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That's a velvet worm. You can see what happens when you poke it. It squirts slime all over to catch prey, fend off predators and poking fingers. A Chilean scientist studying at Harvard wondered weather the animal had a complicated way of controlling its slime spray. He started by looking at videos of the animal made in...
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Just a few years ago, Crispr was a cipher something that sounded to most ears like a device for keeping lettuce fresh. Today, Crispr Cas9 is widely known as a powerful way to edit genes. Scientists are deploying it in promising experiments, and a number of companies are already using it to develop drugs to treat condit...
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The signature work of the second wave feminist artist Hannah Wilke has also been the source of its criti cism. In the 1960s, Ms. Wilke used vaginal imagery for empowerment, sculpting various materials into shapes that evoke the female anatomy; today, they can seem essentialist about gender. She also performed and posed...
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In the past month, hundreds of students have dropped out of their fraternities and sororities at Vanderbilt University. They have gathered, digitally, using group run Instagram activist pages. They have written searing op eds condemning their own organizations for the student newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler. And they...
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, whose experience caring for his 3 year old son after the boy contracted chickenpox led him to develop a vaccine for the virus that is now used all over the world, died on Monday in Osaka, Japan. He was 85. The cause was heart failure, said his longtime secretary, Maki Fukui. In 1964 Dr. Takahashi, who had spent sever...
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SAN FRANCISCO Amazon quietly banned Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" late last week, part of its accelerating efforts to remove Nazi and other hate filled material from its bookstore, before quickly reversing itself. The retailer, which controls the majority of the book market in the United States, is caught betwe...
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NORRISTOWN, Pa. Bill Cosby was supposed to be her mentor, Andrea Constand told a jury here Friday. But instead he became her attacker, she said, so unrelenting in his sexual pursuit even after she had rejected his advances that he drugged and molested her during a visit to his home in January 2004. "I was kind of jolte...
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Credit...Caroline Tompkins for The New York Times Before converting a set of handkerchiefs into a bra and panties that began a 40 year career for her and her best friend, Gale Epstein dabbled in many varieties of D.I.Y. "I had a lot of stuff from her," said Lida Orzeck, 70, Ms. Epstein's business partner and longtime f...
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What does it say about the state of contemporary ballet when a costume and set designer curates a program with more acumen and imagination than a star principal at the Royal Ballet? Maybe it shouldn't be such a surprise: A designer, like a director, has a visual point of view as well as the ability to grasp a theatrica...
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BARCELONA, Spain In the last eight days, an era has ended, a dynasty has been dismantled, an aristocracy has crumbled and a balance of power that held for a decade has shifted. Change has swept through the Champions League. European soccer's landscape has been transformed. Not that it was easy to tell from Barcelona la...
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LUCKY DAY (2019) Stream on Hulu; rent on iTunes. This film by Roger Avary, the director behind "Killing Zoe" who also co wrote "Pulp Fiction," was not well reviewed when it received a limited release last year. But anything that combines outrageously bad taste, well worn genre tropes and stylized, spectacular violence ...
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The 1990s have been resurgent of late, largely thanks to their somewhat ignoble contributions to contemporary life: reality television and "Baywatch"; White House scandal and congressional shutdown; and, of course, the introduction of Donald J. Trump as a pop culture tabloid star. Well, we all need something to blame. ...
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Brands are using prison labor to provide inmates with jobs and training. But is it possible and ethical to build a profitable fashion business behind bars? In a lush valley surrounded by the Peruvian Andes past two sets of security gates, high fences, barbed wire and a rigorous pat down 13 women stood hard at work. The...
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Global health authorities on Tuesday declared the Americas free of endemic measles, the first region to be so certified. The hemisphere's last case of endemic measles meaning one that did not spring from an imported strain was in 2002. Normally, it takes three years without cases to declare a disease eradicated from a ...
