Birmingham, Ala. TODAY, after four arduous years of examinations, graduating medical doctors will report to their residency programs. Armed with stethoscopes and scalpels, they’re preparing to lead the charge against disease in its ravaging, chimerical forms. They carry with them the classic tomes:…

Buying gadgets can sometimes be like buying a car; it requires sorting through options. Do you go for the navigation package or the rear-seat entertainment system? The faster processor or more memory? The easy answer is “both.” But the reality is that most of us are usually dealing with a finite…

Shawn Ryan outside Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Finlay MacKay for The New York Times When I first met Shawn Ryan and Cathy Wood, in 2005, they were living with their two young children in a small cabin outside Dawson City, at the northernmost end of the paved road system in Canada’s Yukon Territory.…

Lindsay Lohan's arrival at the courthouse in Beverly Hills, Calif., last July was a feast for the celebrity media. David Mcnew/Getty Images LOS ANGELES — In late July 2010, the Southampton, N.Y., police charged Michael Lohan, the father of the actress Lindsay Lohan , with physically harassing his…