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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. Tucked among mansions in this affluent Boston suburb, Pine Manor College was long a finishing school, a place for well heeled women to receive an education and for Ivy League men to find wives earning it the pejorative nickname "Pine Mattress." Photographs around campus show alumnae clad in white g...
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Almost anyone who works in the Washington Post newsroom can look inside its publishing system, Methode, to see what stories are coming. And at the height of the furor over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court in 2018, some who did saw a shocking article awaiting publication. In the article, Bob Woodward, t...
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One patient, admitted to a hospital in Wuhan, China, infected at least 10 health care workers and four other patients with the coronavirus that has sickened more than 34,000 people, killed 700 and reached two dozen other countries. The case was just one disturbing detail in a new report on 138 patients in Wuhan that he...
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As winter sports resorts in North America closed in response to the coronavirus outbreak, skiers and snowboarders began flocking to backcountry trails or to slopes where they could trek uphill and then take a downhill run. Though the activities are not forbidden, public officials have begun imploring the skiers and sno...
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. Around 9 a.m. on Saturday, a long line of artfully clad young women was forming around a beige corporate park. They had flown, driven, pleaded with their parents and assembled posses for the inaugural Teen Vogue Summit: a two day event, costing from 299 549 per ticket. "This has been a dream come tr...
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On the first day of December, a fleet of trucks illuminating the words of activists, poets, artists, educators and people living with H.I.V. and AIDS will travel through the city, competing with the billboards, neon and other distractions, in a mobile art exhibition for World AIDS Day. The interactive experience, on LE...
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AMG, the in house tuner shop for Mercedes Benz, has consistently found ways to push the performance abilities of production vehicles without betraying their luxurious nature. The AMG machines can be ridiculously powerful, but they've also been as fully useful and indomitable as any other Mercedes. The 2014 CLA45 AMG 4M...
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The exit interview had just about ended last week when I asked Maria Sharapova if she would consider coaching in retirement. Sharapova, standing tall as usual, doubled over with laughter. Safe to say that was a no. She also closed the door on a comeback as a player even though comebacks are a staple of women's tennis. ...
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As movie buffs already know, "The Post," the Steven Spielberg journalism thriller starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, hits theaters in wide release on Jan. 12. Set in 1971, the film follows the Washington Post's first female publisher, Katharine Graham, and its editor Ben Bradlee as they grapple with the decision to p...
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WASHINGTON Russian agents intending to sow discord among American citizens disseminated inflammatory posts that reached 126 million users on Facebook, published more than 131,000 messages on Twitter and uploaded over 1,000 videos to Google's YouTube service, according to copies of prepared remarks from the companies th...
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To improve a Mets team that has not made the playoffs since 2016, the new general manager, Brodie Van Wagenen, has made a flurry of moves this winter, like trading for second baseman Robinson Cano and closer Edwin Diaz and signing catcher Wilson Ramos, infielder Jed Lowrie and reliever Jeurys Familia. On paper, the Met...
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When Samantha Flores wasn't taking classes at the University of Maryland for her master's degree in cello performance this past academic year, she could often be found hanging out with a bunch of 80 somethings. Ms. Flores, 28, along with another music student, was participating in a new artists in residence program at ...
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Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. 'THE DAMNED' at the Park Avenue Armory (performances start on July 17). And the beautiful. The visionary director Ivo van Hove storms the ...
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That the N.C.A.A. bars athletes from receiving compensation isn't the only issue Congress has with the organization. Health, safety and systemic racism were the main topics of discussion in the third Senate committee hearing this year debating whether to implement federal oversight for name, image and likeness rights f...
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Jan Fabre Is Renowned for Pushing Boundaries. Did He Go Too Far With His Dancers? BRUSSELS Jan Fabre is a big deal in international dance, theater and art circles. Since the 1980s, Mr. Fabre, a multidisciplinary Belgian artist, has pushed dance, especially, in new directions. He created visually opulent pieces in which...
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If you seek the socialist vision of this country's founders, it's no longer in the Knesset it's on the wall. MA'ALEH HA HAMISHA, Israel In a modest building at this kibbutz in the hills outside Jerusalem, brawny workers in strong colors labor across three high walls, breaking rocks and plowing dark earth. Forgotten, th...
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Some say crises don't so much alter the course of history as accelerate changes already underway. That's certainly the case when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic and the offshoring of American jobs. In recent years, businesses have been rethinking the way that overextended, overseas supply lines expose them to unac...