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WASHINGTON The Trump White House sent a message to the media on Monday: Be nice. At his first formal briefing on Monday, Sean Spicer, the new White House press secretary, told reporters here that his administration sometimes does "the right thing," adding: "And it would be nice, once in a while, for someone just to rep...
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Joe Biden built his political career as the New Deal order came to an end, one of a generation of Democrats who sought to reconcile the Democratic Party to the Reagan revolution by placing distance between the party and the racial and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. His was a politics attuned to the worries ...
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The final season of "Game of Thrones" arrives April 14. Before then, we're getting prepared by rewatching the first seven seasons. Sign up to get these straight to your inbox. This article contains spoilers for Seasons 1 7 of "Game of Thrones." It's 10 p.m. do you know where your dragons are? If not, we're here to help...
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Brian Kelly of East End Tick and Mosquito Control dragging for ticks. The company now routinely sprays lawns in addition to bushes because of the increased prevalence of more aggressive species of ticks. SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. This town is under siege from tiny invaders. A doctor at Southampton Hospital recently pulled a ti...
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Rick Owens may be the only designer who could get his front row not to mention Courtney Love and Fergie to wear garbage bags. Or, O.K.: ponchos that looked like garbage bags. But there they were, neatly folded on every seat around the fountains in the back of the Palais de Tokyo. And there were the guests, putting them...
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What to Know About the Covid Antibody Drugs That Could Help Many None Two new antibody treatments have shown promise in keeping high risk Covid 19 patients out of the hospital. But despite getting a publicity boost from President Trump, who received the Regeneron treatment in October and praised it as a "cure," the dru...
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The Statue of Liberty Museum was conceived as a way to provide historical context to the millions of people who visit the monument each year. It opens to the public on Thursday. Each year about 4.5 million people shuffle off the ferries that service Liberty Island to see up close the famous torch wielding Roman goddess...
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A special prosecutor tasked with reinvestigating the case against Jussie Smollett has found that the Cook County state's attorney's office did not violate the law in its handling of the case but did abuse its discretion in deciding to drop charges and put out false or misleading public statements about why it did so. T...
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In this photo from 2009, Julie Margaret Hogben's daughter Isabel runs to the real life Guzim. To Her, He Was More Than a Doorman In her 2015 Modern Love essay "When the Doorman Is Your Main Man," the writer Julie Margaret Hogben tells of a time in her life when she was dating in New York City and living in a building w...
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Joe Segal, who presented live jazz in Chicago under the Jazz Showcase banner for 70 years, making him one of the longest running music promoters in America, died on Aug. 10 in Chicago. He was 94. Stu Katz, a jazz pianist and vibraphonist who was a longtime friend of Mr. Segal's, confirmed the death, at AMITA Health Sai...
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When Justin Peck unveiled "The Most Incredible Thing" in February, fans of this fast rising choreographer were eager to see his first story ballet. Mr. Peck, New York City Ballet's resident artist since 2014, has told subtle stories in his more abstract works for the company, through the inherent drama of form. But "In...
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Q. When a smartphone is advertised as waterproof, how do they verify that claim? A. When hawking the water worthiness of their products, most smartphone manufacturers cite the results of IP, or ingress protection, testing. Not to be confused with the popular augmented reality game, the "ingress" here comes from the Lat...
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Technology
Caroline Baumann, the director of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan, abruptly stepped down on Friday, a museum spokeswoman confirmed in an email. No reason was given for her departure. Dr. John Davis, the Smithsonian provost, will serve as interim director while a search is conducted for her repl...
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PARIS "Body and Soul," Crystal Pite's new full length work for the Paris Opera Ballet, opens in sepulchral gloom, with two Beckettian figures obeying instructions ("right, left, right, left") from a disembodied voice. It ends with 40 black latex clad and masked dancers with insectlike prosthetic arms and protuberances,...
