There’s nothing artificial about the controversy that’s growing among homeowners, educators, doctors and sports administrators over fake grass. The artificial turf market is projected to nearly double in the U.S. by next year. Sports facilities are installing 1,500 new turf fields each year, with over 20,000 such fields around the country, according to the EPA. […]

Natalie Olivier was excited to be running in the 2013 Boston Marathon. She hadn’t qualified by time, but she was eligible to run because she had raised money for a charity (College Bound Dorchester in Boston). Natalie had planned to run the New York City Marathon the previous fall, but it had been cancelled at […]

I can’t believe Denzel Washington hasn’t played one particular early civil rights hero in a movie yet. I also can’t believe how few people know about this unknown hero’s incredible accomplishments — achievements that paved the way for Martin Luther King Jr. and others to dismantle Jim Crow, the South’s legalized system of racial injustice. […]

Right after graduating from high school, my father enlisted in the Army. He had no idea they would be sending him to the other end of the world, a place where there were six months of darkness and six months of midnight sun. Teddy Flowers — an 18-year-old Philly boy with an obsession for scrapple […]

He was the loveliest of men, everyone’s notion of the ideal grandfather, father or beloved uncle, and people always said of his appearance that this kindly generous and elegant man “could have been Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.’s twin brother.” His name was Mr. Bracher, and no one ever called him anything else. Gentle and soft-spoken, he’d […]