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Our columnist, Jada Yuan, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2018 list. This dispatch brings her to Kigali, Rwanda; it took the No. 31 spot on the list and is the 39th stop on Jada's itinerary. "Everyone is coming. Let's grab that table," said Nathalie Gatesi, a new friend, as she commandeered a hig...
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Around 2004 at a government hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone, a team of American scientists and West African medical personnel found what appeared to be Ebola antibodies in nearly 9 percent of blood samples. A growing body of scientific clues some ambiguous, others substantive suggests that the Ebola virus may have lur...
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This year has been a career making one for the tennis player She is ranked No. 11 in the world, won her second Women's Tennis Association title in June, and will be competing at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Ms. Keys doesn't do much vacationing, preferring to spend her limited time off with her family. When she does ...
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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. Jennifer Turner's algebra classes were once sleepy affairs, and a lot of her students struggled to stay awake. Today, they are active and engaged, thanks to ne...
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HUNTER JOHN HURST, 16, of Raleigh, N.C., is a living example of a modern day conundrum. Like many others his age, he needs to earn money this summer. But finding a job is tougher than ever, with the number of teenagers employed nationwide at a near historical low. He watched some of his friends land work often with the...
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Mixing a lathered up love triangle with a ghostly murder mystery, Derek Nguyen's "The Housemaid" wraps a painful chapter in Vietnamese history in Gothic melodrama trappings. The result is a good looking but overstuffed genre pileup that confuses as often as it compels. Set in 1953 when Vietnam was under French colonial...
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"In Texas, as 'Giant' so brilliantly points out, big is always better than small; and if the only way to be big is to lose big, then well, so be it," Larry McMurtry wrote in The New York Times in 1996. The director George Stevens's film, starring Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean, and based on Edna Ferber's 1952 novel of...
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Dear Jets: There's Hope to Be Found in a Winless Season. Take It From Someone Who Knows. Only two N.F.L. teams in history have gone 0 16 since the regular season expanded to 16 games in 1978: the Detroit Lions in 2008 and the Cleveland Browns in 2017. It appears the 2020 Jets (0 10) are making a run at joining them. Ye...
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Fran Cannon Slayton is a children's book author who received a diagnosis of brain cancer in 2016. She has Affordable Care Act coverage and is concerned she will lose protections for pre existing conditions. Fran Cannon Slayton, a children's book author with brain cancer, has summoned a hopeful energy since her diagnosi...
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TORONTO Soulpepper Theater Company isn't moving everything to New York for the month of July. Its theater in Toronto's Distillery District will still be open, with six productions on two of its three main stages. But a dozen other Soulpepper shows are headed for Manhattan, and 65 artists are making the trip. Add suppor...
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In January 1965, John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot and I wandered into the exotic beauty of St. John's Caneel Bay pitching our tents in the campsite, a gem of the Virgin Islands National Park. We lived in our bathing suits and snorkeled with the millions of fish that swam among the coral reefs. We chartered a c...
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A bite size sampling of concours, cruise nights, auctions, club races and other upwellings of car culture happening across America this weekend: Greyhound is bringing some of the buses it has used over the years on two separate tours in celebration of its 100 year history. Among the coaches on the north tour, which wil...
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Update: The writer's father is recovering, and plans to return to work when he is able to. YONKERS, N.Y. On Monday, around 5 a.m., I drove my father to Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, where he works as an emergency room doctor. He sat in the back seat, just as I did when he used to drive me to schoo...
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Margaret and Katherine Kleveland, sisters and founders of Doen, with their children at a farmers' market in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Silky and saloon ready, Ms. Chung's ensemble seemed a fitting cap to a summer that has seen a resurgence of prairie chic. Over the past six months it is as if the Donn...
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Mario Molina, who shared a Nobel Prize for work showing the damage that chemicals used in hair spray and refrigerators wreak on the ozone layer, which led to one of the most successful international efforts to combat environmental risk, died on Oct. 7 at his home in Mexico City. He was 77. The cause was a heart attack,...
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"It was a very long time ago, and certainly it was a very difficult piece to do," she said. "It was a baptism of sorts. I worked with lots of really great actors, but I couldn't have chosen something more difficult, and I learned a lot." Ms. Thurman said she had been looking for years for an opportunity to return to th...
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For all his youthful energy and ambition, could Yannick Nezet Seguin have taken on too much by simultaneously holding the music directorships of the Metropolitan Opera and the Philadelphia Orchestra? He maintains that he can handle both, and even sees potential advantages. The proximity of New York and Philadelphia cou...
