Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and cellphones that double as video cameras, there’s more undisputed evidence of adolescent bullying than ever before.
Judy Freedman became involved in bullying prevention more than two decades ago as a social worker in suburban Chicago elementary schools. She found that students’ top concern was being teased...
NEW YORK -- Amid the purveyors of belly casts and placenta pills, sonogram art and cord banks at a recent baby gear extravaganza stood a smiling Rosie Pope, pregnancy advice guru, mommy concierge to the rich and, with any luck, the Martha Stewart of maternity.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -- The traffic is there, grinding life to a halt as the middle class pound out messages on BlackBerry mobile phones and worry about Facebook. The heat, the sweat and the daily tragedy of unclaimed bodies lying alongside roadways, passers-by hurrying past for fear of someone else's misfortune becoming entangled in their own.
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The Washington Post has compiled a list of the entertainment opportunities out now.
TOP PICK
“The Impossible,” on DVD and Blu-ray
In this gripping, fact-based drama by Spanish director J.A. Bayona, Henry and Maria (Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts) are spending the holidays with their three sons at a Thai...
I enjoy reading a good biography now and then. My current reading material, “Consider the Fork,” (Basic Books, $26.99), isn’t the history of a person, but of cooking and eating tools. Written by British food writer and historian Bee Wilson, it shares the evolution of those simple forks, spoons,...
