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I spent a lot of time this week trying to come up with the best way to get those who make things in Silicon Valley to better understand the suicide of Alex Kearns, a student at the University of Nebraska. He killed himself after he mistakenly believed that he had a 730,000 negative balance on the millennial popular Rob...
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In a fall season without many live shows, everything is up for grabs. That includes the canon of classics and where Bill Irwin might be performing. Every September, stages around the country spring back to life after the summer slowdown. This year, however, all usual bets are off as theaters ponder not just their fall ...
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SHOULD a Phoenix area jeweler be able to create his own private insurance company to cover his jewelry stores against possible terrorist attacks, specifically those "relating to radioactivity from a 'dirty' bomb or from nuclear fuel or nuclear waste"? And should he be allowed to sell such terrorism policies to other sm...
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Reviews of my book "My War Criminal: Personal Encounters With an Architect of Genocide" were recently published in the daily New York Times (Jan. 30) and the Sunday Book Review (Feb. 9). The subject of this book, Radovan Karadzic, is responsible for a genocide that took place during the Bosnian War. I want to acknowled...
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Stanley Greene, whose visceral and brutally honest images of conflict and fearlessness in the most perilous of places made him one of the leading war photographers of his generation, died on Friday in Paris. He was 68. The death was confirmed by the photographer owned agency Noor Images, of which Mr. Greene, who lived ...
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Sarah Isgur Flores, a Republican political operative whose hiring by CNN last month set off an uproar among liberals and several Democratic presidential campaigns, will no longer take on a management role at the network, CNN said on Friday. Instead, Ms. Isgur, who was the chief spokeswoman for former Attorney General J...
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KAZUO MIYAGAWA: JAPAN'S GREATEST CINEMATOGRAPHER at Japan Society and the Museum of Modern Art (through April 29). Was the same person really responsible for the ghostly compositions in Kenji Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu" (on Monday at MoMA), the delicate balance of color and geometry in Yasujiro Ozu's "Floating Weeds" (on Frid...
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Sea spiders are abundant in waters across the globe, and most are so small that you could hold one on the tip of your pinkie. But in the swirling waters around our planet's icy poles, these spiders are giants. If you held the largest of these creatures, its gangly legs would just dangle off the palm of your hand. Antar...
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WHEN Ken Kavula of Genesee, Mich., retired from his job as a high school principal at age 53, he decided to defy conventional wisdom and manage his own financial life including his retirement accounts and a mix of stocks and bonds he had either accumulated on his own or inherited. Fifteen years later, Mr. Kavula, now 6...
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The recent presidential election inspired a notable amount of accessorizing, with hats and T shirts, as impassioned voters wore their positions on their sleeves (or head or chest). The postelection atmosphere suggests this trend is not slowing down any time soon. The latest political fashion statement? The safety pin, ...
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With a fortune estimated at over 5 billion, Sumner M. Redstone could afford the best estate planning that money could buy. What he ended up with is a mess no matter the outcome of the welter of lawsuits swirling around Mr. Redstone, the ailing media mogul who turned 93 last Friday. A lawsuit brought by Manuela Herzer, ...
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"Describe the Night," Rajiv Joseph's sprawling and intricate drama exploring decades of Russian history through a handful of interconnected lives, won an Obie Award for best new American play on Monday night. The play, which weaves together truth and fantasy, was mounted late last year by the Atlantic Theater Company, ...
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"Jesus Christ Superstar" will rise again and tour North America. The announcement that a recent London production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical will begin touring in fall 2019 came just days after NBC aired a well received live performance of the show. This production, directed by Timothy Sheader, ope...
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In a biopic about the mating rituals of anglerfish, it's unclear what would earn the film its R rating: the sex or the violence. Born into an inky deep sea world, the males of certain anglerfish species exist solely to sniff out their mates. Upon locating his lady (who might be up to 60 times his size), the male will n...
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None The Panthers are more than just Christian McCaffrey. Carolina was one dimensional over the last few seasons, relying on the decidedly multidimensional McCaffrey to do nearly all the work. But with McCaffrey on injured reserve with an ankle injury, the Panthers have rediscovered their other players. Sunday's win ov...
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"Billie" has one of the most unusual and (at least in its initial presentation) disturbing hooks for a documentary in some time. It begins by talking not of Billie Holiday but of Linda Lipnack Kuehl, an arts journalist who in 1971 embarked on a biography of the singer Holiday. That work was never completed; Kuehl died ...
