A brutal story from the Times’ cub Metro reporter:

''We're dying,'' he said. ''Why is this happening? Is it because we loved each other too much or not enough?"

In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.

On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.

Inside the Rams-Chargers marriage.

The aforementioned “twist” is that while dinner is free for the black residents of the neighborhood, the prices for white visitors are listed on a pledge form at their seats: $100 for one piece of chicken; $1,000 for four pieces. For a whole bird, with sides, you must donate the deed to a property in North Nashville.

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

"Really, the ideas and theories we form about others and their motivations are just as much portraits of ourselves as they are descriptions of other people. It’s impossible for them to be anything else, when you think about it."

An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.

The fading beauty of Japan’s traditional cafes and their signature snack.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

The case against agriculture.

A business opportunity stemming from “a moment in time when the debate over how colleges should address sexual assault has reached a fever pitch.”

In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.

Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.

The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?

In the normal universe, "to be" is annihilated by "not to be." But for reasons that are still a mystery to even the deepest math of physics, a bit of matter in a billion or so is not obliterated, it has no antimatter partner. It becomes a drop of experience.

The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.

Pathologists and epidemiologists take on “the confounding killer known as AIDS.”

Catch shares are touted by the government and environmental groups as the solution to overfishing. But for a new generation under the system, the economics consist mainly of “absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, [and] fish quota that costs more than your house.”

How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”

From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.