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A stolen Etruscan vessel will be returned to Italy thanks in part to the efforts of a hunter of looted antiquities. Last month, Christos Tsirogiannis, a Greek-born researcher who has spent more than a decade poring over auction and antiquities catalogs trying to identify stolen Greek and Roman artifacts, spotted an Etr...	2017-03	<\|begin_of_text\|>A stolen Etruscan vessel will be returned to Italy thanks in part to the efforts of a hunter of looted antiquities. Last month, Christos Tsirogiannis, a Greek-born researcher who has spent more than a decade poring over auction and antiquities catalogs trying to identify stolen Greek and Roman artifact...	, from the Royal-Athena Galleries. It dates from 470 B.C. and is valued at $250,000. The item was forfeited willingly, officials said, and on Thursday it was formally returned to the Italian consul general in New York, Francesco Genuardi, who said it would be displayed at the consulate before being housed permanently a...
A storied actor, he starred opposite Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve and worked with many of the giants of European filmmaking. Michel Piccoli, an actor whose quiet intensity and mature sensuality made him a fixture of French cinema for more than a half-century, died on May 12, it was announced on Monday. He was ...	2020-05	<\|begin_of_text\|>A storied actor, he starred opposite Brigitte Bardot and Catherine Deneuve and worked with many of the giants of European filmmaking. Michel Piccoli, an actor whose quiet intensity and mature sensuality made him a fixture of French cinema for more than a half-century, died on May 12, it was announced o...	his wife to an American producer. French audiences had largely discovered Mr. Piccoli a year earlier, in “Le Doulos,” a gangster film noir in which his character is shot dead. American cineastes came to know him from the films of the great European directors, particularly Luis Buñuel. His work with Mr. Buñuel included...
A strong start to the year for property sales in Manhattan was erased by the coronavirus outbreak. New York State’s stay-at-home order, and similar restrictions elsewhere, had effectively banned open houses and in-person property showings, and “most people are not going to make a big purchase without seeing it,” said F...	2020-04	<\|begin_of_text\|>A strong start to the year for property sales in Manhattan was erased by the coronavirus outbreak. New York State’s stay-at-home order, and similar restrictions elsewhere, had effectively banned open houses and in-person property showings, and “most people are not going to make a big purchase without s...	median sales price was $1,060,000, down just 1.4 percent from the same time last year, suggesting the market was close to turning the corner, as previous price declines had been higher. The average listing discount was 7.2 percent, the highest it had been since 2012, which suggested that sellers were finally getting s...
A strong winter storm struck Colorado and other parts of the central United States on Wednesday, sending hurricane-force winds and heavy snow across the region, meteorologists said. The fierce winter weather, part of which classified as a “bomb cyclone,” pummeled Denver and other areas in Colorado, and rapidly intensif...	2019-03	<\|begin_of_text\|>A strong winter storm struck Colorado and other parts of the central United States on Wednesday, sending hurricane-force winds and heavy snow across the region, meteorologists said. The fierce winter weather, part of which classified as a “bomb cyclone,” pummeled Denver and other areas in Colorado, and...	. At least one person has been killed as a result of the storm. Cpl. Daniel Groves of the Colorado State Patrol, 52, was hit by a car on I-76, about 50 miles from Denver. While helping a driver whose car slid off the roadway, the corporal was hit by another man who had lost control of his car, the State Patrol said. He...
A student at the University of Central Florida shared videos of sexual encounters he had with his girlfriend in a secret Facebook group for his fraternity brothers without her permission, the woman alleges in a lawsuit filed on Thursday. Kathryn Novak, a student in Arizona, said she learned in March that her intimate p...	2018-06	<\|begin_of_text\|>A student at the University of Central Florida shared videos of sexual encounters he had with his girlfriend in a secret Facebook group for his fraternity brothers without her permission, the woman alleges in a lawsuit filed on Thursday. Kathryn Novak, a student in Arizona, said she learned in March th...	. Efforts to reach the other fraternity brothers were not immediately successful. In a statement, Delta Sigma Phi said that it had suspended its chapter at the University of Central Florida. “While we cannot comment on specific allegations made in the lawsuit, these claims are disturbing and antithetical to our organiz...
