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Even as the broader economy falters amid signs of a weakening recovery, the nation's agriculture sector is going strong, bolstered in part by a surge in exports, according to federal estimates of farm trade and income released on Tuesday. The estimates confirm what economists have been saying for months: agriculture, w...
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THE BUYER Aram Modrek and his girlfriend, Ada Rubin, on the roof deck of their new building in the East Village. In an East Village Studio, the Numbers Added Up On his arrival from California in 2011, to enroll in the M.D./Ph.D. program at New York University School of Medicine, Aram Modrek moved into student housing i...
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The area by the Brooklyn Navy Yard can seem forbidding. Hulking warehouses line Flushing Avenue, a wide and busy street that hugs the yard for 16 blocks, while the yard, a massive former military complex turned manufacturing center, is almost totally enclosed by tall fences and walls. "It's literally like working in a ...
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ROME An installation and research project by the American video and performance artist Joan Jonas is to inaugurate a cross disciplinary center focusing on ocean conservation and the effects of climate change on the oceans on March 23 in the newly restored church of San Lorenzo in Venice's Castello neighborhood. The cen...
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ATHENS If ignominy were tax revenue, Greece might be a big step closer to ending its budget problems. Politicians, business executives and bankers are being raked through the headlines or incarcerated in a white collar crackdown as the Greek government goes after people suspected of tax dodging. Those under questioning...
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Tennis, for Anyone? In the Bronx, the Answer Is Yes One of the city's best new works of public architecture sounds like a perk for the country club set. And it is. Partly. Tucked into Crotona Park in the Bronx, the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis Learning is anchored by a modest two story concrete and steel clubhouse, all...
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Alexandra Liv Gracey Brena and Andres Benjamin Naim are to be married Sept. 2 at the New London Historical Society in New London, N.H. Darius Bittle Dockery, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, is to officiate. The couple, both 30, met at Tufts, from which they graduated. The b...
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Fashion & Style
IN the hermetic bubble of a racetrack where economic reality has no pit pass the Lexus LFA makes perfect, glorious sense. As I rocket around New Jersey Motorsports Park, this supercar physically compels me to switch off skepticism, pay heed to the racing line and happily marinate in waves of sensory stimulation: the Fo...
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Automobiles
"Living abroad changed everything for me," Stephanie Baptist, a Brooklyn based cultural producer and editor, said. "It opened up an entirely new scope of possibility and the idea of having global conversations." Ms. Baptist, whose first love is photography, moved to London in 2009 after working as a photography agent i...
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Art & Design
A scene I often replay is from Mary Gaitskill's "Kiss and Tell," in which the narrator reminisces on "the rindy fat" of his date's "bunched ass." Based on the publisher's description, this was the register of perversity, brutal and frank, I was expecting from 's debut novel, "Demi Gods." The novel's sexual dynamics are...
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It was perhaps the most anticipated "Saturday Night Live" season premiere in almost 20 years the show's first live broadcast in more than six months, hosted by Chris Rock, and its first to be produced under the new guidelines of the coronavirus era. The last live episode of "S.N.L." had been broadcast on March 7; it wa...
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How 'One Day at a Time' Came Back From the Brink PASADENA, Calif. To say the cast of "One Day at a Time" was knocked sideways when Netflix canceled the show in March 2019 is an understatement. Like the rest of the cast, Stephen Tobolowsky, who plays Dr. Leslie Berkowitz on the comedy, heard the news not long before it ...
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Maybe it's time for another hostless Tony Awards. Sunday night's broadcast of Broadway's annual celebration of itself had trouble figuring out what to do with Kevin Spacey, the evening's host, making use of him in ways that ranged from torturous (the opening number) to tolerable (he does pretty good Johnny Carson and B...
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Santiago Barberi Gonzalez, the president and creative director of Nancy Gonzalez, a Colombian accessories firm and one of the largest purveyors of crocodile handbags in the world, died on March 24 in New York. He was 40. His mother, Nancy Gonzalez, confirmed his death but did not give the cause. Mr. Barberi Gonzalez, a...
