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GuideSam Ortiz23 Sept 20266 min

Spotting a Reading Problem Before Third Grade

Three made-up words on a napkin will tell you more about your kid's reading than a year of report cards.

Your School's Gender Policy Is a Document. Go Get It.

Nine teaspoons a day and where the other twenty come from

The label finally tells you how much sugar got added to your food. Read that one line, fix your drinks and your sauces, and stop counting the birthday cake.

GuideFoodWes Dunbar23 Sept 20266 min

Cross-contact is what gets you, not the ingredient list

Reading labels is the easy part. The knife, the colander and the well-meaning relative are where a serious food allergy actually turns dangerous.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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BRO TakeNewsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

Boys Are Falling Behind and the Numbers Aren't New

Commentary on the reading gap, the college gap, the discipline data and the one variable nobody in the district office wants to name.

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Fitness6 min read

Weight-loss shots work and the fine print is worth reading

What GLP-1 drugs actually do to your appetite, the side effects people quit over, and the muscle problem nobody warns you about.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

GuideLifeCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Twenty books worth reading this year and how to finish them

Twenty pages a night gets you through all of them, and you're allowed to quit any one of them at page fifty.

GuideCivicsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20265 min

Reading Your Ballot From the Bottom Up

The races nobody explains are the ones spending your property taxes. A practical method for judges, measures and the offices below the fold.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

The added sugar hiding in your lunch and how much is too much

Two numbers on the label, one of them matters, and most of your day's sugar is probably in three things you'd never suspect.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

GuideLifeCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Twenty pages a day is the whole reading plan

A busy year will eat your ambitious list by March. It won't touch twenty pages a night, and twenty pages a night is two dozen books.

GuideCivicsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Ten Federalist Papers Worth Reading and What Each Argues

You don't need all 85. Start with No. 51 tonight, and you'll understand more about Washington than most cable panels do.

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your short fuse, your 3 a.m. wake-ups and your blood pressure

Chronic stress doesn't announce itself. It shows up as a wrecked second half of the night, a cuff reading you don't like, and snapping at a nine-year-old over a cereal bowl.