A student at the University of Hartford in Connecticut was charged with criminal mischief and expelled from school after boasting about having contaminated her roommate’s toothbrush, face lotion and other belongings in an effort to drive her from the room. “After one and a half months spitting in her coconut oil, putti...	2017-11	<\|begin_of_text\|>A student at the University of Hartford in Connecticut was charged with criminal mischief and expelled from school after boasting about having contaminated her roommate’s toothbrush, face lotion and other belongings in an effort to drive her from the room. “After one and a half months spitting in her c...	longer a student there. Ms. Rowe, a freshman at the university, described her roommate’s behavior in a Facebook video on Monday, and accused the school of attempting to keep the episode quiet. She said that the revelations, posted on Instagram as she was moving out, had helped explain why she had been sick early in th...
A study examined a popular approach that coordinated care for the most expensive patients, and found that the project did not reduce hospital admissions. In the quest to reduce health care spending in the United States, the idea held incredible promise: By addressing the medical and social needs of the most expensive p...	2020-01	<\|begin_of_text\|>A study examined a popular approach that coordinated care for the most expensive patients, and found that the project did not reduce hospital admissions. In the quest to reduce health care spending in the United States, the idea held incredible promise: By addressing the medical and social needs of the...	Arthur Foundation fellowship — known as a “genius” grant — in 2013, became the program’s chief evangelist. But a new study, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that the Camden program did not result in fewer hospital readmissions in the six months after a patient left the hospital. While ...
A study for the city of San Antonio predicted that the 2018 Final Four would bring nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in spending to the city, a talking point sure to be raised as debate continues over a proposed Texas law seen by some as discriminatory to transgender people. A similar law in North Carolina prompted...	2017-01	<\|begin_of_text\|>A study for the city of San Antonio predicted that the 2018 Final Four would bring nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in spending to the city, a talking point sure to be raised as debate continues over a proposed Texas law seen by some as discriminatory to transgender people. A similar law in North ...	Republican, proposed legislation that would require transgender people to use bathrooms in government buildings and public schools and universities based on their “biological sex,” overriding any local rules to the contrary (potentially including a nondiscrimination ordinance that, the committee spokeswoman noted, San...
A study of 48 young I.C.U. patients in U.S. hospitals found that two died. Eighteen of the children were put on ventilators. As concern grows over the potential for children to become seriously ill from the coronavirus, a new study paints the most detailed picture yet of American children who were treated in intensive ...	2020-05	<\|begin_of_text\|>A study of 48 young I.C.U. patients in U.S. hospitals found that two died. Eighteen of the children were put on ventilators. As concern grows over the potential for children to become seriously ill from the coronavirus, a new study paints the most detailed picture yet of American children who were trea...	who have trouble walking, talking, eating, breathing,” Dr. Shekerdemian said. Other pre-existing health issues included cancer and suppressed immune systems from organ transplants or immunological conditions. Perhaps because it was so early in the pandemic, none of the children in the study displayed the newly identifi...
A study of fossil meteorites suggests that a distant asteroid collision once sent Earth into an ice age. Extraterrestrial events — the collision of faraway black holes, a comet slamming into Jupiter — evoke wonder on Earth but rarely a sense of local urgency. By and large, what happens in outer space stays in outer spa...	2019-09	<\|begin_of_text\|>A study of fossil meteorites suggests that a distant asteroid collision once sent Earth into an ice age. Extraterrestrial events — the collision of faraway black holes, a comet slamming into Jupiter — evoke wonder on Earth but rarely a sense of local urgency. By and large, what happens in outer space s...	The crash increased the amount of dust arriving on Earth for the next two million years by a factor of 10,000. Dr. Schmitz, Dr. Heck and their team found that the dust triggered cooling in Earth’s atmosphere that led to an ice age. In sufficient amounts, extraterrestrial dust can cool Earth by blocking the amount of s...