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CARLISLE, England After this ancient fortress city was hit by a crippling flood in 2005, its residents could take some comfort in the fact that it was the kind of deluge that was supposed to happen about once every 200 years. But it happened again four years later. And again last winter, when Storm Desmond brought reco...
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Many top colleges are misleading applicants about the paperwork needed to seek financial aid, possibly violating federal law and costing students extra money, a congressman said on Monday. The Department of Education said it was reviewing the allegations by Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Dem...
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The annual consumer blitz that is Black Friday, has seeped into the wedding landscape, like smoke from Romeo y Julieta cigars, frequently given as groomsmen gifts. (They're 28 percent off at the Famous Smoke Shop.) The advertised deep discounts, offered by retailers beginning Friday, Nov. 29 , and that often continue t...
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Fashion & Style
The men's and women's doubles draws at the United States Open this year are stacked with former Grand Slam doubles champions as well as new and exciting partnerships. While doubles may not have the same cachet as the singles tournaments among casual fans, there are still plenty of exciting players to watch some because...
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Nayaa Opong of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in "Afterwardsness," which was recently filmed before an audience of volunteers at the Armory.Credit...Sasha Arutyunova for The New York Times Nayaa Opong of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company in "Afterwardsness," which was recently filmed before an audience of volu...
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On a dazzling Friday afternoon, Everett Floyd Abrams, 3, was racing down the sidewalk in the West Village, neatly steering past pedestrians. Pedaling a pint size bike with training wheels, his duckie blond hair nearly hidden by his helmet, he was headed west on Grove Street. Running flat out behind him was his father, ...
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DETROIT The 2017 GMC Acadia sport utility vehicle that is just starting to arrive in dealerships around the country is 700 pounds lighter than the version it replaces, and can go 23 miles on a gallon of gasoline, up from 18 m.p.g., a 28 percent improvement. One of the secrets to the big weight loss? Glue. Many of the s...
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Automobiles
Federal Judge Richard Gergel of South Carolina with a portrait of Judge J. Waties Waring behind him. When Richard Gergel was elevated to the federal judiciary by President Barack Obama in 2010, he found himself assigned to the Charleston, S.C., courtroom of an illustrious predecessor, J. Waties Waring, who had changed ...
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The publisher of the irreverent sports website Deadspin tapped a former editor in chief of The Daily News on Thursday to lead rebuilding efforts, nearly three months after a staff exodus over what employees characterized as editorial meddling. Admirers credit Jim Rich, the site's new editor in chief, with revitalizing ...
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Twyla Tharp is writing about rehearsing, touring and creating new work, 50 years after her first dance concert. Aug. 25, our eighth day of work and the weather is turning. Long ago I made the choice to mark this point in my career not with events celebrating the past, but with new dances showing what I had learned and ...
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with one of her works, "A Fashionable Marriage." In a career as an artist and activist spanning more than 30 years, Ms. Himid has tried to bring black history to greater attention. She Won the Turner Prize. Now She's Using Her Clout to Help Others. LONDON "It doesn't matter whether it's in France, or Oxford, or Karlsru...
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Humanity's growing tally of exoplanets worlds seen orbiting other stars stands at 4,151. Most were found indirectly, as they passed in front of their stars and cast a telltale shadow, or as they caused their star to wobble as they swung around it. Only 50 have been directly imaged through a telescope. Directly imaging ...
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The American news cycle has become so manic and surreal that there hasn't been much time to reflect on the revelation, in the new book by the former national security adviser John Bolton, that Donald Trump encouraged President Xi Jinping of China in the building of concentration camps for its Muslim Uighur minority. Bo...
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"Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears," Tchaikovsky, zharkoye. Movie, music, meat stew. For the third week in a row on "The Americans," Claudia hosted a meeting of her informal Soviet culture appreciation society other members: Paige and Elizabeth and this time they cooked, assembling a traditional Russian recipe. Back in ...