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Fashion & Style
Miranda Priestly is getting ready to sing. The pop star Elton John and the playwright Paul Rudnick have signed on to write a musical adaptation of "The Devil Wears Prada," the producer Kevin McCollum said Thursday. The collaboration is a significant step for the project, which Mr. McCollum has been working on for two y...
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Before "Southern Promises" begins, the actors gather on the Flea Theater stage to deliver preliminary remarks, mostly underlining that the show's cast is made up of people of color. This is integral to Niegel Smith's revival of Thomas Bradshaw's 2008 drama because it is set on a plantation in 1848 Virginia. Masters of ...
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It was the accessory that stole the evening. Not the discreet strand of pearls and matching earrings worn by Senator Kamala Harris or the glowing Reagan red tie of Vice President Mike Pence, but rather the fly that landed on Mr. Pence's pure white helmet of hair midway through the vice presidential debate on Wednesday ...
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It was the black outfit in Episode 1 that made me sit up in surprise. That is to say, the black outfit that the first lady Claire Underwood wears to the funeral of the civilian beheaded by American Islamic extremists in the opening salvo of "House of Cards," Season 5, the streaming drama that dropped last week. The sin...
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Fashion & Style
Over the years the name and likeness of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, a fierce feminist and ardent communist, have been associated with a number of unlikely products. Yes, Mattel, which manufactures Barbie, included a Kahlo doll in an inaugural series meant to coincide with International Women's Day. She is part of t...
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Art & Design
Simon Schuster's sale by its owner, ViacomCBS, comes in a wave of consolidation that has swept the book business in the last decade. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is making a play for Simon Schuster, the venerable home to best selling authors like Stephen King and Hillary Clinton that raised a ruckus this year after relea...
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Linda Pizzuti Henry on Wednesday became the chief executive officer of Boston Globe Media Partners, the parent company of The Boston Globe, Boston.com and STAT News. Along with her husband, John W. Henry, Ms. Henry is an owner of Boston Globe Media Partners, the Boston Red Sox and the Liverpool Football Club. "I feel r...
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Some of us knew from the beginning that Donald Trump wasn't up to the job of being president, that he wouldn't be able to deal with a crisis that wasn't of his own making. Still, the magnitude of America's coronavirus failure has shocked even the cynics. At this point Florida alone has an average daily death toll rough...
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Matt Smith and Claire Foy collapse decades of love and angst into 90 minutes of stage time in the socially distanced performance of "Lungs," streamed live from the Old Vic theater in London via Zoom. The woman and man who make up the entire cast of Duncan Macmillan's "Lungs," which is streaming in a beautifully acted (...
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LOS ANGELES It was supposed to be a rare quarter of weakness for Disney, with analysts fretting about higher programming costs at ESPN and a comedown from last year's "Frozen" fueled highs. Reflecting the vastness of its entertainment empire, the Walt Disney Company on Tuesday reported a 10 percent increase in profit, ...
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VASILY GROSSMAN AND THE SOVIET CENTURY By Alexandra Popoff On Feb. 14, 1961, Vasily Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" was arrested. K.G.B. agents confiscated several copies of the manuscript in Grossman's Moscow apartment, as well as others in his friends' apartments and the editorial offices of two journals. Grossman h...
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Courtney Barnett's deadpan vocal delivery was never much of a mask. Behind her modest tone and her obvious Australian accent, there was always a lyricist who saw both pathos and absurdity in her detailed, self deprecating narratives of everyday life, and a guitarist and bandleader who summoned wordless emotional crossc...
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A good pair of walking shoes is a must on vacations where sightseeing by foot is on the agenda, and travelers today have their pick of footwear that's both comfortable and stylish. The lightweight oxford shoes Cole Haan has for both men and women as part of its ZeroGrand line, for example, are easy on the feet because ...
