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WASHINGTON The economy slowed to a snail's pace in the first half of 2011, underscoring a growing risk that the recovery itself may hang in the balance with budget and debt decisions in Washington. The broadest measure of the economy, known as the gross domestic product, grew at an annual rate of less than 1 percent in...
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When kids on the gaming site Roblox were darkening the skin color of their avatars to support Black Lives Matter, 12 year old Garvey Mortley decided to speak up. She created a video explaining the offensive history of blackface, and offered viewers more appropriate ways they could show support. "Changing your skin tone...
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Well
Stephen Colbert Catches Himself Putting All His Eggs in the Mueller Report Basket 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 comedy. If you're interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsle...
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When, back in 2000, the sitcom "Spin City" moved production to Los Angeles from New York, few could have been happier than Richard Kind, a born and bred Easterner who played a clueless press secretary on the long running series. He and his wife, Dana, bought a grand old house in majestic Hancock Park, complete with mar...
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Real Estate
When you buy a bottle of wine at La Vite Turchese in Barolo, a village surrounded by vineyard lined hills, the cashier often grabs a corkscrew and two glasses instead of wrapping it in a bag. In this wine shop, where metal shelves are stacked to the ceiling with mostly Italian wines, there are also unfussy tables and c...
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Travel
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. On a frigid morning here, Nancy Godinez was piling bread and other staples into her car outside a food pantry. She had lost her job as a custodian, her unemployment checks had run out, and her job search had proved fruitless. One thing she still had was health insurance, acquired three years ago afte...
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John le Carre (David Cornwell) in 2017. He "will be remembered as perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the 20th century in Britain," the novelist Ian McEwan said. LONDON John le Carre, whose exquisitely nuanced, intricately plotted Cold War thrillers elevated the spy novel to high art by presenti...
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DEAR FRIEND, FROM MY LIFE I WRITE TO YOU IN YOUR LIFE By 208 pp. Random House. 27. "Why write autobiographically?" the Chinese American author asks in this new collection of essays, "Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life," the closest thing to an autobiography she has ever published. It is a question Li...
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Martina Navratilova had seen and heard enough. The outspoken tennis great had long opposed the fact that Court, a fellow legend who has become known more for her homophobic comments than her sterling game, had been honored at the Australian Open with a show court stadium bearing her name. Then, as this year's two week ...
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For decades, the headquarters of CBS News and the offices of "60 Minutes" have stood on opposite sides of a windswept block of Manhattan's West 57th Street. It was a symbolic divide as much as a physical one. And these days the gap between the two might as well be miles wide. The ouster on Wednesday of Jeff Fager, the ...
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In This 'Oklahoma!,' She Loves Her and He Loves Him ASHLAND, ORE. The idea came to Bill Rauch in the early 1990s: What if he directed a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" where the lovers were same sex couples? A gay man in a committed relationship at a time when marriage equality seemed like an imposs...
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This Porcelain Is Tougher Than It Looks Wallace Chan, the Hong Kong jeweler behind some of the world's most exclusive gems, sat in a sunny Manhattan hotel room a few weeks ago, talking about his latest creations. He displayed one, a large blue ring topped with a diamond and began whacking it aggressively against the wo...
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Fashion & Style
For Seeing After Dark, Yes, but Also Meant to Be Seen LIGHTING is the stuff of drama, in cars as well as on stage. More and more, dramatic lighting seeps from under dashboards and seats or gives a glow to the door sills. The 2013 Cadillac XTS has illuminated exterior door handles. A glowing ring surrounds the rechargin...
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There's a new kind of light fixture elbowing its way into territory once dominated by the chandelier. You may have already spotted it, spreading out above dining tables and cascading down stairwells: the multi light pendant. Rather than dangling a single cluster of crystal or a circular armature of bulbs, these fixture...