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Women in travel advertisements and in social media tend to be a certain style, a certain race and a certain body type, and it's very nonindicative of real women who travel. It makes it look like women in travel are all white, blond and young. We invite women to share their travel photos with us that are unedited. We've...
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Alex Ethan Fishman and Anthony Richard Shirk were married March 21 at their home in New York. Rabbi Gary Katz officiated. On Nov. 8, the couple is to have a celebratory ceremony led by Rabbi Matthew L. Green at the Roundhouse, an events space in Beacon, N.Y. Mr. Fishman (left), 29, is a senior innovation manager at Pep...
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Two exhibitions opening on Saturday, June 24, at the conjoined Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum at Bard College in Annandale on Hudson, N.Y., promise unfamiliar artists and revisionist viewpoints. The larger of the two, "Picture Industry," is a sprawling show organized by the artist Walead Beshty that sp...
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The J. Paul Getty Trust will invest 100 million in the conservation of antiquities from ancient societies across the world, citing threats such as sectarian violence and climate change, officials of the Los Angeles based organization said Tuesday. The trust, which operates the Getty Museum, has long focused on Greek an...
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Children in peril. The subject appears to be all the rage right now, if we judge by this year's Oscar nominated live action short films, which are screening alongside their animated and documentary counterparts before the Feb. 24 awards ceremony. Four of the titles in question feature a child in some kind of horrific d...
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How are you asking the listener to think differently about Beethoven's music through this kind of programming? I'm looking for the perception that one could have of this music if one looks to the sense that it had originally. I'm trying to transpose it, so that we understand better what Beethoven meant. He was a troubl...
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Another year, another persistent worry that the Grammy Awards will once again fail to recognize boundary pushing black performers. The nominations are led by Kendrick Lamar, Drake and a crop of female artists a promising shift after years of complaints about a lack of diversity at the music industry's big night. Howeve...
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ARCHIE ELAM is on his third career transition. Now 61 and living in Stamford, Conn., Mr. Elam is a 1976 graduate of West Point. His two decade Army career included acting as head of operations for the 18th Airborne Corps 24th Infantry Division in the first war against Iraq. The Army sent him to get an M.B.A. at Duke Un...
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New York City's ultraluxury real estate frenzy with its sky piercing condominium towers and 100 million price tags has finally come to an end. Even with every conceivable amenity, the eight and nine digit prices attached to trophy homes with helicopter views and high end finishes never bore much relation to actual valu...
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Manhattan's luxury market ended the first quarter with a surge of high priced closings. Three properties sold for more than 30 million during the month of March (and several more were at or near 20 million), according to New York City property records. But not all these transactions yielded big profits, and some were y...
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Fox News has been the highest rated cable news network for 15 years, making it a source of immense profit for its parent company, 21st Century Fox. It is a significant voice in national politics and, with its extensive use of graphics and its comfort with editorializing, a major influence on its competitors. The networ...
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In Jack Ferver's new work, dancers perform solos about their inspirations: Judy Garland, Brian Boitano, Martha Graham and wait for it My Little Pony. What do Martha Graham and My Little Pony have in common? For two dancers in Jack Ferver's latest work, they were childhood idols. "Everything Is Imaginable" showcases fiv...
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A Trump campaign rally in May 2016. Facebook reported that "malicious actors" used fake accounts during the campaign to promote links to stolen information. Nearly a year after Election Day, Facebook's role in our modern political infrastructure is finally coming into focus. We now know, for example, that Russian linke...
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In a city that can seem to be wringing every last drop of value out of its real estate, while giving block after block a squeaky clean gloss, a Manhattan loft building at 13 West 27th Street stuck out glaringly on a recent tour. Rubble filled an elevator cab inside the Beaux Arts structure, which is near Fifth Avenue, ...
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New York night owls have hooted for years that the wildest, weirdest after dark scenes have flourished somewhere else. But recent developments, like the creation of an Office of Nightlife and the repeal of the anti dancing Cabaret Law, offer hope that the dark era of club raids and closings (R.I.P. 285 Kent, Death by A...
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In the last several months, The Boston Globe and The New York Times have both printed front page editorials calling for stricter regulation of guns in the aftermath of mass shootings. It was the first time since 1920 that The Times had run an editorial on Page 1. The Virginian Pilot, which had its own mass shooting to ...
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The conductor Robert Spano, who made the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra a force to be reckoned with in contemporary American music, announced on Tuesday that he would step down as music director in 2021, after completing his 20th season. Mr. Spano, 56, is the fourth music director in the orchestra's history, and he used hi...