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In Korean, "Hello" (ahnyoung hasehyo) literally translates to "Are you at peace?" This question greeting is delivered as a statement, of course, but a certain poignancy can't be ignored especially if one considers the violent history of the Korean Peninsula. This slice of land, with China and Japan on either side and R...
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Last year, Patches the dachshund earned the nickname Little Unicorn after she developed a large tumor that jutted out of her forehead. Now, with the tumor gone, her Pennsylvania family calls her Titanium Top. Those terms of endearment for the 9 year old dog trace the narrative of how Patches became a case study in 3 D ...
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Fall for Dance, New York City Center's beloved annual festival, celebrates its 15th anniversary in October with six world premieres and appearances by ballet stars including Sara Mearns, Justin Peck and Herman Cornejo. "When we launched the first Fall for Dance, I could not have imagined it would still be a thriving in...
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The church, the actual building that houses black bodies and souls, stands at the center of black life and culture. It is a fact hiding in plain sight that one of the first cooperative economic ventures former slaves undertook was the purchase and maintenance of churches. Without the cooperation of the church, many bla...
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Dr. Huchuan Xia and his partner, Erik Lorenz, put their makeshift nuptials into another gear. Dr. Xia, who is known as Cedric, and Mr. Lorenz were married May 10 in a Quaker self uniting ceremony in Philadelphia. The couple cycled a total of three hours across nine miles to seven outdoor locations around their adopted ...
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Fashion & Style
How do we know that Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook and man currently under scrutiny, really does feel contrite and humbled by his company's failure to protect users' personal data, as he said during his testimony before Congress on Tuesday? Well, he donned, if not a penitent's robes, then what seems like ...
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Volkswagen has been languishing in the United States. While its Audi luxury division has done well, the VW brand itself has been losing sales traction. Despite loudly proclaimed high ambitions in 2009 VW announced its intention to triple its United States sales and large investments in American production facilities, s...
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The Best Books of 2020: View our full list. The most audacious thing about Barack Obama's new memoir, "A Promised Land," is the beaming portrait on its cover: There he is, the 44th president, looking so serenely confident that it's as if the book weren't arriving on the heels of a bitter election, amid a cratering econ...
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Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? Twenty eight years ago, Jeff Weaver was a lowly campaign aide driving an obscure left wing congressional candidate around Vermont in a Yugo. Now, Mr. Weaver is well known enough from his stinging appearances in the press and on television to be slammed by Cher....
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Credit...Susan Wright for The New York Times Even without a book or a guide, even after two millenniums of crumbling, the image of the seven branched candelabrum the Jewish menorah is unmistakable on the inner wall of the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum. Stand at the base of the single passage arch and look up, and th...
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To Sue Founder of Daily Stormer, a Neo Nazi Site, First He Must Be Found For the past five months, a group of litigants has been trying to hold Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo Nazi website The Daily Stormer, to account for some of his actions. It has not been easy. A team of four people hired by the nonprofit Sou...
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Scientists are now contemplating the fabrication of a human genome, meaning they would use chemicals to manufacture all the DNA contained in human chromosomes. The prospect is spurring both intrigue and concern in the life sciences community because it might be possible, such as through cloning, to use a synthetic geno...
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To say that "Midway," a new cinematic re creation of the decisive 1942 air and sea battle from Roland Emmerich, the director of "Independence Day," soars to the heights of his best work is to say it sputters along at sea level. It is rousing and respectful in its best moments and faintly ridiculous in others. The film ...
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Barr said the Justice Department had not found voter fraud on a scale that could change election results. "Fraud on a scale also known as the president's annual physical," Colbert joked Tuesday. Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch...
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Susan Eisenhower, a granddaughter who had once been a fierce critic of the Gehry design, was among the speakers. The controversy had centered on certain aspects of the design, including the size and scope of the structure's large scale metal tapestries. But family members lifted their objection last year, giving the pr...
