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City Life

Penn Backs Class-Cutting App

Parents paying $60,000 a year in tuition cock heads and say “Huh?”

Be Well Philly

How to Civily Discuss Obamacare at Thanksgiving Dinner

Prepare thyself.

Princeton bonfire
City Life

In Princeton, Effigies Have Feelings, Too

A college football flame war is sparked by a straw man. No, really. A straw man.

City Life

The Death of the Funeral Business

City Life

Why I Still Send Christmas Cards

So I get to look through my address book, of course.

City Life

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Booyah!

Hingston: Cinderella is a fine role model. Really.

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City Life

Your Cell Phone Is Stealing Your Soul

Hingston: Human contact > text messaging.

Miami Dolphins tackle Jonathan Martin (71) on the sideline in the second half of a game against the Buffalo Bills at Sun Life Stadium. | Robert Mayer-USA TODAY Sports
City Life

How Do You Bully a 300-Pound NFL Lineman?

Hingston: It’s easier than you might think.

Be Well Philly

Not So Tight!

An expert warns of the dangers of swaddling infants.

City Life

A Tale of Two School Lunches

Spoiled food killed schoolchildren in India. What will spoiling do to our kids?

Gerrymandering
City Life

Beware the Rampaging Gerrymander!

How the GOP outsmarted itself on redistricting.

Be Well Philly

Tracing Human History … with Herpes

Researchers are using a traveling virus to determine where we came from.

City Life

With Glitches Come Fixes

Facebook Got Fixed. Obamacare Will, Too.

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City Life

Are You the “Sleepless Elite”?

What our brains do at night, and why the tech wizards working on HealthCare.gov should get some shut-eye.

Friday Night Football Game
City Life

Friday Night Lights? Not in My Backyard

What the contretemps over football in New Hope is really about.