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Fans often argue about which quarterback is better the Jets' Sam Darnold or the Bills' Josh Allen. The season opener provided some answers. Without fans in the stands, the Jets and the Buffalo Bills apparently decided to do what they usually do only bigger. Behind by 21 3 entering the second half after a slow start, th...
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Never miss a pop music story: Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Louder. The Internet imperceptibly melds hand played parts with loops and samples; whether or not it actually is, the music feels analog. Even where the drums are looped, the bass lines often drag and pull against the beat, breaking away from vamps to imp...
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What books are on your nightstand? None on a nightstand, but a scattered collection on a coffee table next to the couch and fireplace, where I love to read. Right now I often come back to "The Jatakas" tales of the Buddha's countless previous lives, as a compassionate fish, a clever merchant or a holy man offering hims...
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Amar Ramasar was 11 when he first saw ballet. It was a video of the New York City Ballet dancers Heather Watts and Mel Tomlinson, in Balanchine's radical 1957 ballet "Agon," the dancers clad in minimal leotards and tights, performing spiky, extraordinary movements to Stravinsky's astringent score. Mr. Ramasar, an outgo...
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Two years ago, when Jules Miller, the co founder and chief executive of the Nue Co., a line of vitamin supplements, tried to get her brand on shelves at Barneys New York, a buyer at the store was horrified that Ms. Miller wanted to sell products for bloating and constipation next to high end skin care and makeup. It wa...
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One of the city's most expensive apartment listings a rambling triplex perched atop the venerable Pierre Hotel overlooking Central Park has finally sold after more than four years on and off the market. But last month's closing price was nowhere near the 125 million initially sought. This 16 room penthouse co op, which...
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This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Tim Brooke Taylor, who helped define British comedy in the 1970s as a star of the long running television sketch show, "The Goodies," died on April 12. He was 79. His death, from the coronavirus, was announ...
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As cities and states reopen slowly after coronavirus lockdowns, more people are stepping out, cautiously, into a changed world. If they are being careful not to spread disease, they are also in masks. And that means many of us are missing a small but important social lubricant: the smile. In anxious times, we may want ...
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WHEN he was 5 years old, Steven Elson built pretend skyscrapers out of blocks. It was the start of a love affair with buildings. At 60, his passion hasn't subsided. Today, after being laid off from a top commercial real estate job in Connecticut in 2008, he is working in the nonprofit sector, overseeing the development...
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Although Whitney Houston collected six Grammy Awards and sold around 50 million albums in the United States between her debut in 1985 and her popular peak in 1999, the recurring dream she describes at the beginning of a new documentary, "Whitney," didn't involve breaking records or winning awards. Instead, she is being...
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If Brian Williams's future as the anchor of "NBC Nightly News" rests on his trustworthiness and ratings, new research delivered some sobering news on Monday. Before Mr. Williams apologized for exaggerating an account of a forced helicopter landing during the Iraq war, he ranked as the 23rd most trusted person in the co...
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We Caribbean carnival devotees, counting down the days until the region's biggest bacchanal erupts on the streets of Port of Spain, Trinidad, on Feb. 27 and 28, have a dream. A dream that one day carnival will grace us with its life affirming presence not once a year but once a month. That one day all of humanity can p...
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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday for just the second time since the 2008 financial crisis. Economists talk a lot about the impact this will have on markets, but what about everyday consumers? The Fed's decision can affect the cost of housing, cars, student loans and even the interest ...
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Last summer, Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, convened the executive committee of the company's board to announce the end of one of the highest profile, messiest feuds in the Met's nearly 140 year history. A bitter court battle had concluded between the company and the conductor James Levine, ...
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DAVID AMRAM There's no more suitable send off for the Cornelia Street Cafe which will close next week after 41 years as a home of offbeat poetry, jazz, cabaret and theater in Greenwich Village than a David Amram show. A remarkable musical polymath and conservationist of beatnik culture, he has played at the club monthl...
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Meghan Hughes is the president of the Community College of Rhode Island. This article is part of our latest Learning special report, which focuses on the challenges of online education during the coronavirus outbreak. Forty eight miles long and 37 miles wide, Rhode Island is the smallest state in the country. With a po...
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AL BLACKSTONE at the Joyce Theater (July 23, 7:30 p.m.; July 24, 7 p.m.; July 25 26, 8 p.m.; through Aug. 4). Dance as long form narrative storytelling tends to be the domain of ballet and Broadway, but Blackstone brings it to the contemporary dance stage in his Joyce debut, "Freddie Falls in Love." Blackstone, known f...
