Highlights from this Sunday's Times (12/27/09)

Gloria Scott, who was dying of lung cancer and taking sedatives. (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)

- Anemona Hartocollis on the use of drug-induced sleep through sedatives in end-of-life care
- Gia Kourlas on two marching bands, those of Ohio State University and Southern University
- Alan Feuer on bail monitors

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (12/13/09)

Pema Sherpa. (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)

- Corey Kilgannon on two Nepalese taxi drivers in New York who lived differently and died differently, albeit on the same night

- Rebecca Cathcart on a night in the life of Mario Lopez, who played the A. C. Slater character on "Saved by the Bell"

- Douglas Martin on Giorgio Carbone, the late prince of Seborga