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I always ask my elderly patients whether they have children who are active in their care. It used to be that if they replied yes, it implied they had a daughter; sons were rarely involved. But now we're seeing that men are more often assuming the...

Ranking high school students' academic success against that of their peers is a tradition. Tradition or not, 40 percent of high schools across the nation have kicked class rank off transcripts or simply don't provide it to colleges at all, accor...

As we have just passed the 40th anniversary of that much vilified institution, the no-fault divorce, it is an appropriate moment to re-evaluate how divorce affects families, and particularly children. The California law took effect on Jan. 1, 197...

     General Mills Inc. posted a decent fourth quarter Tuesday, with profit and sales hitting expectations, but the outlook for its next year fell a bit short of what Wall Street expected. That helped send the Golden Valley food comp...