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. I walked into the spring training locker room of the Houston Astros with a question for the assembled players. What is going on with the slow pace of free agent contracts this winter? Alex Bregman, the Astros' star third baseman, had just finished taking his morning hacks on the field and is likel...
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Annrene Rowe was hospitalized for 12 days with coronavirus symptoms earlier this year. Since then, she has noticed her hair falling out in clumps. Losing Your Hair Can Be Another Consequence of the Pandemic Annrene Rowe was getting ready to celebrate her 10th wedding anniversary this summer when she noticed a bald spot...
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Acorn woodpeckers are renowned food hoarders. Every fall they stash as many as thousands of acorns in holes drilled into dead tree stumps in preparation for winter. Guarding these "granary trees" against acorn theft is a fierce, familial affair. But all hell breaks loose when there are deaths in a family and newly vaca...
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SAN FRANCISCO Ian MacDonald, a 14 year old in Portland, Ore., got a treat from his parents the other day. He was allowed to go outside. It was for less than five minutes. "I let him take out the garbage. We wore N95 masks," said his father, Dr. Kelvin MacDonald, who has been insisting his family stay in the house as wi...
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BEACON, N.Y. Sam Gilliam, an abstract painter of 85, proves that optical prettiness can have depth. A longtime resident of Washington, he is loosely associated with color field painting, which once turned our nation's capital into a capital of contemporary art. There is no easy way to explain how a city whose architect...
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WASHINGTON On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive and chairman, held a conference call with reporters to discuss how the social network manages problematic posts and its community standards. The call quickly went sideways. For more than an hour, the 34 year old billionaire instead fielded questions ab...
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WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve remains on course to raise its benchmark interest rate in December as investors generally reacted with equanimity to the election of Donald J. Trump as the next president of the United States. And some analysts said Mr. Trump's economic plans could prompt the Fed to keep increasing the ra...
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By the time we were sitting at Cafe Sjiek, sharing a pot of zoervleis a Limburgian delicacy that translates to "sour meat" my husband, Tim, and I were on our third ultra indulgent restaurant meal of the day and feeling like failed Olympians. The waiter, a rather severe man with a shaved head and the arty eyeglasses of ...
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Last week, Netflix decided to have some holiday fun courtesy of its user data. So the streaming service took to Twitter to pose the question, "To the 53 people who've watched A Christmas Prince every day for the past 18 days: Who hurt you?" The tweet was meant to be an entertaining jab at a cheesy holiday film that the...
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new video loaded: 52 Places to Go: Grand Teton
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The actors might forget their lines. The crew might forget to turn on the lights. And the set might be on fire. But "The Play That Goes Wrong," the Monty Python esque murder mystery farce, will go on, by transferring to an Off Broadway production at the New World Stages after its Broadway production closes on Jan. 6, 2...
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Dr. Denton A. Cooley, the renowned surgeon who was the first to implant a totally artificial heart in a patient and in the process set off one of medicine's greatest feuds, died on Friday at his home in Houston. He was 96. The Texas Heart Institute, which Dr. Cooley founded, confirmed his death. He stopped performing s...
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UnitedHealthcare Says It Will Pass On Rebates From Drug Companies to Consumers In response to growing consumer frustration over drug prices, UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation's largest health insurers, said on Tuesday that it would stop keeping millions of dollars in discounts it gets from drug companies and share th...
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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 Zambia. A Zambian park took the No. 14 spot on the list; the country is the 41st stop on Jada's itinerary. For more coverage, or to send Jada tips and suggestions, please follow her on Twitter at jada...
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It can often take millenniums for organisms to evolve. But for crumb size acorn ants in Cleveland, a single human life span may have been enough for them to become adapted to city living. In a recent study published in The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, scientists found that city acorn ants were more tolera...
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W.H.O. Elects Ethiopia's Tedros as First Director General From Africa Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia was voted director general of the World Health Organization on Tuesday, the first African ever to head the agency. The election was the first conducted by the W.H.O. under more open and democratic rules. After n...
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HOUSTON The Houston Ballet, recovering from the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, has lost performances and had to move to a different theater. Yet when it opened its season on Friday, it did so in a big way as the first North American ballet company to perform Kenneth MacMillan's three act "Mayerling." The four per...