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Oh, the Dakota this, the Dakota that. Sometimes it's as if the Dakota were the only apartment building in New York! To riff on "The House of Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Shall we never, never get rid of this Past? It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body!" As it happens, the builder of the Dakota, Ed...
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Real Estate
When Harbour Air's de Havilland Beaver seaplane first lumbered into the skies in 1956, Elvis's "Heartbreak Hotel" topped the charts, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House, and flying icons like the Boeing 747 hadn't yet been invented. Sixty three years of bush flying, commuter travel and made for Instag...
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Kevin Harvick, in a must win situation, beat Jeff Gordon to the finish Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway, in the penultimate Nascar Sprint Cup event of the season. The victory earned Harvick one of four berths in the season finale next weekend in Homestead, Fla. Gordon came close to qualifying with a second place...
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In the late '80s, Ferrari engineers never shy about taking risks installed small paddles flanking the steering wheels on Enzo's Formula One racecars. The idea was to allow the driver to shift gears in a fraction of a second without letting go of the wheel. The invention, known formally as the "semiautomatic gearbox" an...
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When your closet is bursting with winters coats or you're living in a small space without any closet at all a few extra hooks can help relieve the pressure. That's where a coat tree can prove invaluable. "In a tighter space, it's about making space," said Dan Mazzarini, the principal of BHDM Design, an interior design ...
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WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve, concerned about the slow recovery, announced a second, large purchase of Treasury bonds on Wednesday, an effort to spur economic growth by lowering long term interest rates. While the Fed has been signaling that it would act to bolster the economy, the announcement was the first major po...
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. (Aug. 24 25, 8 p.m.; Aug. 26, 2:30 p.m.). A big weekend in the Berkshires opens on Friday with Mahler's Symphony No. 3, featuring Susan Graham as the vocalist and Andris Nelsons on the podium. On Saturday, there's the Boston Symphony's main centennial celebration ...
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One year ago, two Australian hackers found themselves on an eight hour flight to Singapore to attend a live hacking competition sponsored by Dropbox. At 30,000 feet, with nothing but a slow internet connection, they decided to get a head start by hacking Zoom, a videoconferencing service that they knew was used by many...
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed Eugene Scalia, a longtime lawyer representing corporations, to be labor secretary. Mr. Scalia was chosen by President Trump in July, days after Mr. Trump's first labor secretary, R. Alexander Acosta, announced that he would resign. He is a son of the Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia...
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Every crisis opens a course to the unknown. In an eye blink, the impossible becomes possible. History in a sprint can mean a dark, lasting turn for the worse, or a new day of enlightened public policy. Be still, my heart, but I see the latter. Some of the greatest advances in American history liberation of slaves, Soci...
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Young voters want Bernie Sanders to be the Democratic nominee for president. But they don't seem to want to turn out for him, or at least not in the numbers he needs to win. The youngest voters in Michigan, those 18 to 29 years old, gave the vast majority of their votes to Sanders. But at 16 percent of the electorate, ...
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After the births of my babies in the '70s, the umbilical cord connecting them to me was cut and trashed. But these days the blood inside can be preserved in a bank. It contains stem cells with the potential to save the lives of patients with leukemia, lymphoma or sickle cell disease. Stem cell treatments have been in t...
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Well
feels a particular sense of satisfaction when an Instagram post a "gender repeal" cake that reads "I'm a they," for instance leads to a purge of followers. "Whenever I post anything queer, there's a big drop," the 39 year old home cook said in a phone interview in May. "It used to bother me, but now I really appreciate...
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Style
One by one, beginning Wednesday night and all through Thursday, the pillars of the American athletic landscape toppled, unceremoniously, to the ground, marking one of the most astonishing nights and days in United States sports history. Professional basketball disappeared first, then the college game followed; hockey m...
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As Nancy Goldner remarks in her invaluable companion "Balanchine Variations": "Although she skims the ground, the Sleepwalker doesn't waft about aimlessly. There is a specificity to her travels, yet we don't know if she is moving toward or away from something, someone. At one point she rotates in sharp right angles, as...
