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Corpus Christi, Tex. You've most likely caught wind of the controversy surrounding Jeanine Cummins's newly published novel "American Dirt." In it, Lydia Quixano Perez, a Mexican bookseller, finds herself fleeing to the United States with her son Luca, pursued by an obsessed drug cartel boss. The telenovela plot is a pa...
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Shakuntala Devi (1929 2013) was best known as "the human computer" for her ability to perform lengthy calculations in her head, swiftly. One example of this, described in her New York Times obituary, took place in 1977, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she extracted the 23rd root of a 201 digit number ...
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Movies
Traditionally, the Fashion Awards ceremony is one of the glitziest events on the annual industry calendar. The British answer to the Met Gala, it is celebrated during the first week of December at the Royal Albert Hall in London with several thousand guests and a vast red carpet on which celebrities promenade under a w...
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Fashion & Style
Artificial intelligence can help doctors do a better job of finding breast cancer on mammograms, researchers from Google and medical centers in the United States and Britain are reporting in the journal Nature. The new system for reading mammograms, which are X rays of the breast, is still being studied and is not yet ...
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Health
The sculptural works and multimedia installations of the Brooklyn based artist who took the name American Artist explore the ways that structural bias permeates the development and use of technology. "My Blue Window," on view at the Queens Museum through Feb. 16 , focuses on predictive policing technology and the Blue ...
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Dr. Donald R. Hopkins reflects on how the prejudice he experienced growing up in the American South helped him communicate with the rural villages most affected by Guinea worm disease. CHICAGO In his home office, Dr. Donald R. Hopkins has statues of the Hindu smallpox goddess and the Yoruba smallpox god. And, floating ...
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Health
Since so few books are published in December, the best seller lists don't change much this time of year. John Grisham's "The Reckoning" remains atop the fiction list, and 's "Becoming" still holds the No. 1 nonfiction spot. But it is something of a surprise to see Obama's memoir, which has been translated into 23 langu...
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Books
THIS could be the beginning of Subaru Manifest Destiny, as the maker of hardy all wheel drive cars tries to move beyond its heartland in the great, icy north to places where frost is seen mainly in the freezer. That would be a huge change, because Subarus have had some geographic limitations. With four drive wheels and...
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Automobiles
This summer, Daniel Ek, one of the founders of Spotify, drew jeers for suggesting in an interview that artists should now continually pump out content, and that in the "future landscape" of streaming, "you can't record music once every three to four years and think that's going to be enough." But the latest Billboard c...
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Music
As a small kid growing up in the 1980s, I truly believed that Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey circus was the greatest show on earth. Nothing compared in scale or spectacle. I was hypnotized by the flamboyance of the lion tamer Gunther Gebel Williams and terrified for the soaring acrobats tempting death. Everything ...
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Theater
We writers enjoy bemoaning that there are no more surprises in the automotive world, but the last 12 months was full of them, from an exhaust note that caused constant double takes to a Rolls with unexpected avian appeal. And then, of course, there was the hovercraft. LOUDEST EXHAUST The Jaguar F Type V8 S has the most...
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For night life veterans, departed haunts like Plant Bar, APT and Guernica were influential incubators where avant garde D.J.s set the tempo. On a recent weekend, it hosted a raucous party for the youthful agitators Trash Talk and Rat King, who had performed earlier at Webster Hall. Le1f, a rapper who was playing tracks...
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Style
If you've ever pined for the day when Volkswagen will return to its roots and build a car that's stranger looking and more efficient than most other cars, that time may have come. The XL1, VW's superstreamlined plug in diesel electric hybrid, is like nothing out there. But it may be a glimpse into the future of persona...
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Automobiles
It might seem all too obvious. Two young black men sit on a sofa watching the awful news of recent events police shootings, the Orlando massacre before venturing outside, where they are ignored, shunned and eventually shot. But in the lushly hypnotic video "Color of Reality," a quick tale told through movement and visu...
