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Arizona, where I was born, in July became the first state to cut poor families' access to welfare assistance to a maximum of 12 months over a lifetime. That's a fifth of the time allowed under federal law, and means that 5,000 more people will lose their benefits by next June. This is only the latest tightening of the ...
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Credit...Nathan Bajar for The New York Times The artist Julie Mehretu has been flying awfully close to the sun. Soaring midair on a mobile platform inside an unused Harlem church, she has been working and reworking two towering paintings taking shape on opposite walls, a monumental commission for the San Francisco Muse...
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Organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the giant pop festival in the picturesque desert of Southern California, have delayed next month's event to October over concerns about the coronavirus, the festival announced on Tuesday after days of speculation. The festival, which had been planned in two we...
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Savage and somber, "Sweet Country" is, on its face, the story of a manhunt. Set in Alice Springs, Australia, in 1929, the movie tracks the fate of Sam (a fine Hamilton Morris), an Aboriginal stockman forced to flee after killing a white farmer in self defense. Around this spare story, though, the director Warwick Thorn...
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Melania Trump's speech at the Republican National Convention on Monday evening may have had a striking similarity to some parts of Michelle Obama's address at the 2008 Democratic convention, but in one aspect, at least, her appearance was original: her clothes. In normal circumstances, this probably would have been a b...
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SAN FRANCISCO Peter Thiel is a billionaire, the biggest Donald J. Trump supporter in Trump hating Silicon Valley and, above all, someone who prides himself on doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. So it makes perfect sense that right after President Trump proclaimed in his inaugural address that "the bedro...
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'HILMA AF KLINT: PAINTINGS FOR THE FUTURE' at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (through April 23). This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 1913. It demonstrates that a female Swedish artist got there f...
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Romance is a malleable concept. For some, it's rose petals strewed on the bed. For others, it's the awe of the great wide open. With that in mind, here are some new and improved hotels and resorts to woo many ages and stages of love, from platonic crushes to wedded commitment. The French Caribbean island synonymous wit...
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Anne Nguyen is a French b girl and choreographer. In her home country, she's gained a reputation for rethinking the conventions of hip hop dance and how the form might best be transferred from street to stage. She's hardly the first choreographer to address these issues, but over the past two weeks, the Crossing the Li...
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Pitcher Liam Hendriks, right, with Sean Murphy, who had hit a home run in the fourth inning, after the Oakland A's beat the Chicago White Sox, 6 4, on Thursday to advance. No team knows the agony of instant elimination like the Oakland Athletics. In the eight seasons of the Major League Baseball wild card game, only th...
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Lecy Goranson and John Goodman in the new season of "The Conners," which begins Wednesday and will grapple directly with the pandemic. When "The Conners" returned to set in mid August after a lengthy pandemic delay, John Goodman had no doubt that every safety precaution had been taken. But his heart still fluttered a b...
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Theo Epstein, the baseball executive and architect of two of the most remarkable championships in sports history, announced on Tuesday that he would step down from his post as president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, saying the time was right to hand the reins to Jed Hoyer, the Cubs' general manager, and ...
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'Boys Are Boys and Girls Are Girls': Idaho Is First State to Bar Some Transgender Athletes Idaho has become the first state in the United States to bar transgender girls from participating in girls' and women's sports and to legalize the practice of asking girls and women to undergo sex testing in order to compete. The...
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A pandemic is frightening, and isolating. It is psychically frustrating: We need other people now more than ever. At the same time, other people have never been more dangerous to our health. The choice to go outside, even to help others, means assuming risk for yourself, loved ones and strangers. It's easy to feel powe...
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"I just want to be like a good example to somebody in the future," said Megan Thee Stallion, a 24 year old rapper from Houston, who hosted a beauty pageant that awarded the winner 2,500 in college tuition money. The 24 year old rapper hosted a kinder beauty pageant, with scholarship money as the prize because "tuition ...
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Twitter was founded in 2006. Fourteen years later, and perhaps thanks to the influential example of President Trump, the masters of the universe have apparently learned to post to it. This week alone, a plethora of influential politicians and business leaders have at least attempted to use the social media platform wit...
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Full reviews of recent dance performances: nytimes.com/dance. A searchable guide to these and other performances is at nytimes.com/events. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Wednesday through June 21) The company opens its Lincoln Center engagement on Wednesday with the Ailey Spirit Gala, featuring young dancers from ...
