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The Walt Disney Company has decided to close Disney English, a 12 year old chain of 25 language schools in China, ending a once promising business that, at times, prompted questions about education as brand building. The learning centers, in six cities and using Disney characters like Mickey Mouse and the Little Mermai...
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As he sat in his office in central Paris, Christian Bombrun, an executive at Orange, the French cellphone and cable operator, got an unexpected call. It was Netflix, the American streaming giant, proposing a deal. Netflix was looking to offer its stable of movies and television programming to the 10 million Orange cust...
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Physical pain, relentless and undeniable, throbs like a bass line in "Behind the Sheet," the deeply affecting new historical drama by Charly Evon Simpson at Ensemble Studio Theater. Sometimes it takes the audible, metaphoric form of a hammered drum. And every now and then a scream, quickly muffled, lances the air. But ...
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Nurses are known to be caring, patient, full of equanimity. You don't go into the profession for cushy hours and padded salaries, and nurses are selflessly devoted to their jobs and their patients. But the way Covid 19 has been handled in this country had pushed many of them to the brink. Nurses are now scared and angr...
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In the midst of national shortages of testing swabs and protective gear, some medical suppliers and health policy experts are looking ahead to another extraordinary demand on manufacturing: Delivering a vaccine that could potentially end the pandemic. Making a vaccine is not easy. More than two dozen companies have ann...
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Privacy advocates got a big win last year, pushing through a landmark law in California. Now, before the law even goes into effect, they are moving to make the statute tougher. Californians for Consumer Privacy, the nonprofit group behind the privacy law, announced a plan on Tuesday to give Californians new data rights...
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Two superheroes, both alike in not taking themselves too seriously, had very different experiences at the box office this weekend. Warner Bros.'s "Shazam!" made 25.1 million domestically, a solid sum that kept it in first place after a strong debut last weekend. That PG 13 film centers on a teenager (Asher Angel) who c...
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The HBO show changed New York by making new New Yorkers. These are the stories of our "Sex and the City" dreams and nightmares. On June 6, 1998, HBO broadcast its first episode of "Sex and the City," introducing the world to Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha: four single women who conquered Manhattan. Much has be...
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At the risk of sounding critical, the second day of Q. A. in the Senate's impeachment trial of President Trump was less than illuminating perhaps even the teensiest bit tedious. The questions were just as transparently loaded as on Wednesday; the answers just as predictable. The arguments the same. At times even Chief ...
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AMERICAN MASTERS: RAUL JULIA THE WORLD'S A STAGE 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). By the time of his death in 1994, the actor Raul Julia had become famous both for performing on and Off Broadway and for his later film roles, which included the role of Gomez in "The Addams Family" (1994). This documentary revisits ...
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SHOULD you trust your hard earned retirement dollars to a robot? These robots, of course, aren't like those you see in the movies. But they are capable of providing investment advice usually delivered by a human adviser sitting behind a desk and for a lot less money. So called robo advisers which assemble investment po...
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Your Money
WITH electric cars and plug in hybrids at last trickling into the showrooms of mainstream automakers, the dream of going gasoline free is becoming a reality for many drivers. Cars like the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt can cover considerable distances under electric power alone certainly enough for local errands a...
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A roundup of motoring news from the web: General Motors has joined Ford in the practice of removing heavy items like rear bumpers from its trucks when calculating their total payload capability, the automaker told Automotive News in an email Wednesday. Chrysler's Ram brand and Toyota use unmodified curb weights to calc...
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SAN FRANCISCO No matter which political party you belong to, one thing is clear: Donald J. Trump's presidency has galvanized political activism to a level of passion not seen since the civil rights movement. Far less clear is what you can do in reaction to the Trump administration's changes. And in an era that promises...
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As a child, Ellen Moses spent summers at her family's 1930s lake house in Detroit Lakes, Minn., where her father used to tell her a story about how the home was built on top of tree stumps. Ms. Moses, now 55, always assumed that was nothing more than family folklore. But when she called in a contractor to peel up the f...
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"Not quite rural but very non suburban," is how Lisa Arrigo, a resident of Goldens Bridge, describes this 2.6 square mile hamlet of rolling hills and densely wooded areas in the town of Lewisboro. It has few restaurants and only one supermarket but, being bifurcated by Interstate 684, is an easy drive from southern Wes...
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Kevin Boseman has spent the past few weeks sitting under a towering pecan tree at his childhood home in Anderson, S.C. He and his brother used to play on a swing there and chase each other around the backyard. Between Bible studies and summer reading, it was the place where they made their fondest memories. Kevin, 48, ...
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SEATTLE Last week, Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president in charge of operations, stood on a ladder in a warehouse near Los Angeles and announced to employees that Amazon was raising pay for its vast blue collar work force. As soon as he said "new Amazon minimum wage of 15 an hour," Mr. Clark was drowned out by mo...
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Technology
Cleveland Brown has found his new voice: The actor Arif Zahir will take over the role of this friendly "Family Guy" neighbor on the Fox animated series. On Friday, 20th Television, the studio that produces "Family Guy," said that Zahir, a prolific YouTube performer, will succeed the actor Mike Henry in the part. Henry,...
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Kerala, as they say, is "God's Own Country," a nod to its lush natural beauty, beguiling backwaters and wealth of spices that have been the Holy Grail for generations of seafarers. But the catchy tourism slogan could also be a tribute to the various religious traditions that have thrived there especially in the port ci...