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AUSTIN, Tex. In this state that spawned test based accountability in public schools and spearheaded one of the nation's toughest high school curriculums, lawmakers are now considering a reversal that would cut back both graduation requirements and standardized testing. The actions in Texas are being closely watched acr...
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Video Title: How China Is Changing Your Internet Video Description: In China, a sheltered internet has given rise to a new breed of app, and American companies are taking notice. What was once known as the land of cheap rip offs may now offer a glimpse at the future. PART I: Intro 1. If you are sitting in the United St...
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A plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., confers a kind of halo to each member. The gallery feels like a chapel, and the Hall of Famers are the saints. A few gilded sentences summarize the reasons to honor each one. "Of course the people that have plaques in there, it's all going to be about the good...
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"Once on This Island," a tragic West Indian fairy tale that won this year's Tony Award for best musical revival, will end its Broadway run on Jan. 6. The musical was much praised by critics, and scored an upset victory over the better known "Carousel" and "My Fair Lady" in the Tony race, but it never fully caught on wi...
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The author Linda Wolfe in 1998. "Bitten by the bug of actuality," as she put it, she specialized in writing about the psychological motivation behind startling crimes. Linda Wolfe, a writer who took her readers behind the scenes of true crimes and into the minds of their perpetrators, including the young man who commit...
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Clemson hasn't lost a football game in two years. But when they play Louisiana State in the national championship game on Monday, they will be 5 1/2 point underdogs and the team that most gamblers will be rooting against. Clemson has the best defense in the country, giving up only 11 1/2 points per game. Yet bettors lo...
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What to Know About CES 2017 To average people, the name of the International CES, formerly known as the International Consumer Electronics Show one of the largest tech conventions, taking place in Las Vegas this week will seem dated, if not highly misleading. Tech companies often use the annual trade show as a marketin...
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The Battery Dance Festival, presented by the Battery Dance Company in Lower Manhattan for 34 years, has become known for its international roster. This year artists from India, Norway and Poland are among those appearing along the Hudson River routinely backed by stunning, if blinding, sunsets at Robert F. Wagner Jr. P...
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The flight of the Falcon Heavy will have to wait another day. SpaceX announced that the giant rocket, the most powerful in operation on Earth today, could not fly on Wednesday night because of winds high in the atmosphere. The spacecraft's payload this time is mundane and useful: Arabsat 6A, a Saudi Arabian communicati...
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Directed and narrated by John Chester, a longtime documentary cinematographer, "The Biggest Little Farm" opens with the then seemingly unstoppable California wildfires of 2018 threatening to wipe out the small farm Chester founded with his wife, Molly, nearly 10 years before. The sight of Molly, who had been a chef and...
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The Park Avenue Armory must really want you to know who Benjamin Appl is. Otherwise it wouldn't have given such significant real estate three concerts, three Schubert masterworks to Mr. Appl, a 36 year old baritone who, with these performances, is making his American recital debut. His concerts at the Armory's intimate...
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WASHINGTON Seymour M. Hersh didn't even want to write a memoir. He had been on contract for a book about Dick Cheney, the former vice president. He had spent four years reporting it, amassing dozens of files of what he called explosive material, only to find that his sources had gone jittery amid a government crackdown...
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Shikumen complexes are part of the city's historic architecture that is disappearing because of rapid development. Walk through one of these multifamily, low slung dwellings. China's Communist Party celebrated its 95th birthday this summer with a lavish First of July gala at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In ...
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The New Orleans resident Jared Sternberg, 30, started Gondwana Ecotours in 2013, the same year he graduated from Tulane University Law School in that city. He studied environmental and human rights with the idea of helping indigenous and underserved populations preserve land and resources, but after completing service ...
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A fully renovated penthouse near the top of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, with picture book park, river or cityscape views from each of its oversize windows, sold for 33,000,000 and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records. Monthly carrying costs for the 5,018 square foot apartment,...