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The natural history of the postwar New York art world is usually understood according to a fairly simple geography. Abstract Expressionism, America's entry into the major leagues, was shown uptown, by tony dealers like Betty Parsons, Sidney Janis and Eleanor Ward. By the time Pop and Minimalism had taken over in the la...
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On a recent afternoon at Soho Rep, a welder sent sparks arcing past a dressing room strewn with metal bars and twin vises holding lengths of steam pipe. Lumber and sprinkler system components packed the upstairs hallway; in the theater itself, a lighting team wearing cloth masks crowded around a table. It was good to b...
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VICTORIANS UNDONE Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum By Kathryn Hughes Illustrated. 414 pp. Johns Hopkins University Press. 29.95. The average biographer peers into a Great Man's mind. Kathryn Hughes's "Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum," in contrast, narrates the lives of five body part...
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Sublime skiing, snowboarding and "snow surfing" are only part of the story in this Japanese resort. Culinary adventures abound, local whiskey flows and hot springs are the perfect apres ski option. Niseko where the powder is voluminous, apres ski happens in onsens (hot springs), and culinary adventures abound is a popu...
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With each passing day it becomes more obvious how unlucky we are that one of the worst crises in American history coincides with Donald Trump's presidency. To get out of this crisis with the least loss of life and least damage to our economy, we need a president who can steer a science based, nonpartisan debate through...
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What books are on your nightstand? I go through things in batches, and recently I've been trying to read more about movies. The top book on the nightstand is Owen Gleiberman's "Movie Freak," which is about his love of movies and his life as a movie lover. Who is your favorite novelist of all time? And your favorite nov...
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Applying inexpensive petroleum jelly to a new baby daily for the first six months of life may reduce the risk that the infant will develop eczema, which can be a lifelong torment, according to a new analysis. Two studies done in newborns with relatives suffering from atopic dermatitis, the most common form of eczema, s...
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American democracy is alive and well, or at least functioning, in "Boys State," a happy pill of a documentary. Each year, thousands of high school boys congregate in their home states for some intense governance cosplay sponsored by the American Legion. In a single whirlwind week, participants are embedded in opposing ...
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Even before a pandemic caused this endless ache for the community of the outside world; before the puddles on my city block no longer reflected the buzzy lights from open shops at night; and before I spoke to everyone I loved through a parade of various screens ("Zooms," "Hangouts," "FaceTimes"), I had gotten in the ha...
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Amazon Users in India Will Get Less Choice and Pay More Under New Selling Rules NEW DELHI On Friday, Indian consumers will wake up to an emptier, more expensive version of Amazon's shopping service. Gone will be iPhones and cheap jumbo packs of Pampers diapers. Fewer varieties of Maybelline cosmetics will be available,...
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A new public service announcement makes a point that federal leaders have largely overlooked: Asian Americans are facing a surge of harassment linked to fears about the coronavirus pandemic. The spot, which debuted on Tuesday, includes testimonials from a firefighter, a nurse, a driver, an artist, the celebrity chef Me...
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The last two thirds of the book are a compendium of rants on topics that both fascinate and confound the author. Brutalist architecture is lauded. Andy Warhol is paid homage to and parodied at the same time. Chimpanzee art is used as a means to illuminate the insanity of the contemporary art market. The music of Waters...
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The Week in Tech: Are Lawmakers Too Eager to Weaken Big Tech's Legal Shield? Each week, we review the week's news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hi, I'm Jamie Condliffe. Greetings from London. Here's a look at this past week's tech news: Some lawmakers are scrambling to r...
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Kevin Hart shut the door on hosting the Oscars in an interview on "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. "I'm not hosting the Oscars this year," Hart told Michael Strahan, one of the morning show's hosts, citing the lack of preparation time for the Feb. 24 ceremony and the shoot schedule for his next film, a sequel to "J...
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All this is parsed in great detail by "Seurat's Circus Sideshow," an enthralling exhibition opening on Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Centered on two paintings and 16 drawings by Seurat, the show is a superb feat of contextualizing. It surrounds "Circus Sideshow" with scores of sideshow paintings by other ar...