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Twice every year Earth collides with a ring of debris left behind by Halley's comet, creating a pair of sibling meteor showers that can dazzle in the night sky. This entire week you can catch the first of the two displays, called the Eta Aquarids. It began on April 19, and will peak on May 5 before ending around May 28...
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From left, the actors Clark Gregg and Chloe Bennet and the husband wife showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." "Melting brains is what we do," Tancharoen said ahead of the series finale. "I'm still confused a bit, too." This interview includes spoilers for the series finale ...
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Matt Haag wasn't exactly dressing to impress during his teenage years on the competitive Call of Duty circuit. The 26 year old recalled, sheepishly, the basketball shorts and Payless kicks he wore on flights to tournaments around the country back in 2008. All of his gamer friends and teammates looked the same way: schl...
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Jose Limon's "The Traitor," a dance drama made in 1954, looks and sounds like cultural programming on 1950s television. The arches of the cutout set, the anguished brass and percussion of the Gunther Schuller score, the portentous atmosphere: Even when performed live, the work seems to transpire in black and white. The...
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Once upon a time, everyone hoped that the internet, instead of becoming a bottomless pit of iniquity, would be filled with good and interesting information about large cattle. And lo, it is. But the viral photos of Knickers, the very large Australian steer, perhaps the largest steer around, have raised more questions t...
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Alexander Boyce performed a magic segment in Prospect Park for a Halloween convention hosted by the Magic Castle. Like many other magicians, Mr. Boyce has had to take his performances virtual, with varying results.Credit...Pat O'Malley for The New York Times What if They Could Make the Pandemic Go Poof? Alexander Boyce...
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Like a chameleon encountering a new environment, the top 13 floors of MiMA, a 63 story tower on West 42nd Street in Manhattan, have demonstrated a remarkable ability to adapt to market trends. They were originally envisioned, designed and built as 151 condominium units atop floors of rental apartments, but the Related ...
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Preparations for the Cadaver Ball, at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, begin in the fall. Radial Grooves, an a cappella group, selects two songs to perform; the campus hip hop and bhangra groups choreograph routines. This year's theme was the "Roaring 2020s," which was a relief to the class president, Varu...
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It was an economic quarter no one wants to repeat. Even as the winter fades in the rearview mirror and growth shows signs of picking up, it is becoming clear just how weak the economy was in the first quarter of 2014. The Commerce Department said on Thursday that the nation's overall output shrank at an annual rate of ...
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Credit...Christaan Felber for The New York Times In February, the Bravo host and executive producer Andy Cohen sent his beagle, Wacha, to live with his animal trainer in Connecticut. Experts said Wacha needed to be rehomed for his safety and that of Mr. Cohen's one year old son, Benjamin. "It truly was so traumatic, an...
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In the first two minutes of Netflix's hit reality show "Indian Matchmaking," Sima Taparia, a Mumbai based matchmaker, declares, "In India, we don't say arranged marriage. There is marriage and then love marriage." A large majority of the country's population that opts to be set up is a testimony to the popularity of th...
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Fashion & Style
GANDHI The Years That Changed the World, 1914 1948 By Ramachandra Guha Illustrated. 1,083 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. 40. "The number of books that people write on this old man takes my breath away," complained the politician B. R. Ambedkar of the proliferation of Gandhiana. That was in 1946. Ramachandra Guha must have smiled...
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. In 2013, Sonos scored a coup when Google agreed to design its music service to work easily with Sonos's home speakers. For the project, Sonos handed over the effective blueprints to its speakers. It felt like a harmless move, Sonos executives said. Google was an internet company and didn't make sp...
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Technology
BUILDERS in parts of Westchester and counties farther afield are finally venturing forth into the market once again but steering well clear of the megamansions that were popular before the real estate market tanked. "The builders I work with know the market isn't there for these monster houses anymore," said Sally Slat...
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"I'm not going" is a phrase parents dread this time of year, but a book as clever and friendly as this one may ease the situation. As the first day of school dawns, Mae is holding out, arms crossed, imagining disaster as her mom and dad hustle her out the door, insisting that fun lies ahead. She climbs a tree, where sh...
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I learned a lot from my time in the youth civics program namely that I don't want to commit my life to electoral politics. It was the summer of 2018, and I was 17. My mom's Volkswagen Passat shook to the riffs of Kierra Sheard as she looked for a place to park, and I shook along with it, nervously. I was about to embar...
