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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. Lisa Gray spent a few months searching for a home that would span the generations, one where her two sons would want to bring friends throughout their teenage years and that her aging parents could navigate with ease. She settled on a two story house here tailored to include a game room for the boys...
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What fashion flourish is shared by Justin Bieber, Fidel Castro, Princess Diana and Drake? If you guessed "double wristing," the totally gratuitous but weirdly enduring practice of wearing two wristwatches at once, you're possibly guilty of the extraneous practice yourself. The head scratching look, once favored by Holl...
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It is an idea that may never have been tried in wide scale vaccine distribution: Citing principles of equity and justice, experts are urging that people living in communities hardest hit by the pandemic, which are often made up of Black and Hispanic populations, get a portion of the first, limited supply of coronavirus...
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Fewer than 4,000 tigers remain in the wild. New research aims to give conservationists an improved understanding of their genetics in order to help save them. After years of debate, scientists report in the journal Current Biology that tigers comprise six unique subspecies. One of those subspecies, the South China tige...
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As negotiations between Greece and its creditors stumbled toward breakdown, culminating in a sound rejection on Sunday by Greek voters of the conditions demanded in exchange for a financial lifeline, a vintage photo resurfaced on the Internet. It shows Hermann Josef Abs, head of the Federal Republic of Germany's delega...
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OMAHA Beginning every morning at 5:30, Dr. Andre Kalil makes himself a double espresso, runs 10 kilometers, makes additional double espressos for himself and his wife, and heads to his office at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Calls and insistent emails pile up each day. Patients and their doctors are clamor...
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How many hotel brands is enough? Hilton and Choice Hotels International are putting that question to the test, with two new lodging brands focused on helping travelers maintain their healthy eating, sleeping and fitness habits on the road. The new entries join already robust portfolios Hilton's Tempo will be the compan...
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The Paris auction house Tajan will offer a rediscovered drawing by Leonardo da Vinci at public sale on June 19, for the first time, testing the market for a work by the Renaissance master after the extraordinary sale of "Salvator Mundi" last year. The sale will come almost 500 years after da Vinci died, in May 1519, at...
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Art & Design
With Piranha Like Teeth, This Prehistoric Predator Never Bit Off More Than It Could Chew None Some 150 million years ago, prehistoric fish swimming in the sponge and coral reefs of what is now southern Germany might not have suspected there was a piranha like predator prowling among them. But by the time they realized ...
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When Tom D'Angora got the news that the West Bank Cafe a popular show business hangout whose basement theater hosted the first "Sunday in the Park With George" rehearsals and Joan Rivers's final performance was in danger of closing, he sprang into action. "You're not closing," D'Angora, a theater producer, told the res...
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It was 1981, and we swapped boys like lunchroom desserts. Doughy, awkward boys, boys with smiles like flinches at the corners of their mouths: We ordered them to pack up and trade bunks. We don't want you; move out. And the counselors allowed this. For the young and unlucky, Camp Oxford was eight weeks of William Goldi...
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The ballets of George Balanchine are fascinating layer cakes of history. The four that returned to New York City Ballet on Tuesday night were choreographed between 1947 and 1975, and they still capture the moments in which they were made. This is the second week of City Ballet's spring season at the David H. Koch Theat...
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Politico was founded in 2007 with a few employees, and has grown to employ nearly 500 worldwide. It has established a business model that combines lucrative "pro" subscriptions for insiders, with revenue from advertising and events, and it has recently been expanding its reach. It started a European operation, in partn...
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PASADENA, Calif. NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the intrepid robotic explorer of Saturn's magnificent beauty, ended a journey of 20 years on Friday like a shooting star streaking across Saturn's sky. By design, the probe vanished into Saturn's atmosphere, disintegrating moments after its final signal slipped away into the ...
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Francis Henry Taylor, a director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1940s and '50s, described the museum as no less than "the midwife of democracy." But officials at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, that city's grand encyclopedic museum, probably didn't bargain on a version of democracy as messy as the one they ...
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For someone like me, who had not crossed paths much with the Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel since his early appearances in New York more than a decade ago, his three concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall over the weekend held considerable fascination. What sort of chemistry might have developed b...
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If this election turns out to be just between a self proclaimed socialist and an undiagnosed sociopath, we will be in a terrible, terrible place as a country. How do we prevent that? That's all I am thinking about right now. My short answer is that the Democrats have to do something extraordinary forge a national unity...