A study published on Friday appears to confirm what news reports suggested long ago: President Trump’s campaign rallies were associated with a rise in violence when they came to town. A city that hosted a Trump rally saw an average of 2.3 more assaults reported on the day of the event than on a typical day, according t...	2018-03	<\|begin_of_text\|>A study published on Friday appears to confirm what news reports suggested long ago: President Trump’s campaign rallies were associated with a rise in violence when they came to town. A city that hosted a Trump rally saw an average of 2.3 more assaults reported on the day of the event than on a typical...	clashes between Mr. Trump’s supporters and opponents were widely covered at the time. In March 2016 alone, a Trump rally in Chicago was called off after violent clashes broke out, while an anti-Trump protester was punched at a rally in North Carolina and another was punched and kicked at a rally in Arizona. The follow...
A study shows that three out of four U.S. workers ages 50 to 62 didn’t have an employer-provided retirement plan and health insurance — which will be a big blow to their income later. When the retirement expert Alicia H. Munnell finished gathering data for a study on American workers ages 50 to 62 in jobs without benef...	2020-04	<\|begin_of_text\|>A study shows that three out of four U.S. workers ages 50 to 62 didn’t have an employer-provided retirement plan and health insurance — which will be a big blow to their income later. When the retirement expert Alicia H. Munnell finished gathering data for a study on American workers ages 50 to 62 in j...	to 62, they can expect their retirement income to be as much as 26 percent lower than that of people who spent their 50s and early 60s in positions with full benefit packages, according to the center’s findings. It was the first time the center had looked at nontraditional workers in this age group. Ms. Jacobs is a fr...
A stunt that went wrong on the set of the TV show “L.A.’s Finest” last week, leaving two producers injured, is the latest in a string of incidents that have drawn renewed attention to the dangers of stunt work. It came just days after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a subsidiary of CBS for a stu...	2019-02	<\|begin_of_text\|>A stunt that went wrong on the set of the TV show “L.A.’s Finest” last week, leaving two producers injured, is the latest in a string of incidents that have drawn renewed attention to the dangers of stunt work. It came just days after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a subsidiary...	in the area for treatment, Sokoloski said. He said that filming scheduled for Feb. 22 had been postponed. The Sony Pictures Television president, Jeff Frost, and co-presidents Chris Parnell and Jason Clodfelter, said in a statement: “Our hearts go out to our SPT family members who were injured and we pray for a full r...
A suicide attack Tuesday night at Istanbul Ataturk Airport killed dozens of people and wounded more than 200. Here’s what travelers should know about the terrorist threat in Turkey, including updates on flights and areas to avoid. Is the Threat Ongoing? Yes. The United States Department of State updated its existing tr...	2016-06	<\|begin_of_text\|>A suicide attack Tuesday night at Istanbul Ataturk Airport killed dozens of people and wounded more than 200. Here’s what travelers should know about the terrorist threat in Turkey, including updates on flights and areas to avoid. Is the Threat Ongoing? Yes. The United States Department of State update...	a series of deadly attacks in Turkey. What Parts of Turkey Are Most Dangerous? The State Department is advising caution throughout the country, but there is a particular emphasis on southeastern Turkey, especially near the Syrian border. Britain’s Foreign Office advises against all travel within six miles of the Syria...
A summer stage binge reminded one young journalist of the power of great storytelling, and that cheap tickets are out there if you know where to look. I saw 30. In 10 weeks as an editing intern, I mainlined more plays, musicals, ballets and cabaret performances than many people see in their entire lives. In between fin...	2019-08	<\|begin_of_text\|>A summer stage binge reminded one young journalist of the power of great storytelling, and that cheap tickets are out there if you know where to look. I saw 30. In 10 weeks as an editing intern, I mainlined more plays, musicals, ballets and cabaret performances than many people see in their entire live...	Were Somehow Here Again” at Feinstein’s/54 Below, a performance so raw that it nearly broke my heart (and hers, it looked like). For the record, I am not rich. I’m about to start the final year of my master’s degree in English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, with a year’s worth of apartment rent ...