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DARK SKIES (2013) Stream on Netflix. Rent on Amazon, iTunes, and Vudu. Sometimes the dark side of suburban life in America is so well hidden and mysterious that it can only be represented in fantastical forms. The paranormal and the mundane mingle in this sci fi horror film by Scott Stewart. The Barrett family, led by ...
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CAROL BERNING'S career as a consumer psychologist was ahead of the curve for her generation. She received a doctorate 40 years ago when few women were in graduate school. Her sole employer for 34 years was Procter Gamble, where she focused on consumer research. Now, at 64, she is at the forefront once again. After reti...
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"We will be monitoring closely for solvency stresses among highly leveraged business borrowers, which could increase the longer the Covid pandemic persists," Lael Brainard, a Fed governor, said in a statement accompanying the release. She noted that the Fed's early interventions "have been effective in resolving liquid...
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Growing up in foster homes, Norris Danta Ford, a fashion designer, cleverly used clothes to impress his future parents, dressing himself and his sister up in multiple outfits to show how stylish they were. Realizing the confidence that can come from clothes, Mr. Ford, 34, built a career as a stylist, working with celeb...
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This article is part of our continuing Fast Forward series, which examines technological, economic, social and cultural shifts that happen as businesses evolve. When Jimmy Blakley signed up to serve his country during the Vietnam War, his health and vision were pristine. But shortly after finishing his service in 1971,...
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CHICAGO This city found itself engulfed on Monday by a sudden public school strike that left 350,000 children without classes, turned a spotlight on rising tensions nationally over teachers' circumstances, and placed both the powerful teachers' union and Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a risky, politically fraught standoff with ...
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Six women have sued U.S.A. Swimming, saying the national governing body for the sport failed to protect them from coaches who were sexual predators when they were preteens and teenagers decades ago, according to multiple civil lawsuits filed in two California courts. The lawsuits, filed by women now in their 40s and 50...
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In recent years, companies like Verizon and AT T have made no secret of their ambitions to build online advertising businesses that can take on the behemoths of Silicon Valley. But those plans, and the billions of dollars that have been invested in them, are in peril after federal officials approved broad new privacy r...
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She thought she knew what she was about. The heroine of a sensational and successful novel, "Democracy," published anonymously in 1880, Madeleine Lee, who is young, rich and beautiful, moves from New York to Washington to pass a season in a house on Lafayette Square. "She wanted to see with her own eyes the action of p...
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If the choreographer Raja Feather Kelly prays, it must be to Andy Warhol, the muse for a handful of works that Mr. Kelly has created for his company, the Feath3r Theory, since 2009. The latest is "Andy Warhol's Tropico," which takes inspiration from Lana Del Rey's 27 minute extended music video, "Tropico," a dramatic m...
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Pablo Picasso on the French Riviera in 1940. He began a relationship with Marie Therese Walter in the 1920s, when she was a teenager. If you haven't watched "Nanette," Hannah Gadsby's fearless comedy special on Netflix, do that now. (We'll wait.) In it, Ms. Gadsby takes on the fragility of masculinity and at one point ...
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Never has the cheer of homegrown color been more essential. Here's how to get it even if you haven't started planting yet. My farmer florist neighbor Jennifer Elliott's 15 acre organic operation in the Hudson Valley is like a giant cutting garden from April to November. So it was to Ms. Elliott and another flower focus...
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The Swiss Institute's new home a renovated bank on St. Marks Place has an open door policy. For anyone who thinks that the granular, old fashioned neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan the kind with ice cream parlors, stoops, barber shops, bars and tattoo joints are fast decamping to Brooklyn, head on over to one of the are...
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Art & Design
Prekindergarten students at P.S. 212 in Jackson Heights, Queens, observe their "belly buddies" stuffed animals placed on their stomachs as they rise and fall with their breath. The lesson is part of the Kindness Curriculum. Thanks to a challenge from the Dalai Lama, a number of preschools are trying to teach something ...