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While distracted driving is a problem in any vehicle, the consequences are potentially greater on a motorcycle. So the designers of communication headsets for riders face a decision in striving to make systems safe to use. Is it better to have several buttons, each assigned to a separate function, or fewer buttons that...
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Automobiles
Michael MacCambridge spent five years writing his 2005 history of the N.F.L., visiting team after team around the country. From the stability of the Pittsburgh Steelers to the emerging dynasty in New England, he learned that great franchises thrived and overcame obstacles with a mix of talent, trust and patience. And t...
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The Chicago Blackhawks will not change their name, the N.H.L. club announced on Tuesday, despite mounting pressure from Native American advocacy groups and others who say the team's name and logo are racist. The team issued a statement on Tuesday, just days after the Washington Redskins of the N.F.L. and the Cleveland ...
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Follow our live Hurricane Sally updates and our map tracker. Climate science and weather science have made impressive advancements in the 15 years since Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in their ability to track these storms and identify how climate change influences their formation and ferocity. Yet the United Sta...
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Two or three Octobers ago, Edsel B. Ford II recalls, he and his wife, Cynthia, were at the big annual collector car gathering in Hershey, Pa., when a man approached to say he had a car he wanted Mr. Ford, a great grandson of Henry Ford, to see. "I go over," Mr. Ford said, "and he has a black Lincoln Continental Mark II...
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CLEVELAND When a national tour of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" played here last month, Vincent Wil Hawley walked from his apartment at Residences at Hanna, a new 102 unit conversion in a renovated office building annex, and was in his seat five minutes later. "It's basically like you're living in the ...
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John Costik got the call at the office in 2012. It was his wife, Laura, with terrible news: Their 4 year old son, Evan, was headed into the emergency room. His blood sugar reading was sky high, about 535 mg/dl, and doctors had discovered he had Type 1 diabetes. The first three days in the hospital were a blur during wh...
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An investor has bought this five story walk up in Chinatown in an all cash transaction. The 8,200 square foot building has 20 rent stabilized, one bedroom apartments, and sits on a 23 by 100 foot lot. An electrolysis office, which is to open this fall, has signed a 10 year lease, with two and a half months rent free, f...
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How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Jonah Bromwich, a breaking news reporter for The Times in New York, discussed the tech he's using. You cover breaking and trending news with an extremely quick turnaround. What are some of the tech tools you rely on to stay on t...
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This week's issue is dedicated to women, both ordinary and trailblazing. In 1983, , best known for her novel "Brown Girl, Brownstones," reflected on how observing her mother's relationship to language inspired her career. An excerpt follows. I grew up among poets. Now they didn't look like poets whatever that breed is ...
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George Smiley is not coming back (yet), but John le Carre is. The renowned spy novelist's next book, "Agent Running in the Field," will be published in October 2019, his publisher Viking announced today. Le Carre's most recently published book, "A Legacy of Spies" (2017), featured the first appearance in 27 years by Sm...
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Roman Alonso, a founding partner of the design firm Commune, mixes vertical and horizontal stacks of books with decorative objects in his Los Angeles home, featured in "Bibliostyle" by Nina Freudenberger. Finally There's Time to Read (or at Least Organize Your Books) Looking to make the most of time spent stuck at home...
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The new coronavirus is a serious threat to the elderly, as federal officials have been at pains to note recently. But they have stepped gingerly around advice for another group of Americans also at special risk from the infection: those with chronic health conditions. It is not a small group. An estimated 60 percent of...
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ISTANBUL Is Turkey's booming economy ripe for a fall? It certainly looks that way. Stock brokers endure four month waiting lists to pay as much as 150,000 for top of the line Audis and BMWs twice the manufacturers' prices after taxes. A real estate developer recently laid out a record 33.3 million an acre for a 24 acre...
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Global Business
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown that lets you sleep and lets us get paid to watch comedy. What do you think of it? What else are you interested in? Let us know: thearts nytimes.com. Jimmy Kimmel leaped back into the debate over health policy on Thursday, urging Congress to fund the Children's Health Insurance ...
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WHEATON, Ill. Football does not prepare its athletes for a life of fitness. Its drills and exercises are meant to harden the body for collisions. After our playing days are over, we must find new ways to keep our bodies in shape. Much like Ahmaud Arbery, the former high school football player who was shot and killed in...
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If anyone can dispel the toxicity of the past year at New York City Ballet, it is Wendy Whelan. So it was encouraging when the company announced on Thursday that it was handing over its artistic reins to Ms. Whelan and another former dancer, Jonathan Stafford. They succeed Peter Martins, who retired at the beginning of...