A supervised exercise program that gets young children running and playing for an hour before school could make them happier and healthier, while also jibing with the needs and schedules of parents and school officials, according to a new study involving two dozen elementary and middle schools. The results also caution...	2018-02	<\|begin_of_text\|>A supervised exercise program that gets young children running and playing for an hour before school could make them happier and healthier, while also jibing with the needs and schedules of parents and school officials, according to a new study involving two dozen elementary and middle schools. The res...	move without relinquishing their screens and joysticks. But many of these initiatives are expensive, logistically complex, time consuming or otherwise impractical. So in 2009, a group of mothers in Massachusetts organized a simple, before-school activity program in their local grade school. They opted for the before-s...
A supply shock is not a problem our usual economic tools are particularly good at solving. But it’s the one we face. It looks more and more likely that the novel form of coronavirus will do meaningful economic damage to the United States. Stock and bond prices already suggest that the outbreak could halt the longest ex...	2020-02	<\|begin_of_text\|>A supply shock is not a problem our usual economic tools are particularly good at solving. But it’s the one we face. It looks more and more likely that the novel form of coronavirus will do meaningful economic damage to the United States. Stock and bond prices already suggest that the outbreak could ha...	more than 10 years. If one happens, it will mean higher unemployment and lower incomes. And it would be a different kind of downturn from most of the recent ones. The core of the economic problem emerging from coronavirus is a “supply shock,” meaning a reduction in the economy’s capacity to make things. Companies in C...
A surge in American airstrikes over the last four months of 2018 pushed the annual death toll of suspected Shabab fighters in Somalia to the third record high in three years. Last year, the strikes killed 326 people in 47 disclosed attacks, Defense Department data show. And so far this year, the intensity is on a pace ...	2019-03	<\|begin_of_text\|>A surge in American airstrikes over the last four months of 2018 pushed the annual death toll of suspected Shabab fighters in Somalia to the third record high in three years. Last year, the strikes killed 326 people in 47 disclosed attacks, Defense Department data show. And so far this year, the intens...	ongovernmental organizations working in the region, as civilians are displaced by conflict and extreme weather. The United States has escalated its airstrike campaign against Qaeda-backed Shabab militants in Somalia during the Trump administration. Note: An exact death toll is not available for each airstrike. Source: ...
A surge in new infections coincided with an increase in testing capacity in New York State, and Connecticut delayed its primary. A jump in testing yields a spike in new cases. Surge in cases creates urgent need for medical gear, mayor says. About half of those infected in New York City are under 50. New Jersey Transit ...	2020-03	<\|begin_of_text\|>A surge in new infections coincided with an increase in testing capacity in New York State, and Connecticut delayed its primary. A jump in testing yields a spike in new cases. Surge in cases creates urgent need for medical gear, mayor says. About half of those infected in New York City are under 50. Ne...	York State. The case count in the state has more than quadrupled since Monday. The total as of Thursday afternoon was more than 5,200 cases statewide, up from about 3,000 cases on Wednesday. There were more than 750 people hospitalized statewide. At least 29 people had died of the virus in New York State. Mr. Cuomo ha...
A surge in searches for the definition of an old-school pronoun signals a new, nonbinary meaning. Merriam-Webster announced the pronoun “they” as its word of the year on Tuesday, marking the rise of the use of the venerable plural pronoun to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary. The public’s inte...	2019-12	<\|begin_of_text\|>A surge in searches for the definition of an old-school pronoun signals a new, nonbinary meaning. Merriam-Webster announced the pronoun “they” as its word of the year on Tuesday, marking the rise of the use of the venerable plural pronoun to refer to a single person whose gender identity is nonbinary. ...	she” is inaccurate. Over a third of Americans in their teens and early 20s know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns, according to a Pew Research survey conducted last fall. That is double the number of those in their 40s, and triple those in their 50s and 60s. Efforts to destigmatize other gender identities have s...