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Crowded With the dollar performing strongly against the euro, record numbers of American travelers are expected to converge on many of Europe's most popular cultural attractions this summer. (The Wall Street Journal) Beginnings Have you ever thought about creating a travel start up business? If so, examining the realit...
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NAPLES, N.Y. Even without a psychology degree, Bella's natural talents made her an excellent therapist: She is calm and accommodating of a range of personalities, with the patience to listen to endless problems without so much as a judgmental moo. From a lush, secluded pasture on the Mountain Horse Farm, a 33 acre bed ...
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SEATTLE You relish the little things here in Seattle: Toilet paper is back on some shelves, the hoarders sated for the moment. Instead of making vodka, distilleries are rolling out hand sanitizer. The dreaded daily number of new coronavirus cases shows that while the curve is not yet flat, the rate has gone both down a...
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A hut sells maple taffy (maple syrup poured over fresh snow) in Le Domaine de la Foret Perdue, in Notre Dame du Mont Carmel, Quebec. Right, skaters on the extensive trail at Le Domaine de la Foret Perdue.Credit...David Giral for The New York Times A hut sells maple taffy (maple syrup poured over fresh snow) in Le Domai...
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Of course, we don't make films for continents or countries filmmakers create films for their personal dreams and obsessions. But despite that, it doesn't happen very often for an Asian or Korean film to get nominated for the Oscars. It's a very rare thing. The Korean press, they're all very excited. It's almost like a ...
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Construction was set to begin this week on a giant telescope on the barren summit of Mauna Kea, a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, considered the best observatory site in the Northern Hemisphere. The project, however, has long drawn the opposition of those who say it would desecrate the mountain's sacred ground. On Wedn...
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The beauty industry's main creative forces, including hairstylists and makeup artists, have been dominated by queer people and people of color. That diverse interior is belied by a white, cisgender, straight exterior: one that the mainstream beauty industry produces. But now because of social media's influence, creator...
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Glenn Close as Roy Cohn and S. Epatha Merkerson as Belize in a scene from the upcoming virtual performance of excerpts from "Angels in America." Glenn Close's cheeks are bruised, her eyes half closed; a clear oxygen tube snakes out of her nostrils under a mop of disheveled gray hair. The lamp on her night stand casts a...
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CHICAGO Musicals depend on extremes. Without big emotion, there's no call for big expression. And without big expression, how do we get big belting and confetti? But the question for me has always been: At what point does the urge to overwhelm an audience swamp the sea walls of storytelling? As it happens, two musicals...
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The border between the United States and Mexico is in the news every day, in ongoing debates about immigration and spending on security initiatives. But what is it like to visit destinations along the border? To find out, writers for Travel spent time in five pairings of places: Brownsville, Tex., and Matamoros, Mexico...
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Nicolas Miailhe, a co founder of the Future Society, asking a question during a gathering of global policymakers last week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. How Do You Govern Machines That Can Learn? Policymakers Are Trying to Figure That Out CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Hal Abelson, a renowned computer scientist at th...
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OAKLAND, Calif. Just as government officials step up their antitrust scrutiny of the American tech giants, Google had a surprising announcement on Thursday: It is buying another company. Google said it planned to buy the data analytics company Looker for 2.6 billion in a bid to catch up to rivals in the business of clo...
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The ABC family sitcom "black ish" has not been shy about plunging into difficult and controversial issues, like the 2016 election, racial slurs and police brutality. But a recent politically charged episode was pulled after a dispute between the network and Kenya Barris, the show's creator. "Given our creative differen...
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Side by Side and No Finish Line in Sight for Alexi Pappas During a rap concert on the Dartmouth campus in October 2009, Alexi Pappas, dressed in a full body leotard and sitting in the front row, was called on stage to dance. Ms. Pappas, then a sophomore on the school's cross country team and a member of the Dog Day Pla...