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Cate Blanchett is proving to be a strong box office draw on Broadway. "The Present," a new adaptation of a little known Chekhov play starring Ms. Blanchett in her Broadway debut, last week grossed just over 1 million, a sign of strength for any Broadway show, but especially for a nonmusical play. One illustrative compa...
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A lot happened during the just this once edition of "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" that streamed live Sunday night that would be expected with an event lasting three and a half hours. But it will be hard to top Adrienne Warren, the star of "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," singing "Simply the Best" in a bathtub, clad in a b...
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James Harvey in an undated photo. "I think he was one of the great movie critics," the movie critic Molly Haskell said. James Harvey wasn't a popular film critic with a cozy berth at a major publication, or an academic theorist presiding over a formidable film studies department. Yet his three books, each more than a d...
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In your article about the grave immediate effects of the coronavirus on movie theaters, there is also much glum prognosticating on the long term future of the institution. I would argue that movie theaters like airlines will bounce back with vigor, and maybe even be in a better position than before. People will be desp...
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Park Ranger Penny Callahan lectures on the fragility of the park's dunes with the Nipsco power plant as background (it "only looks nuclear," according to a volunteer). Bad dreams die fast. When I told a salesman at the New York City outpost of REI, the camping supplies store, that I was going camping for four days only...
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Shonda Rhimes generally doesn't pay much attention to the breathless fan chatter around her television shows. (It's because she's too busy, she said, not because she doesn't care.) But in the lead up to the premiere of "Bridgerton," the first original Netflix show under the Shondaland banner, she found herself watching...
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The law is so broad in places that it is sometimes referred to as a "commandeering" authority. Lawyers prefer to say the president would act at the zenith of his authority under the paradigm presented in Justice Jackson's concurrence in the Supreme Court's landmark Youngstown case. But its use is not as extraordinary a...
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After 25 Years Together, Why Marry? Why Not? Odds are far better than even that the relationship of Dianne Cox and Michael Cammer of New Rochelle, N.Y., is not the fleeting kind. Still, some eyebrows were raised last summer when they announced that they had decided to marry. Not because anyone feared they were making a...
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Fashion & Style
BERKELEY, Calif. Rabbi Gavriel Price has thousands of years of Jewish religious law to draw on when he is on the job, determining whether a new food item can get a kosher certification from his organization, the Orthodox Union. But all the rules about meat and milk, and the prohibitions on eating pork and sciatic nerve...
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Imagine surviving an alien invasion when you're a staunchly anti gun Brooklyn millennial with no survival skills beyond making a sourdough starter. That amusing premise sets the stage for this apocalyptic comedy from the writer directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, which should belong in a subgenre sillier ...
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It's a conversation that Basminder Batra, known to her friends as Boz, would just as soon not have. But since yet another well intentioned but clueless white dude has asked her where she's from he means, really from and even more annoyingly, "What are you?," Boz has once again hefted the too familiar burden of explaini...
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It was like Sinatra headlining in Vegas. On April 21, 1959 60 years ago this Sunday thousands of adoring New Yorkers gave a tumultuous welcome to a young celebrity emerging from Penn Station: Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban guerrillas. Less than four months earlier, he had overthrown a vicious military dictatorship a...
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Fashion & Style
A brash bumpkin from the countryside comes to the city, dreaming of stardom. He cuts a record, gets ripped off, turns to trafficking drugs, is betrayed, and dies a folk hero at the hands of the police as his song becomes an anthem. "The Harder They Come," currently being revived at BAM Rose Cinemas and Metrograph, is a...
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As Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, stood in his team's home locker room before Wednesday's game against the Denver Nuggets, he fielded an uncomfortable question from one of his players: What are the chances this N.B.A. season gets interrupted by the coronavirus crisis? Confident that the league had not c...
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Ms. Weiss is an Opinion staff writer and editor, and the author of " How to Fight Anti Semitism ." Most of the time, when I think back to the world before, I feel longing. I miss everything. I miss dinner parties and swimming laps. I miss bars. I miss being close enough to eavesdrop. The idea of walking into an office ...
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LOS ANGELES In the early 2000s, I took my first drive in the Cayenne, the new S.U.V. that Porsche said it needed to build but that Porsche purists hated with the heat of a thousand ghost peppers. The Cayenne Turbo was a very cool machine, combining legitimate off road chops with serious hustle on the street. The lesser...