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A roundup of motoring news from the web: After Mercedes Benz unveiled its Vision Gran Turismo Concept at the Los Angeles Auto Show last month, an American company is tentatively planning to build five real world versions of the car two for the Middle East, two for Europe and one for North America. Beneath its voluptuou...
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An almost dry Mae Chang reservoir in Lampang Province, northern Thailand, in March. The effects of the current El Nino have been exacerbated by global warming. This year is off to a record breaking start for global temperatures. It has been the hottest year to date, with January, February and March each passing marks s...
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WASHINGTON The letters have come from all around the United States from the Nutmeg Big Brothers and Big Sisters in Connecticut, the Houston Area Urban League and even the Dan Marino Foundation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. some praising the Comcast Corporation, others urging the federal government to stand aside and approve...
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PISA, Italy Six years ago, the Swedish retail giant Ikea planned a 60 million euro megastore just a few miles from where the Tower of Pisa leans into the earth. Backers said the huge construction project, new roads and wave of shoppers would bring hundreds of sorely needed jobs to this bucolic corner of Tuscany. But th...
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Blame it on God, or the fates, or to use the metaphor of choice here the stars. But when Billy meets Julie in the heartfelt, half terrific revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" which opened on Thursday night at the Imperial Theater, you can tell they've been felled by a force beyond their comprehension or con...
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The January issues of fashion magazines usually contain extra lashings of diet and exercise advice (and the fewest ads of the year), but this month's Elle, with Nicole Kidman on the cover, offers something new. To celebrate its third decade, the magazine announced, it is convening "a board of 43 female powerhouses who ...
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In Tamil, farewells are never final. As pointed out in a 2017 interview, the Tamil equivalent of goodbye is poyittu varen, meaning "I'll go and return." These are parting words especially suited to the refugee: ever running away, ever looking back. Kumarasamy poignantly illustrates this tension in her debut story colle...
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HENDERSON, Nev. The Regal Sunset Station multiplex in suburban Las Vegas reopened on Thursday night after sitting empty for five months in eerie pandemic forced exile. One of the first people to take a center seat, popcorn and orange soda in hand, was Brian Truitt, who bought tickets to "The New Mutants," a Marvel supe...
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Does a drink a day really prevent heart attacks? A clinical trial by the National Institutes of Health and largely paid for by the alcohol industry will try to find out. It may be the most palatable advice you will ever get from a doctor: Have a glass of wine, a beer or a cocktail every day, and you just might prevent ...
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Jessica Lange in Netflix's Manhattan office. Ms. Lange, who is appearing in Netflix's new series, "The Politician," is publishing a book of photographs, titled "Highway 61." DULUTH, Minn. When Jessica Lange finally admitted that her driving was a bit unpredictable it came as a relief. I was afraid to bring it up from t...
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The connection between the three plays was so striking, and they all came so close together, that it was hard not to draw a direct line through them all. One was perhaps the easiest play to make in baseball, a short toss from shallow right field to first base. But Jose Altuve, the Houston Astros' normally sure handed s...
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"My maternal grandfather, who was a humble gardener, loved Verdi and Puccini," the Danish composer Poul Ruders recalled recently. "And when I was 10 or 11, he took me first to see 'La Boheme,' and then to see 'Aida.'" "But the experience," he added, "did not turn me into an opera freak. I only know a few operas perhaps...
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Apple said on Tuesday that profits were flat and revenues were down in its most recent quarter, indicating a difficult road ahead for a company that five months ago became the first American firm to be valued above 1 trillion. The disappointing financial performance had been expected since Jan. 2, when Apple, for the f...
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Dyanne Thorne in "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" (1975). The film and her character, a Nazi doctor with a taste for sex and torture, became cultural touchstones of sorts. Dyanne Thorne, who starred in one of the most notorious sexploitation movies of the 1970s, "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" a head spinning mix of Nazi fetishis...
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Tracing how women have been depicted in art history as objects of purity or desire, Diana Al Hadid will exhibit new architecturally scaled sculptures riffing off timeworn female types at Madison Square Park in New York this May. Titled "Delirious Matter," the show will be the first major outdoor public art project for ...
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The Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda, whose American career has taken off in recent years with his appointment as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington and with high profile performances at the Metropolitan Opera, announced on Thursday that he was leaving the Teatro Regio Torino, the Italia...
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IN BRIEF When Pam Jenoff introduces herself to a new group of students at Rutgers Law School, she doesn't usually talk about what she's up to outside the classroom. But at some point during the year, a prospective lawyer might mention that a relative is reading one of her books and that's when Jenoff will open up about...