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Dance
A couple of years ago, the smart money was on wind. In 2012, 13 gigawatts worth of wind powered electricity generation capacity was installed in the United States, enough to meet the needs of roughly three million homes. That was some 40 percent of all the capacity added to the nation's power grid that year, up from se...
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Economy
This story is part of The Big Ideas, a special section of The Times's philosophy series, The Stone, in which more than a dozen artists, writers and thinkers answer the question, "Why does art matter?" By late March, Covid 19 had already unleashed havoc across the globe; the internet was flooded with terrifying images a...
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Opinion
Dr. Marshall H. Klaus, whose research in the early 1970s into emotional bonding between parents and their newborns prompted improvements in how hospital maternity wards care for mothers and their infants, died on Aug. 15 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his daughter, Laura Abada. Dr. Klaus, a ...
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Health
"Is she real? Is she alive? Does she need help? Call 911. Is she breathing? Is she a sculpture? Is this art?" The dancer Hristoula Harakas says she gets these comments all the time. They've become a kind of background noise to her role in Maria Hassabi's "Plastic," a live installation at the Museum of Modern Art throug...
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Dance
The first tenant for one of Frank Woodworth's underground bunkers wasn't a human, it was a seed. "A couple of hippies called me up and asked me to build them a vault for their heirloom seeds," he said. A reserved man with Downeast stoicism, Mr. Woodworth is the owner of Northeast Bunkers, a company in Pittsfield, Maine...
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Real Estate
Of course, there's never a shortage of re enactments when it comes to the Civil War, and the Civil War Trust has planned several in the months leading up to and through the 150th anniversary of Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender to the Union Army in April. Numerous other festivities center on the Appomattox Court House Nat...
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Travel
The sprawling free photography festival known as Photoville returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park on Sept. 13 with a pop up village of repurposed shipping containers. This year's festival programming will address issues like immigration and climate change and include a conversation with President Obama's White House photogra...
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Art & Design
Leilah Babirye's sculptural figures and heads succeed where many fail: They build convincingly on universally revered traditions from the past in this case the sculptural styles of West Africa. Ms. Babirye carves wood, which she then burns and waxes to achieve a luminous matte surface that gentles down her sometimes br...
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Art & Design
The hotel front desk directed my driver to a computer dealer. We drove out of the hotel district, and cruised through neighborhoods crammed with shops for baskets, teak furniture and kites. When we passed some beautifully manicured rice fields, I really thought I had made a poor decision, since we were in rural Indones...
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Global Business
These Cholesterol Reducers May Save Lives. So Why Aren't Heart Patients Getting Them? Heart disease runs in Mackenzie Ames's family. Her grandfather had a fatal heart attack at age 30 while dancing with her grandmother at the Elks Lodge in Bath, N.Y. Her mother had a quadruple bypass when she was 42. When Ms. Ames was ...
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Health
In one of Bob Chapek's first big moves since taking over as chief executive, the Walt Disney Company announced a realignment of its business divisions on Monday that placed the focus squarely on Disney and its other streaming services as the future of the company's creative efforts. The reorganization essentially creat...
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Media
Three years ago, Maria Konnikova, a writer for The New Yorker, came up with a brilliant stunt for a book about luck. A novice at cards, she would learn poker from one of the game's best players, Erik Seidel, to see if she could improve her odds of winning through study and skill. She gave herself a year to play, but so...
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Sports
This is a luxury car. It looks the part with handsome sheetmetal. The interior is stuffed with wood, leather, and technology. And, you knew this was coming, the K900 is a Kia, so the starting price of around 60 grand get's people's attention. I'm Tom Voelk with Driven for The New York Times. The brand best known for hi...
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Automobiles
A Blackfoot River Outfitters guide, Ryan Steen, fly fishes near Missoula, Mont., on the Big Blackfoot River, known as the setting for Norman Maclean's book, "A River Runs Through It." "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing." That's how Norman Maclean began "A River Runs Through It," hi...
