Newer Times sections, including Escapes and Thursday Styles, have been in the magazine-like mode from the get-go.

In this way they are more like columns, or some of the personal essays in sections like Thursday Styles.

(Thursday Styles, July 28): I am not amused, and the parents of grown children who pilfer from them shouldn't be either.

Starting May 17, Life's Work will appear in Thursday Styles.

A. Yesterday s Thursday Styles looked at the thrift store fashions that models show up in backstage, which often influence designers and street trends.

For a sense of which workouts are worth their time, and which fall short, Thursday Styles will periodically examine noteworthy offerings.

(Thursday Styles, Sept. 7), it goes both ways.

Again, Thursday Styles would seem a better home.

(Thursday Styles, Sept. 21) left me with the question: What do designers (and the linked model agencies) think they are doing?

(Thursday Styles, Sept. 7): I spy for a living.