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The Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that it was seeking court orders to stop two clinics from using unapproved stem cell treatments that in some cases have seriously harmed patients. The clinics remove fat from patients' bellies by liposuction and then inject an extract of it into various parts of the bo...
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In mid March, as the coronavirus raged across New York, Washington State, California and New Jersey, and the crisis in personal protection equipment shortages grew, Dov Charney of Los Angeles Apparel was one of the first clothing retailers to step into the void. In reopening his Los Angeles factory to produce face mask...
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A look at this glistening blue blob floating through the cosmos could give that impression. But what looks like a celestial mix of soap and water is actually something much dirtier: a colossal cloud of dust and gas. An image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the aptly named Bubble Nebula, which is some 8,000 ...
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A Muslim, an Orthodox Jew and a religious Christian walked into a room, but it wasn't a bar and this was no joke. On the contrary, representatives from each of the Abrahamic religions had gathered during fashion month at New York University for the Meeting Through Modesty fashion symposium to discuss something they tak...
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They arrive in California each winter, an undulating ribbon of orange and black. There, migrating western monarch butterflies nestle among the state's coastal forests, traveling from as far away as Idaho and Utah only to return home in the spring. This year, though, the monarchs' flight seems more perilous than ever. T...
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Intricacy is often matched with simplicity, but there's a recurring sense of paradox. Just what are we seeing? Moment by moment, the answer changes. The music, taped, covers several centuries, starting with two of Thomas Ades's "Three Studies After Couperin" (2010), moving on to two works by Debussy ("Syrinx" and "Prel...
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Credit...Clifford Prince King for The New York Times Was Lydia Grant, the dance teacher Debbie Allen played in both the film and television versions of "Fame," really a fictional character? Wielding a cane in homage to one of Ms. Allen's own ballet teachers, Madame Tatiana Semenova Grant tells her students: "You've got...
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Yao Li in an undated photo. She began singing in the 1930s and became one of the "seven great singing stars of Shanghai," performing and recording in wartime. Yao Li, a celebrated singer in Shanghai in the midst of war in the 1930s and '40s, whose music remained popular after she moved to Hong Kong when China turned co...
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Apple unveiled a new series of Mac computers on Tuesday that use processors it created for the first time. Since 2005, Apple has relied on Intel to make the processors that underpin Apple's laptops and desktop computers, meaning those computers used virtually the same chips as many other PCs. The move away from Intel w...
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Shortly before Halloween in 2018, an administrative building at Glacier Bay National Park Preserve in Alaska began to sprout a beard. But the strands that composed the furry fringe weren't fine brown hairs. They were the spindly legs of hundreds of tightly clustered daddy longlegs, letting their glorious gams dangle fr...
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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. After years of passively watching nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland undermine democratic rule, the European Union finally drew the...
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Imagine that its two iconic shells have shrunk into a collar, fringed with jagged teeth, which it uses to gnaw through wood. Imagine that its digestive tract and most of the rest of its organs have gotten pushed out the backdoor of the shell, forming a long streamer of flesh that it keeps safe by burrowing into the woo...
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Plenty of restaurants draw a crowd, not because of their cuisine but because of their star studded clientele. But that does not mean diners are in for great people watching at the risk of a lackluster meal. "The line is meant to be tongue in cheek," said Nicholas Gurney, who opened the restaurant last January with Tapo...
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As Perry Como used to tell us, "No matter how far away you roam / For the holidays you can't beat home sweet home." And all the more so if there are attractive books on the coffee table. Suitable for presentation under the tree, menorah or even a candelabra, these 10 tomes present an escape up, up and away from the pal...
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Elaine May is returning to Broadway for the first time in more than 50 years to appear in "The Waverly Gallery," the third Kenneth Lonergan play to reach Broadway since 2014. "The Waverly Gallery" will start previews in September at the John Golden Theater ahead of an Oct. 25 opening. Lila Neugebauer will direct, a fir...
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England and Scotland have a long rivalry on and off sports fields. But ultimately, they are both part of Britain and the United Kingdom. So it may come as a surprise to see how differently they are approaching the return of soccer. No date for games is yet set, but organizers are eager to begin as soon as feasibly poss...
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Lacrosse players at the New England Cup in Farmington, Conn. Parents say they've felt pressure to have their daughters attend such showcases, even during a pandemic and a recruiting dead period, to remain visible to recruiters. FARMINGTON, Conn. The Middlesex Bears had waited for months to compete in the New England Cu...