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Fashion & Style
JOEL Raphaelson's most famous contribution to pop culture was hardly his favorite piece of copywriting. "A little too clunky," he said. "The truth is I wasn't especially proud of it." He is proud now, though, at age 87. And after a career in advertising that spanned more than 40 years, that the pithy phrase he suggeste...
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Nathan Bajar for The New York Times The writer, restaurateur and former lawyer Eddie Huang is probably best known for his 2013 memoir, "Fresh Off the Boat," not to mention his trashing of the ABC sitcom based on the book. So it makes sense that Mr. Huang, the host of Viceland's "Huang's World," which returns for its se...
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Two stars of the screen, Keri Russell and Adam Driver, are heading to Broadway. The pair has been cast in a revival of Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," which will open in March. Both actors are primarily known for their work in television and movies. Ms. Russell has been nominated for three Emmys for her work on "The Amer...
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As a freelance writer living in Toronto, Ms. Thompson also counts herself as a cultural critic with a focus on hip hop, and with her insights, she has built an audience via her personal website and social media feeds. So when she posted a tweet one evening late last month about Ms. Minaj's recent musical direction, Ms....
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Charles R. Bentley, who in the 1950s led a team of scientists that measured the West Antarctic Ice Sheet for the first time, and who later explained the mechanics of the fast moving ice streams that drain the sheet, died on Aug. 19 at his home in Oakland, Calif. He was 87. The cause was complications of Parkinson's dis...
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WASHINGTON Lael Brainard, the country's top financial diplomat, is leaving her post at the end of the week, a Treasury official said. Some have speculated that the White House might choose her for a position on the Federal Reserve's board of governors. Ms. Brainard has served since the beginning of the Obama administra...
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NEW ORLEANS Louisiana State, which opened the college football season as an underdog in its own division, won the national championship on Monday night behind a vigorous offense, outlasting Clemson, last year's title winner. With its 42 25 victory in the Superdome, L.S.U. claimed its first title since the 2007 season a...
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Los Angeles is on track to become the largest city in the United States to ban the sale of fur clothing and accessories. On Tuesday, the City Council voted unanimously for the ban, directing the Los Angeles City Attorney to formulate a policy that would render fur sales illegal. The council expects that the city attorn...
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For 25 years, Linda Wells, 58, served as the editor of Allure, the Conde Nast magazine about beauty trends that she had helped found. There, Ms. Wells a former reporter for The New York Times lab tested and guinea pigged beauty products, placed celebrities like Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston on her covers, and dili...
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When Brian Gleason heard this week that his old employer, Sun Newspapers of Charlotte Harbor, Fla., had won its first Pulitzer Prize, he was elated. Then he asked his former editor, Jim Gouvellis, what the award was for. "He said, 'The prisoner death editorials,'" Mr. Gleason recalled. "I said: 'Jim, I wrote some of th...
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Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, said in an interview published Wednesday that he would not automatically remove denials that the Holocaust took place from the site, a remark that caused an uproar online. Mr. Zuckerberg's comments were made during an interview with the tech journalist Kara Swisher that wa...
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American military researchers have identified the first patient in the United States to be infected with bacteria that are resistant to an antibiotic that was the last resort against drug resistant germs. The patient is well now, but the case raises the specter of superbugs that could cause untreatable infections, beca...
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In one sense, Duford is an outlier. About eight of 10 white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and polling suggests that the great majority will vote for him again in 2020. But Duford is part of a broader movement among some evangelical leaders to distance their faith from Trump, which in turn means interpret...
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It can be tempting to say and some critics have that Ronald K. Brown creates the same piece over and over. There are undoubtedly common elements, both structural and thematic, running through his work: a fluent, hybrid language of African based and modern dance; a preference for patchwork musical playlists; an allegian...
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Termites are often dismissed as nothing but home destroying pests, less charismatic than bees, ants or even spiders. In fact, termites have been doing incredible things since the time of dinosaurs, maintaining complex societies with divisions of labor, farming fungus and building cathedrals that circulate air the way h...
