Ronald K. Hoeflin is a mild man with graying hair who wears his watch on a string around his neck. Fifty-five years old and legally blind, he lives in Manhattan, renting a $106-a-month apartment in Hell’s Kitchen. He has three cats–Big Boy, Princess, and Wild Thing–and a collection...

The parents of 15-year-old leukaemia patient Josh Morten, who last night passed away after a four year battle with the illness, said they were sorry not to have fulfilled his dying wish to get a blow job from Cameron Diaz. The courageous teenager told his family two months ago that the one thing he&...

The growing use of mobile phones to send text messages, often with abbreviations and symbols (i.e. “textisms”), has been blamed by many for the alleged decline in correct English usage. But now Beverly Plester and colleagues have shown that young children who use more textisms also tend ...

The Mugrabis [the patriarch Jose and his sons, Alberto and David] own what is believed to be one of the largest and most valuable private collections of art in the world. By their estimate, it includes more than 3,000 works. The core of their collection is a staggering 800 works by Andy Warhol — â...

“Yeah livin’ the raw deal, three course meals. Spaghetti, fettuccine, and veal.” — Diddy If you get spaghetti as an appetizer before fettuccine, you’re an asshole. “My chain hit your girl in the face, she ‘gon bruise. So when I’m on top, I take off my ...

By any historical standard, the financial crisis of the past 18 months has been extraordinary. Some have suggested it is the worst since the early 1970s; others, the worst since the Great Depression; others still, the worst in human history. Time will tell. Risk managers are of course known for thei...

“The sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist has overspread the world.” With those words in The Odyssey, Homer laid down not a prophecy of doom but a description of a real-world total solar eclipse, scientific sleuths announced today. It has been known for decades that there was...

Obama himself went through a period of “devouring” the work of Nietzsche while living in New York. It’s difficult to say what Obama might have absorbed from the German philosopher, mostly because Nietzsche himself is so hard to pin down, but one of Obama’s favorite instructor...

{ We culled the stats for every centerfold from December 1953 (Marilyn Monroe) to January 2009 (Dasha Astafieva), then calculated each woman’s body-mass index. A clear trend emerged: While real American women have steadily eaten their way up the BMI slope — just like American men — Playmat...

Three blocks from a Trader Joe’s market on 14th Street in Manhattan, a new store is slated to open this week: Trader John’s. It looks—inside and out—a lot like the Trader Joe’s that is just down the street. Even the sign’s typeface is similar. Trader Joe’s, a nation...