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SAN FRANCISCO Over the last decade, Airbnb has upended the travel industry, riled regulators, frustrated local communities and created a mini economy of short term rental operators, all while spinning a warm narrative of belonging and connection. On Thursday, Airbnb sold investors on an even unlikelier story: that it i...
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Want more basketball in your inbox? Sign up for Marc Stein's weekly N.B.A. newsletter here. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. The N.B.A. was rooting hard for Major League Baseball. Any league that hopes to return to something resembling standard operations next season was pulling for baseball to flourish in its attempt to stage a...
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Looking Back to the '90s, When Berlin Was the Height of Cool BERLIN Just as a visitor to New York might be disappointed to find a high end clothing store where the notorious nightclub CBGB once stood, or wonder why it's so hard to get a cheap room at the Chelsea Hotel, visitors to Berlin today will find that things hav...
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Welcome to the Mike Conference, named with characteristic humility by its founder, decabillionaire Mike Prince. It's a place for fireside chats that double as vicious duels, for charitable acts that serve to ameliorate an exponentially larger number of uncharitable ones, and for the occasional late night excursion to a...
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New Clues to How the Biggest Dinosaurs Got So Big None No creatures ever stomped across the planet quite like the creatures scientists call sauropodomorphs. These long necked plant eaters were the largest dinosaurs, and they included the mighty 70 ton titanosaurs, as well as the Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus. Paleontolo...
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MIAMI One recent sunny morning, Chalmers Vasquez, Miami Dade County's mosquito control manager, peered into a rain filled Miller High Life bottle in a weedy backyard. "This is very dangerous, this situation here," he said, surveying a glistening pile of dozens more bottles at his feet. A few steps away, his fears were ...
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If you get emotional listening to the noble melody and stirring words of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," long the unofficial anthem of Black America, you may not mind hearing it three times over a couple of hours. The song is the through line connecting the disparate episodes of "To America," a kind of nighttime musical w...
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Anne Morrissy Merick, who as a television field producer persuaded the Pentagon to overturn an edict that prevented women in the press corps from covering combat during the Vietnam War, died on May 2 in Naples, Fla. She was 83. Her daughter, Katherine Anne Engelke, said the cause was complications of dementia. Even as ...
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A program for the world premiere production of "My Fair Lady" in New Haven. At First Performance of 'My Fair Lady,' the Drama Was Offstage NEW HAVEN The snow was coming down. The turntables didn't turn. The star refused to perform. The cast was dismissed, thinking that that night's show would not go on. Yet "My Fair La...
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Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the Libor scandal is how familiar it seems. Sure, for some of the world's leading banks to try to manipulate one of the most important interest rates in contemporary finance is clearly egregious. But is that worse than packaging billions of dollars worth of dubious mortgages into a...
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I first laid eyes on a countertop dishwasher called Tetra at a consumer electronics convention in Las Vegas a few months ago. Just big enough to hold two place settings, it doesn't require a faucet connection, unlike most other models. I write about housekeeping, and I tend to be not overly impressed by new home applia...
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The Libyan revolution of 2011 brought lasting terrorist mayhem across a broad reach of Africa's former French colonies. Now France needs its allies to help pacify the region if that can be done. PARIS This is a war that escapes most radar screens. The French, whose troops have been fighting in the Sahel for seven years...
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AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA at Carnegie Hall (Jan. 25, 8 p.m.). Who else but Leon Botstein and his ensemble would come up with a program like this, filled with orchestral music by New York composers from the middle of the last century. The most famous work is probably Schuman's Symphony No. 3, preceded by Robert Mann's...
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Yet another bitter battle over art, appropriation and censorship is being waged this week this time over a depiction of a Chinatown waiting room. The Berlin based artist Omer Fast presented his 3D film "August" at the James Cohan Gallery's Grand Street location starting in September. The film dealt with the German phot...
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LONDON Can you scale Everest twice? Yes, and formidably so in the case of Ian McKellen, who first played King Lear in a world tour for the Royal Shakespeare Company just over a decade ago. Now 79 and so more age appropriate for the part, the rightly venerated actor has returned this summer to the same role, in a far mo...
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On Fourth of July weekend in 2015, while Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Hampshire for the Democratic presidential nomination, theatergoers in Falmouth, Mass., got a look at a work in progress about her Lucas Hnath's play "Hillary and Clinton," now poised for Broadway. Set in an alternate universe during the 2008 pri...