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Travel
Some 66 million years ago, mammals caught their lucky break. An asteroid crashed into what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, and set off a catastrophic chain of events that led to the annihilation of the non avian dinosaurs. That day began their furry ascension to the top of a brave new world, the one from which our species wo...
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Science
Chronic pain may be linked to an increasing risk for dementia. Researchers interviewed 10,065 people over 62 in 1998 and 2000, asking whether they suffered "persistent pain," defined as being often troubled with moderate or severe pain. Then they tracked their health through 2012. After adjusting for many variables, th...
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Well
AURORA, Colo. William Harris tapped his retirement savings to open A Town Pizza, a Neapolitan pizzeria, in this Denver suburb three years ago. He borrowed 200,000 to open a second location this year and now employs 60 people. On a good Friday, his shops sell 1,200 pies. In such stories, the Federal Reserve finds eviden...
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Economy
For the Liberty, a tumultuous decade that put the franchise's future in doubt has given rise to a team that is new in almost every way imaginable. A new owner: Joe Tsai, not James L. Dolan. A new home: Barclays Center, after a long run at Madison Square Garden and a two year exile to the Westchester County Center in th...
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Sports
On the very last day of March a month that would prove very important to Mitchell Messinger and Deb Kaplan Jacoby the couple danced their first dance as newlyweds. The song they chose was "I Lava You," from Disney's 2014 animated film "Lava," a short played before theater screenings of "Inside Out." The song tells the ...
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Fashion & Style
"The Climb" is a movie about a friendship that stands the test of time through some pretty gnarly events. Oh how strangely can life imitate art. I first spoke to the film's co writers and stars, best friends Michael Angelo Covino (who also directed) and Kyle Marvin, in person back in March at a Manhattan hotel. "The Cl...
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Movies
The plot didn't make sense. The characters contradicted themselves again. And the pacing was all over the place. But man, the "Discovery" season finale "Will You Take My Hand?" was satisfying. It was one of the rare episodes of the show in which great care is given to individual characters and their story lines. We see...
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With "Gemini Man," about an assassin and his much younger clone, the actor was forced to confront his career choices and his director's view of his career choices. SAN FRANCISCO In "Gemini Man," Will Smith plays Henry Brogan , a supernaturally gifted assassin, as well as his clone, Junior, who besides looking exactly l...
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Is it too on the nose to point out that Arthur Ashe Stadium, where Kevin Spacey has unaccountably decided to perform his one man show about the great lawyer Clarence Darrow, sits on a site in Flushing, Queens, that was once a waste dump for the rest of the city's coal ash and street sweepings? There is, at any rate, so...
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Theater
The borough of Bantam has long been viewed as a traditionally blue collar area among the rolling hills of picturesque Litchfield County in northwest Connecticut. Lately, though, Bantam has evolved into a compelling destination of its own; a place that offers everything any true gourmand needs, from artisanal yogurt and...
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GAME OF THRONES 10 p.m. on HBO. Eight years of wine, murder and murder come to a close Sunday night as "Game of Thrones" airs its final episode. Whether you've been following the series since Day 1 or binge watched to catch up (or will instead spend your Sunday night reading, working, talking with loved ones or watchin...
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Clockwise from center: Nicole Fara Silver for The New York Times; Nina Westervelt for The New York Times; Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images; Elijah Ndoumbe Clockwise from center: Nicole Fara Silver for The New York Times; Nina Westervelt for The New York Times; Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images; Elijah Ndoumbe Credit... Clockwis...
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It's a strange, seductive story. A young man becomes king. The king becomes a bit overconfident, deciding to test his power against a charismatic stranger's worshipers. This stranger it turns out he's the god of wine and dance responds by ensorcelling members of the royal family. Eventually, the king loses his head: to...
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Near midnight on Tuesday at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, three women tap danced as the floor beneath them shifted. The dancing surface was three small wooden platforms. These were laid contiguously, but the force of footwork kept spreading them apart. The more challenging variable, though, was musical. For this was a tribut...
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Dance
The merger between Sprint and T Mobile was proposed to better position the companies to compete against rivals like AT T and Verizon. Critics have argued that the deal could harm competition and cause prices to go up. Executives at T Mobile and Sprint have pitched the merger of their companies as a way for the country ...
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Media
The average person will move 11.7 times in his or her lifetime, census data shows. Of these homes, many will be fondly remembered, but once the tape is sealed on the last moving box, rarely do people continue to regularly visit their old stamping grounds. That is, unless the last place they lived was Brooklyn. These da...
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Real Estate
SAN FRANCISCO Uber expects to be worth as much as 91 billion when it starts selling shares next month, making its initial public offering one of the largest in the history of the technology industry. With its amended prospectus, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, the ride hailing company is ki...
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Technology
The author Carlos Ruiz Zafon in 2008. "I became a writer, a teller of tales," he once said, "because otherwise I would have died, or worse." MADRID Carlos Ruiz Zafon, whose mystery novel "The Shadow of the Wind" became one of the best selling Spanish books of all time, died on Friday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif....
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Books
"A lot of strange creatures live in the cold depths beneath the Antarctic ice, but none stranger than the giant sea spiders. Sea spiders are often tiny, but Antarctic species grow to dinner plate size. Even stranger are their internal organs. Their genitals and parts of their guts are found in their legs. And because t...
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Science
El Espace is a column dedicated to news and culture relevant to Latinx communities. Expect politics, arts, analysis, personal essays and more. ?Lo mejor? It'll be in Spanish and English, so you can forward it to your tia, your primo Lalo or anyone else (read: everyone). The summer before I turned 11, my Abuela Estela f...
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Style
The first reports on Thursday's Supreme Court decisions dealing with the subpoenas for President Trump's financial records sounded like bad news for the president in his effort to keep them hidden. But don't be fooled. There were actually two winners, and you wouldn't know that from the headlines: the president and Chi...
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Opinion
Four years ago, when former book editor Daniel Mallory purchased his 550 square foot Chelsea apartment, its main draw was the book storage: floor to ceiling shelving, which covers a wall of his living room, plus numerous nooks above doorways and under the flat screen TV that shares space among the shelves. Recently, af...
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Books
Sweden's Robin Soderling, who was ranked 25th in 2009, stuns No. 1 Rafael Nadal at that year's French Open, where he had been undefeated. At the same tournament three years later, the 111th ranked Virginie Razzano of France beats Serena Williams in the first round. At this year's Australian Open, the 117th ranked Denis...
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Media
Even though he gouges out eyeballs eight times a week, Russell Harvard seems like a really nice guy. When I tell the actor that I have a cold, as we sit in a corner of the Lambs Club in the theater district, he insists on pouring me a glass of the jasmine, elderflower and violet kombucha he is drinking. "That's my favo...
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Style
More than two dozen racehorse trainers, veterinarians and drug distributors were charged in a wide ranging scheme to secretly dope horses and cheat the betting public, according to federal indictments unsealed on Monday in Manhattan. Among the 27 people charged was Jason Servis, the trainer of Maximum Security, one of ...
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Sports
When he took the stage Saturday night in Tulsa, Okla., it had been more than three months since President Trump had held one of his treasured campaign rallies. But they say giving a rally speech is like walking down a gently inclined ramp: It's incredibly treacherous and harrowing, but after what seems like an endless ...
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Television
THE MAN IN THE GLASS HOUSE Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century By Mark Lamster Illustrated. 508 pp. Little, Brown Company. 35. You want to begin a review of "The Man in the Glass House," Mark Lamster's stimulating and lively new biography of Philip Johnson, by saying something about architecture. But the re...
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Books
Pilobolus knows how to pack a lot into two hours. On Tuesday at the Joyce Theater, opening night of that company's annual monthlong run there, the bang for your buck variety included magic tricks, gymnastic stunts, large scale shadow puppetry, stripteases and, just when you thought things couldn't get more explosive, a...
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Dance
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists who developed lithium ion batteries, which have revolutionized portable electronics and are very likely powering a device you're using now to read this article. Larger examples of the batteries have given ri...
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Science
After a career in standup, sketch comedy, movies, and television, Janeane Garofalo will make her Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theater Company's "Marvin's Room" this summer. The play was written by Scott W. McPherson and follows the uneasy reunion between two estranged sisters, one of whom has leukemia. It originall...
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Theater
The renovation of Geoff and Liz Caan's house in Newton, Mass., has been a 16 year work in progress. Since the couple bought the 1920s Georgian style brick house in the Chestnut Hill historic district in 2003, Ms. Caan, an interior designer who favors rooms bursting with statement making color and pattern, has rarely re...
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Real Estate
There was one night (at least) this season Dec. 14, to be exact when everything came together for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Movement melted off shoulders and fingertips without effort. Power emanated from the inside and then flowed out with searing swiftness, the rare sort that isn't ostentatious. The men fou...
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Dance
President Trump is not generally known as a student of history. But on Tuesday, during a combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower in New York, he unwittingly waded into a complex debate about history and memory that has roiled college campuses and numerous cities over the past several years. Asked about the whi...
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Art & Design
Are fairy godmothers obsolete? Ask anyone: Princes on steeds rarely come around anymore, and all our ball gowns just sit in the closet. But in "Godmothered," an anodyne new comedy, even the most modern and jaded women find use for a fairy's magic touch. Now streaming on Disney , the film recalls the studio's once upon ...
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Movies
It's official: Alexander Hamilton now out earns his boss. That, at least, was the verdict of one expert who was bidding at Sotheby's on Wednesday, when a trove of Hamiltonia fetched 2.6 million. "Hamilton has exceeded the value of George Washington with this auction," John Reznikoff, a dealer from Stamford, Conn., said...
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Art & Design
TIRED of your vehicle and its aging, limited features? Don't trade it in just yet. Download new software instead. In some cases, that is already possible. And over the next few years, as the already extensive software on modern cars becomes even more feature rich and upgradeable, manufacturers mean to step up the effor...
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Automobiles
WASHINGTON A record low share of Americans were living in poverty, incomes were climbing, and health insurance coverage was little changed in 2019, a government report released on Tuesday showed though the circumstances of many have deteriorated as pandemic lockdowns and industry disruptions have thrown millions out of...
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Economy
Despite hopes that New York's real estate market would spring back to life over the summer after the coronavirus lockdown was lifted in June, the number of closed sales in Manhattan was down by 46 percent in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2019, according to new sales data. Inventory was up by 27 perce...
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Real Estate
However, it was their mother's camera ready hair and makeup and cherry red dress, donned a few hours after giving birth, that got everyone talking. Personally, I hope that is not an influence on anyone: the idea that one should look blow dried to perfection immediately after having a baby is entirely unrealistic; anoth...
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Style
This article was updated on Sept. 20 to reflect actions taken by other countries. The heartburn drug Zantac has been on the market for decades, and was considered safe enough to be sold over the counter and regularly given to infants. But on Sept. 13, the Food and Drug Administration said that it had detected low level...
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Health
"His name is No No, so I didn't think I needed an explanation of his character." Claire, who asked that her last name not be used, is discussing a contrarian goat that's the protagonist of a children's story she has written. Like the dozen other women gathered in a back corner of the public library in Brooklyn Heights,...
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Books
WASHINGTON Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross predicted Thursday morning that a deadly virus originating in China would cause companies to reconsider their global supply chains and ultimately "help to accelerate" the return of jobs to the United States. In an interview on Fox Business, Mr. Ross said diseases like the Wuhan...
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South Korea's leaders were mostly happy to accommodate Samsung's ambitions, and by the 1960s the company was already a symbol for how political connections could lead to great riches. Samsung's coziness with the government grew as the company did, helping its chairman, Lee Kun hee, twice be granted presidential pardons...
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SpaceX, the ambitious rocket company headed by Elon Musk, wants to send a couple of tourists around the moon and back to Earth before the end of next year. If they manage that feat, the passengers would be the first humans to venture that far into space in more than 40 years. Mr. Musk made the announcement on Monday in...
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The fast talking, obnoxiously brazen Hollywood agent played by Jeremy Piven on "Entourage" dogs him wherever he goes. "l have an Apple Store appearance coming up," the compact 49 year old Mr. Piven said last month, "and the invitation says, 'Please join the actor Ari Gold.' " Mr. Piven related the incident moments befo...
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Style
Perhaps you remember the late Sy Syms, founder of his namesake discount clothing chain, intoning "An educated consumer is our best customer" in commercials. Maybe you even shopped at a Syms before the company declared bankruptcy in 2011 and shuttered its stores. But now, two years after the squat Syms flagship on Trini...
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Real Estate
Credit...Nathan Bajar for The New York Times When Jean Kaneko started volunteering at her son's kindergarten class in Santa Monica, Calif., she was surprised by how hesitant the children were to play with toys they didn't recognize, to make a mess and, well, to be kids. "'I can't do that. I'm not good at that,'" she re...
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Education
Late last week, as she was leading the charge to push the Democrats' 3 trillion pandemic relief package through the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi strode the floor of the Capitol in a fuchsia pantsuit, red pumps, white shell and a coordinated red, white and green cherry print face mask. This was the day after Ms. Pelosi h...
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Fashion & Style
The federal government acknowledged on Friday that your last few cellphones were more valuable than it thought. That disclosure came tucked in a package of revisions the government made to the economic growth statistics it published from 2012 to 2017. From time to time, data wizards at the Commerce Department take a ne...
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Economy
Davide Bizzi consulted with many of his real estate colleagues in New York before deciding to buy a parcel on the western edge of SoHo, at the mouth of the Holland Tunnel, for a condominium development. "In the beginning, I was afraid of the tunnel," said Mr. Bizzi, a global developer. But many friends, including Howar...
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Real Estate
Contemporary dance has a reputation for being adult entertainment. Not so much because of heavy themes or graphic images which are rare but because we don't trust children to get abstraction (which may just be our own internalized bafflement). "The Nutcracker" feels safer. Thankfully, the New Victory Theater rejects th...
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Dance
My cultural pilgrimage to the Rocky Mountains began more than 20 years ago, a few steps from my door in the East Village of Manhattan. The poet Allen Ginsberg was staging one of the regular readings at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, featuring his Buddhist inspired verse. As he fielded queries after the reading, he me...
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Travel
Alice Merton closes her debut album, "Mint," with "Why So Serious," a song full of questions like "When did we get like this?" It's a wish for a more carefree, less calculating spirit, sung by her overdubbed, call and response posse of female voices over a bouncing bass line. And it's the counterbalance, in some small ...
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Music
A decade after leading a platoon through the battle of Falluja in 2004, when Iraq gave American troops their most intense urban combat since Vietnam, Elliot Ackerman found himself knocking around the edges of another war. "What I see is Syria," he writes in his spare, beautiful memoir, "Places and Names: On War, Revolu...
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Books
Great wealth in America primarily comes from two sources: entrepreneurship and inheritance. In any age, how people work and create great wealth and how others put to use money they inherited, sometimes many generations removed, speak to the complicated feelings people have around wealth. Entrepreneurs range across ever...
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Your Money
Founded a decade ago by a small group of private dealers, New York City's Asia Week now includes dozens of shows mounted by local and international galleries as well as auctions at all the major houses. It's a rare opportunity to see antiquities and esoterica that are otherwise hidden away in private collections. Read ...
