To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.

Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.