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Pepsi's multimillion dollar ad campaign featuring the rapper Cardi B and her holiday helpers is really something of a throwback as companies shift toward targeted online ads. In a 22nd floor suite of the Ritz Carlton in Manhattan, sipping a nonalcoholic sparkling rose from Pepsi, I was waiting for Cardi B to talk to me...
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Acel Moore, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who co founded the National Association of Black Journalists and awakened his white colleagues and their readers to everyday life in black communities, died on Friday at his home in Wyncote, Pa., near Philadelphia. He was 75. The cause was complications of diabetes and ch...
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The New York Times Company announced on Wednesday that it had appointed David Perpich, a senior executive at the company, as president and general manager of the product recommendation site The Wirecutter. The Times Company acquired The Wirecutter and its sibling, The Sweethome, in October for about 30 million, a move ...
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"I was born in the favela, and the clothes I wear are a form of resistance. The tattoos I wear carry a strong symbolism; each of them represents one of my strengths. On the face, I tattooed the symbol of Exu, one of the orixas from Candomble, my religion, and on my arm, I have tattooed the map of Africa to feel more at...
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Fables give us archetypes to live by in nutshell form. Need a reason to press on against overwhelming odds? Just see how persistence paid off for Aesop's slow but steady tortoise. Feeling a tad smug? Consider the comeuppance that awaited that same fable's haughty hare. While Aesop did not work his magic expressly with ...
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At a pub in London last month, shortly before Britain ordered its citizens to stay home, a small group of life savers shared drinks. It included Rebecca Shipley, a professor of health care engineering at University College London, her U.C.L. colleague, Tim Baker, a former racecar engineer, and some intensive care unit ...
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Downtown Albuquerque used to be a derelict stretch with dodgy streets, closed cement warehouses and graffiti scuffed railroad cars from the nearby train station. But revitalization efforts are luring field to fork chefs, hops obsessed brewers, eco chic designers, craft brewers, single estate coffee roasters and a crop ...
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The Northern Lights illuminate the sky above the start of the ice road to remote Tuktoyaktuk, which will be replaced by a permanent road by the end of 2017.Credit...Christopher Miller for The New York Times The Northern Lights illuminate the sky above the start of the ice road to remote Tuktoyaktuk, which will be repla...
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It was a bit uncanny to read Nell Zink's new novel, "Doxology," in the wake of the suicide this month of David Berman, the beloved singer and songwriter best known for his work with Silver Jews, his indie rock band. A similar type of outside the box musician, named Joe Harris, dies too young (heroin) in "Doxology." Ber...
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I'M about to go out and buy a turkey. And naturally, because I write about finance, I was thinking about how much I would pay for it and, more specifically, whether the rising price of agricultural commodities and fuel had affected the cost. It turns out that turkey pricing is not much tied to commodities prices. Inste...
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WASHINGTON Federal Reserve officials threw up their hands in January, deciding that they could not decide whether market turmoil would impede domestic economic growth. The Fed in recent years has issued an assessment of its economic outlook after each meeting of its policy making committee, but that assessment was miss...
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Imagine that 90 percent of all people living with H.I.V. were diagnosed and treated with drugs. Would that be sufficient to end the AIDS epidemic? Scientists tried to answer the question in three enormous studies published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Instead of simply urging people to get testi...
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Health
The first American woman to walk in space has become the first woman to reach the deepest known spot in the ocean. On Sunday, Kathy Sullivan, 68, an astronaut and oceanographer, emerged from her 35,810 foot dive to the Challenger Deep, according to EYOS Expeditions, a company coordinating the logistics of the mission. ...
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The Merry X Men Holiday Special (Marvel Entertainment), an anthology from Marvel Comics with 22 stories (most of them a single page each), presents the first 25 days of December in the lives of the X Men and X Women: Jubilee plans a Hawaiian vacation with her son, Shogo, and is thwarted by a villain; a little girl play...
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Art & Design
INSURER defections and double digit premium increases may be making consumers wary of seeking health insurance through Affordable Care Act marketplaces. But despite the turmoil, health care advocates are still urging people to shop for 2017 coverage when the annual open enrollment period begins on Tuesday. "Go shopping...
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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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In recent decades, many institutions of higher education have increasingly been awarding money to students who do not need that aid to afford college. More than half of the 339 public universities sampled in a paper published by New America at least doubled the amount they spent on so called merit aid from 2001 to 2017...