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's Fifth Avenue Penthouse Goes on the Market for 50 Million is selling her longtime family home on the Upper East Side, an airy triplex with lush landscaped gardens, complete with composter and shed, and sweeping vistas of the Central Park reservoir and Midtown skyline. Ms. Midler, an award winning entertainer, and her...
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The Murdoch family, in the throes of reshaping its media empire, is bringing on a lieutenant with experience in chaotic environments: President Trump's former communications director, Hope Hicks. Starting next year, Ms. Hicks, one of the most recognizable alumni of Mr. Trump's White House, will become the chief communi...
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, 51, is the chairman of Massey Knakal Realty Services, a commercial real estate brokerage firm in New York. He started the company in 1988 with Paul Massey, the chief executive. Q. Were you always interested in real estate? A. My real estate career actually started when I was in college. It was during my freshman year...
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Karlie Kloss, the St. Louisan supermodel and girl coding evangelist, and Joshua Kushner, the venture capitalist and younger brother of Jared Kushner, are to be wed. The two announced their engagement this afternoon with a pair of Instagram posts. "I love you more than I have words to express. Josh, you're my best frien...
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Style
BOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD: A JOURNEY THROUGH HINDI CINEMA at Damrosch Park (Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m.). Lights, camera and best of all live action: Hindi cinema takes over the Damrosch Park band shell in this special presentation by Lincoln Center Out of Doors in which music and dance show the evolution of the Bollywood musical. The...
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Immanuel Wallerstein, a sociologist who shook up the field with his ideas about Western domination of the modern world and the very nature of sociological inquiry , died on Aug. 31 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 88 . His daughter Katharine Wallerstein said the cause was an infection. Dr. Wallerstein had written ...
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LONDON The news that Jonathan Anderson a.k.a. J. W. Anderson would live stream his fall men's show exclusively on Grindr, the gay social networking app, has been the whispered, and then not so whispered, talk of the first days of men's fashion week here. "Now there's a show that would've looked good on Grindr," one sho...
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Last fall, Jessica Ferri, a freelance writer in Brooklyn, posted a photo to Instagram of her morning tableau: a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon, a mug of coffee and a paperback novel she was reading, "Other Men's Daughters" by Richard Stern. Earlier this year, she posted another artfully arranged scene: pen and spira...
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The movie thrives on the juxtaposition of timeless and modern imagery the burning car on the shore, a real crow perched on a cellphone tower, and more. The frames are often suffused with monochromatic light, washing the characters in red or purple. And while overhead drone shots are becoming a too easy convention in co...
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PHILADELPHIA "Can I get one with whiz, no onion?" a hungry young man called into the window of Pat's King of Steaks. The counterman deftly flipped a sizzling skein of thinly sliced steak onto a roll and then applied a lacquer of Cheez Whiz to create a classic Philly cheesesteak. Taking it all in with a digital recorder...
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Read our updates and analysis from the Golden Globes ceremony. Sandra Oh was onstage a lot on Sunday. Not only was she one of the hosts, she also won her second Golden Globe this time for best actress in a television drama as the star of the BBC series, "Killing Eve." Her first win was in 2006: best supporting actress ...
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Two teams of scientists have succeeded in dating the opening of the gateway to America, only to disagree over whether the Clovis people one of the first groups from Siberia to reach the Americas ever used the gateway to gain access to the New World. About 23,000 years ago, in a period of intense cold that preceded the ...
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Jeff Luhnow, the former general manager of the Houston Astros, is free to work again in Major League Baseball. His one year suspension punishment for the team's sign stealing scandal expired at the end of the World Series, as did suspensions for the former Astros manager A.J. Hinch and the former bench coach Alex Cora....
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Max Ferra, a founder and the first artistic director of the Intar Hispanic American Arts Center, an innovative Off Broadway theater company that nurtures and produces the works of Latino playwrights in English, died on Feb. 4 in Miami. He was 79. His life partner, Winston Gonzalez, said the cause was pneumonia. Mr. Fer...