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This article is part of David Leonhardt's newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. I wrote recently about some of the companies that have been mistreating their employees and customers during the pandemic, and I want to tell you today about another case study. It comes from the cruise industry. If y...
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This week marked 10 years since the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United v. FEC decision, which opened a floodgate for wealthy donors and corporate money's flow into politics. And with the exception of a few anniversary articles, like this one, it largely went unnoticed. That's because the world Citizens United cre...
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Dakshina (her daughter, whom I saw perform for the first time on Saturday) is even more marvelously satisfying in the curved and straight shapes of Bharata Natyam. Her chief solo showed Shiva and his consort Parvati conjoined as Ardhanariswara male and female, destruction and creation. As she stands on wide parted legs...
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From the Mall to the Docks, Signs of Rebound PORTLAND, Ore. The docks are humming again at this sprawling Pacific port, with clouds of golden dust billowing off the piles of grain spilling into the bellies of giant tankers. "Things are looking up," said Dan Broadie, a longshoreman. No longer killing time at the union h...
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STERLING, Colo. The cast was strip searched before boarding the bus to their show. The leading man was shackled so tightly that he performed with abrasions on his wrists. And the moment the men finished their bows and the house lights came up, they had to slip out of costume and back into green prison uniforms. So goes...
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I live in Portland, Ore. I am 68 years old, a retired psychologist, a mildly left of center boomer. I want to report that Portland is not at all convulsed by a "violent mob" of anarchists, as the acting homeland security secretary, Chad F. Wolf, claims, or anything close. A small number of protesters, generally far few...
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Gay political canvassers can soften the opinions of voters opposed to same sex marriage by having a brief face to face discussion about the issue, researchers reported Thursday. The findings could have implications for activists and issues across the political spectrum, experts said. Psychologists have long suspected t...
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People throughout the sports world, from athletes to arena staff members, tell The New York Times how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic. Regan Smith was peaking at just the right time for the 2020 Summer Olympics. She had a breakout season last year, winning gold in the 200 meter backstroke and t...
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Bright areas indicate gamma rays coming from the direction of the galaxy about 100,000 light years away. A small, newly discovered galaxy orbiting the Milky Way is emitting a surprising amount of electromagnetic radiation in the form of gamma rays, astronomers reported Tuesday. The finding may be the latest in a long s...
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Joel Pavelski, 27, isn't the first person who has lied to his boss to scam some time off work. But inventing a friend's funeral, when in fact he was building a treehouse then blogging and tweeting about it to be sure everyone at the office noticed? That feels new. Such was a recent management challenge at Mic, a five y...
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Even if the authorization of Moderna and Pfizer's vaccines comes quickly, only a tiny fraction of Americans will be vaccinated by the end of December. Vaccines won't enter large scale distribution until spring 2021. But with exploding cases across the country right now, we have to take immediate measures. The only way ...
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Months before their wedding at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia, Rachel Silver and Garrett Barten of Miami Beach had planned out exactly how their ring bearer would be styled. "We had decided early on that my husband was going to wear a white dinner jacket to the wedding, and I thought it would be really cute if the...
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Many couples opt for a destination wedding, but some are going a step further: They're having weddings with all the local customs and fanfare. A growing number of hotels around the world now provide cultural weddings and vow renewals, like a Hindu ceremony in India, a shaman led Mayan celebration in Mexico or a traditi...
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It was an ignominious end to interstellar dreams. The enormous Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed unexpectedly Tuesday morning, the National Science Foundation said, like a helpless spent giant in a splash of metal and wire. Officials said a 900 ton platform of girders and radio receivers suspended from m...
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The occasionally brunette younger sister of the always blonde Jessica Simpson has led a quiet, private life in Los Angeles for the last decade. So if you forgot about her stints in MTV reality television ("Newlyweds," "The Ashlee Simpson Show"), or the three pop rock albums that followed those shows ("Autobiography," "...