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Real Estate
With this rule, our federal government is telling these "second chance entrepreneurs" that the value they bring to their communities, their employees and to our nation as a whole does not matter and is not worth saving. Beyond the fundamental unfairness, this arbitrary exclusion makes no economic sense. Today, unemploy...
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Slava Hazin had never heard of Riverside Boulevard when his wife, Karen, "found an ad for this brand new condo," he said, and "dragged" him there a dozen years ago. They had been living on the East Side and needed a larger apartment for their family. He loved the location, across the street from the Hudson River and fr...
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Indeed, despite the film's title, the early scenes, focusing on the camp, turn out to be a kind of a getting the band together story for the post camp years, when several Jened alumni became nationally visible activists and resettled around Berkeley, Calif. Judy Heumann had sued for discrimination in New York after she...
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The Dia Art Foundation helped pioneer the use of industrial spaces to exhibit contemporary art when it opened in New York City in 1974. Then it flirted with idea of opening new buildings in 2005 and 2012, but both proposals were abandoned following the departures of two former directors. Now Dia is renewing its mission...
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Art & Design
In the 1973 animated classic "Charlotte's Web," an entire musical number is dedicated to the film's antagonist, a rat named Templeton, feasting on garbage at the county fair. He tosses apple cores, banana peels and turkey legs down his craw with abandon. At one point, he juggles snacks foraged from the dumpster while s...
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Nets guard Kyrie Irving, addressing the media for the first time in two months, said on Saturday that he had taken a cortisone shot in an attempt to avoid surgery on an ailing shoulder that has kept him out of games since Nov. 14. He did not give a concrete timetable for his return but said that he was "doing a lot bet...
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PHOENIX No city's fans combine supreme confidence, mother bear protectiveness and unrelenting demands the way Philadelphia's do. To root for a Philly team is to always expect success, to be devastated aggrieved, even in the face of failure, and to insist that the world know exactly how you feel. As the Eagles' Jason Ke...
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"K L 32 H 4. Mon pere et moi (My Father and I)" right, by Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. President Trump's executive order banning travel and rescinding visas for citizens of seven majority Muslim nations does not lack for opponents in New York from Kennedy Airport, wher...
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There are trends in movies just as there are trends in fashion, and occasionally the twain shall meet and not just on the runway. Such will probably be the case this summer, anyway, as the gangster movie, after a period of dormancy that followed the 2007 finale of "The Sopranos," returns with a vengeance. First comes Q...
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Mr. Pulphus, a high school artist from St. Louis, may never become a free speech cause celebre akin to Mr. Ofili, the professional London artist whose depiction of a black Virgin Mary, encrusted with a lump of elephant dung, caused a furor in 1999. Still, Representative William Lacy Clay, Democrat of Missouri, filed a ...
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Covid 19 has crippled television production in 2020. And yet, an astonishing number of new series limited and otherwise have premiered so far this year. Maybe you've already seen the most talked about shows: "The Last Dance," "Normal People," "The Queen's Gambit," "Tiger King," "The Vow." That leaves only about 500 mor...
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The last meeting between Lamar Jackson of the Ravens and Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs a 33 28 Kansas City victory had plenty of hype, but that was nothing compared to this week's, as the Super Bowl champion Chiefs face a Ravens team that hasn't lost a regular season game in nearly a year. Sunday's games are an appetiz...
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Maybe you've decided to learn a foreign language during lockdown and have downloaded a language app like Duolingo, which saw its numbers double in March to around 30 million monthly users. You may now be able say useful phrases, like "My horse eats eggs" and "My sister is not in the park," in French, German, Italian or...
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PARIS On paper, the theater directors Krystian Lupa and Thomas Ostermeier have much in common. They are heavyweights of the European stage: Mr. Ostermeier is the director of the famous Schaubuhne theater in Berlin, while Mr. Lupa's productions have long been revered beyond his native Poland. Both are renowned for their...