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PARIS "Apart from Jackie Kennedy, Michelle Obama and I guess Dolley Madison, Mrs. Reagan was the only president's wife who had an interest in American fashion," said Valerie Steele, the director of the Museum at FIT, on Sunday night at the Givenchy show here, "and was actually good at it." Nancy Reagan, the former firs...
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Style
Doctors welcomed federal approval this week of a new, fast acting nasal spray for depression. But also they expressed concerns about its cost and long term effects, as well as the logistics of administering it in accordance with safety requirements. The new drug, esketamine, made by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, won approva...
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Health
More Is More: Saint Laurent and Berge's Style Flies at Auction Again PARIS They were among the most influential tastemakers of our age. The French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who died in 2008, and Pierre Berge, his business partner and longtime companion, who died last year, created opulent, eclectically furni...
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Art & Design
TWELVE STEP programs often talk about the moment of clarity, when an addict starts to understand just how dire the situation has become. For Karawynn Long, 42, and Jak Koke, 47, it arrived in 2005, when they crossed the 40,000 mark on their credit card bills. "For some reason that was a scary number, over some internal...
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Your Money
Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of November's most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.) A throwback western wit...
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NEW DELHI People in developing countries worldwide will continue to have access to low cost copycat versions of drugs for diseases like H.I.V. and cancer, at least for a while. Production of the generic drugs in India, the world's biggest provider of cheap medicines, was ensured on Monday in a ruling by the Indian Supr...
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Global Business
"High Fidelity," beginning Friday on Hulu, is a terrifically cool show that gets awfully far on vibes alone, thanks in large part to a mesmerizing lead performance from Zoe Kravitz. She's so good, in fact, that it's almost impossible to believe she can't find someone to love her exactly as is. I'd say "warts and all," ...
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Dance is about change. The body keeps altering its shape while we watch it move. Many of the dances that were current yesterday will not do tomorrow. "Today people don't dance, they jump; in my day, we danced," an old man tells his granddaughter in an 18th century French gazette. She replies, "In your day, they didn't ...
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If Mrs. Claus designed Santa's Village, why isn't it called Mrs. Claus's Village? Kate (Darby Camp) gets stuck on this oversight in "The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two." Other questions seem more urgent. If Santa can conjure dollhouses and electric guitars out of thin air, why does he need to purchase triple A batterie...
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Movies
The Baltimore Museum of Art has received a 3.5 million donation to support the position of chief curator, one of the largest endowment gifts the museum has seen since its founding in 1914. The role will be renamed after the donors, the Baltimore based philanthropists Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown. It is held by Asma Nae...
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Art & Design
An extremely rare performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's sprawling spectacle or at least 15 hours of it is coming to Amsterdam. AMSTERDAM There was a palpable buzz on a recent afternoon in the Gashouder, a big, round former industrial building in a park on the west side of Amsterdam. A buzz, that is, beyond the four he...
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The greater noctule is the largest bat in Europe. It is listed as "vulnerable" on the threatened species list, but for many years these winged mammals found shelter in the hollows of trees at Maria Luisa Park in Seville, Spain. Then a few years ago, they started to turn up dead. The corpses were savaged, with holes tor...
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Attending the Super Bowl in person is a bucket list item for sports fans that seems to get more out of reach every year. Last season, game tickets on the secondary market at one point reached an astounding average of 10,000 per seat, according to TiqIQ, which tracks ticket trends. Because there are only so many radio c...
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There's No Place Like Home, Especially if It's Made of Hemp The Romans have been using it since the days of Julius Caesar, but not to get high. Both Washington and Jefferson grew it. Now that several states have legalized the use of marijuana for some recreational and medical purposes, one of the biggest untapped marke...
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Credit...Christopher Miller for The New York Times Up in the right hand corner of Alaska, like something freezer burned and half remembered in the back of the national icebox, lies a place called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is the largest wildlife sanctuary in the United States. It is the size of So...
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For 20 minutes or so after settling into your seat at the 59E59 Theaters to see "White Guy on the Bus," you may have the uncomfortable feeling that your ticket has bought you an annoying lecture about race by, well, a white guy and his family. You needn't worry. The opening scene is a deliberately moralistic prelude th...
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He Once Shilled for 'Shogun.' Then 'Hamilton' Came Along. Sam Rudy was an 11 year old farm boy when he first marveled at New York City. He came to the city as a trombonist in a school band representing Pennsylvania in a Lions Club parade, and he knew right then that one day he would make the city his home. And he did. ...
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In what may be a watershed moment in the fight against tuberculosis, the world's most lethal infectious disease, an experimental new vaccine has protected about half the people who got it, scientists reported on Tuesday. While a 50 percent success rate is hardly ideal the measles vaccine, by contrast, is about 98 perce...
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IN a city like New York, private outdoor space can be more rare than a spare bedroom. But for the wealthy, that space often becomes an extension of an already fabulous apartment, a living room in the sky that makes the summer and fall months unforgettable. It could be where you hold that fabulous charity cocktail fundr...
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Real Estate
DAYTON, Ohio Technically, it is a Christmas tree. More precisely, it is a basketball tree, brightened by the red and blue of the University of Dayton sports teams. It was decorated with ball and sneaker ornaments, and topped by a man dunking ferociously. A miniature model of Dayton's playing court was wedged into its b...
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A French bakery that morphs into a Riviera beach club. A movie that will make a stop at the Cannes Film Festival but will not be shown until 2115. A tour of a chateau. These may sound like itinerary ideas for a particularly upscale European jaunt, but each is actually an advertisement for a high end liquor company. In ...
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About a century ago, when Rolls Royce began to acquire its sterling reputation, the maharajahs and magnates who imported the cars from England discovered that in many parts of the world, good drivers were harder to find than good cars. So they had Rolls Royce train drivers to match its cars. The company has resurrected...
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The New York Times dance critics Alastair Macaulay, Gia Kourlas, Brian Seibert and Siobhan Burke on their best of the year. Five dance artists whom I've been following for years achieved fresh peaks in 2017. MERCE CUNNINGHAM So what if this radical died eight years ago? He had a very good year. Three French dance compa...
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In June, a minute long video featuring a young ballet student dancing in the rain began circulating on the internet. As the rain falls, forming puddles between the uneven slabs of concrete on which he dances, Anthony Mmesoma Madu, 11, turns pirouette after pirouette. Though the conditions for such dancing are all wrong...
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Daniel Esqueda, center, owner of Wallco Drywall in Texas, says labor prices have risen 20 to 25 percent over five months. Jeff Dworkin, a Dallas builder, was surprised to find someone he didn't recognize inside a half finished house this winter where crews were about to texture the home's drywall. And that's how Mr. Dw...
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It just got easier to see performances at the Joyce Theater. On Tuesday the Joyce announced two new initiatives designed to improve access to its programming. The JoycePass gives registered dance professionals the opportunity to buy 10 tickets to any performance this season. The Pay What You Decide initiative invites p...
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They were the topic of many conversations about my heritage and the bane of my existence. But when I decided to embrace my brows, they became my secret weapon. For the past 10 years, almost every new interaction I've had with a person romantic, platonic, professional has followed the same script. Pause for the length o...
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Style
John Cohen, a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, the New York based string band at the forefront of the old time music revival of the 1950s and '60s, died on Monday at his home in Putnam Valley, N.Y. He was 87 . His son, Rufus, said the cause was cancer. Although best known as a performer, Mr. Cohen was als...
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A two hander directed by Jim Culleton for the Dublin based Fishamble: The New Play Company, "Maz and Bricks" was first staged in 2017, as the civic debate was underway. Performed all over Ireland, it surely had a different power then, making a case for the value of women's lives. Even now, at 59E59 Theaters, it is inte...
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Evita Almassi and Christopher Brian Main were married Aug. 25 in Redmond, Wash. The Rev. Mary Calhoun, a minister of the interfaith Church of Divine Grace, officiated at DeLille Cellars, a winery. Ms. Almassi, 30, is a digital marketing and communications manager at the National Women's Health Network, a consumer group...
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Fashion & Style
Six months have passed since lockdown measures were put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus, causing sales for the fashion and retail industries to plunge as stores closed for months on end. Come September, the majority of stores will have reopened, albeit with a slew of new safety measures in place and sign...
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were married Aug. 18. Dr. Richard J. Kolker, an uncle of the bride who received permission from Massachusetts to solemnize the marriage, officiated at a rented private residence in Sheffield, Mass. Ms. Solkin Ban, 32, is the fashion director for the Paper magazine and website in Manhattan. She graduated from the Univer...
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BERLIN Even as showrooms in Europe prepare for the arrival of 2014 vehicles, authorities in France have sparked controversy with a drastic action: blocking the registration effectively shutting down sales of some popular new Mercedes Benz cars, including the A Class, B Class, CLA and SL models. The French environment m...
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A male and female baboon groom each other in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. A new study shows that male baboons with close female friends live longer than those who don't. In the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, baboons live out their daily dramas. They tussle, they mate, they care for their young. Some are loners and othe...
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James Redford, center, with his father, Robert, and his son, Dylan, in 2012 at the premiere of "The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia," James Redford's documentary about Dylan Redford's struggles with that condition. James Redford, a documentarian who drew on his own experience as a transplant recipient to create an ins...
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Movies
Complicated guy, Paul Gauguin, both in life and in art history. The painter of the mango and orchid palette was a romantic outsider who sacrificed all for personal freedom and art. He was also, we have come to learn, a bully, a liar and a sexual predator, who staged his fabled Tahitian idyll to generate fame. Upon arri...
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Books
LONDON Big ticket savers at the Bank of Cyprus may be forced to accept losses on their deposits that exceed 60 percent in order to keep the stricken bank afloat, bankers briefed on the negotiations said on Friday. The more sizable haircut, coming soon after the imposition of tough capital controls, is the latest and pe...
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Global Business
PITTSBURGH Trauma patients arriving at an emergency room here after sustaining a gunshot or knife wound may find themselves enrolled in a startling medical experiment. Surgeons will drain their blood and replace it with freezing saltwater. Without heartbeat and brain activity, the patients will be clinically dead. And ...
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Health
This article has been updated for 2021's vernal equinox. Sync your calendar with the solar system. Bees buzzing, flowers blooming and birds singing are some telltale signs that spring is upon us. But do you ever wonder what the season looks like from space? This image from the Meteosat 9 satellite shows Earth on the ve...
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Science
They left The Denver Post amid newsroom layoffs and interference in the editorial process by the newspaper's hedge fund owners. And now those reporters and editors are creating their own news outlet, The Colorado Sun. They will be partnering with the Civil Media Company, an ambitious New York start up that aims to use ...
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Media
The strangest summer in recent memory draws to a close with the multiplexes again reopening to those who want to take the risk of spending two hours indoors laughing and eating alongside strangers. The rest of us will remain in front of our televisions and laptops, facing down a seemingly dwindling number of streaming ...
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The first day of the rest of Andrew Rosen's life was April Fools', but that was a coincidence, not a sign. It was a few days after he had announced he was stepping down as chief executive of Theory, the company he founded that redefined dressing for work (now owned by Japan's Fast Retailing); the first day in almost 40...
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Fashion & Style
Is Rihanna the Coco Chanel of the 21st century? Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton LVMH, the parent company of Dior, Givenchy and Fendi, apparently thinks so. It is in the midst of a deal to back her in a fashion brand, making her the first female designer of color at the largest luxury conglomerate in the world. The news, co...
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Fashion & Style
Art handlers are the workhorses of the museum world, with duties that range from the mundane (lugging sculptures) to the challenging (operating pneumatic liftgates) as they install the shows that the public will later see. And at MoMA PS1 in Queens, they are mostly artists themselves. Marley Freeman, for example, is a ...
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Art & Design
Toward the end of 2019, the classical pianist Andre Watts was facing what seemed to be an insurmountable impediment. The last time he had encountered nerve damage in his left hand, back in 2004, an operation on a herniated disk led to rapid recovery. But this time the injury was not to the nerve sheath but to the nerve...
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Well
Picking the best travel insurance to buy for your coming vacation can be a daunting task, said Stan Sandberg, the co founder of the trip insurance comparison site TravelInsurance.com. "There are literally hundreds of plans out there, and they are all steeped in complex legal language that can be hard for even the savvi...
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Travel
ALBERTO BEECK is having what would be considered a solid year for any businessman philanthropist. In February, Mr. Beeck, who was born in Peru and fled to the United States after his country's 1968 military coup, and his Cuban born wife, Olga Maria, gave Georgetown University 10 million to start the Beeck Center for So...
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Your Money
Lawrence M. Krauss, a prominent theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, announced on Sunday that he would retire from the university at the end of the academic year after several women accused him of sexual misconduct. In announcing his departure, Dr. Krauss denounced the university's investigation, which fo...
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Science
Opening the evening is Melissa Ross's "Jack," a seemingly lighthearted piece that lands quite the emotional punch. Ms. Ross confirms the ear for dialogue and attention to revealing details she displayed a couple of years ago in "Nice Girl" directed, like "Jack," by Mimi O'Donnell. Here, Ms. Ross economically describes ...
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Theater