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Lexi Shangraw, a San Francisco resident, flew to Phoenix in early March for what was supposed to be a brief visit. But when lockdowns started, she ended up staying longer than anticipated in hopes of waiting out Covid 19. Last month, she decided it was finally time to return home. Dubious about the safety of big commer...
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There was a time when the Yankees landing Troy Tulowitzki would have been trumpeted an All Star shortstop treading the same patch of Yankee Stadium dirt as his boyhood idol, Derek Jeter. Now, though, the union carries more pragmatism than pomp. The Yankees need a shortstop to replace the injured Didi Gregorius for seve...
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A sprawling aerie on the 53rd floor of One57, the sky piercing condominium that has attracted demigods of international business and finance, sold to a mystery buyer, one seemingly versed in the teachings of a much higher power, for 30,683,372.50 and was the most expensive closed sale of the week, according to city rec...
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Real Estate
Summer holds a special place in the hearts of horror movie fans. Maybe it's because summer camp is basically a genre, and it looks something like this: Heat makes randy campers sweaty, and that makes them strip off their clothes, and that makes deranged psychopaths extra crazy enough to plunge axes in faces. Summer is ...
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Movies
When population was growing at its fastest rate in human history in the decades after World War II, the sense that overpopulation was stunting economic development and stoking political instability took hold from New Delhi to the United Nations' headquarters in New York, sending policy makers on an urgent quest to stop...
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Economy
Kobe Bryant's widow pays tribute to her 'adoring husband' and 'wonderful daughter.' Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Kobe Bryant, posted a statement to her Instagram on Wednesday evening paying tribute to her husband and daughter Gianna, who both died in a helicopter crash on Sunday that killed seven others. In the post, B...
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Sports
In his 2012 poem "Rings," the Canadian writer turns a verse from Genesis, "Give me children, or else I die," into a wry refrain. As it appears alongside mundane domestic choices like whether to adopt a pet or redecorate, the desperation of the verse gives way to an offbeat calm. Child rearing may be life affirming, but...
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Books
A fossil from the Gobi Desert of Mongolia contained the remains of six protoceratops embryos in a curled position, as though still contained in eggs, but no fossilized egg shells. There's a problem with dinosaur eggs: A lot of them are missing. Dinosaurs dominated land from about 245 million years ago until an asteroid...
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Science
"When did you first realize that you were white?" In "Distances Smaller Than This Are Not Confirmed," David Neumann and Marcella Murray's quiet, experimental dialogue about race, the question comes up again and again she, a young black woman, posing it to him, a middle aged white man who cannot answer it. Not that he d...
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Theater
MUMBAI, India India's leading ride hailing service, Ola, said on Wednesday that it had raised 1.1 billion in new funding, giving it a bulging war chest to battle Uber in a country where only a tiny portion of the population owns cars. The lead investor in the funding round was Tencent Holdings, the Chinese technology g...
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Technology
Read the highlights from the 2019 Tony Awards. It was the sole award for "Network," which had five nominations. Wow. Finally a straight old white man gets a break. To all the producers of "Network," especially the National Theater in London, where it all started, thank you. Thank you to Mark Subias and Danny Raggett an...
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Theater
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon. 'CALDER: HYPERMOBILITY' at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through Oct. 23). The Whitney has the world's largest holdings of the American sculptor who invented the mobile, but this rejuvenating presentation of works in motion is a different sort of Cald...
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Art & Design
Four college football games involving historically black colleges and universities have been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, making them the first casualties of major college football leading up to a season that appears tenuous just over two months before its scheduled kickoff. Two neutral site games Sout...
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Sports
J. Press Is for the Ivy League Faithful (or Those Who Like Preppy Drag) Back in college, I used to walk by J. Press a couple of times a week, but it was invisible to me. You can't see what you don't know exists. At the time, I owned a couple of sport coats but not a suit. I'd seen my father in a suit only on the day of...
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Fashion & Style
Deep in the somber second act of Tchaikovsky's opera "The Queen of Spades," an old countess suddenly turns curmudgeonly critic. The culture, she complains, isn't what it was when she was young, in the glory days of 18th century Russia. "They don't know how to dance or sing," she sniffs at the new generation. "Who dance...
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Music
As a few giant galleries absorb ever more market share, thank the muses of art and commerce for Ramiken. The young dealer Mike Egan has piloted this enigmatic, protean gallery through a choppy decade for both art and real estate, and presented its ambitious exhibitions in a crumbling basement, an Upper East Side pentho...
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Art & Design