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A stolen Etruscan vessel will be returned to Italy thanks in part to the efforts of a hunter of looted antiquities. Last month, Christos Tsirogiannis, a Greek born researcher who has spent more than a decade poring over auction and antiquities catalogs trying to identify stolen Greek and Roman artifacts, spotted an Etr...
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It may sound perverse, if not masochistic, to say that I've spent weeks of quarantine watching autopsies. But these procedures have been the ultimate escape: Taking place in a distant, fictional environment, they usually involve an agent of death that isn't a volatile, out of control virus but a volatile, out of contro...
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THE beginning of the year is the time when many people sit down with their financial advisers or otherwise seek out advice about their finances. And with stock markets' rocky start to the year, that impulse may be greater this time around that is, if people don't run and hide. While no one knows how the year will play ...
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Your Money
For all the havoc that zebra mussels, Asian carp, round gobies and dozens of other alien species have wrought on the Great Lakes, those waters have never known a foe like the sea lamprey. The vampirelike parasites cost many millions each year in depleted fisheries and eradication efforts. Wildlife managers have long us...
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An audience expected to be around 100 million. Big companies paying as much as 5.6 million for 30 seconds of advertising time. In addition to deciding the National Football League champion, the Super Bowl is the biggest event of the year for TV commercials. The commercials on Sunday were mostly light and bright. Nostal...
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In what they hope will be a spark of light in years of darkness, a group of scientists circulated a beam of electrons around a ring in Allan, Jordan, in January. The group, called Sesame, is made up of physicists from several countries that rarely talk to one another Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Turkey and Paki...
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Researchers have announced an advance that could double the capacity of fiber optic circuits, potentially opening the way for networks to carry more data over long distances while significantly reducing their cost. Writing in the journal Science on Thursday, electrical engineers at the University of California, San Die...
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Warren Hinckle, the flamboyant editor who made Ramparts magazine a powerful national voice for the radical left in the 1960s and later, by championing the work of Hunter S. Thompson, helped introduce the no holds barred reporting style known as gonzo journalism, died on Thursday in San Francisco. He was 77. The cause w...
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WASHINGTON Judy Shelton, an unorthodox economist who was an adviser to President Trump's 2016 campaign, could move one step closer to a seat on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors this week. While her fate is far from guaranteed, the Senate Banking Committee is expected to approve Ms. Shelton's nomination on Tuesd...
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Mosquito nets infused with two pesticides work much better against malaria than those with only one, reducing prevalence in children by 44 percent, according to a recent study. As a result of the report, published in The Lancet last month, the World Health Organization has recommended that the two chemical nets be used...
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Health
Eight years after the glittering mall at the Time Warner Center opened, it is clear that, while it may be a stretch to say its long term place in Manhattan is assured, the gamble of opening a five level indoor shopping center in street centered New York is paying off. The recent loss of an anchor tenant, the 26,000 squ...
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Real Estate
In his new Netflix special, "Latin History for Morons," John Leguizamo jumps from genocide to cultural apartheid, dances merengue and dresses like Frida Kahlo. WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE ELECTIONS Early indicators show that voting in the midterms was up among women, Latinos and young people. ("Donde votar" was Googl...
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The mechanics of elections that attract the most attention are casting and counting, snafus with voting machines and ballots and allegations of hacking and fraud. But Jeff Jonas, a prominent data scientist, is focused on something else: the integrity, updating and expansion of voter rolls. "As I dove into the subject, ...
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Technology
Persistent high unemployment among young people is adding up to 25 billion a year in uncollected taxes and, to a much smaller degree, increased safety net expenditures, a new report says. "The key takeaway here is that it's not just the individuals who are suffering as members of our generation," said Rory O'Sullivan, ...
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Lawyers and scientists do not always get along, but some are now finding common cause in an effort to defend the integrity of science especially climate science in government and academia. Climate scientists are feeling the heat as Republicans cement control of the executive branch and Congress. The Trump administratio...