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The director Greta Gerwig names paintings by Winslow Homer, the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Warren Beatty's "Reds" as a few of her inspirations for "Little Women." The novel was just the beginning. Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" is so teeming with references literary, artistic, cinema...
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It's splendid to see the performers of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater again. They burst onto the City Center Theater stage with heroic vitality: The texture of their dancing is powerful and juicy, brilliant in speed and marvelous in slowness. You feel as if you've always known them. Watching the first three nig...
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"The Simpsons" did it. So did "Sex and the City" twice. And "Breaking Bad" and "The Sopranos" are about to. Though we may be living in a golden age of television, the small screen isn't a large enough canvas for some showrunners. IMDb.com is littered with beloved TV shows that made the leap to the big screen, some more...
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LONDON In early April, Maruthalingam Thiyakumar, a 58 year old employee of the corner shop in my neighborhood in South London, died from the coronavirus. While some of my neighbors and I were able to follow Prime Minister Boris Johnson's injunction to "stay at home" and "save lives," Mr. Thiyakumar continued to provide...
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. The way the San Francisco 49ers played on Sunday afternoon, missing quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and several other starters was not an issue against the woeful and winless Giants. Nick Mullens, the backup quarterback, threw for 343 yards and a touchdown, and the Niners controlled the ball on offens...
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CHEFS, DRUGS AND ROCK ROLL How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession By Andrew Friedman 464 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. 27.99. When he first thought of it, "Chefs, Drugs and Rock Roll" must have struck Andrew Friedman as a ripsnorter of a name for his account of what ...
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The relative weakness of the older selections made the new ones, neither likely to last, seem better. In Ms. Orihara's own "Prologue," a work about mourning a mother, she applied lessons of clarity learned from her modern dance mothers a bit too well. The structure of nearly but not sitting in three chairs was too sche...
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Is there anything more sentimental than a home video of a little kid dancing? What if you extracted only the motions and put them in a different body, on an empty stage? "Helga and the Three Sailors," a richly detailed dance by Netta Yerushalmy, begins with an exercise in that vein. Alongside short, looping clips of he...
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With so many details of his death in doubt, we may never really know what happened to Michael Brown and why. Incontestably, the 18 year old was unarmed when a police officer fired 12 shots at him on Canfield Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9, 2014, two days before he was to enroll in a technical college. The officer, ...
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In 2016, Lida Xing was combing the amber markets of Myanmar when a merchant enticed him over to his booth with what he said was the skin of a crocodile trapped in amber. When Dr. Xing inspected the specimen through its honey colored encasement and noticed the diamond shaped pattern of its scales, he realized what he wa...
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"With its DNA in motorsports, its advanced engineering and coachbuilders like Rollston, LeBaron and Murphy, Duesenberg was the most impressive and important American car of its era," said Sandra Button, chairman of America's premier automotive judged competition, the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Duesenbergs have m...
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Automobiles
While snow fell outside this weekend, dancers indoors were performing naked, on both the East and West Sides of Midtown Manhattan. In the premiere of "Basketball," performed and choreographed by Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith at the Howard Gilman Performance Space at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, nakedness was integral ...
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In the 2006 movie "Borat," an American humor coach explains the concept of a "not" joke to Borat Sagdiyev, the disarmingly moronic Kazakh journalist played by Sacha Baron Cohen. "We make a statement that we pretend is true, but at the end, we say, 'not,'" the coach explains. But Borat struggles to grasp the pause requi...
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A particular strain of moody romanticism pervades "One Discordant Violin," a monologue with music adapted by Anthony Black from a jejune short story that Yann Martel ("Life of Pi") wrote in his 20s . A play about the life sustaining power of art making and the soul extinguishing peril of selling out , it valorizes suff...
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DESPITE what F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe said, you can go home again and you can have a second act or a third. And you can even find meaning, purpose and social justice along the way. Volunteering to do difficult and meaningful work is part of this new path. According to the Corporation for National and Commun...
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam had 10,000 visitors a day before the pandemic. These days, it's about 800. AMSTERDAM Visitors to the Rijksmuseum's vast, vaulted galleries of Dutch old master paintings can feel as though they've got the whole place to themselves these days. Before the pandemic, around 10,000 people used to...
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NATURE'S MUTINY How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present By Philipp Blom From around 1570 to 1710, temperatures in the earth's Northern Hemisphere plunged by an average of about 2 degrees Celsius roughly the same amount by which the planet's temperature is suppo...
