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STORY DOULA Jodi Picoult was getting ready for the evening's virtual event a conversation with Kevin Kwan when she got a call from her editor, letting her know that her 27th novel, "The Book of Two Ways," had debuted at No. 1 on the hardcover fiction list. "It was a really nice moment in a really bad year," says the ve...
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Boy meets girl. Boy leaves girl to return to his wife. Girl falls into despair or the nearest funeral pyre. So it goes with Dido, the famous queen of Virgil's "Aeneid," and Nora, her modern day analog in Abby Rosebrock's morbidly charming "Dido of Idaho" at Ensemble Studio Theater. The play, co produced with Radio Dram...
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With more than 50 women having flown in space over the last 50 years and the ranks of women astronauts growing, one might assume that a basic physiological question has been answered: What's the best approach to manage menstrual cycles in space? An analysis published Thursday in the journal "npj Microgravity" reports t...
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The Lasker Awards, among the most respected prizes in medicine, will go to six researchers who made major discoveries in physiology and virology, and to a scientist who has tirelessly promoted science education, the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced on Tuesday. The awards, honoring basic medical research, cli...
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The nation's largest patient advocacy groups are on the front lines of some of the biggest health care debates, from the soaring costs of prescription drugs to whether new medicines are being approved quickly enough. But while their voices carry weight because they represent the interests of sick patients, a new study ...
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Christmas and the days leading up to the holiday are a magical time to visit Ireland, according to Siobhan Byrne Learat, founder of Adams Butler, a Dublin based company selling trips to Ireland. "The Irish go all out for Christmas with decor and celebrations, and the mood is cheerful and generous," she said. "And over ...
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COCO (2017) on iTunes and Amazon. Pixar's foray into death comes with this charming cartoon about Miguel (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez), a 12 year old aspiring guitarist who wants nothing more than to be like Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), a legendary Mexican musician. But Miguel's family especially his shoe throwi...
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Several women were accusing Joseph R. Biden Jr., about to announce he was running for president, of touching them inappropriately. Sy Presten had a newsy item for the gossip columns. He was sitting on a leather sofa in the living room of his apartment on West 26th Street. His wife, Joanne Binder, was out to lunch with ...
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In T.S. Eliot's "Journey of the Magi," the three wise kings, having witnessed the birth of Christ at the end of a long and difficult journey, return home to find themselves "no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation." Back in "our places," the kings are troubled. They feel they are in the presence of "an alien pe...
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Sequels are always tricky. The original is a creative leap; the follow up is likely to be incremental. Until now, Taylor Swift has switched up her collaborators and general sound with each album. But she has rightly billed "Evermore," her surprise release ninth album, as the "sister" to the one she released less than f...
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Music
"It doesn't matter if I get blocked I'm going to go right back in the paint again," the Liberty guard said. They bring that same tenacity to their role on the W.N.B.A. union's executive committee. On the court, Layshia Clarendon has become the leader of a young Liberty team coursing through a season with many unexpecte...
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LONDON The first image is of a man kneeling in a misty white light, his head bowed, his tattoo covered, muscular torso swaying rhythmically, side to side. Then we see an opera house, the audience arriving, musicians warming up. Backstage, the dancer Sergei Polunin in makeup and costume, is in his dressing room, taking ...
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Will Power won the race, but by finishing fifth in Saturday's 500 mile IndyCar season finale at Fontana, Calif., Scott Dixon clinched his third title in the series. Dixon, who also won the title in 2003 and 2008, had trailed Helio Castroneves in points much of this season. But a sixth place finish in the race by Castro...
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For the past four years, congressional Republicans have shut their eyes, covered their ears and muted their voices, ignoring their obligation to serve as a check on the presidency. In a heartbeat, the United States has descended from the lofty perch of democratic idealism to the subbasement of an authoritarian banana r...
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Twice in the past month, National Security Agency cyberweapons stolen from its arsenal have been turned against two very different partners of the United States Britain and Ukraine. The N.S.A. has kept quiet, not acknowledging its role in developing the weapons. White House officials have deflected many questions, and ...
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When the visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra was a girl, she was fascinated by Seurat's 1890 painting "Young Woman Powdering Herself." She also identified with "Little Dot," a comic book character, created in 1949, obsessed with dots, and as she gazed at the Seurat, an image composed of thousands of dabs of color, she imag...
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Dr. Steinberg is a professor of psychology at Temple University and the author of "Age of Opportunity: Lessons From the New Science of Adolescence." A number of American colleges and universities have decided to bring students back to campus this fall, believing they can diminish the risk of coronavirus transmission if...
