Life

Dear Life By Alice Munro Knopf, 336 pp., $26.95 She is regularly paired with Chekhov. In 2004, Jonathan Franzen suggested she might be "the best fiction writer now working in North America.

The rise of computer graphics has meant that even books considered impossible to film are on the big screen. Page D9

Kitchen memories can start young and sustain us over a lifetime

My favourite major sports event today. Not because I'm a rabid football fan, but because Grey Cup day brings back remembrances of one of Canada's greatest prime ministers.

The forecast for today is rather dreary, so why not sit and relax with a couple of pages worth of puzzles and games? Pages D10, D11

Scientists designing and testing what they hope might become the classroom of the future have found that Star Trek-style multi-touch, multi-user desks can boost children's math skills.

Dear doctors: I take a vitamin D every day, but I also put sunscreen on my exposed skin when I go outdoors. Won't the sunscreen interfere with the effects of the vitamin D? L.P.

Last week, a dad wrote to ask about how to keep his son on track when he's away at work. "There are times when my 13-yearold son needs to be home alone for a few hours before I get home from work in the later evening," he wrote.

Growing into a fully formed human being is a long process, and scientists have found that unborn babies not only hiccup, swallow and stretch in the womb, they yawn too.

Dear doctors: My husband has "white-coat" hypertension in the form of highly elevated blood pressure whenever he goes to the doctor for his routine checkups. He has a blood pressure monitor at home and checks his blood pressure at least once daily.