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Our weekday morning digest that includes consumer news, deals, tips and anything else that travelers may want to know. While most theme parks aim for higher, faster and scarier, England's newly revived Dreamland, opening today, champions older, slower and, it hopes, hipper amusements. A 19th century landmark of seaside...
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Welcome to "The Month in Live Jazz," a column highlighting three standout performances from the past month on stages across New York City. It had been a while since Wynton Marsalis the famously provocative trumpeter and Jazz at Lincoln Center patriarch had stirred controversy on the level that he did in May. In an inte...
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Mark Evans, left, and the New York City Ballet star Sara Mearns in the musical "I Married an Angel" at New York City Center. As I watched "I Married an Angel," the wan Encores! offering that opened on Wednesday night at New York City Center, my mind kept flashing to debates about Confederate monuments. What do we do wi...
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Edward E. David Jr., a researcher who sought to make science more relevant and accessible to presidents and to the public, died on Feb. 13 at his home in Bedminster, N.J. He was 92. His death was confirmed by his wife, Ann. For 28 months, as director of the federal Office of Science and Technology under President Richa...
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There was a plan, which provoked protests. The Landmarks Commission, with unusual readiness, swooped in. The new plan is better. The tale argues for the whole messy, infuriating way New York occasionally stumbles toward progress. Tuesday night, in a Manhattan high school library, before a subcommittee of Community Boar...
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In 1996, Suzan Lori Parks collaborated with two dynamic and singularly distinctive directors on different projects, neither of which was a critical hit. She wrote Spike Lee's "Girl 6," his first film that he didn't write the screenplay for, and "Venus," a play directed by the downtown avant garde auteur Richard Foreman...
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Three months after a terrorist attack in Afghanistan left Jeremy Haynes a paraplegic, he met with a psychologist from the Department of Veterans Affairs. "He asked me what I wanted to do with my life," said Mr. Haynes, a retired Army major. "I said I wanted to go back to school. He said, 'Let's be realistic. You're not...
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That's just one way of advising playgoers to be on their guard at "Girls Boys," the solo play from the Tony Award winning writer Dennis Kelly ("Matilda") that finds the performer Carey Mulligan in cheerfully chatty mode for the first stretch, at least. The production, which runs through March 17, brings Ms. Mulligan, a...
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If you live in Minneapolis, there's a 95 percent chance you live within a 10 minute walk to a park. That bragging right, plus a few others, make Minneapolis's parks system the best of the 100 biggest cities in the country, beating out its next door neighbor, St. Paul, for the top spot. Minneapolis earned this distincti...
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Ralph Morse, Life Photographer of Big Events, Is Dead at 97 Ralph Morse's inventively captured images peppered the glossy pages of Life and Time magazines during a 50 year career as a photojournalist. Some photographers are known for a single image; Mr. Morse's classics could fill entire albums. "If Life could afford o...
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Just about every area of personal finance has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. That economic shock reaches all the way to some of the most aspirational purchases on the planet: art, cars, watches and wine. The mechanism to buy and sell many of these objects frothy, in person auctions, with attendees dressed s...
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Your Money
Ed Miller and Mary Nguyen are Silicon Valley software developers by day, but moonlight at solving an unusually fuzzy problem. A few years ago the pair became mesmerized, like many of us, by an Alaskan webcam broadcasting brown bears from Katmai National Park. They also happened to be seeking a project to hone their mac...
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After allegations of sexual harassment against the opera star Placido Domingo surfaced last summer, American arts organizations responded by canceling his appearances. European institutions, though, stuck with him. So it was notable when Spain's National Institute of Performing Arts and Music said on Wednesday that it ...
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Music
Cloud Computing Is Not the Energy Hog That Had Been Feared None The computer engine rooms that power the digital economy have become surprisingly energy efficient. A new study of data centers globally found that while their computing output jumped sixfold from 2010 to 2018, their energy consumption rose only 6 percent....