A surprising number of the conveniences of modern life were invented when someone stumbled upon a discovery or capitalized on an accident: the microwave oven, safety glass, smoke detectors, artificial sweeteners, X-ray imaging. Many blockbuster drugs of the 20th century emerged because a lab worker picked up on the “wr...	2016-01	<\|begin_of_text\|>A surprising number of the conveniences of modern life were invented when someone stumbled upon a discovery or capitalized on an accident: the microwave oven, safety glass, smoke detectors, artificial sweeteners, X-ray imaging. Many blockbuster drugs of the 20th century emerged because a lab worker pic...	suggested that this old tale contained a crucial idea about human genius: “As their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.” And he proposed a new word — “serendipity” — to describe this princely talent for detective work. At its b...
A surprisingly specific genetic portrait of the ancestor of all living things has been generated by scientists who say that the likeness sheds considerable light on the mystery of how life first emerged on Earth. This venerable ancestor was a single-cell, bacterium-like organism. But it has a grand name, or at least an...	2016-07	<\|begin_of_text\|>A surprisingly specific genetic portrait of the ancestor of all living things has been generated by scientists who say that the likeness sheds considerable light on the mystery of how life first emerged on Earth. This venerable ancestor was a single-cell, bacterium-like organism. But it has a grand nam...	Archaea are bacteria-like organisms but with a different metabolism, and the eukaryotes include all plants and animals. Specialists have recently come to believe that the bacteria and archaea were the two earliest domains, with the eukaryotes emerging later. That opened the way for a group of evolutionary biologists, ...
A surveillance video shows the altercation between a homeless man and Cordell Fitts, a supervising sergeant at the Bellevue men’s homeless shelter. Video from the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. The skirmish started with an exchange of words and a man swinging at an officer in the lobby of a men’s homeles...	2019-03	<\|begin_of_text\|>A surveillance video shows the altercation between a homeless man and Cordell Fitts, a supervising sergeant at the Bellevue men’s homeless shelter. Video from the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan. The skirmish started with an exchange of words and a man swinging at an officer in the lobby o...	34, was charged with deprivation of the victim’s civil rights and filing a false report about the incident. He was released on bond after a court appearance on Thursday. His attorney, Julia L. Gatto, declined to comment. Video of the beating, which federal prosecutors made public on Thursday, raised some of the same qu...
A suspect in the deadly attack on a kosher market in Jersey City was connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled a hate group. In a news conference a day after the attacks, Steven Fulop, the mayor of Jersey City, said that Mr. Anderson had expressed hate in messages on Facebook. The mayor did not e...	2019-12	<\|begin_of_text\|>A suspect in the deadly attack on a kosher market in Jersey City was connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled a hate group. In a news conference a day after the attacks, Steven Fulop, the mayor of Jersey City, said that Mr. Anderson had expressed hate in messages on Facebook. Th...	— specifically Catholicism and Judaism — were false. Soon, he said, Ms. Graham joined in the chants. Ash Yasharahla, who lives in New York City and is part of a Hebrew Israelite congregation known as I Am Israel (No Division), called Mr. Anderson’s and Ms. Graham’s actions “wicked,” adding that the movement’s aggressi...
A suspect in the deadly attack on a kosher market in Jersey City was connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled a hate group. The Black Hebrew Israelites are known for their inflammatory sidewalk ministers who employ provocation as a form of gospel, preaching a theology that says the chosen ones a...	2019-12	<\|begin_of_text\|>A suspect in the deadly attack on a kosher market in Jersey City was connected to the Black Hebrew Israelites, which has been labeled a hate group. The Black Hebrew Israelites are known for their inflammatory sidewalk ministers who employ provocation as a form of gospel, preaching a theology that says ...	the parking lot of the supermarket. But the official said it was rambling and gave no clear motivation for the attack. The belief system of Black Hebrew Israelites, a sect that is not associated with mainstream Judaism, varies among the dozens of groups into which the century-old theology has splintered over the years...