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More optimistic consumers are propelling the economy forward, even as businesses pull back. The pickup in spending by consumers, along with a burst of defense orders and a stronger housing market, helped the economy expand at an annual rate of 2 percent in the third quarter, a slightly better pace than had been anticip...
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Economy
LONDON The European Union's highest court ruled on Tuesday that a 2014 trade deal with Singapore required the approval of parliaments from the bloc's 28 members, leaving in place an obstacle to future negotiations including talks with Britain over its withdrawal from the union. The European Commission, the bloc's execu...
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Economy
Whether this week's collapse of stock and oil prices will spiral into a much deeper economic crisis, perhaps even eclipsing that of 2008, depends on how the United States and other governments react. The United States has now, belatedly, taken drastic actions on travel and announced some support for businesses. But the...
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Opinion
Holly Black, an author of the best selling "The Spiderwick Chronicles" fantasy series, believes that everybody would look better with pointed ears like those on fairies and elves. Last November she visited Lindsay Wood of the Elven Caravan, a company that sells custom latex elf ears for 20 to 40, at FaerieCon in Hunt V...
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Fashion & Style
N.B.A. fans can be forgiven for being distracted by shiny objects. And there are few objects shinier than a star who is being added to a playoff contender. But even though the powerhouses of the Eastern Conference went to war over which team could add the biggest piece, it is worth taking a look at some under the radar...
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Sports
Conservatives criticized Twitter and Facebook on Thursday as "censors" and "monopolies" and said they were interfering in the coming election. SAN FRANCISCO President Trump called Facebook and Twitter "terrible" and "a monster" and said he would go after them. Senators Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn said they would subp...
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Technology
Linda Fairstein, chief of the Manhattan district attorney's sex crimes unit, left, entering court in 1990 with Elizabeth Lederer, the prosecutor who handled the Central Park jogger case. For much of her life, Linda Fairstein was widely viewed as a law enforcement hero. As one of the first leaders of the Manhattan distr...
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Television
Nearly 60 Yankees players and their coaches will gather on Saturday at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx for full squad workouts. It will be the first time everyone is together again in one place since March 12, the day Major League Baseball shut down spring training because of the coronavirus outbreak. After four months of ...
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Sports
TORONTO President Obama arrived here Friday for back to back meetings of world leaders that will test international unity on how to restore global economic growth. After landing, Mr. Obama quickly boarded a helicopter for a G 8 meeting in Muskoka, Ontario, about 100 miles to the north. His arrival came less than five h...
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Global Business
The columnist Russell Baker complained about the overuse of the word "icon" in this newspaper back in 1997. Since then, its adjectival form has spread like an invasive species. It holds a special place among the fashion set as a descriptor for an outfit that puts one in mind of a look from myth, legend or classic movie...
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Fashion & Style
BEIJING For all of China's efforts to become a global force in high technology rivaling the United States, it has mostly failed to produce top flight contenders in one crucial area: the industry that gave Silicon Valley its name. Last year, China imported more than 300 billion worth of computer chips, the backbone of a...
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Technology
SHANGHAI Faced with a difficult combination of an economy addicted to cheap credit, exorbitant real estate prices fueled by that credit and mounting public concern that housing is no longer affordable, China's government is laying plans for steep new taxes on home sellers. But those plans set off a sharp drop in Chines...
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Global Business
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said on Monday that it could not determine Mr. Higgins's cause of death until additional studies were administered, including cardiac pathology, neuropathology and toxicology. The police said they did not suspect foul play. But additional details from the Chicago police departm...
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Music
Brianna was never so compelling as when she cracked Jamie right in the face. Her rape story line may never escape the shadow of the show's reliance on sexual violence. That said, her early days at Fraser's Ridge felt more like the beginning of a process than a bandage on a wound, suggesting "Outlander" was trying to ma...
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Television