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Vicky Shick's "Pathetique, Miniatures in Detail," which Vicky Shick Dance offers as part of the Harkness Dance Festival, is composed of vignettes showing oddities of behavior. These scenes flicker to a score by Elise Kermani that combines wisps of Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata with layers of other sounds, and the cos...
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LOS ANGELES This week represents the official start of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, some 70 museum exhibitions, from San Diego to Santa Barbara, that explore Latin American and Latino art. With galleries getting into the act, too, visitors to the shows are likely to encounter tons of new work. And two new words: Latin...
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The unconscious man in his 90s was brought to an emergency room where Dr. Douglas White was a critical care physician. The staff couldn't find any relatives to make medical decisions on his behalf. "He had outlived all his family," recalled Dr. White, who now directs an ethics program at the University of Pittsburgh Me...
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Would You Like to Hang Out Here? None Adam Amengual for The New York Times Private social clubs would seem to be a perfect match for Los Angeles, where the best parties usually happen behind closed doors. But until recently, the main game in town was the Jonathan Club, which was founded in 1895 and barely registered am...
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It's August; an attempt at a fall culture season beckons, somehow, but a sense of great fragmentation persists. On Instagram I see artists and culture workers in Europe behaving more or less normally for the season that is to say, on vacation. Elsewhere, new horrors have taken over as in Beirut, where in the wake of a ...
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TALLINN, Estonia Uber used to dominate ride hailing in Poland and Kenya. Over the past two years, that started to change. In Poland, a small competitor opened a rival service and began winning customers with cheaper fares and attracting drivers by charging lower commissions. In Kenya, that same upstart grabbed business...
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As in his powerful operas, Janacek is fixated in this cycle on setting the words to music that reflects the contours, sounds and rhythms of the Czech language. Still, for all their naturalism, the vocal lines also achieve agitated, plaintive lyricism. The piano sometimes steps back to provide bare harmonic support. Mos...
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New York is home to more than 7,600 bodies of fresh water. It also borders two of the Great Lakes, the Long Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. In a nod to the role that water has played in the state, six museums around New York will host "Water/Ways," a traveling Smithsonian exhibition that explores water's effects o...
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Health workers at the Mpondwe Health Screening Facility, on Uganda's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The outbreak that began in Congo has defied expectations. For the Third Time, W.H.O. Declines to Declare the Ebola Outbreak an Emergency For the third time, the World Health Organization declined on Friday...
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INDIANAPOLIS The Colts' uncharacteristically wretched season the perennial N.F.L. playoff contenders finished 2 14 has dimmed some of the luster of the first Super Bowl to be played here, on Feb. 5. But residents can take some consolation from a mini building boom in anticipation of the big game, with its 150,000 expec...
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This timber framed, five bedroom home is in Canmore, a valley town in the Canadian Rockies near the southeast boundary of Banff National Park, in Alberta province. Built in 2004 on a third of an acre, the 4,802 square foot house is inside Silvertip Resort, a master planned golf community situated along the lower benche...
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The International Space Station, docked with the space shuttle Endeavor, roughly 220 miles above the Earth, in 2011.Credit...NASA/ESA The International Space Station, docked with the space shuttle Endeavor, roughly 220 miles above the Earth, in 2011. For the International Space Station, Leroy Chiao was, in a sense, the...
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It's no surprise that a blogger with 180,000 followers would be drawn to a watch by its social media profile. "When Hublot took over a whole hotel in Brazil for the FIFA World Cup in 2014 and turned it into a Hublot hotel and had fun activities every day, I followed it on social media and thought it was brilliant," Zey...
