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Once, when my husband, Tom, and I were battling about something, I got so worked up that I blurted, like an angry toddler: “You bad man!”Conflict is “inevitable and normal in intimate relationships,” said Andrew Christensen, a distinguished research professor at the U.C.L.A. department of psychology. But the way that couples manage it is a key to a healthy bond, he added.There’s a productive way to deal with conflict — attacking the problem rather than each other, for example — and an unhelpful way that fails to resolve the fight or makes it worse.Name-calling, as I did, falls under the…

Jed Gould, the influential Los Angeles disc jockey known as Jed the Fish, who used his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical knowledge to shine a light on artists like the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Offspring at the groundbreaking New Wave and alternative rock station KROQ-FM in the 1980s and ’90s, died on April 14 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 69.The cause was an aggressive form of small-cell lung cancer, Rudy Koerner, a close friend, said. Mr. Gould was never a cigarette smoker, he added, and before he was diagnosed last month, he had thought his recent…

Founded by Conrad Hilton, the hotel magnate, the foundation is one of the biggest financial backers of Catholic sisters’ work around the world, and has given roughly $28.5 million to Vatican-led initiatives, including Vatican departments, the majority of that since 2020. Regardless of the conclave’s outcome, the foundation is committed to continuing its partnerships with the Vatican, and to support programs focused on Catholic sisters, Sr. Jane added. Francis saw donors as vital partners. He looked to them not only to fund the causes dear to him but also to plug the Vatican’s creaky finances. In February, while the pope…

Stock market gyrations. Inflation. Layoffs of federal workers. A possible recession.Children may overhear their parents talking about these things and not fully understand what’s going on or how it may affect their family’s finances. But if the children have questions, parents should be ready to talk, experts say.“Parents are the biggest influence on kids’ financial learning,” said Ashley LeBaron-Black, an assistant professor of family life at Brigham Young University.Here are some tips for having conversations about money.Children don’t pay attention to the national economy, right?The nation’s economy seemed on solid ground at the beginning of the year, but economists expect…

This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.In the Gilded Age, when newly wealthy Americans sought to advertise their social status here and abroad, several of them turned to what had long been a practice of the established rich: art collecting.Henry Clay Frick, who made his fortune in coke and steel, had appreciated art even as a young man, particularly prints and sketches. “Some of them he made himself,” said Colin Bailey, director of the Morgan Library and Museum and an expert on Frick.But Frick’s interest ultimately turned toward…

NEW DELHI :India’s Mahindra & Mahindra, known for its muscular SUVs and tractors, said on Saturday it had entered into a deal to buy a 58.96 per cent stake in SML Isuzu for 5.55 billion rupees ($65.00 million) to bolster its truck and bus business.The acquisition will double Mahindra’s market share in the trucks and buses segment of India’s fast-growing economy to 6 per cent, with a plan to raise that to 12 per cent by fiscal year 2031, it said.Mahindra will buy Japan-based Sumitomo Corp’s 43.96 per cent stake in SML and Isuzu Motors’ 15 per cent stake, apart…

Gluten-free is the Kevin Bacon of the food world: We’re all within six degrees of separation from someone who avoids gluten. That’s why, as we approach graduation party, bridal shower, picnic and barbecue season, it’s good to have a really good gluten-free cake up your sleeve.Brian Levy’s gluten-free yellow sheet cake is built on a blend of white rice, millet, oat and brown rice flours — you can find that recipe here, if you’d like to batch it — which gives his cake a nutty, vanilla-like aroma and a sunny yellow color.He tops his cake with a gluten-free vanilla ermine…

Do we really have free will when it comes to eating? It’s a vexing question that is at the heart of why so many people find it so difficult to stick to a diet.To get answers, one neuroscientist, Harvey J. Grill of the University of Pennsylvania, turned to rats and asked what would happen if he removed all of their brains except their brainstems. The brainstem controls basic functions like heart rate and breathing. But the animals could not smell, could not see, could not remember.Would they know when they had consumed enough calories?To find out, Dr. Grill dripped liquid…

David Paton, an idealistic and innovative ophthalmologist who converted a United Airlines jet into a flying hospital that took surgeons to developing countries to operate on patients and educate local doctors, died on April 3 at his home in Reno, Nev. He was 94.His death was confirmed by his son, Townley.The son of a prominent New York eye surgeon whose patients included the shah of Iran and the financier J. Pierpont Morgan’s horse, Dr. Paton (pronounced PAY-ton) was teaching at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University in the early 1970s when he became discouraged by increasing cases of…

Google DeepMind staff in Britain plan to unionise to challenge the company’s decision to sell its artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to defence groups with ties to the Israeli government, the Financial Times reported on Saturday. About 300 London-based staff of Google DeepMind have been seeking to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU) in recent weeks, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.Google, Google DeepMind, and the CWU did not immediately respond to a Reuters’ request for comment. Media reports that suggest Google is selling its cloud services and AI technology to the Israeli Ministry of Defence have caused…