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Anton Rubinstein's 1871 opera, "Demon," is a tried and true 19th century plot with a religious twist: A fallen angel seeks redemption through a woman's love. In Russia, it was the most popular opera of its day. Then it disappeared. "Rubinstein became a footnote in Russian history in a way that is ill deserved," said Le...
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Looking at television this past year, I sobbed at the sight of Nazis on the streets of Charlottesville. I don't remember crying over the terrible cancer diagnosis back in 2008. Living with the disease for almost a decade has made me more susceptible to the sorrow and the pity of unrelated but potentially horrific suffe...
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TIMMY FAILURE: MISTAKES WERE MADE (2020) Stream on Disney Plus. The filmmaker Tom McCarthy's 2015 investigative journalism nail biter, "Spotlight," won an Academy Award for best picture. "Timmy Failure," his first movie since, is also about professional investigators. One of them is an 11 year old. The other is a polar...
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The pianist McCoy Tyner's impact on music is usually explained through his relationship to John Coltrane, a childhood friend who became his boss in one of the most significant ensembles in American history. But the story of Mr. Tyner, who died on Friday, is also the story of a bandleader and composer whose granite styl...
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How will children make sense of the times we are living through? How can parents help them form and understand the narrative, even when they themselves feel worried, overwhelmed and unsure? I went back to several of the pediatricians I've consulted about different aspects of the coronavirus and asked: How are you telli...
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It was a bright, seasonably cool Sunday afternoon, and as the light poured in through the windows of Sarah Jessica Parker's newly opened shoe boutique at the South Street Seaport, so did the crowds. They were drawn to the candy colored stilettos on display, and then found themselves in utter rapture upon seeing the sta...
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This three bedroom vacation home sits in the heart of Croatia's mountainous Gorski Kotar region, a northwestern pocket of the country known as the "green lungs" of Croatia that stretches down to the Adriatic Sea. Completed in 2019, the three story house sits on a sloped quarter acre lot and features the traditional woo...
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The moon is drifting away. Every year, it gets about an inch and a half farther from us. Hundreds of millions of years from now, our companion in the sky will be distant enough that there will be no more total solar eclipses. For decades, scientists have measured the moon's retreat by firing a laser at light reflecting...
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AS hot, wind fed wildfires swirled around her town in early September, Darlene Simmons, 76, was busy cooking spaghetti in her kitchen. As a resident of Middletown, a small town in Northern California, she had been through wildfires before. But her home, where she had lived for 45 years, had never been harmed. So Ms. Si...
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Carrying forward a family tradition of summering at the shore with a new chapter and a new house in Montauk, N.Y. Growing up near Buffalo, N.Y., Jonathan Yellen cherished his family's annual pilgrimage to the beach. "We'd throw everybody into the station wagon, drive out to Cape Cod, stay in a little two or three bedro...
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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 newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. On Wednesday, President Trump...
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While Dr. Lange saw the consortium as expanding the courses available to Duke students, some faculty members worried that the long term effect might be for the university to offer fewer courses and hire fewer professors. Others said there had been inadequate consultation with the faculty. When 2U, the online education ...
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Credit...Kristin Bogadottir for The New York Times It's a gorgeous August day in a Reykjavik park, and Ragnar Kjartansson is Zooming with me by phone. Aside from frozen fish, Mr. Kjartansson is one of Iceland's most notable exports, feeding weirdly compelling performances to the global art world. Pointing his phone's l...
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Reports of crisis in the Swiss luxury watch industry have come thick and fast this year, with the independent Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry announcing that exports fell 10.2 percent by value in the nine months to the end of September, compared with the same period in the previous year. But not every Swiss watc...
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Fossils discovered in Morocco are the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens, scientists reported on Wednesday, a finding that rewrites the story of mankind's origins and suggests that our species evolved in multiple locations across the African continent. "We did not evolve from a single 'cradle of mankind' somewhere in...
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Rajendra Pachauri speaking to reporters in Geneva in 2008. As chairman of the United Nations' climate science panel, he worked to make the risks of global warning known. Rajendra K. Pachauri, a charismatic voice on the risks of global warming who led the United Nations' climate science agency when it won the Nobel Peac...
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SAN FRANCISCO When Logan Green, chief executive of the ride hailing service Lyft, was asked which tech leaders he admired, he pointed to three men who had built their companies ruthlessly: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. "A lot of other Silicon Valley companies are very scared to get their hands dirty with o...
