Mayor of Corpus Christi, Tex., is munching Gulf shrimp and having a minor disagreement wiREAD MORE
The Prisoner of Seventh Avenue
HALSTON, THE LEGENDARY fashion designer, sits in the two-story living room of his multimillion-dollar town house, his face slicked READ MORE
The Mail Order Bride Business
TESSIE FLORENCE HAS BECOME an international matchmaker. Each month, working from her airy four-bedroom house in Santa Maria, Calif.READ MORE