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High-tech living: A slideshow

High-tech living: A slideshow

Want a home that you can control with a smartphone? Read on

 
A group of climbers on Mount Everest's summit: Thousands of people have made it to the top of the world's tallest mountain, but hundreds have died trying.

The deadly odds of climbing Mount Everest: By the numbers

Four climbers were killed over the weekend, raising the towering peak's death toll to 225. And still, 200 more climbers are preparing to challenge Everest this weekend

 
Betty Draper sees a psychiatrist during season 1 of "Mad Men": More stay-at-home moms said they were diagnosed with depression than working moms, according to a new poll.

Stay-at-home moms: More vulnerable to depression than working moms?

A quarter of stay-at-homes moms say they struggle with malaise, compared to just 16 percent of working moms, according to a new Gallup survey

 
Beyonce holds her newborn Blue Ivy Carter: The couple trademarked the unique moniker to prevent entrepreneurs from profiting off the name.

Can you trademark your baby's name?

Beyonce and Jay-Z take the legal route to ensure that nobody steals Blue Ivy Carter's name. For ordinary parents, though, the quest for a unique moniker is more complicated

 
Sneakers that make you fit and 6 other misleading products

Sneakers that make you fit and 7 other allegedly misleading products

Apple has allegedly told fibs. Frito-Lay has arguably made empty promises. And it turns out that Skechers' Shape-Up sneakers might not actually give customers a rock-solid tush without exercise

 
Meet Knuckles, a sweet-faced puggle that has unwittingly instigated a costly, cross-country court battle between two bitter exes.

The $60,000 custody battle... over a dog

A New York man vows to go into debt to get a beloved pet back from his ex-girlfriend. And he's not the only one willing to pick a legal fight over a barking companion

 
The prom plunge: A series of photos shows a group of 18 Wisconsin high school students posing on a pier before the section gives way, dumping the teens into the water.

The 8 craziest prom stories of 2012

An Ohio high-schooler scores a date with an NFL player, while an Iowa teen settles for a cardboard cutout of Tim Tebow — and other strange spring dance tales

 
Sperm is injected into an egg cell: Freezing one's eggs can cost roughly $18,000 and some eager, would-be grandparents are helping their daughters pay the bill.

Strange trend alert: Moms who freeze their adult daughters' eggs

More and more Americans are trying to increase their chances of becoming grandparents by footing the bill for their daughters' experimental, and expensive, fertility treatments

 
Garrett McNamara said the 78-foot wave only felt big toward the end when the white water poured down on him "like a ton of bricks."

The biggest wave ever surfed: The mind-blowing video

Surfer Garrett McNamara officially enters the Guinness Book of World Records for narrowly escaping a 78-foot-tall oceanic monstrosity

 
Homes with great porches: A slideshow

Homes with great porches: A slideshow

Whether open and airy or cozily screened in, these terraces give visitors a welcoming first impression

 
New York's Suffolk County now requires pet stores and animal shelters (like this one) to check a new animal abuse registry before selling pets to customers.

Should animal abusers be treated like sex offenders?

Just like child molesters, animal abusers in one New York county will have to register so their neighbors know who they are

 
The relationship between a parent and child is of unparalleled importance.

The invaluable weight of a mother's gifts

Moms give us life and guide our dreams. Four contributors to the radio series This I Believe describe how

 
TIME managing editor Richard Stengel says the point of magazine covers is to catch people's attention.

TIME's jaw-dropping breast-feeding cover: Too provocative?

The newsweekly's latest cover features a gangly 3-year-old boy latched onto his mother's breast, igniting debate over attachment parenting — and the image's propriety

 
"You know when someone's at the top of their game, and they carry themselves differently? Well, imagine that in a mouse," said one researcher involved in a study that uncovered some interesting effects of yogurt on mice.

Yogurt: The secret to male sexual prowess?

Mice who were fed a probiotic-rich diet were noticeably thinner, healthier, and — strangely — sexier than mice who were fed other food

 
President Obama's Drug Enforcement Administration has taken the position that "medical marijuana is not medicine," going so far as to call the drug a “mortal danger," says Michael Scherer at TIME.

Why Obama got tough on medical marijuana: 3 theories

In 2008, President Obama promised to give the medical marijuana world breathing room. Now he's bringing down the hammer. What gives?

 

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