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Mr. Colbert's recent surge is intriguing, in light of the Trump presidency and given the host's association with biting political commentary from his days on Comedy Central's "Colbert Report." For the week of Jan. 16, the week before the inauguration, Mr. Colbert came within 8,000 viewers of tying Mr. Fallon, the close...
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Frances Isbell has spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disorder that has left her unable to walk or even roll over in bed. But Ms. Isbell has a personal care assistant through Medicaid, and the help allowed her to go to law school at the University of Alabama here. She will graduate next month. She hope...
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With "Hansel Gretel," the Park Avenue Armory once again aims ambitiously, and at great expense, for participatory public art but settles instead for public entertainment. In this latest attempt, the subject is surveillance. Your every move is eerily recorded from above by a grid of cameras, which register your ghostly ...
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William Jordan at his home in Dallas. Special circumstances helped ease his donation of a work by Diego Velazquez to the Prado Museum in Madrid. In 1988, William Jordan saw a portrait in a catalog from a London auction house. The work was attributed to Justus Sustermans, a Flemish painter in the Medici court in Florenc...
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AURORA, Colo. With repercussions from the sexual harassment allegations against Bill O'Reilly rippling through the country this week, Kimberly JaJack, a longtime Fox News enthusiast, descended into her basement on Wednesday, curled onto the sofa and clicked on the television. Mr. O'Reilly, the star she calls her primar...
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NANCY DREW 9 p.m. on the CW. Sex, darkness and a dash of the supernatural are added to the Nancy Drew formula here, in a series that reimagines that classic young sleuth for a contemporary audience. The hourlong drama raises Drew's age to 18, and it relocates the action to Maine. The show also gives Drew (played by Ken...
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Over 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment over the past six weeks. That is roughly 20 percent of the labor force. And that number is likely to grow larger as most states are ill equipped to handle the onslaught of the newly unemployed. While unprecedented numbers of people are seeking unemployment compensat...
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Leaked news this month that China and Iran had come to the verge of signing a 25 year trade and military partnership agreement struck like a geopolitical storm in Washington a rising rival of America and a longtime foe joining forces to threaten the United States's predominant position in the Middle East. The agreement...
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Lonely Planet, the travel guidebook publisher, has just released "The Best Things in Life Are Free," a hardcover book ( 22.99) detailing free and bargain attractions and experiences in more than 60 cities and destinations worldwide. Each article features six to 18 recommendations, including cherry blossoms, inexpensive...
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In any case, of Heine's two great Romantic preoccupations, Mr. Padmore said, Schumann leaned more toward thwarted love, in "bitter and acerbic" poems. Brahms leaned more toward death, in "less troubled" texts; this composer saw death as Heine's "cool night" as early as 1885, 11 years before his biblical contemplations ...
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Credit...Jennifer Pottheiser/NBAE, via Getty Images In a Miami hotel room, Derrick Jones Jr. and his agent, Aaron Turner, sat on a gray, three seat couch with a laptop propped open on a coffee table in front of them. This was the start of N.B.A. free agency last weekend, compressed and frenzied, squeezed in just after ...
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"YOLO," Danielle Walker said, explaining why she had just spent a chunk of her biweekly 900 paycheck on an adorable outfit quilted navy vest, cranberry plaid riding pants and knit sweater from the "equestrian shop" at Janie and Jack, the children's clothing store in the Mall of America where she works. "You only live o...
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What does Bob Dylan think about winning the Nobel Prize? The Swedish Academy, which bestows the award, does not know because it has not spoken to him. And Mr. Dylan, despite performing twice since being named the latest Nobel laureate in literature last week, has yet to make a public statement about the honor. Sara Dan...
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Too Old for Hard Labor, but Still on the Job LIKE many people, Steve Guadalupe has had a varied career. Now 68 and living in Miami, he started in the Air Force working in personnel. He left in 1983, using his technology background to get jobs at centralized bank data centers. When that work dried up in the late '80s, h...
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The story of why Joni Mitchell quit piano lessons is also the story of how Joni Mitchell wrote her first song. She was around 7, and the tune was called "Robin Walk" "it was real bouncy," she remembers in a spirited interview with Cameron Crowe for the liner notes of her new archival collection, "Joni Mitchell Archives...
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Cancer is a disease of mutations. Tumor cells are riddled with genetic mutations not found in healthy cells. Scientists estimate that it takes five to 10 key mutations for a healthy cell to become cancerous. Some of these mutations can be caused by assaults from the environment, such as ultraviolet rays and cigarette s...
