Personal Growth
25 things that make you beautiful (regardless of how you look)
By Melinda Fox

This is not an article about how to make your pores look smaller.

Consumer Intelligence
The practical guide to choosing a smartphone
By Hayley Tsukayama

Every major want -- as well as need -- assessed so you can more easily make an informed decision

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Bonnie S. Benwick

The no-hassle, just-right meal for a midweek Jewish New Year celebration --- or any busy family (2 FESTIVE RECIPES)

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• Lisa Benson

• Walt Handelsman

• Joe Heller

• Joe Heller BONUS!

• Jerry Holbert

• Jimmy Margulies

• Rob Rogers

• Gary Varvel

• Kirk Walters

• Kirk Walters BONUS!

• Adam Zyglis

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1759, the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British

• 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol

• 1810, Chile made its initial declaration of independence from Spain

• 1851, the first edition of The New York Times was published

• 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas held the fourth of their senatorial debates, this one in Charleston, Ill.

• 1927, the Columbia Phonograph Broadcasting System (later CBS) made its on-air debut with a basic network of 16 radio station

• 1947, the National Security Act, which created a National Military Establishment, went into effect

• 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army

• 1990, Winnie Mandela, wife of South African black leader Nelson Mandela, was charged with assault and kidnapping in the 1988 abduction and slaying of a 14-year-old boy by her chief bodyguard

• 1996, the shuttle Atlantis docked with the Mir space station to pick up U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid, who had set a U.S. record for time spent in space

• 1997, two practitioners of that "religion of peace" opened fire on a group of German tourists in front of the Egyptian Museum in downtown Cairo, killing nine of the tourists and a bus driver

• 1998, over Democratic objections, the House Judiciary Committee voted to release President Clinton's videotaped grand jury testimony as well as 2,800 pages of sometimes graphic evidence compiled by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. ALSO: Mark McGwire hit his 64th home run of the season, pulling out of a tie with Sammy Sosa

• 2004, a divided U.N. Security Council approved a resolution threatening oil sanctions against Sudan unless the government reined in Arab militias blamed for a killing rampage in Darfur

• 2006, an Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur, Anousheh Ansari, took off on a Russian rocket bound for the international space station, becoming the the world's first paying female space tourist. Aboard the space station, an oxygen generator overheated and spilled a toxic irritant, forcing the crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost

• 2007, O.J. Simpson was charged with seven felonies, including kidnapping, in the alleged armed robbery of sports memorabilia collectors in a Las Vegas casino-hotel room

• 2008, President George W. Bush told the country his administration was working feverishly to calm turmoil in the financial markets. The president met with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who then asked Congress to give the government power to rescue banks by buying up their bad assets. Stocks on Wall Street shot up more than 400 points on word a plan was in the works. ALSO: the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in approving a civil rights bill that broadens the definition of disability to include epilepsy, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses

• 2009, the final episode of "The Guiding Light" was broadcast. The soap opera had run on radio and television for 72 years

• 2012, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said his comment about 47 percent of Americans "who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it" was "not elegantly stated." A day earlier, the 47 percent comment, secretly recorded at a GOP fundraiser in May, was released on the Internet

• 2014, Scotland chose to remain in the United Kingdom, rejecting independence in a historic national referendum that had a voter turnout of 84 percent. More than 55 percent of voters were against leaving the U.K. ALSO: In a show of solidarity with Ukraine, President Barack Obama welcomed the new president of the embattled former Soviet republic, Petro Poroshenko, to the White House. Congress cleared the way for the U.S. military to train and equip Syrian rebels for a war against Islamic Group militants

• 2016, at the United Nations, the United States, Japan and South Korea roundly condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test and called for tough new measures to further isolate the communist state

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Mark Steyn: The Language of Losing

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Inexplicable

• Enrollment drops at schools known for 'social justice warfare'

• The cover the New Yorker planned to use if Hillary Clinton had won

Argus Hamilton's The News in Zingers

Michael Smerconish: They lost their fathers on 9/11; on Saturday, they were married

Christine Flowers: Lib snowflakes pick and choose when to be offended

David Tweed & Stephen Stapczynski: North Korea may copy Nazi Germany if total oil ban takes effect

Ishaan Tharoor: Angela Merkel is going to win reelection. That may not be good

Aaron Blake: Hillary's clear warning to Dems: Don't be like Bernie

Charles Hurt: Trump 'experts' let imaginations run wild with dog-whistle political attacks

Amber Phillips: With their party's future on the line in the states, Dems can't agree on a playbook

Mike Debonis & Sean Sullivan: In the House, an early spate of GOP retirements means the party won't have incumbents on the ballot in several closely divided districts

Bruce Bialosky: America's Crisis with Opioids: The Breadth and Depth of the Opioid Epidemic

Franklin Foer: How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality

George Will: 'The Vietnam War' is a masterpiece --- and a model for assessing our history

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

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