It’s hard to find a female cab driver in New York City, and often that’s on purpose. Although they make up only about 1 percent of the city’s nearly 50,000 drivers, women drivers seem even rarer. They use the way they talk and the way they dress — and occasionally, the things they carry — to protect themselves from potentially dangerous customers.

It’s hard escape the Charlie Sheen media blitz, and even harder to keep children away from it. Rather than tuning out, more and more parenting experts are recommending parents turn the party boy’s antics into a teaching moment for their children.

Ever wondered where all the good men and women have gone? With niche dating websites on the rise, several new sites are moving online dating onto an international platform. Offering online daters the opportunity to meet potential partners on different continents, sites like iloveyouraccent.com are cashing in on foreign allure.

Although sales of luxury watches remain steady and even on the rise, the target demographic for lower-end watches is increasingly turning to cell phones to check the time.

Anne Becerra, a New York City bartender, is part of a growing group of certified beer experts: Cicerones, the beer world’s answer to the wine sommelier. From serving Belgian beers in the proper glasses to picking the perfect food for the perfect pale ale, cicerones know pretty much all there is to know about beer.

The automatic negative response held by many as a result of teachers’ wielding red pens has become a normal aspect of childhood education. Now, however, the effects are being felt outside the classroom as parents, pen companies and psychologists see the damage done by the tyranny of the red pen.

People have placed cremated remains in jewelry, kept them in urns or scattered them at sea. Now some are wearing them on their bodies by adding ashes to their memorial tattoos.

A high school in the Bronx is closing because of poor student performance. It will be replaced by two charter schools, a trend that is repeated all across the country.

As diners become bolder, so do chefs. They’re giving heart prominence on their menus instead of camouflaging it in soups and stews. Our intrepid reporter ventures a taste.

Fatal accidents and other popular sports brought college boxing to an end. An old-timer fights to preserve the sport, which was huge a long time ago.