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For the Jose Limon International Dance Festival, now in its second and final week at the Joyce Theater, the Limon Dance Company has invited troupes from across the country and the world to join it in performing the work of its namesake choreographer, who died in 1972. The intention is to show the spread of Limon's lega...
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MILLBURN, N.J. Some shtick refuses to grow moss. It defies reason that Georgia Engel, doing Georgia Engel, should seem so uncommonly fresh in the generally stale new musical "Half Time," which opened this week at Paper Mill Playhouse here. Ms. Engel is portraying a hip hop loving kindergarten teacher in this work of ca...
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About 80,000 babies and toddlers die of AIDS each year, mostly in Africa, in part because their medicines come in hard pills or bitter syrups that are very difficult for small children to swallow or keep down. But on Friday, the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla announced a new, more palatable pediatric formulatio...
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Outside of Alaska, the park is most closely associated with Richard Proenneke, who filmed himself while building his own cabin in 1967 and 1968. The 16 millimeter reels were later turned into the "Alone in the Wilderness" documentaries, which are frequently shown on public television. Though he was the only one who cap...
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Nicole Michell Phipps, a soft spoken 21 year old woman in a furry hood who showed up at the Navy recruitment center in Harlem on Tuesday, said she was drawn to the military in search of more "structure" in her life. She was hesitating about signing up for the military because she knew she could be risking her life. At ...
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In America, if you are black and aim higher than the reach history has set for you, the white gaze will try to leech your spirit of its racial identity. Very often, it will succeed. Such is the case with the fashion fixture and former Vogue editor at large Andre Leon Talley, whose memoir, "The Chiffon Trenches," is at ...
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Treatment guidelines suggest that nearly half of those over age 40 nearly 50 million people in the United States at least consider a cholesterol lowering statin to reduce heart attack risk. But a new large study of people who had an inexpensive heart scan found that half of those who were statin candidates had no signs...
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Like most large events, fan conventions including San Diego Comic Con, WonderCon and Dragon Con, have shifted gears this year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Some have been postponed or canceled; others have moved their programming online. While the panels and screenings that take place at these conventions ca...
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Clockwise from top left: Lawrence Agyei for The New York Times; Idris Solomon for The New York Times; Lynsey Weatherspoon for The New York Times; Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune, via Getty Images Clockwise from top left: Lawrence Agyei for The New York Times; Idris Solomon for The New York Times; Lynsey Weatherspoon for The N...
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THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE A Memoir By Casey Gerald 386 pp. Riverhead Books. 27. There we were, about a thousand people gathered at the 2016 TED conference, waiting for the very last speaker of a weeklong lineup of exceptional humans. The session's host announced that the speaker would be Casey Gerald, who swaggere...
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In his first speech as president of the United States, Donald J. Trump declared, "From this day forward, it is going to be only America first, America first." If you had taken his words at face value, you might have expected that big American companies that make nearly all of their money in the United States would flou...
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To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. We think of Covid 19 as killing primarily the elderly around the world, but in poor countries it is more cataclysmic than that. It is killing children through malnutrition. It is leading more people to die from tube...
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"The Ferryman," a British play about a sprawling family in rural Northern Ireland that starts to unravel in a crush of heartbreaking secrets, painful resentments and revelations of past crimes, is coming to Broadway. The play, written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes, features an enormous cast for a nonmus...
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Infosys Built Its Global Machine With Indian Workers. Can It Adjust to Trump's 'Hire American'? When Infosys, a big Indian technology outsourcing company, opened a new office in Indianapolis this year, executives hailed it as a step along a new path. Infosys built itself into a global giant by running the digital engin...
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One couple, one full time job at the Department of Agriculture, a couple of other gigs running a janitorial business and a cake making venture, plus the pastor position at New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Ferguson, Mo. That's what it takes for Alonzo Adams and his wife, Ronica, to make ends meet, and that's w...
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SAN FRANCISCO The 2020 presidential election is still 13 months away, but already Iranians are following in the footsteps of Russia and have begun cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the campaigns. Microsoft said on Friday that Iranian hackers, with apparent backing from the government, had made more than 2,700 attempts t...
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In this season of infection, the stock market little more than a twitching corpse, in an atmosphere of alarm and despondency, I am reminded of the enlightenments of the strict curfew Uganda endured in 1966. It was, for all its miseries, an episode of life lessons, as well as monotonous moralizing (because most crises e...
