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Books & Ideas

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  The Divorce Generation

  After surviving the wreckage of split families, Generation X parents are determined to keep their marriages together. It doesn't always work out.

  • Video: When Children of Divorce Grow Up
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  China's Bumpy Road Ahead

  Unrest, inflation and an aging populace stand in the way of the Middle Kingdom's touted domination.

  • China Price Watchers Predict Another Peak
  • Video: When Will China Take Over the World?

• The Handwriting Is on the Wall

  Indiana schools are no longer required to teach children to write cursive. Is this the end of civilization as we know it?

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  Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea

  The skinny on fast food; rest to test best; killer paydays; and the interplay of balls, strikes and race.

• Food & Drink

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  Pimento: Spread With All-American Charm

  The tackiest Southern indulgence is now a favorite of top chefs nationwide.

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  Shaved Pork Salad

  The last of four easy-enough recipes by Colorado chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson is a shaved pork salad with arugula, corn and potatoes.

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  Italy's Soave Makes a Refreshing Return

  "Isn't that the wine that comes in a jug?" Not anymore, says Lettie Teague. Soave makers—even Bolla—are turning out quality wines.

  • A Soave Comeback for an Italian Wine

• Sports

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  Custom Cycling's Big Wheel

  Customers wait five years and spend between $5,000 to $12,000 for one of Sacha White's handmade bicycles.

  • Photos: Bespoke Bicycles
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  Ohio State Takes Shutout for 2010

  Ohio State University is vacating all of its football program's 2010 wins, as well as its Sugar Bowl victory over Arkansas in January 2011, in the wake of a scandal that cost head coach Jim Tressel his job.

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  Why the Euros Are Dominating Golf

  As golf catches on globally, the U.S. represents a smaller portion of the golfing population. But another factor is the effective systems that other countries are using to nurture elite players.

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  Is This America's Best Bike Racer?

  Todd Wells has quietly achieved a distinction that no other American man—even Lance Armstrong—can claim. He's the current national champion in cross country and short track (both forms of mountain biking) and cyclocross.

• Home & Garden

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  Fans With an Air of Cool

  Give the AC a break this summer with a fan design that's elegant and energy efficient.

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  Swimming Pools: Out of the Blue, Into the Black

  Sara Ruffin Costello on the seductive beauty of black-bottomed pools.

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  Nigel Slater, the 'Tender' Cook

  The beloved British food writer opens up about the pleasures of unfussy cooking, afternoon tea and big tubs of vanilla ice cream.

• Arts & Entertainment

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  A Collective Self-Portrait

  Telecommunications tycoon Juan Antonio Pérez Simón discusses the influence of his fellow Spaniards on the history of art and highlights a few personal favorites in the exhibit "From El Greco to Dalí: The Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection," at the San Diego Museum of Art.

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  A Voyage Into Memory and the Subconscious

  An aesthetic triumph, Alain Resnais's "Last Year at Marienbad" rejects the crutch of a traditional storyline and is the antithesis of the French New Wave's spontaneity and naturalism.

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  Cents and Sensibility: Austen Pages for Sale

  Dozens of pages of her early, unfinished novel, "The Watsons," will be auctioned at Sotheby's

• A Peevish Master Gets a Museum

  A new museum will show nothing but work of the Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still.