A suspect in the shooting, who had a history of conflict with the newspaper, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades stormed into the newsroom of a community newspaper chain in Maryland’s capital on Thursday afternoon, killing five staff m...	2018-06	<\|begin_of_text\|>A suspect in the shooting, who had a history of conflict with the newspaper, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder. ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades stormed into the newsroom of a community newspaper chain in Maryland’s capital on Thursday afternoon, kil...	Mr. Ramos was eligible to be represented by a public defender. The chilling attack was covered in real time by some of the journalists who found themselves under siege. A message saying “please help us” with the address of the office building was tweeted from the account of Anthony Messenger, a summer intern. A crime ...
A suspect was captured on video running naked through Keeling, Va., and choking a man shortly before the police arrested him. A brother-in-law of a minor league baseball player killed three of their relatives in Keeling, Va., on Tuesday, setting off a manhunt that ended when the suspect ran naked through the streets be...	2019-08	<\|begin_of_text\|>A suspect was captured on video running naked through Keeling, Va., and choking a man shortly before the police arrested him. A brother-in-law of a minor league baseball player killed three of their relatives in Keeling, Va., on Tuesday, setting off a manhunt that ended when the suspect ran naked throu...	was 14 months old; and her mother, Joan Bernard, 62, according to the sheriff’s office, which also confirmed that Mr. Bernard, the suspect, is the brother of Ms. Bivens. Officials said that they were still trying to determine a motive and that autopsy results would not be available for several days. In a news conferen...
A suspicious device resembling a pipe bomb was sent to CNN and addressed to Barack Obama’s ex-C.I.A. director John Brennan. Here’s what we know about it. And before dawn on Thursday, investigators discovered that another package had been sent to Robert De Niro, the actor and filmmaker who has been an outspoken critic o...	2018-10	<\|begin_of_text\|>A suspicious device resembling a pipe bomb was sent to CNN and addressed to Barack Obama’s ex-C.I.A. director John Brennan. Here’s what we know about it. And before dawn on Thursday, investigators discovered that another package had been sent to Robert De Niro, the actor and filmmaker who has been an o...	. Obama’s C.I.A. director. None of the devices harmed anyone, and it was not immediately clear whether any of them could have. One law enforcement official said investigators were examining the possibility that they were hoax devices that were constructed to look like bombs but would not have exploded. Mrs. Clinton, Mr...
A suspicious device resembling a pipe bomb was sent to CNN and addressed to Barack Obama’s ex-C.I.A. director John Brennan. Here’s what we know about it. And before dawn on Thursday, investigators discovered that another package had been sent to Robert De Niro, the actor and filmmaker who has been an outspoken critic o...	2018-10	<\|begin_of_text\|>A suspicious device resembling a pipe bomb was sent to CNN and addressed to Barack Obama’s ex-C.I.A. director John Brennan. Here’s what we know about it. And before dawn on Thursday, investigators discovered that another package had been sent to Robert De Niro, the actor and filmmaker who has been an o...	them could have. One law enforcement official said investigators were examining the possibility that they were hoax devices that were constructed to look like bombs but would not have exploded. Coming less than two weeks before the midterm elections, the discovery of the pipe bombs reverberated across a country alread...
A sweeping proposal to overhaul New York City’s subway and improve the broader transit system is expected to cost more than $19 billion, according to two people who were briefed on Tuesday, and goes far beyond the emergency repair plan that was unveiled last summer after the subway fell into crisis. The proposal by the...	2018-05	<\|begin_of_text\|>A sweeping proposal to overhaul New York City’s subway and improve the broader transit system is expected to cost more than $19 billion, according to two people who were briefed on Tuesday, and goes far beyond the emergency repair plan that was unveiled last summer after the subway fell into crisis. Th...	is a far shorter timeline than previous estimates from subway officials who have said that modernizing signals across the system could take nearly 50 years. The existing signals break down on a regular basis and some are so old that replacement parts are no longer manufactured. The signal work would require some stati...
