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Keeping secrets from the people we love is extremely common, experts say, and money is among the most difficult subjects for couples to discuss openly. Forty percent of the men and women polled by reader's digest in 2001 admitted lying to their spouses. The most frequent lie--covering up the price of a purchase--was money related. While such relatively minor fibs are by far the most common, women's more substantial financial secrets range from saving money to surprise a spouse with an expensive gift to hiding assets from a husband in anticipation of a divorce...
...site. In the day since that was posted, I've received more than 150 e-mails, the vast majority of them with subject headings like "Thank you," "Well put," "Bravo," Kudos," "Amen, brother," "Loved the article!" and "wow." Most of the notes cheered me for pointing out what reader David Tuggy called "the deep intolerance of the professionally tolerant." And while any old leftie is naturally squeamish about being praised by cultural conservatives for attacking those usually on his own side, I am surprised by and grateful for the e-mail, and take this opportunity (in lieu of individual replies...
...avid reader of books and articles on a variety of topics ranging from art to politics to science, Pinker finds stimulation in more departments than his own. The opportunity Harvard offers to be interdisciplinary is a boost to creative energy. “I write these long sprawling books that cover everything from war to art to religion to brain science. Being in a place that has experts in all those fields is a real attraction...
...Some readers felt our investigative report on the high cost of prescription drugs overlooked the issue of Americans' overdependence on medication. "The entire nation is full of drug addicts," wrote an Ohioan. "Prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines--you name it, we take it! Drug companies and doctors have convinced us that we need drugs every day simply to survive." An Illinois reader agreed, "Americans rely on pills as an easy fix for all their problems. Most of us would need fewer medications if we simply ate healthier foods and exercised more. How many Americans have walked at least...
Martin began to write Back Bay, chronicling the fictional Peter Fallon’s quest to find a missing Paul Revere tea set stolen from the White House. Martin set up his now routine past-and-present structure, bringing the reader from 18th-century Boston to modern day chapter by chapter, chronicling six generations on their hunt for the missing silver. The book ends with an appropriately cinematic touch—Fallon blowing a hole into the side of a T subway tunnel to reveal a cache of hidden silver. “I thought, as I still...