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On Sunday and Monday, those in the Western Hemisphere with clear skies were fortunate enough to see the last total lunar eclipse of the decade. As the moon took on a distinctly redder shade just before midnight Eastern Time, livestreams of the phenomenon showed a flash of light suddenly and briefly emanating from the l...
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It's impossible to hear about the way parties, day camps and church services have led to outbreaks this summer without worrying about what will happen if kids and adults gather in the fall. It scares me to think of how many more lives will be lost. It terrifies me that I could be among those who lose their lives. I com...
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FRANKFURT Luigi Colani, a German designer known for applying sensuous shapes from nature to high tech objects like supersonic jets and super sports cars, died on Monday in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was 91. His death was confirmed by Albrecht Bangert, who wrote the 2004 book "The Art of Shaping the Future" with Mr. Colani....
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Rebecca Smeyne for The New York Times Credit... The Andy Warhol Foundati...
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LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA Only a few years ago, Bine Kordez was feted as Slovenia's star entrepreneur. After transforming a home improvement chain, Merkur, into a regional giant, he drew on easy credit from state run banks to help orchestrate a EUR400 million management buyout of the company, the largest in the country's his...
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When photos began circulating of migrant children separated from their parents and placed in what looked like giant cages in detention centers, the young adult novelists Melissa de la Cruz and Margaret Stohl had an immediate response. After texting nine author friends asking what they could collectively do, Ms. de la C...
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SEATTLE If you're one of the millions of people without a smart speaker in your home, Amazon wants to talk to you. On Thursday, the company announced not one, not six, but more than a dozen devices for its Alexa voice assistant all meant to solve problems in your life that you may not have even known you had. "If you h...
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I WAS flying down a steep hillside when I glanced at the instruments and realized what I had achieved: a new personal best in a Porsche. But this wasn't the usual Porsche milestone, of some heroic track speed. Instead, I'd reached a more nerdy goal, recording a 30 miles per gallon highway average. What's more, that not...
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DALLAS The din begins around 5 o'clock at the Katy Trail Ice House, as predominantly millennial age beer drinkers grasping 18 ounce schooners spill out of the metal framed bar and onto an oak shaded patio in the booming Uptown neighborhood. Located where a swingers club used to be, it has become one of the highest reve...
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Finland has long produced a disproportionate number of world class conductors. Just look at the New York Philharmonic this month: Esa Pekka Salonen, born in Helsinki, ended a guest stint with the orchestra on Tuesday. And just two days later, Santtu Matias Rouvali born 60 miles north, in Lahti made an auspicious Philha...
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Renan Lodi's play in his first year at Atletico Madrid has quickly justified his multimillion dollar transfer fee.Credit.../EPA, via Shutterstock Renan Lodi's arrival at Atletico Madrid has fulfilled his dream of playing in the Champions League, but it also produced a long awaited payday for the scouting business that ...
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An eagle population in South Africa is thriving despite its situation in an agricultural landscape, according to a new paper in The Condor: Ornithological Applications. The birds are Verreaux's eagles, predators in decline in southern Africa. Surprisingly, a community in the heavily farmed Sandveld region is healthier ...
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Crossing the Line, a playful and probing interdisciplinary festival now in its eighth year, hosts an array of artists who refuse to be bottled up and labeled. The pickings are eclectic, from the debut of the Argentine director and visual artist Fernando Rubio, who places seven actresses in white beds in Hudson River Pa...
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The N.F.L. team in Washington has hired the law firm Wilkinson Walsh to review the claims of 15 women who, in an article published by The Washington Post on Thursday, said they were sexually harassed while employed by the team. The article detailed numerous allegations of sexual harassment, misconduct and abusive behav...
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WASHINGTON After a bruising week before lawmakers, big internet companies including Facebook and Google relented to pressure in Washington on Friday and agreed to support a sex trafficking bill they had vehemently opposed for months. The bill would allow victims to sue websites that knowingly support and assist sex tra...
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Africa's elephants are widely loved and widely endangered. Poachers killed off nearly 30 percent of the continent's savanna elephants from 2007 to 2014, according to a survey published this week. Their populations are now declining at a rate of nearly 8 percent a year. But there are actually two species of African elep...
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Hotels, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, media interviews. In recent months, this has been the daily ordeal of my brother, Jacob Blake Sr. or as we call him in our family, "Big Jake." He regularly visited the hospital bedside in Milwaukee where his son, my nephew, lay partly paralyzed for over a month before being tr...
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Megan Ramey's first bike related vacation with her husband and their daughter, now 5, helped inspire her to start Bikabout, an online travel resource for everything bicycling, with information on bike friendly lodging, traveling with bikes, renting them and where to ride them around town, along with tips on culture, et...
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In "Black Box," it's bad enough for Nolan (Mamoudou Athie) that, half a year after losing his wife in an automobile accident that also put him into a temporary coma, he's still suffering from amnesia. But what's worse are his dreams, which are increasingly becoming nightmares. And the fact that one morning he wakes up ...
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This article is part of a series aimed at helping you navigate life's opportunities and challenges. What else should we write about? Contact us: smarterliving nytimes.com. Justine Griffin was 25 when she submitted an application to donate her eggs to a fertility clinic in Florida, detailing everything about herself fro...
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The federal government's multibillion dollar aid program to help small businesses hurt by the pandemic prompted outrage after billions went to public companies while mom and pop businesses were sidelined. Now, another group of recipients is being scrutinized for taking the money: independent wealth management firms, so...
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Price's synthesis is less successful, as at times the external world disappears into the textures of his protagonist's consciousness. The novel could have gone into greater depth in its consideration of the complex figure of the Leopard (more than once distantly referred to as an "astronomer great grandfather"), and ch...
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LONDON Allied Irish Banks, the lender that is being bailed out by the government, has decided not to award senior staff about 40 million euros ( 53 million) in bonuses for 2008 after the country's finance ministry intervened late Monday. Ireland's finance minister, Brian Lenihan, told RTE radio on Tuesday that it was "...
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The abstract artist Sean Scully has striped his canvases in yellows from palest omelet to warning flare. His choices have been uncontroversial his paintings have sold for more than 1 million each until last summer, when he went a shade too far on one of his own homes. Mr. Scully, 73, specified Gold Zinger paint (from V...
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"It's literally the most insane fashion week ever," said Sara Moonves, standing outside her Chinatown apartment one evening during New York Fashion Week waiting for an Uber. Complaints about shuttling from shows in abandoned subway stations on the Lower East Side and former weapons facilities on Park Avenue is basicall...
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It's common while traveling to be approached by locals trying to make a few a bucks by offering to show you around. I typically respond with a polite "no," but on this particular morning in Kandy, a small city in the center of Sri Lanka, I was looking for someone to take me on a tour of the sights. Santha, a small, mid...
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This is an article from Turning Points, a special section that explores what critical moments from this year might mean for the year ahead. On the pandemic and finding solace in art The thing I missed the most while in lockdown were the museums, the art galleries and the theater they are the high point of existence. La...
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Need a translation app for your vacation but don't want to get slammed with a big data bill? New updates to Google Translate, including the addition of another major language and a pop up translation feature, can help. Google said today that its translation app which can translate in a number of ways including hearing ...
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Credit...Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times Hollywood's Premier Fashion Camp, for Ages 6 and Up Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times Credit... Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times LOS ANGELES It's never too early to start working on your brand. This dictum, at the ...
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When John Elder Robison was teaching his young son, Cubby, the finer points of etiquette almost two decades ago, he noted that in addition to "please" and "thank you," it's nice to include a salutation while making a request. "For example," he said, "if you wanted me to get you milk, you could say: 'Please, wondrous Da...
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It's hard to imagine a time when Mahler's music was obscure. His Fifth Symphony alone keeps popping up. Jaap van Zweden chose it to make a statement last season, when he was the New York Philharmonic's music director designate. The Los Angeles Philharmonic has played it twice this year. And on Monday evening it showed ...
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In the turmoil of this spring's quarantine learning, one thing Pamela Ononiwu, of Fairfax County, Va., did not expect was that her three elementary school age children might actually be happier learning at home. Yet outside the academic pressures and social agonies of the daily school grind, they thrived so much so tha...
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The price of gold rose above 1,500 an ounce on Wednesday for the first time, pushed higher by investor concerns about global inflation, government debt and turmoil in the Arab world. The prices of other precious metals, like silver and platinum, have also surged recently on what analysts call a flight to quality, when ...