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Bill Hader is a hit man in "Barry," beginning Sunday on HBO, but his heart isn't in it. If there's one thing that defines HBO era TV, it's dramas about violent men. If there's a second thing, it's comedies set in and around the entertainment business. "Barry," which begins Sunday on HBO, is both, an audacious mash up t...
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The posters promoting the inaugural football game at Madonna University started going up around its Livonia, Mich., campus last October, and Josh DePaulis grabbed the first one he saw. He hung it on his bedroom wall, and every morning since, he has woken up, stared at it and said to himself two words: It's coming. DePa...
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American Ballet Theater plans to present the world premiere of a new ballet by Jessica Lang and the company premiere of 's "Daphnis and Chloe" during its fall season at the David H. Koch Theater, the company announced Wednesday. The new Lang work, set to music by Fanny Mendelssohn, will be the first dance she has creat...
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Dance
Credit...Alana Paterson for The New York Times The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power From the Inside SEATTLE Tim Bray, an internet pioneer and a former vice president at Amazon, sent shock waves through the tech giant in early May when he resigned for what he called "a vein of toxicity" running through its culture. Withi...
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Lightning's intricate, darting dance across the sky can be mesmerizing or terrifying, elegant or explosive, divine or destructive, depending on how close it is. But meteorologists have historically viewed lightning as little more than a weather byproduct. Like a rainbow, only with teeth. That view may be changing as te...
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If you had somehow forgotten the uniqueness of the 2020 Major League Baseball season, the Yankees' weekend series against the Mets had plenty of reminders. They played five games in three days at Yankee Stadium after a Mets player and staff member tested positive for the coronavirus, forcing a postponement of the previ...
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A longtime analyst for Fox News is leaving the network, saying that he could not "in good conscience" remain with an organization that, he argued, "is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit." In a searing farewell note sent to colleagues on Tuesday, Ralph Peters, a Fox News strategic analyst and a re...
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SHANGHAI Chinese officials are investigating the Swiss food packaging giant Tetra Pak for "abusing its market dominance" in China, the latest in a growing number of multinational companies to come under regulatory scrutiny. China's State Administration of Industry and Commerce said on its Web site Friday that it had st...
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Global Business
The chief executive of Barnes Noble, James Daunt, who took over last summer, thought the company's stores were badly in need of some sprucing up. His plan, over the next two years or so, was to close locations on a rotating basis for a few weeks at a time to refurnish and refurbish. Then the coronavirus closed almost a...
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Books
11 Year Old Boy's Death in Brooklyn May Have Been Caused by Airborne Fish Proteins An 11 year old boy who died on New Year's Day after visiting family members in Brooklyn may have had a fatal reaction to fish proteins released into the air while his relatives cooked. The sixth grader, Cameron Jean Pierre, had asthma an...
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Health
Twitch, the livestreaming platform popular among video game players, unveiled new guidelines on Wednesday aimed at cracking down on hateful conduct and sexual harassment on its site. The site, which is owned by Amazon, said it had broadened its definition of sexual harassment and separated such violations into a new ca...
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Technology
Higher birth weight may predict better cardiovascular fitness in adulthood, researchers report. Scientists measured fitness in 286,761 Swedish men ages 17 to 25 by having them ride a bicycle ergometer and recording the wattage they were able to generate. They used data on birth weights from the Swedish Medical Birth Re...
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Back in November, my bank sent my wife and me a letter asking that we provide proof of flood insurance for the condominium we own in Florida. We did. But three months later, we found ourselves in the midst of a Kafkaesque world, where we were being charged for bank imposed insurance and couldn't figure out a way to get...
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Your Money
American art from the 20th and 21st centuries is broader, and better than previously acknowledged, especially by museums. As these institutions struggle to become more inclusive than before, and give new prominence to neglected works, they rarely act alone. Essential help has come from people like William Arnett and hi...
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SEATTLE Amazon Prime is the kitchen sink of membership programs. The internet retailer keeps cramming new benefits into it music and video streaming, fast shipping and online photo storage. Next up: ridiculously inexpensive halibut steaks from Whole Foods. On Wednesday, the company will unveil the next stage of its ste...
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Deepika Subbiah and Michael Cicoria prepare to kiss after saying their vows at their outdoor wedding April 18 in Cedar Grove, N.J. Michael Cicoria is not the type to automatically pull out chairs and hold doors. But he will admit that when it comes to chivalry, he has his moments. In the summer of 2013, while he was at...