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Snapchat Finds Itself on the Wrong Side of a Racial Lens. Again. With its lens tool, Snapchat allows some 150 million daily users to alter reality and play with identity in ways that border on the absurd. You can turn yourself into a pineapple, a dog or a character befitting a Roy Lichtenstein painting. The lenses are ...
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Each Friday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Farhad: Good morning, Mike! How was your week? I've been busy trying to get my digital life in order. For i...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
What did President Trump know and when did he know it? Whom did he pressure out of self interest? Are there emails or tapes? And, maybe, let's call some witnesses. No, I am not referring to the Ukraine mess. And not the Barr none desecration of the Justice Department through the president's egregious tweet meddling in ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Something as basic as a New York slice has provided the recipe for a fierce fight over a lease in the Sony Building in Midtown, pitting a restaurateur against giant landlords. Joseph Allaham, a longtime tenant with a restaurant in the Sony Building, has been battling eviction ever since he opened a kosher takeout pizze...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Last fall, when Isabella Boylston and Alban Lendorf, both principal dancers at American Ballet Theater, burst onto the stage in Twyla Tharp's "Brahms Haydn Variations," there was a noticeable surge of energy in the hall. The partners looked elated; he tossed her up into the air so high that it felt almost reckless, the...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Dance
Lance Price is a microbiologist on a mission to precisely match bacteria in the supermarket meat with those in women with urinary infections. Twice a month for a year, Lance Price, a microbiologist at George Washington University, sent his researchers out to buy every brand of chicken, turkey and pork on sale in each o...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
"Watch where you step," John Waters said gleefully, as he opened the door to his West Village apartment. He gestured to the floor, which was arrayed with what looked like construction rubble, a cardboard box with packing peanuts spilling out, a mousetrap. In the corner was a pile of dog poop. It was all art, of course ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
In all of these cases, individuals in institutions or networks took action autonomously, without answering to higher authority. Part of the digitally driven movement that elected Mr. Bolsonaro, they listen to his frequent dog whistles or, in many instances, direct exhortations and then take matters in their own hands. ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
In all, according to the magazine Semana, which first published the allegations, the military compiled elaborate dossiers on more than 130 people, including former generals, politicians, trade union leaders, social activists and at least two dozen journalists. Using computer tools and software, the magazine wrote, "the...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
With the film industry undergoing one of the biggest shifts in its history, I spoke to nearly two dozen top names in Hollywood about what the movies will look like in 10 years. Here, the Oscar winning actress Octavia Spencer, currently in theaters with "Ma," presented a path to profitability for big studios: Let underr...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
WORCESTER, Mass. Although College of the Holy Cross was founded here in 1843, and eight other prominent institutions of higher learning followed, it has taken most of the last two centuries for this sizable New England city to consider itself a college town. It does now. From one end of the city's 245 acre central core...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
When Amazon agreed last year to begin collecting sales tax in New Mexico, state officials celebrated what they said could be tens of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue. But they aren't cheering in Albuquerque City Hall. A year after that announcement, New Mexico's largest city hasn't seen a dime from Amazon. Tha...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
A federal judge ruled in favor of BuzzFeed on Wednesday, bringing to a close a defamation lawsuit filed by a Russian technology executive over the website's publication of a dossier containing unverified reports of connections between Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign and the Russian government. In her ruling, Ju...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Often, when actors or directors with Oscar contenders sit down opposite your Carpetbagger, I can sense the barely concealed anxiety underneath their brave faces. There are so many year end movies jostling for award season attention, and it's possible that their passion projects could get lost in the scrum. It was strik...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies
Spend enough time on this verdant peninsula and someone will tell you: "I have a friend here who has lived in four different countries and never moved." A 100 year old Istrian, for example, would be able to say that she was born in Austro Hungary (which ended in 1918), came of age when Istria was part of Italy (until 1...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
When the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery was preparing the wall text in 2014 to accompany an image of the boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., the museum decided to note that Mr. Mayweather had been "charged with domestic violence on several occasions," receiving "punishments ranging from community service to jail time....
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
RISTO NYKANEN'S Russian wife hates his hobby. She came from Leningrad, in the old Soviet Union, before its name reverted to St. Petersburg. Mr. Nykanen's hobby? He gathers and restores old Ladas, the boxy Soviet automobiles that were once the family car of Finland, but have become collectors' items for contrarian colle...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles