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LOS ANGELES Adam Sandler's "Uncut Gems" is sparkling at the box office. Once again, the top movies in North American theaters were family oriented holiday leftovers, including first place "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" (Disney), which collected roughly 34 million over the weekend, for a new domestic total of 451 mi...
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Having an optimistic mind set may reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease and early death, a r eview of studies has found. In previous studies, optimism has been shown to be associated with a range of favorable physical health outcomes and with greater success in work, school and relationships. This new meta analysi...
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LONDON The line had begun forming at 3 p.m., though the time varied according to whom you asked. A young American Marine, Claude Martin, at the back of the line the very back, since after less than an hour, the hired security forbade any more people from lining up said he had heard whispers that the earliest comers had...
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Fashion & Style
For aspiring homeowners, coming up with a healthy down payment has long been the biggest obstacle to owning a home. With property values soaring in many areas median prices in San Jose, Calif., and Denver are 60 percent above their prerecession peaks the barrier is rising. That has some firms promoting unconventional w...
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Your Money
Every month, streaming services in Australia add a new batch of movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for October. Nikki Glaser has been performing stand up since she was a teenager in the early 2000s. But her career has taken off in recent years, thanks to her sexually frank talk show "Not Safe" and h...
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Philip Roth's 2004 novel "The Plot Against America" imagines a counterfactual history in which Charles Lindbergh, campaigning on a promise of "America First," defeats Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election and, colluding with Hitler, embarks on a program of government sponsored anti Semitism and Jewish...
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If you've been keeping score, you've probably noticed: Women have been getting sweaty on New York stages lately. They punch and kick. They jab and run. They push themselves and each other to their physical limits, until someone erupts in triumph or defeat. In Deborah Stein and Suli Holum's "The Wholehearted," at the Ab...
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Great ideas are not always good ones, as the characters in Greg Pierce's new play, "Cardinal," learn. The great idea in this case is Lydia's. A sparkler of a young woman who has been burned a few times, Lydia (Anna Chlumsky) returns from a life in Brooklyn to her depressed Rust Belt hometown with dreams of saving it fr...
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But when her parents end their "exotic and unlikely partnership" after 20 years of marriage, Wagner starts to feel "truly alone, like an astronaut on a distant planet." And then, just as she begins to think about "the prehistories that ultimately determined my own story," a family mystery presents itself. Like many fel...
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ROBIN WILLIAMS'S widow, Susan Schneider, agreed that the rainbow suspenders he wore on the television comedy "Mork Mindy" should go to his children from previous marriages, but she did want the tuxedo the comedian wore at their wedding. Simple, it might seem, but not in the complicated world of blended families. This w...
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Your Money
Leandro Barbosa had lofty goals for 2020. After playing 14 seasons in the N.B.A., Barbosa had hoped to make one more trip to the Olympics with Brazil's national basketball team his third at age 37. In these coronavirus times, Barbosa, like so many others, had to abruptly modify his wish list. Actually seeing his baby d...
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Lionel Messi turned his back. He had given the ball away, but he made no effort to atone for his error, no attempt to regain control. He stopped, waited a beat, and then looked to the other end of the field. It was as if he knew what was going to happen, and he did not care or could not bear to watch. Once it had happe...
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Instagram said Tuesday it was expanding its online anti bullying initiative, adding a new filter to weed out comments meant to harass or bully the 800 million users of the popular social media site. The company said it would review accounts that have a large number of comments filtered out. If those accounts violate In...
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Technology
MOSCOW A court on Tuesday extended the house arrest of Kirill S. Serebrennikov, the artistic director of the Gogol Center, whose case has raised alarms about repression of artistic freedom in Russia. Mr. Serebrennikov is accused of embezzling government funds that had been allocated for one of his theatrical projects. ...
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This week's Billboard album chart featured two unusual contenders for the top spot: a pair of independent rappers, each heavily influenced by their Christian faith, who did well on streaming services but also moved thousands of albums by bundling them with deals for merchandise, concert tickets and even Lyft rides. In ...
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Credit...Melissa Golden for The New York Times BLUE RIDGE, Ga. On the 16 hour ride from Louisiana, Bo looked out the window, took in the scenery, dozed and relaxed. He was traveling with five other male chimps from the New Iberia Research Center in Lafayette, La., where they had been members of a colony of nearly 200 a...
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Deserts aren't necessarily deserted they can be crowded with fantastic flora and fauna. Moses Pendleton knows how to make theatrical deserts bloom in his "Opus Cactus," which his company, Momix, is reviving at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, June 27. With lights, shadows, props, puppetry and wondrously agile human dancer...
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Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" has several truly sublime and justly beloved scenes and ensembles. With a good cast and conductor, these are almost surefire moments in any performance. But "Rosenkavalier" also contains whole stretches of heavy handed comedy that can seem to go on forever. The challenge is to make...
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For months, Hector Hernandez, 47, didn't understand why his stomach had gotten so big. "I just thought I was fat," he said. "I've always been a big guy." It would be a year and a half before he discovered that his large belly was actually a 77 pound tumor. In the meantime, he watched as it grew and grew. When he took t...
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In another step forward for the rapidly expanding universe of invisible astronomy, scientists said on Wednesday that on Aug. 14 they had recorded the space time reverberations known as gravitational waves from the collision of a pair of black holes 1.8 billion light years away from here. It was the fourth time, officia...
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NOCHE FLAMENCA at the West Park Presbyterian Church (Dec. 26 Jan. 28). In the early 20th century, Arthur Schnitzler's play "La Ronde" scandalized audiences with its vignettes of sexual encounters that breached class borders. The inventive and indispensable dance company Noche Flamenca interprets that work through a ser...
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LONDON Last year, Sotheby's sold 6.4 billion worth of artworks worldwide, a 16 percent increase over 2017, the New York based auction house said Thursday, announcing its full year financial results. Earlier this month its archrival Christie's announced equivalent 2018 sales of 7 billion. Sotheby's said its 2018 perform...
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SAN FRANCISCO When the virtual currency markets were hot last year, the boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and the music producer and rapper Khaled Khaled, known as DJ Khaled, were getting paid to promote new digital tokens. On Thursday, regulators announced that Mr. Mayweather and Mr. Khaled will have to give back all the mon...
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Technology
Aaron Posner's "Life Sucks.," a New York Times Critic's Pick, has reopened at the Acorn Theater on Theater Row, with Kevin Isola now playing Vanya. Here is an edited version of Elisabeth Vincentelli's April 1, 2019, review of the production, which originated at the Wild Project. A middle aged, grouchily single man is b...
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Theater
Stephen King has written some of the most beloved horror novels in the history of popular fiction, and many have been turned into equally acclaimed and successful films. Movies like "Carrie," "Stand by Me" and "The Shawshank Redemption" have more than earned esteemed spots within the cinematic canon. Others "Maximum Ov...
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It's one of the first rules you learn when you get taken into the backyard and taught how to play football: You can only throw one forward pass each play. On Monday night, Tom Brady tried to get away with breaking that rule. And in a way, it worked. Early in the fourth quarter of Tampa Bay's game against the Los Angele...
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Why go to a "gay" bar these days when you can specify a niche like twinks, bears, muscle queens and "Hellsea" gays? The latest addition to this fragmented landscape is the Otter Box, a Sunday night frolic that is aimed at "otters" guys who are hairier than twinks, while significantly more svelte than bears. "I didn't f...
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This 8,611 square foot, painted concrete house is on a 0.40 acre lot on a ridge in Bryanston, a suburb of Johannesburg in Gauteng Province. The four bedroom, four bath house, built in 2014, has treetop views and limited vistas of the downtown skyline of Sandton, a business hub nearby, from the second floor. A long driv...
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In a small house in South London, five executives of the high end fashion retailer MatchesFashion.com sat around an oval conference table, discussing a coming event. From outside, the house looked like any sweet two story London cottage, with a cobblestone courtyard and small balcony, but inside, it was all white and o...
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Kudos to The Times for breaking this story. With Election Day five weeks away, the American people now have the vital information that President Trump has been hiding for years and can judge accordingly as to his fitness for office. There's an even larger story here, however. Donald Trump isn't the only wealthy America...
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If the red carpet parade and weird outfits at the Grammys left you with a bit of a fashion hangover, well, too bad. The fifth day of New York Fashion Week was one of its busiest, packed to the brim with shows from industry heavy hitters, including Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta. The two American houses were inv...
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Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you're interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendations straight to your inbox. The hosts pounced on Presiden...
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This is the rule that was meant to seem weird in 2020. Before the four month shutdown, plus size playoffs, cardboard cutouts, phantom runners, neutral sites and so on, the three batter minimum was the radical change for this season. The purpose was mostly to limit tedious pitching changes by requiring each pitcher to f...
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PINE PLAINS, N.Y. The Mashomack Fish Game Preserve Club, a few hours' drive north of New York City, is not the natural habitat of dancers, at least not of members of New York City Ballet and the Martha Graham Dance Company. But this is where I observed them participating in the normal behavior of their species: perform...
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After years of fighting homophobic news coverage and working to bring about inclusion in the entertainment industry, the L.G.B.T. advocacy organization found itself losing money, scrambling to adapt to the rise of digital media and struggling to be taken seriously in Hollywood. "I was given a scary mandate," said Sarah...
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CHANGSHA, China Until very recently, Hunan Province was known mainly for lip searing spicy food, smoggy cities and destitute pig farmers. Mao was born in a village on the outskirts of Changsha, the provincial capital here in south central China. Now, Changsha and two adjacent cities are emerging as a center of clean en...
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Global Business
Rooks, a host at Bleacher Report, said being a Black woman in sports journalism has its challenges, but her approach capturing players' full humanity gives her an edge. Marc Stein is on a brief hiatus after spending 54 days inside the bubble. Shauntel Lowe, N.B.A. editor for The New York Times, is filling in this week....
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Slate, the online publication known for counterintuitive analysis and its many podcasts, has chosen a specialist in narrative journalism as its next editor in chief. On Wednesday, the company announced that it had given the job to Jared Hohlt, a veteran of New York magazine. He succeeds Julia Turner, who left Slate in ...
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Wall Street is hopeful that American companies, after years of gaining ground at the expense of their employees, will start to succeed because of the rising fortune of those workers. Less than a week since the Dow Jones industrial average hit its all time high, the broader Standard Poor's 500 stock index is on track to...
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Tips for dodging the virus as Americans retreat from colder weather: Open the windows, buy an air filter and forget the UV lights. How to Keep the Coronavirus at Bay Indoors As the autumn chill ushers people back into homes, classrooms and offices, the coronavirus may resurge even in states that have so far restrained ...
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From left: Theories swirl around the mysterious metal monolith found in southeastern Utah by state employees. David Zwirner said it seems nearly identical to "Fair," 2011, by John McCracken, a stainless steel monolith now on view at the Zwirner gallery on West 20th Street in Manhattan. Some cheekily wondered if it was ...
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Art & Design
More than four dozen journalists at The Wall Street Journal challenged their bosses and criticized the newspaper's opinion side in a letter that was sent to top executives on Thursday, the day after China announced that it would expel three Journal staff members in retaliation for a headline that offended the country's...
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Lyft is part of a group of once highflying tech start ups that held disappointing initial public offerings last year and are now dealing with questions about whether they can turn a profit. It is the first time that Lyft is cutting jobs since it went public in March. Last year, Lyft's chief rival, Uber, laid off more t...
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Technology
I never intended to be a professional beekeeper, but for my birthday, my girlfriend at the time unexpectedly got me a beehive. She's a talented organic farmer and built me a hive herself. I have a large property in downtown Tucson, and I grow as much of my own food as I can, but the one thing I was never able to produc...
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Travel
Next, here's a piece of paper. Write a simple sentence. It must have a subject and verb and make sense, like "Hey, this is not a very difficult exam to pass." (The maximum score for this test is 30; a score below 20 usually indicates cognitive impairment.) You get the idea. These cognitive tests are basic and, unless y...
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Opinion
David Chang and his new Netflix series, "Ugly Delicious," can most easily be defined by what they're not. Mr. Chang is not a fastidious French kitchen god, a high energy American showman or an Anthony Bourdain like poetic observer. "Ugly Delicious" is not a stand and stir cooking show or a pack your bags travelogue. Th...
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FUND RAISING At Public School 295 in Brooklyn, bake sales raise money for good causes. But they can also cause tension between affluent and less well off parents. THE Cupcake Wars came to Public School 295 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, in October. The Parent Teacher Association's decision to raise the price of a cupcake at...
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Education
Two weeks ago, "Saturday Night Live" returned to television with its first new episode of the at home era: a collection of remotely produced sketches that were low on production value but high on spirit and innovation. It offered a window into what the show could do without most of its resources and into the homes of i...
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Shortly before turning 30, Prince Charles complained to the press about its seeming obsession with bad news. "Why don't they, for a change, tell us how many jumbo jets landed safely at Heathrow Airport," he groused. So, as a birthday gift, the Times of London printed a front page containing only good news. The death ra...
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HOUSTON The only word to describe life here right now is this: hell. The pandemic is raging, the economy is shuddering and the energy city's lifeblood, oil, while rebounding from a terrifying negative 37 a barrel in April, is still in the not pretty 40 range. The state leadership is, at best, useless. Temperatures are ...
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ORRIN EVANS TRIO WITH KEVIN EUBANKS at Jazz Standard (Aug. 29 Sept. 1, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.). Evans's rambunctious piano style embraces the art of the stark dynamic shift. He'll lull you into a groove with a fiercely repeated phrase, then blast you with a fistful of dissonance. He'll indulge in a skittering run, then cut...
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The wind was whipping around a makeshift outdoor SoulCycle studio at Manhattan's Hudson Yards the other day, but the fashion designer Michelle Smith pulled off her "Legalize Equality" sweatshirt, baring toned limbs. She was hot. For the second time that day, she was front row and center in a spin class taught by her gi...
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"I wish my father was alive," Mr. Blanchard said in a telephone interview. "He was an avid opera fanatic." "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" is based on a memoir by Charles Blow, an Opinion columnist for The New York Times, with a libretto by the writer and director Kasi Lemmons. In his review in The Times, Anthony Tommasini ...
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WHAT'S a cat have to do to get some love? Jaguar is breeding its most competitive cars in decades, among them the graceful, dynamically sparkling XF and XJ sedans, yet too few people have been buying them. It's enough to make the company's latest owner, Tata Motors of India, wonder about that "Rule, Britannia" mytholog...
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Automobiles
F.D.A. Approves New H.I.V. Prevention Drug, but Not for Everyone The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug, Descovy, for prevention of infection with H.I.V., only the second drug approved for this purpose. The first, Truvada, has become a mainstay of government efforts to turn back the H.I.V. epi...
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Health
We feel it whenever the ground quakes and volcanoes erupt. These devastating events, which kill thousands of people and affect millions more every year, may seem like random acts of nature. But when you watch them over a long time scale, a pattern emerges. A new interactive app released Thursday shows more than 50 year...
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With Washington preoccupied by the government shutdown, Wall Street is shifting its attention to an even more worrisome situation: the possibility that the government could run out of money within the next few weeks, forcing an unprecedented default on its debt. The Treasury said last week that Congress had until Oct. ...