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"Lichnos" (2008) by Jack Whitten. The artist carved carob wood he found in Crete and reinforced it with a plate, then inserted ceramic, bone, glass and metal. The tapered shape is inspired by the local spiny Lichnos fish.Credit...Gabriella Angotti Jones/The New York Times "Lichnos" (2008) by Jack Whitten. The artist ca...
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Paul Taylor's "Sea Lark," which had its New York premiere on Wednesday, is entirely disappointing. A trivial frolic set to Poulenc's irresistibly energetic "Les Biches," the dance, new in October, is a boating adventure, with painted waves, a large toy sailboat and boring young people being frightfully jolly. There are...
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BOSTON With the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession still a raw and painful memory, many economists are asking themselves whether they need the kind of fundamental shift in thinking that occurred during and after the Depression of the 1930s. "We have entered a brave new world," Olivier Blanchard, the Internationa...
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Netflix has deleted a graphic scene from the first season of "13 Reasons Why" in which a teenage girl kills herself, more than two years after the episode premiered. "We've been mindful about the ongoing debate around the show," Netflix said in a statement posted on Twitter on Tuesday. Netflix said the decision had bee...
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ST. KILDA, Australia On any given night, as the sun sets at the bottom of the world, dozens to hundreds of people gather along the pier at St. Kilda Beach, just off the coast of Melbourne, Australia. Their black silhouettes punctuate the sherbet sky. But they're not there for the sunset. They're there for the penguins....
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A baseball prospect getting the Call the news that he is being promoted to the major leagues for the first time is a momentous occasion. Managers and executives often take it upon themselves to deliver this news memorably, often with a prank, but the story that the San Diego Padres rookie Ryan Weathers shared of his ex...
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PARIS Euro zone manufacturers met with unexpectedly strong demand for industrial goods in June, a report showed Tuesday, suggesting Germany's export driven factories will continue to strengthen output even as the American economy slows and fears linger that the debt crisis could return to hamper the Continent's recover...
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He spent Sundays in his villa outside the city. Surrounded by orchids, he would eat a solitary lunch prepared by his housekeeper, and silently contemplate the collection of rare paintings, sculptures, furniture and books he had discreetly amassed over the decades of his successful business career. This vision of fin de...
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Paleontologists excavating a basin in southern Tanzania have uncovered 245 million year old fossils belonging to one of the earliest relatives of dinosaurs. The carnivorous creature, which is not a direct ancestor to dinosaurs but more of a close cousin, is called Teleocrater rhadinus. The discovery, which was reported...
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Built in 1905, this two story, 4,040 square foot commercial building in the Clinton Hill neighborhood has one unit, which is vacant, and a basement. It was previously occupied by Samui, a restaurant. Buyer's Brokers: Ali Raza and Troy Gordon of R New York
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Lisa Gibes and Alejandro Gac Artigas share their first dance as newlyweds at Big Daddy's Antiques in San Francisco. Alejandro Gac Artigas is known to family and friends as someone who gets a lot done quickly. "My brother gets 36 hours out of a 24 hour day, every day," said Melina Gac Levin of her younger sibling. By ag...
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BOLOGNA, Italy The artist Christian Boltanski sat on a bench in a Bologna museum facing one of the 20 works he had allocated throughout this city and mused on a favorite theme: mortality. He offered what he smilingly said was a "very pretentious" thought. "I hope that when I shall be dead, somebody that I don't know in...
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The star of Laurie Berg's "The Mineralogy of Objects" is an inflatable sex doll named Tanya. She appears midway through the 55 minute dance, which made its debut on Thursday at Danspace Project, in line with Ms. Berg and the three other female dancers who make up the cast. They toss Tanya around and try to keep her alo...
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Male fiddler crabs are lopsided. Females have two claws of about the same size. Males have one regular size claw and one outsized claw, really outsized. "The other is huge, it's greatly enlarged to the point that it can be approximately half of his body weight." They use the large claw for fighting, communicating and c...
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In recent weeks, John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg, has sometimes felt, as he put it, like "a character in a Graham Greene novel. There's an element of 'there's no perfect answer to it.'" As part of a wide ranging interview about his first year at Bloomberg, Mr. Micklethwait was discussing the latest ...
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Glassmaking is one of the world's oldest arts. Ancient Mesopotamians and Egyptians made glass glazes more than 5,000 years ago, and glassblowing was developed in the early days of the Roman Empire. Since the mid 1900s, glass has been made in factories by melting sand, then floating sheets of it in vats of molten tin (o...