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
The year is 2031. Cities are concrete jungles crossed by flying buses that can twist in space and populated by avatars in oversize puffers and shredded jeans that resemble antique draperies over windows to interior worlds. They gesture toward posters promoting a secret rave in a watery wood that leads to a red rock des...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
A Tres Santos construction site, part of a project that is planned to include two "villages" one on the beach and the other a mile inland at the edge of Todos Santos. The night was quiet except for the sounds of the waves brushing the shore and the wet slap of the Pacific sierra as the fishermen, working by the light o...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
If you happen to hang out at Broadway watering holes like Joe Allen's, you've probably overheard conversations much like those that babble through "Evening at the Talk House," Wallace Shawn's anxious excavation of moral cowardice in a fascist age, which opened on Thursday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center. ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
Greg Asbed has spent much of his life fighting horrific labor abuses, including slavery. An organizer and human rights strategist, he co founded the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a group that pioneered a system for overcoming brutal conditions in American agriculture. Last week, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
Because of the relentless pandemic, many people are staying home for Thanksgiving this year. No technology can ever fully replace an in person holiday gathering. But it is possible to recreate some family traditions online or even learn new skills like roasting turkey. Here are some ideas to digitize the Thanksgiving e...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
A rapid coronavirus test used by the White House to screen its staff could miss infections up to 48 percent of the time, according to a study by researchers at N.Y.U. Langone Health. The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, evaluated the accuracy of the test, Abbott ID Now, a machine about the size of a toaster...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Roberto Frankenberg for The New York Times PARIS Gucci's much touted inclusivity is not limited to community: It extends to products, too. There is little, it seems, that the brand and its creative director, Alessandro Michele, do not see as potential parts of their magic magpie mash up vision, from sneakers to china a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
In the world of scientific research, they are pernicious impostors. So called predatory journals, online publications with official sounding names, publish virtually anything, even gibberish, that an academic researcher submits for a fee. Critics have long maintained that these journals are eroding scientific credibili...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
BEIJING The new strain of avian influenza that has infected more than 100 people in China in the last two months has, for the first time, been reported outside mainland China. Officials in Taiwan reported one case in a 53 year old Taiwanese citizen who traveled regularly to the Chinese city of Suzhou for work, where he...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Is everyone in Washington writing a tell all? It sure seems like it. Though it's not surprising to see so many books about President Trump on the best seller list, it is surprising that, barely two years into his term, so many of them are written by people who were once key players in his administration. Some are effus...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
And it is set in a realm where sentiment trumps (sorry!) political difference. Souza states that he wasn't crazy about Reagan's policies but was won over by his authentic affability. One section goes into detail about the thoroughness of Obama's decision making process and his willingness to hear out different points o...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
Where Did Fish First Evolve? The Answer May Be Shallow Some had armor and spikes. Many lacked jaws. They evolved in the shallow coasts around supercontinents and they were some of our earliest ancestors with spines. None An artist's impression of pituriaspids, among early types of fish, which are first thought to have ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
"Tesla's Death Ray" investigates an ominous 20th century invention. And "They Shall Not Perish" focuses on the humanitarian efforts after the Armenian Genocide. TESLA'S DEATH RAY: A MURDER DECLASSIFIED 10 p.m. on Discovery. No, Elon Musk hasn't started a new venture this Discovery series is about Nikola Tesla, the 20th...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer. They Were Wrong. No one expected the four young women to live much longer. They had an extremely rare, aggressive and fatal form of ovarian cancer. There was no standard treatment. The women, strangers to one another living in different countries, asked their doctor...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
The Italian leather goods company Furla is offering customers the chance to personalize the look of its classic Metropolis top handle shoulder bag ( 298) with interchangeable flaps, including solid calfskin ( 78); glitter, mirrored metallics and studs ( 98); and printed pony ( 148), thanks to snap closures on the back....
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style