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Michelle Wolf's Old Late Night Bosses Come to Her Defense Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. If you're interested in hearing from The Times regularly about great TV, sign up for our Watching newsletter and get recommendat...
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LONDON It would be Europe's worst nightmare: after weeks of rumors, the Greek prime minister announces late on a Saturday night that the country will abandon the euro currency and return to the drachma. Instead of business as usual on Monday morning, lines of angry Greeks form at the shuttered doors of the country's ba...
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Global Business
What books are currently on your night stand? I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours. But there are books piled randomly everywhere around the house, and I read randomly from them the little pillar of books here next to me at the mome...
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VEGHEL, the Netherlands With AIDS, malaria and other diseases costing millions of lives every year, worrying about the vision of people in the developing world may seem like an indulgence. But supplying glasses for the world's poor may be one of the most valuable investments around. Hundreds of millions of people some ...
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Is it time to temper the American dream of homeownership? If you want to curb the power of Wall Street and reduce the risk that the financial system will bring the rest of the economy tumbling down again, there may be no other choice. Consider what happened last week, when regulators pretty much threw in the towel on n...
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"I hate the written word," the choreographer Reggie Wilson said with an almost wicked edge, as he sat in his cozy kitchen in Brooklyn, drinking sweet tea on a recent blustery day. Then, acknowledging my confusion, he added, "Now breathe, breathe." This remark is doubly surprising, coming from a choreographer who routin...
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Dance
Longing for alternatives to the conventional, cookie cutter hotel? Along with crocuses and daffodils, new specialty chains from major hospitality companies including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Carlson Rezidor will be springing up across the globe in the coming weeks and months. The hotels are what's known in the indus...
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If it wasn't the absolute worst time someone's electronic device could have gone off during "Sea Wall," Simon Stephens's exquisite one act monologue that's part of a Broadway double bill, it still might well have sabotaged the show. The British actor Tom Sturridge had held us entranced all the way to the pin drop quiet...
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The economic and social trends that have long kept Hispanic and black women from making job and wage gains appear to be shifting . The United States economy on Monday hit a milestone, reaching its longest expansion on record. Just a decade ago, the nation was mired in a severe recession that had erased trillions of dol...
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PARIS When a parade of black robed figures files solemnly by, each wielding a long, narrow black scepter, or spear (it was hard to tell), and then carefully mounts the walls of a giant reflecting pool and begins to dip the sticks into the water and all this happens on the same day that Jacques Chirac 's death is announ...
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This is a moment of returns. It's back to school time. Novak Djokovic came back to win the United States Open. Barack Obama has been back on the hustings, providing a clarion call for Democrats. And Proenza Schouler erstwhile next gen hope of American fashion, a brand born with the millennium that seemed to effortlessl...
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Smith Craft, 9, of Apex, N.C., was part of Aimmune's clinical trial. After taking the drug, she could try more new foods without anxiety, she said. A Food and Drug Administration panel on Friday recommended approval of the first ever drug to treat life threatening peanut allergies in children, a condition that confound...
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"This is a city that turned a disused industrial waterway into a kayak run and an emptied high school into new downtown homes," he said. "We took advantage of being at the center of six fiber optic routes to turn old factory acreage into data centers, an industry that didn't even exist when Studebaker closed." As the c...
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A street drain in the shape of a man's torso and face quite the manhole that reads "Reclaimed Water." With it, carved into the metal at the bottom, a plaque of sorts, reading "Christopher Columbus": This is a poster design by the artist Nicole Awai, titled "Reclaimed Water CC'd." The work is for a project called New Mo...
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Rental cars are rarely anything special. And that's just fine. All you really need from a rental is unlimited miles, long term shelter for a few stray curly fries and a hassle free ride from A to B and back again before those martinets at the counter charge you for an additional day. If you're driving a rental, the car...
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It's impossible to talk to the chef Deuki Hong without talking about chicken. For him, almost every waking moment is spent thinking about it, making it or eating it. Mr. Hong has spent years perfecting the crispy, glass like skin of his famous barbecued chicken, but he's also a fan of American fried chicken. "I won't l...
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What is it? A new Outback wagon that Subaru promises is roomier, more powerful, more efficient and quieter than the model it replaces. Is it real? Real and just around the corner. What they said: "As refined as it is rugged, the all new 2015 Subaru Outback combines a sophisticated interior with the most advanced safety...
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LOS ANGELES The black lit pillow fight room was perfect. "Anything with movement, it's an instant boomerang!" said Ayla Woodruff. "That's just a given." She quickly jumped into the milieu, picked up a few white feathers and asked her mother to start shooting. Half a dozen models in form fitting pajamas theatrically swu...
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In which we bring you motoring news from around the web: DeltaWing Technologies, maker of the rocket shape rear engine racecar currently competing in the United SportsCar Championship prototype series, has released a rendering of what a street legal four passenger DeltaWing might look like. The design, presented in wha...
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"The queen is dead?" a preschool administrator in suburban Paris asked Matthieu Bize, a wasp controller who had come to rid the schoolyard of Asian hornets. On the ground, a nest was in tatters. Twenty minutes earlier, it had been high up in an ivy choked tree, where it looked like a jumbo gray brown balloon. Mr. Bize,...
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We take the weekend to highlight some of the recent books coverage in The Times: Emily Bazelon's "Charged" is an indictment of prosecutorial excess, arguing that lawyers bear much of the responsibility for over incarceration, conviction of the innocent and other serious problems of the criminal justice system. Bazelon ...
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The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 69th annual National Book Awards on Wednesday, with a stylistically and thematically diverse group of 25 finalists in five categories fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people's literature and translated literature. Fiction finalists included Lauren Groff, fo...
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When Julio Urias struck out Willy Adames of the Tampa Bay Rays to secure the World Series title for the Los Angeles Dodgers last week, it capped an arduous achievement for baseball. There were months of bitter negotiations between Major League Baseball and the players' union over the structure and finances of a season ...
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The 100 Year Family: Here Are Some Tips for Becoming One Dennis Jaffe, a sociologist by training, has spent years trying to figure out the answer to a pressing question: what makes a hundred year family? The question attempts to confront an adage that exists in many cultures and languages and is often attributed to And...
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Congress granted women the right to vote on June 4, 1919, a bittersweet moment for many who had fought for equality for decades. To commemorate the centennial of the ratification in 1920, enshrined in the 19th amendment, new tours and exhibitions can be found across the country. "There's been a huge interest in the cen...
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Everybody wants a baseball season. Nobody knows quite how that will look amid the coronavirus pandemic. Those are the only certainties for a sport that has an unbroken chain of seasons with at least 100 games stretching back to the 19th century. But as more and more hopeful hints have emerged this week from Dr. Anthony...
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Steve Wolfe, an artist who died last year at 60, was known for the small, select library of trompe l'oeil books he created. From his first solo show in 1989, Wolfe's sculptures and wall pieces were all but perfect replicas of worn, well used copies of modern classics and artist monographs and catalogs usually his own t...
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Art & Design
As Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) himself puts it, "God, it seems like a thousand years ago, I fought my way out of that cave, became Iron Man." Scenes from later films in the series, including "Captain America: The First Avenger" and "Thor," follow. It all seemingly culminates with the conclusion to the cliffhanger fr...
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Movies
What books are on your nightstand? I don't have a nightstand per se my bedroom is rather ascetic, with only a bed nestled between the constellation painted walls. I do tend to keep a rotating selection of longtime favorites near or in it, to dip into before sleep "The Little Prince" (which I reread at least once a year...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
J.J. Abrams Said to Be Near 500 Million Deal With WarnerMedia LOS ANGELES Sign with us. We can offer you spectacular opportunities. Have I mentioned how brilliant you are? So went the courtship of the producer J. J. Abrams by Apple, NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia and other entertainment companies over the past six months, a...
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Media
VINCI, Italy In his biography of Leonardo da Vinci, written 30 years after the artist's death in 1519, Giorgio Vasari said Leonardo had "such a power of intellect that whatever he turned his mind to, he made himself master of with ease." In this 500th anniversary year of the artist's death, the Musee du Louvre in Paris...
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Art & Design
An agent for Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller confirmed a Covid 19 diagnosis on Thursday. The agent said Miller was resting at his home in Denver with mild symptoms. Von Miller, the Denver Broncos' All Pro linebacker and the winner of the Most Valuable Player Award in Super Bowl 50, on Thursday became the latest an...
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Sports
The Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat, Licensed by Artestar, New York; via The Brant Foundation; Charlie Rubin for The New York Times The Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat, Licensed by Artestar, New York; via The Brant Foundation; Charlie Rubin for The New York Times Credit... The Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat, Licensed by ...
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Art & Design
Season 3 of "Better Things," beginning Feb. 28 on FX, feels like the long awaited return of an old familiar friend. Sam (Pamela Adlon, one of the creators) continues to come to terms with aging; Sam's oldest daughter, Max (Mikey Madison), has boy troubles; Frankie (Hannah Alligood) and Duke (Olivia Edward) bicker and d...
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Television
First, it came for eyeglasses. And then it came for makeup. It came for mattresses, and razors and erectile dysfunction pills. And now, finally, the Great Disruption has come for your cookware. Up until a few years ago, consumers faced a dizzying array of pots and pans on trips to department stores or online: cast iron...
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Style
FRANKFURT There was a touch of gloating in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots are a common site on auto assembly lines around the world. Kuka said last month that its sales had more than bounced back to levels predating the fin...
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Global Business
Maureen Dowd: Like the Alma character in "Phantom Thread," you sometimes have to put poisonous mushroom shavings in your husband's eggs to settle him down. Rebecca Miller: I don't relate to that, quite. Like your character Greta in "Personal Velocity," you're rotten with ambition. I am a little bit led by the nose by m...
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Style
Oprah Winfrey said on Friday that she was cutting ties with a documentary centered on women who have accused the music mogul Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct. The untitled film, scheduled to have its premiere this month at the Sundance Film Festival, focuses primarily on the executive Drew Dixon, who accused Mr. Si...
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Media
"Breaking Bad" did a remarkable job of highlighting Hank's savvy as a D.E.A. agent, while keeping the main suspect, Walter White, right under his nose. And as he negotiates with Saul and Domingo, we see his formidable side, even as he gets snowed. He pegs Saul's act for as a farce ("I feel like my chain is being pulled...
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Television
After a lull in September, General Motors picked up the pace of its safety campaign this week, announcing two recalls on Friday of more than half a million vehicles worldwide and an order to dealers to stop selling some pickup trucks because of a problem with the air bags. Including the impending pickup recall, Friday'...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
The United States faces a wave of small business failures this fall if the federal government does not provide a new round of financial assistance a prospect that economists warn would prolong the recession, slow the recovery and perhaps enduringly reshape the American business landscape. As the pandemic drags on, it i...
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Economy
SAN FRANCISCO Facebook on Tuesday made its largest single investment by putting 5.7 billion into Jio Platforms of India, an enormous bet on the developing market and a sign of how large tech companies are forging ahead in the pandemic. Jio Platforms is a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, one of India's biggest multina...
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Technology
If you ever win an Oscar, don't let it out of your sight. That was the lesson on Sunday night, when Frances McDormand saw her freshly engraved statue for best actress stolen for a short time at an Oscars after party. "After a brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited," Simon Halls, a representative ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Movies