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Fashion & Style
Credit...Joe Sohm/Visions of America/UIG, via Getty Images Actually, Gen X Did Sell Out, Invent All Things Millennial, and Cause Everything Else That's Great and Awful What is an X? An empty set, a place holder, a nothing that fills a void until an actual something comes along. For the members of Generation X, born bet...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
SpaceX launched a "pre flown" rocket into space on Thursday. If the company can repeat it, this method could slash the price of space travel in the future. SpaceX launched a commercial satellite into space on Thursday with the boost of a partly used rocket, a feat that may open an era of cheaper space travel. A Falcon ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
For years, investigating the American media's influence on discourse has required studying the conversations we have at homes, in the public square and in office corridors, to try to understand what prompted them. But a paper published Thursday in the journal Science offers a new, albeit unorthodox, method: The authors...
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Media
LONDON The title alone would seem to capture how many people here are thinking about this apprehensive chapter in history, as the long goodbye known as Brexit grinds into laborious gear. "Endgame," perhaps Samuel Beckett's greatest study of living in the shadow of mortality, has been given a starry revival at the Old V...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
Ever since the advent of the iPhone and iPad, some people have been using their laptops a lot less. It made me wonder if I need one at all. So I asked Kimber Streams, who tests laptops at The Wirecutter, a product reviews website owned by The New York Times, for some advice. For people who basically use their laptop to...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Because my apartment is too small to store the recommended pandemic preparedness supplies without turning the space into an obstacle course, the packages of water, peanut butter, canned soup, granola bars, pasta, tomato sauce, Theraflu, DayQuil, and Purell now protrude from under my girlfriend's dining room table (whic...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Peering into a webcam, her face intermittently frozen over an iffy Skype connection in Medellin, Colombia, Lizz Quain was explaining not long ago why she uprooted her 9 year old twins almost a year and a half ago to travel the world. Ms. Quain, who is in her 40s, owned a children's play cafe and preschool near Seattle ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Style
"I tell you a funny thing about dying," a cook named Murgatroyd says, waggling a bloody hand. He is propped up on a gurney, red seeping copiously from his abdomen, yet the squad of soldiers pays him no mind. "Listen, will yer," he exhorts them. "It's a dead man talking!" Murgatroyd (Jonathan Tindle) is not dead yet, bu...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam Hammer and sickle flags are flying here as Ho Chi Minh City, the seemingly irrepressible bastion of Vietnamese capitalism, dutifully marks the start on Tuesday of the Communist Party's National Congress, an event held every five years to chart the course of a country that has witnessed an econ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Global Business
A major trial of high dose blood thinners in critically ill hospitalized Covid 19 patients is being temporarily halted because there appears to be no benefit to the treatment and there may be some harm, the trial's leaders announced Tuesday. The independent monitoring board that called for the trial to be paused did no...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Joshua Bright for The New York Times While the article raises appropriate concerns about the need to increase efforts to vaccinate people against seasonal flu, it doesn't mention several factors that could act to reduce the severity of this year's flu season. The marked reduction in air travel should reduce the introdu...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Sure, astrophysicists have big telescopes, and oceanographers use underwater robots, but some researchers get to cook venison, lots of it, in the name of science. Last month in the journal Scientific Reports, a team of archaeologists and organic chemists described how they had spent a year cooking a variety of meals in...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
I am a sucker for fall. I am also a sucker for dusk. So I am a double sucker for WOODLAND DREAMS (Chronicle, 32 pp., 17.99; ages 3 to 5), which takes place on a very late afternoon in very late autumn. (Eyelids getting heavy yet?) As evening draws nigh, an unnamed little girl and her big black dog amble through a cozy ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
SEATTLE Amazon held off stiffer competition for online shoppers during the holiday season, once again increasing its sales. But the company said on Thursday that growth slowed from its usual breakneck pace and it came at a cost, with the company spending far more on shipping to win customers. While strong, the latest q...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
LOS ANGELES Disney on Thursday reported an 82 percent decline in quarterly operating income, the result of steep losses at its coronavirus devastated theme park division and the postponement of major movie releases. But Wall Street had already decided that Disney's overall results for the quarter, the fourth in the com...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media