A sweeping retrospective shows a personal side of the Pop master — his hopes, fears, faith — and reasserts his power for a new generation, Holland Cotter writes in his review. Mr. Paradox, who never left, is back. Although, technically, “Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again” at the Whitney Museum of American Art is...	2018-11	<\|begin_of_text\|>A sweeping retrospective shows a personal side of the Pop master — his hopes, fears, faith — and reasserts his power for a new generation, Holland Cotter writes in his review. Mr. Paradox, who never left, is back. Although, technically, “Andy Warhol — From A to B and Back Again” at the Whitney Museum o...	for a new generation, but does so in a carefully shaped and edited way. What we have instead in the Whitney show — organized by Donna De Salvo, the museum’s deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator, assisted by Christie Mitchell and Mark Loiacono — is a figure we seem to have lost track of, and...
A takeover of the state’s largest school district has led to lawsuits and accusations that minority voters are being ignored. At the center of it are a majority-black high school and a member of the Class of 1961. HOUSTON — Harold V. Dutton Jr. was proud to have walked the same high school halls that Barbara Jordan, th...	2019-11	<\|begin_of_text\|>A takeover of the state’s largest school district has led to lawsuits and accusations that minority voters are being ignored. At the center of it are a majority-black high school and a member of the Class of 1961. HOUSTON — Harold V. Dutton Jr. was proud to have walked the same high school halls that B...	system in a bitter fight that has stirred legal, political and racial turmoil in the largest school district in Texas. This month, the state’s education commissioner informed the leaders of the Houston Independent School District that the state was taking it over, citing the repeated failing performance of Wheatley as...
A team from the Institute for Conservation Research of the San Diego Zoo Global and the Loisaba Conservancy in Kenya confirmed the existence of black leopards — as the animals are also known — in Laikipia County, an area north of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. “It is certain black panthers have been there all along, but goo...	2019-02	<\|begin_of_text\|>A team from the Institute for Conservation Research of the San Diego Zoo Global and the Loisaba Conservancy in Kenya confirmed the existence of black leopards — as the animals are also known — in Laikipia County, an area north of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. “It is certain black panthers have been there a...	confirmed, in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in 1909. Following unconfirmed reports of a black leopard in Laikipia County, the research team installed eight cameras around the Laikipia Wilderness Camp — focusing on available water sources, such as swimming pools and natural springs, and on animal trails. From F...
A team of Japanese researchers combined on-the-ground archaeology with modern technology, including artificial intelligence, to identify the 2,000-year-old images. A huge carving of a monkey with its tail twirled in a spiral; vast, geometric images of a condor and a hummingbird; an immense spider — the 2,000-year-old N...	2019-11	<\|begin_of_text\|>A team of Japanese researchers combined on-the-ground archaeology with modern technology, including artificial intelligence, to identify the 2,000-year-old images. A huge carving of a monkey with its tail twirled in a spiral; vast, geometric images of a condor and a hummingbird; an immense spider — the...	fish; and snakes, according to the research group from Yamagata University. The shapes, some of which are believed to date from at least 100 B.C., were mainly identified in the western side of the area through fieldwork — picking through pottery remnants, stones and soil — and by analyzing high-resolution imagery, the...
A team of archaeologists and mapmakers say they have uncovered a forgotten tunnel that 80 Jews dug largely by hand as they tried to escape from a Nazi extermination site in Lithuania about 70 years ago. The Lithuanian site, Ponar, holds mass burial pits and graves where up to 100,000 people were killed and their bodies...	2016-06	<\|begin_of_text\|>A team of archaeologists and mapmakers say they have uncovered a forgotten tunnel that 80 Jews dug largely by hand as they tried to escape from a Nazi extermination site in Lithuania about 70 years ago. The Lithuanian site, Ponar, holds mass burial pits and graves where up to 100,000 people were killed...	to escape an extermination site in Lithuania. Dr. Freund and his colleagues, working with the PBS science series NOVA for a documentary that will be broadcast next year, also uncovered another burial pit containing the ashes of perhaps 7,000 people. That would be the 12th burial pit identified in Ponar; officially kno...