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Art & Design
Tuesday Could Be the Beginning of the End of Philadelphia's Soda Tax PHILADELPHIA Jeff Foster, 58, a retired security guard with an abiding sweet tooth and a generous paunch, scowled as he considered the cornucopia of refrigerated soft drinks at his local convenience store. "It's just not right," he said, complaining t...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
Telemedicine is having its moment. Over the last few months, millions of people have relied on video or telephone calls to talk to their doctors. But as the pandemic moves across the United States, and eventually recedes in some places, how long will the moment last? While patients used virtual visits to avoid overcrow...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Health
PARIS On the penultimate day of fashion month, Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, fresh from defending her city during L'Affaire Kardashian, held a small breakfast in the gilded rooms of the Hotel de Ville with assorted media figures and the titans of the Federation Francaise de la Couture, French fashion's governing bo...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
World class criminals, like world class writers, are natural obsessives. Alone in their rooms, they both spin endless plots, picking at the details of their projects. Near the start of "The Mastermind," Evan Ratliff's possessed true crime investigation, there is a stop and gawk image of the obsessive outlaw with whom h...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
Lisa Immordino Vreeland at home in her art filled apartment in Manhattan. Above her, from left: Etienne Drian's sketch for a mural of the decorator Elsie de Wolfe jumping across the Atlantic; a Cindy Sherman photo from her "Untitled (Towelhead)" series; and a Diana Vreeland gouache by Cecil Beaton. A famous last name i...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
CBS has called off the search for a new chief executive and extended the contract of its interim chief, Joseph Ianniello, through the end of the year, the company announced on Tuesday. CBS had been on the hunt for a permanent chief executive since September, when Leslie Moonves was ousted from the job after more than a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
Now Lives In a one bedroom loft in the West Village with her French bulldog, Bleecker (more than 25,500 Instagram followers). Claim to Fame Ms. Bernstein is the founder of We Wore What, a popular fashion blog started four years ago while a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The blog, which mostly chronicle...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
IF there was one word that applied to investing this year, it was uncertainty. But there were different kinds of uncertainty. To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, the former defense secretary, this year there were uncertain uncertainties and certain uncertainties. Some of the uncertain uncertainties were the European debt cr...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
DETROIT The driver of the first Corvette, in 1953, was welcomed by a lovely fan of numbers a sweeping, eye catching speedometer denominated in 10 mile per hour intervals up to 160. The display offered a stark representation of speed. By contrast, the instrument panel of the next generation Corvette, which made its publ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Automobiles
It's been almost 22 years since "Saturday Night Live" last found itself satirizing a presidential impeachment proceeding, but as the show turned its attention to President Trump's trial in the Senate, it quickly reverted to its tried and true formula: a smidgen of factual detail, a dollop of celebrity cameos and a whol...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
Ten years ago, Susannah Cahalan was hospitalized with mysterious and terrifying symptoms. She believed an army of bedbugs had invaded her apartment. She believed her father had tried to abduct her and kill his wife, her stepmother. She believed she could age people using just her mind. She couldn't eat or sleep. She sp...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Books
Skip the Upkeep and Rent the Jet, or Island, Instead Owning an island is the quintessential "I've arrived" declaration, but many among the well heeled are arriving through an alternate route: They're renting. Farhad Vladi, president of Vladi Private Islands, a brokerage firm, has rented Fregate Island in Seychelles to ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Your Money
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. Dana Carvey impersonated John...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Television
Prague's Veverkova Street, once a humdrum side street, has evolved into a go to area for design savvy locals and visitors alike. Located in the city's happening Letna district, just east of Prague Castle, this now impossibly hip street is a prime spot for people watching and whiling away hours at cool cafes, shops and ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
Hamilton, a gritty former steel town, roughly 40 miles southwest of Toronto, is making a comeback. The city is getting a big boost from creatives fleeing Toronto's skyrocketing real estate costs. Much of the buzz is centered on once rundown James Street North, which is percolating with a vibrant art scene, inventive fa...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Travel
Each Friday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at The New York Times, review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Farhad: Good morning, Mike! Are you having a good time in...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology