I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

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

There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

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