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Friend or Foe: Can Men and Women Be Platonic Friends?
I think my boyfriend's female bestie has feelings for him. Welcome to "Friend or Foe," a regular DoubleX advice column for your queries about the trickiest of all love affairs: friendships. Lucinda Rosenfeld, author of I'm So Happy For You, a novel about best friends, is now taking questions at luc
- Author Blog Posts
Friend or Foe: My Pal Is Taking Percocet!
Should I tell his wife? Welcome to "Friend or Foe," a regular DoubleX advice column for your queries about the trickiest of all love affairs: friendships. Lucinda Rosenfeld, author of I'm So Happy For You, a novel about best friends, is now taking questions at lucinda@imsohappyforyou.com.
- Author Blog Posts
Friend or Foe: My Friends Ditched Me When I Got Drugged!
Can I ever forgive them?By Lucinda Rosenfeld
- Healthy Living
You Feel Tired and Stupid. Do You Have Oprah's Thyroid Trouble?
The gland that makes your body run. Or not.By Florence Williams
- Healthy Living
Marilyn Monroe Was More Mentally Ill Than We Knew
Revelations from a new biography, The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe.By Lori Leibovich
- Fashion
Forget Fashion Week. Style Starts With New York’s Cast-Offs.
Instead of following the runway, I'm exploring what real women are throwing away.By Erika Kawalek
- Healthy Living
Hey Obama, Here’s What You Should Say Tonight: Tell our stories of health care disaster.
By Sarah Wildman
- Healthy Living
Listening to Lithium: Would putting the drug in drinking water make the brain healthier—but affect personality?
By Peter Kramer This past spring, researchers revisited a tantalizing finding from the annals of public health. In 1990, researchers had found lower levels of suicide, homicide, rape, and other crimes in Texas counties where the municipal water supply had higher than average levels of naturally occ
- Healthy Living
Monkeying With Motherhood: Why scientists may need to pay women for their eggs.
By Robin Marantz Henig
- Love + Sex
Who Needs Condoms When You Can Pull Out?
Last month, the Guttmacher Institute released a controversial report showing that the much-maligned withdrawal method, when used correctly, is almost as effective in preventing pregnancy as condoms are. Withdrawal is also increasingly popular: The report sites CDC data showing that the number of wom