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Fashion & Style
Her head bloodied and bandaged, and her hands caked with chalk, Emily Harrington pulled herself over the last lip of El Capitan and into the clear, still night above Yosemite National Park, 21 hours 13 minutes and 51 seconds after she began her ascent. In her fourth attempt last Wednesday night, Ms. Harrington became t...
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Lynn Kellogg in about 1968. She had the closest thing to a female lead role in the musical "Hair," and was in the original Broadway cast. Lynn Kellogg Simpers, a singer and actress who, as Lynn Kellogg, played Sheila, a free spirited New York University student protester, in the original 1968 Broadway production of "Ha...
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Facebook has made splashy announcements over the last four years about building a fleet of solar powered drones, with wingspans bigger than a Boeing 737, beaming internet access to people around the world who can't otherwise get online. (When you have as many users as Facebook, finding new ones requires some ingenuity....
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"Every major tech company has ramped up its presence here," said David McCabe, a reporter in Washington who covers tech policy. How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? David McCabe, who covers tech policy in Washington, discussed the tech he's using. What tech is most...
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WASHINGTON Over a frenetic two weeks, as the coronavirus has upended American capitalism and changed every aspect of life, the Federal Reserve has taken drastic steps to keep money flowing throughout the financial system. It has cut interest rates to near zero, introduced a huge bond buying program, revamped a crisis e...
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If the historians of the future try to pinpoint the exact moment when the term "digital fur" became ubiquitous in our culture, they might eventually identify the evening of July 18, when the "Cats" trailer premiered online just as the first public screenings of Disney's "The Lion King" remake were unspooling across the...
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HIGH FALLS, N.Y. The gas station in this Hudson Valley hamlet sat empty for years, leaching petroleum into the soil and well water. But a renovation that will transform the abandoned station into a yoga studio, wellness center and a charging station for electric cars has turned the eyesore into a symbol of this struggl...
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Real Estate
WASHINGTON A federal judge in Texas struck down the entire Affordable Care Act on Friday on the grounds that its mandate requiring people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional and the rest of the law cannot stand without it. The ruling was over a lawsuit filed this year by a group of Republican governors and stat...
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Health
As snow swirled through Manhattan this month, the British designer Tom Dixon found himself in a cozy spot above it all, standing atop a twin size bed with a dozen nervous students at the Parsons School of Design in Greenwich Village. Dressed in a charcoal suit, Mr. Dixon was trying to make a radical point: that Ikea, t...
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A small landmark of New York City architectural and automotive history disappeared recently, almost without notice. The theatrical auto showroom designed by Frank Lloyd Wright at 430 Park Avenue, at 56th Street, had displayed a number of European brands over the years, notably Mercedes Benz from 1957 to 2012. The space...
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It's No Secret That Espionage Is This Collector's Passion BOCA RATON, Fla. "There are probably more spies in America now than at any other point in our history," said H. Keith Melton, a longtime historical adviser to the C.I.A. who has spent the past few decades obsessively researching international espionage while ama...
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The revival of "Company" was in previews and 10 days from opening when Broadway shut down. And opening night was meant to be especially special, timed to the 90th birthday of the musical's composer Stephen Sondheim. Soon after, the show's director, Marianne Elliott, returned to her husband and producing partner, Nick S...
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SAN FRANCISCO Over a cup of tea at a downtown Starbucks, Michael Rubio recalled how four friends became H.I.V. positive through unprotected sex, all within a year. The news shocked Mr. Rubio, a 28 year old gay man, into trying a controversial new form of H.I.V. prevention: a daily pill that studies show is highly effec...
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MANILA It was a balmy evening in Hanover Park, Ill., and I was so giddy with excitement I couldn't sleep. It was one of the biggest nights of the year: Bigger than the Oscars, bigger than the Super Bowl. It was the night they crowned Miss Universe 1973. I have been obsessed with beauty pageants since I was 6 years old ...
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DOLLY PARTON: 50 YEARS AT THE OPRY 9 p.m. on NBC. The newly crowned millennial queen, Dolly Parton, is currently enjoying a renaissance of sorts as the subject of a popular podcast and a Netflix anthology series. But this two hour special celebrates Parton's legacy as a performer. At age 73, she is celebrating 50 years...
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WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, warned Congressional Republicans on Thursday not to "play around with" a coming vote to raise the government's legal borrowing limit or use it as a bargaining chip for spending cuts. In remarks after a luncheon speech here, Mr. Bernanke sided with the Obama admi...
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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. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democrats' presumptive nominee for president, has forcefully denied allegations of sexual harassment and ...
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For Abar, the answer is yes for reasons the episode isn't persuasive enough in articulating, but her goals as a justice seeker can only be helped by the most powerful being the world has ever known. Besides, the show has invented a doohickey that makes it possible for Dr. Manhattan to exist as Calvin, a stable and supp...
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How much of "The Music of Silence" is true and how much fiction, only its inspiration, the singer Andrea Bocelli, knows for sure. Adapted from Mr. Bocelli's 1999 novel of the same name (a story he has described as "similar to" his own life), this blah trudge from cradle to stage will be catnip to his fans and Ambien to...
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WRESTLING WITH THE DEVIL A Prison Memoir By Ngugi wa Thiong'o 248 pp. The New Press. 25.99. On an afternoon in late December 1977, the Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o innocently drove by the walls of Kamiti, a high security prison on the outskirts of Nairobi. He had a sense of foreboding, though he could not know that ...
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While it might feel as if the coronavirus crisis is over, it's not. The virus is still out there. But some things have changed. To start, lockdowns are ending because cases are low or falling in some areas or because state leaders have decided to move ahead despite the risk. Testing has increased, giving us more indica...
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Well
Credit...Ryan Shorosky for The New York Times WOODSIDE, Calif. She's been performing for six decades and until this month hadn't released a new album since 2008, but Joan Baez has been picking up momentum. Taylor Swift brought her onstage, and Lana Del Rey said "Lust for Life," her most recent album, had "early Joan Ba...
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Meghan Markle: 10 Things to Know About the New Royal In a wide ranging interview after Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and Harry, Duke of Sussex, announced their engagement, she admitted "as naive as it sounds now" to being taken aback by the intensity of the tabloid spotlight and scrutiny. "I've never been in tabloid c...
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Style
Last year, the National Park Service shattered its previous attendance record by 14 million, attracting more than 307 million visitors. This year, traffic is already up nearly 3 million in year to date comparisons. And while the service won't project another record breaking year, 2016 is shaping up to be perhaps its bu...
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Flora Traub is a 37 year old mother of three with a master's in public policy from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. But after years as a policy analyst, she found herself reflecting on her undergraduate premedical studies and the happy year she spent in AmeriCorps Community HealthCorps after college. She...
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British scientists have tied the tightest knot ever tied and, as unlikely as it may seem, this is important. Knots are useful in everyday life and specific kinds of knots are suitable for specific tasks bowlines, cleats, hitches and nooses all hold things together in different ways. The same is true on the molecular le...
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, 40, is the chief executive of HAP Investment Developers, a company with offices in New York and Tel Aviv that focuses mainly on midsize residential and commercial properties, mainly in northern Manhattan. His partners in the company are Amir Hasid and Nir Amsel. Q. What is your main role in the company? A. I like fin...
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After Prince died on April 21, one of the most urgent questions for the music industry was how quickly the estate could hire professionals to handle the star's vast collection of songs and other media content. The answer was two months. On Friday, Bremer Trust, a Minnesota bank that is acting as the special administrat...
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CONTEXTUAL A facade of concrete and glass will contain a group of four bedroom town homes on Pearl and Water Streets, an area better known for converted loft spaces. Construction is set to begin this summer. A group of town houses hidden behind a unified facade of concrete and glass in formerly industrial Dumbo has som...
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The Crowd Mostly 20 somethings out in packs for a night of group fun in the Gowanus Industrial Playground; archery, rock climbing and shuffleboard are nearby. There are also some braver, slightly more timid 30 somethings paired up on adventurous date nights. (No ax murderer jokes, please.) There seems to be an unoffici...
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MSNBC pulled an abrupt about face on Thursday, announcing that it had rehired a contributor just days after it fired him when far right activists drew attention to an inflammatory tweet he posted in 2009. "Sometimes you just get one wrong and that's what happened here," Phil Griffin, the cable network's president said ...
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Cindy Gallop lives in a black lacquer box of a loft. The walls and ceiling are painted glossy black. There is black carpeting galore, black cabinetry in the kitchen, black mosaic tile in the master bath, and a black curtain closing off the sleeping area. The singular look is courtesy of the specific instructions she ga...
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John Waters, the filmmaker, at his four story Baltimore home. He's donating artworks from his personal collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. The filmmaker will donate 372 works to the Baltimore Museum of Art. His collection tends toward the perverse, the ironic and the cheerfully nihilistic and much of it is still...
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Art & Design
A roundup of motoring news from the web: Although Sergio Marchionne, chief executive of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, said during the recession that Chrysler would never build another plant in North America, the automaker's executives were considering opening another factory to build more Ram pickup trucks. The Ram light ...
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Making her feature directing debut, Kay Cannon (who wrote the "Pitch Perfect" comedies) handles all the nonsense in "Blockers" just fine, alternately corralling the performers and giving them room to cut very modestly loose. (The other daughters are played by Geraldine Viswanathan and Gideon Adlon, both charmers.) Ms. ...
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NBTY, one of the nation's largest makers of popular supplements like ginkgo biloba and ginseng, has agreed to conduct advanced genetic testing to help ensure that its herbal products actually contain the ingredients promised on the label. The agreement, which affects several popular brands including Solgar, Nature's Bo...
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Well
When Catherine Deneuve appears in "The Truth" she isn't simply in character. She comes in accompanied by a multiplicity of other roles and previous performances, by former directors and co stars, old loves and scandals and triumphs, all crowding around her like phantoms. That's often the case now with Deneuve, who, lik...
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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. War Crimes Ruled Out as of Tu...
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Unlike many novels featuring large casts, Beah's does not apportion its main characters into different chapters, instead interweaving their stories together in one, unified narrative. It's a wise choice, in keeping with the overall tone of a story about adolescents held together by a cultivated consanguinity. Yet even ...
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WASHINGTON Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, said on Wednesday that the country's economic expansion had broadened and strengthened, and that she expected the growth to continue. Ms. Yellen's upbeat assessment, delivered to the Joint Economic Committee, is likely to reinforce expectations the Fed will ra...
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Ten percent of military families live on installations across the United States, and 43 percent live in some form of privatized housing. Fourteen companies administer housing for 79 communities across the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, making over 3.9 billion per year in rental income. Almost no military famil...
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This obituary is part of a series about people who died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Adam Schlesinger, an acclaimed singer songwriter for the bands Fountains of Wayne and Ivy who had an award winning second career writing songs for film, theater and television, died on Wednesday in Poughkeepsie,...
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Freddie and Myrna Gershon have added to their holdings in a building in Midtown East. A few flights down from their penthouse is another in house purchase, a one bedroom that will serve as his writing studio. Freddie Gershon lives with his wife, Myrna, and his dog in a penthouse duplex with a terrace in Midtown East. T...
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Real Estate
So China has won twice over: First rising with the active collaboration of naive American centrists, and then consolidating its gains with the de facto collaboration of a feckless American populist. Four months into the coronavirus era, Xi Jinping's government is throttling Hong Kong, taking tiny bites out of India, sa...
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Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway, and to exploring the particular challenges of the Information Age, in a new play about an epic and thought provoking battle between a writer and a fact checker. Mr. Radcliffe will co star with Cherry Jones and Bobby Cannavale in "The Lifespan of a Fact," a new play adapted fro...
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What should the former Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz do next? As men's wear goes into high gear in Paris and the city prepares for couture, that is a question that keeps coming up. Though there was a movement last fall, in the immediate wake of his firing, to draft him to be creative director of Christian Dior, the post ...
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Fashion & Style
On an early morning last June, I hit the streets of Lyme Regis dressed in a borrowed pair of Wellington boots and an anorak, hood cinched around my face against a cold wind. Sheets of rain had turned the steep streets of the historic town into rivulets, and the surrounding hilltops were shrouded in a dense, milky fog, ...
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Taking some time off from a tech job in Chicago earlier this year to contemplate a career move, Shannon Elarton signed up to visit Tanzania in May with AdventureWomen, a women only tour company, on a hunch that she might gain some perspective from her fellow travelers. She was also, she said, "craving something deeper ...
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Q. I see there's yet another Windows 10 update out now. I get notifications about patches all the time, so how do I know when this notice is for a system upgrade? Can I tell if it already installed itself? A. Microsoft began rolling out its Windows 10 Fall Creators Update last Tuesday using the Windows Update utility o...
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"Today is the 50th Earth Day. You can tell Earth Day turned 50 because earlier today, Earth changed its hairstyle and bought a Corvette." JIMMY FALLON "The big 5 0. And I gotta say, Earth is still looking good. She's just getting hotter every year, even with the receding glaciers and putting on a little water weight ar...
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"I'm revealing how naughty I was at a young age, and I don't really do that in my stand up," Ali Wong says. When Ali Wong is testing new jokes in front of an audience, she does something strange. "I talk very quietly in a monotone voice where there's almost zero performance in there, to see if the material holds up," s...
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Smile Direct Club, specializing in invisible aligners to straighten teeth, has signed a three year lease for a new two level flagship location 900 square feet on the ground floor with an upper floor of equal size in this five story Upper East Side building. The center, the sixth location in Manhattan, is to open by Dec...
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Real Estate
Read all of our classical coverage here. Classical lovers! When the week began, I was still in hot yet ever so chill Ojai, Calif., for the tail end of the Ojai Music Festival, one of music's most lovably idiosyncratic, sunnily relaxed yet rigorous events. (Read my full report here.) The revelation of this year's festiv...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
"What the Constitution Means to Me," Heidi Schreck's autobiographical play that uses a childhood speech and debate competition to explore the treatment of gender in American legal history, will transfer to Broadway this spring. Ms. Schreck, a writer and performer in television as well as theater, has been working on th...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
Rushing an impeachment case through the House without due process and giving the Senate a half baked case to finish set a dangerous precedent. If the Senate were to convict, it would risk making this kind of quick, partisan impeachment in the House a regular occurrence. That would serve only to further deepen the divid...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
WASHINGTON Margaret Brennan, the senior foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, will be the next moderator of "Face the Nation," the network's prestige Sunday morning public affairs show and one of the most influential venues in American politics. Her new role, announced by CBS on Thursday, makes Ms. Brennan, 37, t...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
With labor unions seeing their influence wane, more than 200 organizations have sprouted nationwide to help low wage workers. But nearly all these groups say they are hampered by a lack of dependable funding because, unlike unions, they cannot rely on a steady flow of dues. To the dismay of many business groups, New Yo...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
On April 23, about a week after the fire at Notre Dame in Paris, the designer Mathieu Lehanneur unveiled his plan for a new spire for the cathedral: a gleaming, 300 foot flame, made of carbon fiber and covered in gold leaf, that would be a permanent reminder of the tragedy. The suggestion, first made on Instagram, did ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
The notion of making vehicles turn better by steering all four of their wheels has inspired engineers for decades. The United States Army experimented with all wheel steering jeeps during World War II, and the benefits to maneuverability of rear steering have long been known to firefighters assigned to hook and ladder ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
In a ruling on one of the art world's notable MeToo lawsuits, a court found that Artforum magazine can be held responsible for retaliation against a former employee but that Knight Landesman, the influential former publisher whom the employee accused of sexual harassment, legally remains in the clear. Amanda Schmitt, w...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
If you're wondering whether you'll enjoy the revolution, Jen Silverman's "Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties," which opened on Wednesday night at the Lucille Lortel Theater in Manhattan, makes an excellent (and hilarious) test case. The revolution I mean is the feminist one that has been rumbling, like a nascent eart...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Theater
A vest designed for the modern Girl Scout must have pockets, and those pockets must be large enough to fit the largest model of the iPhone. "In all our fittings that was the No. 1 thing," said Wendy Lou, the deputy chief revenue officer of the Girl Scouts of the USA. "Can you fit the iPhone in there? Yes? Let's go." Th...
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Fashion & Style
SEATTLE The Seattle area, home to both Microsoft and Amazon, is a potent symbol of the affordable housing crisis that has followed the explosive growth of tech hubs. Now Microsoft, arguing that the industry has an interest and responsibility to help people left behind in communities transformed by the boom, is putting ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Visitors returned to the Museum of Modern Art on Thursday, five months after it and other New York institutions closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now on view: "Felix Feneon: The Anarchist and the Avant Garde From Signac to Matisse and Beyond," which Roberta Smith called an exemplary exhibition. Before you hea...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Not every Super Bowl is super, and we'll find out if this year's edition fits the tag on Feb. 3. But we do know some of what is in store. One of those things is (no surprise) the New England Patriots, who will be appearing in their third consecutive Super Bowl and fourth in five years. The Rams will be the first team t...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
Last April, the New York State Legislature passed an ill considered set of criminal justice reforms that were buried in the state budget bill. As those reforms have taken effect, it has become clear that they present a significant challenge to public safety. The New York Police Department favors criminal justice reform...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
Credit...Brinson Banks for The New York Times LOS ANGELES Even now, just a few days before the release of her memoir, "In Pieces," Sally Field wasn't sure she wanted it published. She felt a similar ambivalence throughout the six or so years she spent working on it and wasn't confident, from the moment she composed its...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books