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Living large
Lynn Harris
Clothing company Torrid makes cool clothes for overweight teens. Its bodacious bras and extra-large camisoles help salvage fat kids' self-esteem. But do they also encourage obesity?
Carnage on ice
Paul Brown
A booming skin trade prompts Canada to allow its biggest cull of harp seal cubs in more than 50 years, and animal rights activists are outraged.
When technology became cool again
Andrew Leonard, Farhad Manjoo, Katharine Mieszkowski
Google, Firefox and digital cameras gave us reason to cheer in 2004. Then again, outsourcing, global warming and the politics of stem cells proved there is a dark side.
Why do I feel so uneasy around my father?
Cary Tennis
Did something happen in my childhood that I can't remember?
“My heart is back”
Lynn Harris
Talk therapy only increases the suffering for some trauma victims -- but alternative treatments offer new hope.
Anda’s game
Cory Doctorow
Killing newbies who were trying to cheat the system seemed like a good way to make a buck. But in this simulated reality, who is scamming whom?
Where the caribou don’t roam (anymore)
Daniel Glick
Stymied in his plans to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Bush has raced ahead to fast-track oil development elsewhere in Alaska -- imperiling an entire way of life.
Ohio’s referendum on welfare
David Teather, Larry Elliott
For the 93,000 people in the state living without unemployment benefits, God and guns can't compete with economic issues.
Scowcroft spanks the younger George
Geraldine Sealey
Letters
Salon Staff
"Bush has played the American public for suckers." More reader e-mail on the presidential bulge
The Fix
Salon Staff
Miramax head blames M&M's, Trump's right-hand man demands greased palm, and Peter Jennings says sheep's testicles taste "like plain-old chicken!" Plus: Martha frolics in the surf.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Russell Crowe explains why he attacked his bodyguard, and his bodyguard explains exactly where the star bit him. Plus: Laura Bush on what is and is not unfair -- and Stephen Baldwin thinks Bush has been "led by God."
Victory for stem cell research
David Adam
Scientists in Britain get the go-ahead to create embryos for their work in therapeutic cloning.
A Baghdad ER
Jonathan Steele
Aggression, corruption and courage -- a night in a hospital offers a glimpse at a city in tumult.
The girth of a nation
Rebecca Traister
Americans are way too fat -- right? Well, maybe not. A controversial new book claims that our diet-crazed culture is buying into a big lie.
Forget stem cells, but how about a commemorative coin?
Geraldine Sealey
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers debate the politics of being a white resident in an all-black neighborhood. Also: Obesity is a serious health problem in America, readers remind Wendy Shanker, author of "The Fat Girl's Guide to Life."
Making women’s issues go away
Rebecca Traister
A damning new report reveals that the Bush administration has quietly removed 25 reports from its Women's Bureau Web site, deleting or distorting crucial information on issues from pay equity to reproductive healthcare.
The Fix
Salon Staff
Gov. Schwarzenegger appoints DeVito and Eastwood to film commission; the WB set to bring Cobain story to the tube; USA Today mistakenly dubs Kwame "The Apprentice."
Fighting stem cells, not terror cells
Eric Boehlert
Weeks before 9/11, the president was "consumed" by a pressing policy matter -- but it wasn't al-Qaida.
Thou shalt not make scientific progress
Farhad Manjoo
Medical research is poised to make a quantum leap that will benefit sufferers from Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, diabetes and other diseases. But George W. Bush's religious convictions stand in its way.
Thursday’s must-reads
Geraldine Sealey
Teenage Waist-land
Stephanie Booth
An increasing number of obese teens are opting to undergo stomach staplings. Are they trading one type of hell for another?
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