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When age does matter: On IVF, surrogacy, and Obando

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Reporter

People’s eyes are now on Scarlet Snow. Her every move is documented and shared, whether her adventures at a baby play center or when she is simply just being cute. At the tender age of one year, the baby superstar has amassed hearts, followers, and likes on her very own Instagram account — @scarletsnowbelo — which currently has 121,000 fans (and counting).

Need corporate gift ideas? Fair focuses on the local and personal

BALLPENS AND UMBRELLAS  may be the usual giveaways at seminars or corporate parties, but what’s in nowadays is giving something more personal, perhaps more useful, and definitely more thought about — like homemade biscuits.

Birds and bamboo at new mall

ROBINSONS LAND Corp.’s 43rd mall is all about bamboo and birds and keeping things local.

Only thing missing is the overwhelming scent of onions

By Richard Roeper

Movie Review
Me Before You
Directed by Thea Sharrock

May goes down as Earth’s hottest on record: NASA

WASHINGTON — May’s temperatures broke global records yet again, as the northern hemisphere finishes its hottest spring on record, statistics released Tuesday by NASA showed.

Korean Cultural Center opens taekwondo exhibit

By Camille Anne M. Arcilla

Exhibit
Soul of Korea: Taekwondo

Second study this week links whole grains with long life

BUMPING up whole grain intake even slightly may lower the risk of death from heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases, according to review published Tuesday in The BMJ.

McDo stresses strength after heartbreak

Ads & Ends
Nanette Franco-Diyco

THE NEWEST McDonald’s television commercial is a far cry from the happy adult situations that have captivated many of us month after month. Director Joel Limchoc states that “pain is something that is not often tackled in commercials. Most of the time, we paint a picture of the ideal, and present that as a reality. That’s not an indictment of ads: it’s just something that is.”

Anomalous

By Noel Vera

DVD Review
Anomalisa

The Manilay Ancestral House, a goldmine of the rusty, chipped, and vintage

By Maya M. Padillo

GENERAL SANTOS CITY — Apart from tuna, they say there’s nothing more to see in this city. But that is not necessarily so, because sprawling in a half hectare property in the downtown area is a goldmine of valuable things that are rusty, weathered, chipped, and vintage.

Pixar’s Finding Dory banks on Nemo’s enduring appeal

MONTEREY — With the phenomenal box office achievements of Finding Nemo a fading memory, Pixar is attempting to succeed where many studios have failed — with a hit sequel years after the original.

The Kamasutra, froggy style

PARIS, FRANCE — The Bombay night frog, scientists revealed Tuesday, favors a mating position previously unknown among the amphibian group’s 7,000 species, only the seventh catalogued in what might be called the Kamasutra for frogs.