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Science
THE FIRSTS The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress By Jennifer Steinhauer This year brings not only a presidential election but also the centennial of the 19th Amendment's ratification, which prohibited abridgment or denial of the right to vote "on account of sex." It's an arresting convergence. In an era that...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
'Sonic the Hedgehog' Tries Again: Does the Redesign Work Now? None Please allow him to reintroduce himself: "I'm Sonic, a little super ball of energy in an extremely handsome package," the titular alien says in the new trailer for "Sonic the Hedgehog." That package looks a lot different than it did in a trailer that wa...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
The "Blurred Lines" case has resulted in one of the biggest jury verdicts in the history of music copyright, and it's not closed yet. In the first signs of what may be a protracted post trial battle, lawyers for both sides have filed documents with the court raising questions about the verdict. Last week, a jury found ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Mushrooms, it turns out , are just the visible part of an awesome organism known as mycelium, most of which lies below ground. Neither animal nor vegetable, this vast network of cells has been sharing nutrients and forming connections for billions of years, breaking down decaying matter and transforming it into living ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
SAN FRANCISCO The last time that Congress approved a sweeping overhaul of the federal tax code, in 1986, it created a tax credit meant to encourage the private sector to invest in affordable housing. It has grown into a 9 billion a year social program that has funded the construction of some three million apartments fo...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
Celebrate the end of winter at the meatpacking district's fourth annual Open Market block party on Thursday from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. There will be bites from neighborhood spots, including Scarpetta and Bodega Negra, fashion finds from local labels like a Rebecca Taylor floral print blouse ( 100, originally 275) at sampl...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values . It is separate from the newsroom. Worker protections are critical during the pandemic yet the Trump administration has issued only voluntary guidance instead of enforceable rul...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
CHECKED your retirement savings plan lately? January's global stock market plunge is one of those moments that stoke fear among baby boomers that they might run out of money before they run out of years. The fear is understandable: Older Americans are living longer. A man who reached his 65th birthday in 2015 has an av...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
If Bangkok's Ari neighborhood could write its own autobiography, it might be called "From Bureaucrats to Baristas." For decades, the low lying leafy district was known mainly for its federal ministries, municipal administration offices and gated quasi suburban homes. Increasingly, however, Ari is a thicket of sleek hig...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
The American economy slowed in July as the pace of hiring eased from the robust rate of the previous two months, a victim of waning momentum and the resurgence of the coronavirus in many parts of the country. Employers added 1.8 million jobs, well below the 4.8 million jump in payrolls in June, the Labor Department rep...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
John D. Roberts, an organic chemist who pioneered the use of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and other techniques to reveal the structures of molecules and the dance of atoms as they rearrange in chemical reactions, died on Oct. 29 at his home in Pasadena, Calif. He was 98. The cause was a stroke, his daughter,...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
The wristbands at the Bafta tea on Saturday were black, which these days seems terribly significant. The party, sponsored by the British film and TV academy, is held every year at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills the day before the Golden Globes, and it's an altogether dignified affair, with cucumber sandwiches, famou...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
It is a rare unifying moment. Hospitals, doctors, health insurers and some consumer groups, with few exceptions, are speaking with one voice and urging significant changes to the Republican health care legislation that passed the House on Thursday. The bill's impact is wide ranging, potentially affecting not only the m...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Moments after parking our car and loading into a compact, one propeller bush plane, my three friends and I were looking down at a lush boreal landscape, newly green after the long winter. The view of soft, wooded peaks interspersed with creeks and lakes extended as far as we could see, evoking the northern territories ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
"I am a man of honor," Tommaso Buscetta insists. It's a familiar enough assertion for a man in his profession he describes himself as a "simple soldier" in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and one that Mafia movie fans have heard many times before. The context this time is a little different, though, since Buscetta (who goes b...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
A creator of the iPhone called the device "addictive." A Twitter founder said the "internet is broken." An early Facebook investor raised questions about the social network's impact on children's brains. Now, two of the biggest investors on Wall Street have asked Apple to study the health effects of its products and to...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Donatella Versace has found her new Anthony Vaccarello which is to say, her new designer for Versus Versace, the younger, hipper Versace sibling line that has been without a creative director since Mr. Vaccarello resigned to take the top job at Yves Saint Laurent this year. Except her new designer is not, actually, a d...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style