Half a century ago, Newark’s Weequahic High School was an academically distinguished, mostly Jewish enclave that graduated the novelist Philip Roth and a steady stream of future PhDs. Starting in the 1960s, however, the city’s race riots, white flight, and the rise of drug-dealing gangs transformed the school into just another urban battleground with low morale and a high dropout rate. more

Studying personality for the dating site Chemistry.com, noted Rutgers anthropologist Helen Fisher found keys to compatibility. more

To write Night of the Gun, a memoir of his years abusing drugs, booze, women, and anything that got in his way (until he got cancer), New York Times media columnist David Carr turned his reporter’s methods on himself. more

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Jennifer Kohl takes yoga beyond the realm of her Montclair studio to places it has probably never been—but where, perhaps, it is needed most. more