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Aretha Franklin, who passed away on Thursday, sang with a quality that has proved irresistible to filmmakers and TV showrunners: intensity. It doesn't matter if the song is up tempo or a ballad the range and depth of her catalog makes it a rich resource for directors. To invoke one of her beloved hits for a scene the s...
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Thursday's game between the Denver Broncos and the Jets was close right up until the end. It had some huge plays. It had an exciting finish. But to say the game a 37 28 victory that gave the Broncos (1 3) their first win and has the Jets a quarter of the way to 0 16 was a good start to Week 4 would be to ignore the qua...
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In the 1980s, doctors began seeing former polio patients complaining of extreme fatigue, muscle weakness, debilitating joint pain, breathing difficulty and intolerance of cold. Dr. Perry was a leader in tracing the symptoms to the overuse of muscles and nerves in combating and recovering from polio. The condition becam...
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Health
Hungry to Return to the Rhythms of New York City Back in 1983, Deborah Prymas and her then husband bought a two bedroom, two bathroom co op in a prime location on West End Avenue in the 70s. It cost them 170,000. Two decades later, her husband left. Ms. Prymas, now 66, remained in the co op with the couple's daughter, ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, analysts fiercely debated the role of the approximately six million voters who supported President Barack Obama in 2012 but shifted their support to Mr. Trump in 2016. Democratic strategists also had to worry about their future behavior: Was 2016 a temporary bli...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Christmas dance entertainment in New York is always dominated by two companies: New York City Ballet in "The Nutcracker," which opened Friday at the David H. Koch Theater, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center, which begins Wednesday. Both seasons run through Jan. 3. There is an impressive number of...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies. Last month, I found myself a dissenting voice on one of the summer's most acclaimed films, "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets." At first glance, the movie appears to be a documentary about the final day of a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
Waffling between anger and pathos, dry humor and dead eyed violence, "Fatman" feels tonally befuddled. As fans of HBO's "Vice Principals" will attest, Goggins can dance on this sort of knife edge with ease, but the script (by the directors) isn't sharp enough to support his or Gibson's efforts or even smoothly incorpor...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
It is encouraging to see the gun owning community confront the extreme danger of a firearm in the hands of a person at risk of suicide. The article explores a range of strategies for gun dealers and owners to keep guns away from those who might do harm to themselves, and mentions an effective solution when voluntary me...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Harris County has enlisted the help of the community to drop off dead birds for testing. Houston Braces for Another Brush With the Peril of Zika HOUSTON With 4.5 million people in a hot, muggy metropolis built atop a bayou, America's fourth largest city, Houston, is a perfect target for the mosquito borne Zika virus. B...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
The documentary "On the President's Orders" opens with a clip of President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines saying in 2016 that he would be "happy to slaughter" the country's drug addicts. He approvingly compares taking that action to Hitler's genocide of Jews. A title card tells us that a year later, Duterte, bowing...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
With a trunk that produces 110 decibel blasts that can be heard for miles, elephants are well equipped for long distance communication. But it turns out they may be letting their feet do some of the talking, too. Using tools designed for detecting earthquakes, researchers found that different elephant activities walkin...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
President Obama is proposing a financial aid overhaul that for the first time would tie colleges' eligibility for campus based aid programs Perkins loans, work study jobs and supplemental grants for low income students to the institutions' success in improving affordability and value for students, administration offici...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Education
"If you wait long enough, what is admired will be relegated to history's dustbin," wrote Ada Louise Huxtable, "and if you wait even longer, it will be rescued and restored." That cycle has repeated more than once for Paul Rudolph (1918 1997), one of the most celebrated architects of the 1960s, whose reputation keeps os...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Some two decades ago, New York City began a huge cleanup of its downtrodden theater district, vastly improving the fortunes of the pedestrian clogged Times Square neighborhood. In recent months, that progress has gone into high gear, with rents reaching new highs and several redevelopment projects proceeding. Reflectin...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around the world for the code names of American intelligence programs. What gave the Russian hacking, detected more than two years ago, such global reach was its im...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Pablo Picasso probably wasn't thinking about macular degeneration when he remarked: "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist as we grow up." But the statement has more than a grain of truth in it for Serge Hollerbach, 94, a Russian born artist in Manhattan. Mr. Hollerbach painted throughout eve...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design