A team of researchers is destroying things — with wind, water and fire — to help insurers manage the increasing risks of extreme weather. WEST GLOCESTER, R.I. — In the backwoods of Rhode Island, a team of researchers spends whole days trying to destroy things: setting boxes on fire, shattering chunks of ice, hurling de...	2017-12	<\|begin_of_text\|>A team of researchers is destroying things — with wind, water and fire — to help insurers manage the increasing risks of extreme weather. WEST GLOCESTER, R.I. — In the backwoods of Rhode Island, a team of researchers spends whole days trying to destroy things: setting boxes on fire, shattering chunks o...	firm RMS has estimated. Swiss Re said it expected 2017 to be one of the costliest years — if not the most costly — for natural disasters, and that was before raging fires hit Southern California, scorching more than 158,000 acres across four counties so far. So, Mr. Gritzo and his team spend their days putting all kin...
A team of researchers say that science has relied on a human heterosexual baseline and made faulty assumptions about sexual activity in the animal kingdom. Male field crickets perform mating songs and dances for each other. Pairs of male box crabs occasionally indulge in days-long marathon sex sessions. Comparable arr...	2019-11	<\|begin_of_text\|>A team of researchers say that science has relied on a human heterosexual baseline and made faulty assumptions about sexual activity in the animal kingdom. Male field crickets perform mating songs and dances for each other. Pairs of male box crabs occasionally indulge in days-long marathon sex session...	very origins of animal sex. It hasn’t had to continually re-evolve: It’s always been there. Evolutionary biologists have long pondered same-sex behavior, often describing it as a “Darwinian paradox.” Paul Vasey, an expert on non-conceptive sexuality at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, who did not participate i...
A team of scientists unveiled a new tree of life on Monday, a diagram outlining the evolution of all living things. The researchers found that bacteria make up most of life’s branches. And they found that much of that diversity has been waiting in plain sight to be discovered, dwelling in river mud and meadow soils. “I...	2016-04	<\|begin_of_text\|>A team of scientists unveiled a new tree of life on Monday, a diagram outlining the evolution of all living things. The researchers found that bacteria make up most of life’s branches. And they found that much of that diversity has been waiting in plain sight to be discovered, dwelling in river mud and...	ukaryotes, includes animals, plants, fungi and protozoans. A second trunk included many familiar bacteria like Escherichia coli. The third trunk that Woese and his colleagues identified included little-known microbes that live in extreme places like hot springs and oxygen-free wetlands. Woese and his colleagues called ...
A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise. The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling. At the small rum producer in St. Michaels, Md., a town on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, production has jumped from 4,000 b...	2019-12	<\|begin_of_text\|>A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise. The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling. At the small rum producer in St. Michaels, Md., a town on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay, production has ju...	31, and legislators have until Friday to extend it. If they don’t, distilleries like Lyon will face a 400-percent tax increase, with the first payment for many due on Jan. 15. That has craft-beverage producers scrambling. “The anxiety level with these small distilleries is high,” said Chris Swonger, the chief executiv...
A terminal at Orlando International Airport was evacuated and incoming flights were grounded on Saturday morning after a Transportation Security Administration officer jumped to his death, the police and witnesses said. The officer, described by the Orlando police as a man in his 40s, had just clocked out of work befor...	2019-02	<\|begin_of_text\|>A terminal at Orlando International Airport was evacuated and incoming flights were grounded on Saturday morning after a Transportation Security Administration officer jumped to his death, the police and witnesses said. The officer, described by the Orlando police as a man in his 40s, had just clocked ...	Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a halt to inbound flights that was lifted at 11:30 a.m. Michael Bawol, 32, was traveling home to Halifax, Nova Scotia, after a week of work in Florida when he saw a man standing on the outer ledge of a balcony on the top floor of the hotel, he said. Mr. Bawol, who s...