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THE THIRTY YEAR GENOCIDE Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894 1924 By Benny Morris and Dror Ze'evi Using the word "genocide" to describe an episode of mass killing has consequences. If the horrors are unfolding now, it invites other countries to intervene and punish the perpetrators. If the unspeakabl...
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What to Do in San Francisco When You're Wealthy? Join a Private Club. SAN FRANCISCO On a sunny Tuesday afternoon in the main lounge of the Battery in San Francisco, with its soaring ceilings and provocative contemporary art, an African American woman sat on the edge of a sofa typing on her laptop. Nearby, two middle ag...
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"It tires me to talk to rich men," said Teddy Roosevelt, himself a product of wealth. "You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worth hearing. But as a rule, they don't know anything outside their own businesses." Had T.R. spent time with Bill Gates, the polymath who predicted the pandemi...
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The man who would be Blame was born Christopher Stuart Barnes on Feb. 12, 1960. He died Judy Blame, rechristened and reimagined in his own image, a magpie jewelry designer, fashion stylist and art director, who emerged from the creative ferment of London's 1980s club scene, on Feb. 20 in London. The cause was cancer. H...
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Fashion & Style
The women's basketball program at Duke University will end its season early, the team announced Friday, because of mounting coronavirus concerns. It's the first Power Five basketball team to start and stop its season because of the pandemic. "The student athletes on the Duke women's basketball team have made the diffic...
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Credit...William Mullins, via Alamy Warming waters and a series of dams are making the grueling migration of the Chinook salmon even more deadly and threatening dozens of other species. NORTH FORK, Idaho The Middle Fork of the Salmon River, one of the wildest rivers in the contiguous United States, is prime fish habita...
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Hyundai is recalling about 419,000 vehicles in the United States in three separate actions for brake, electrical and suspension problems, according to reports the automaker posted Friday on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website. The largest recall covers about 225,000 Santa Fe crossovers from the 2...
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Is Reese Witherspoon the new Oprah? Some people think so. Her Hello Sunshine production company, which aims to "create and discover content that celebrates women," has a popular online book club that's nudging both fiction and nonfiction onto the best seller list these days. Her May selection, "From Scratch" Tembi Lock...
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No matter how much free time you have this weekend, we have TV recommendations for you. Come back every week for new suggestions on what to watch. When to watch: Friday at 11 p.m., on HBO Season 4 of TV's most wistful show is here, bringing tenderness and brief mercies along with its weed deliveries. Ben Sinclair retur...
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"There was no clear explanation of why they wouldn't approve it," Richard Clemmer, chief executive of NXP Semiconductors, said of Chinese officials' denial of the firm's merger with Qualcomm. SAN FRANCISCO The finger pointing over the scuttled 44 billion transaction between the chip makers Qualcomm and NXP Semiconducto...
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No one wants hassles on vacation, so this fall my wife and I accepted the offer of a rental car agent in San Francisco who suggested there was a fast, easy way to pay any tolls we might encounter. We were in California to see friends on a trip that took us north into Sonoma County and then down the sumptuous Pacific Co...
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If you ended the week hoping that President Trump's impeachment trial would go on longer, this weekend's opening "Saturday Night Live" sketch imagined just such a scenario: a parade of self serving witnesses that wasn't necessarily an improvement. This week's episode, hosted by J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans and featu...
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Ms. Adams considered the sharing of her experience to be both therapeutic and altruistic, to satisfy her own need for expression and to shed light on coping with cancer. Showing her determination to battle the disease and its concomitant pain with all the medical tools available to her and infused with a gutsy optimism...
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the coronavirus vaccine made by Moderna for emergency use, allowing the shipment of millions more doses across the nation and intensifying the debate over who will be next in line to get inoculated. The move will make Moderna's vaccine the second to reach the Americ...
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Dr. Ian Williams, a Welsh born physician, started publishing comics under a pseudonym in 2007, the year he began a website devoted to so called graphic medicine. Currently located in Brighton, Williams is now one of the primary creators of what has become a rich field combining comics and health care, broadly conceived...
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The chief executive of Netflix fired the company's chief communications officer on Friday after he "showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity" in using a racial epithet at least twice in the workplace, according to a company memo. The chief executive, Reed Hastings, credited the communications officer, J...
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SAN FRANCISCO Snap, the maker of the disappearing message app Snapchat, is continuing to struggle. The social media company said on Thursday that it lost two million daily active users over the past three months after shedding three million over the summer, knocking its total down to 186 million. While that number was ...
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Law school applications are headed for a 30 year low, reflecting increased concern over soaring tuition, crushing student debt and diminishing prospects of lucrative employment upon graduation. As of this month, there were 30,000 applicants to law schools for the fall, a 20 percent decrease from the same time last year...
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30 FOR 30: BE WATER 9 p.m. on ESPN and ESPN2. The latest installment of ESPN's documentary series explores the life and career of Bruce Lee, who, before his death at the age of 32, was an accomplished martial artist, international film star and philosopher. The film, directed by Bao Nguyen, chronicles Lee's early years...
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If you belong to that minority of Americans who will follow the World Cup this summer, you will hear national anthems sung before each game, and see the players in white England shirts mouthing "Send her victorious / Happy and glorious / Long to reign over us / God save the Queen!" Our present queen has reigned so long...
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To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. As the coronavirus rages out of control across much of the United States, Americans are acting curiously helpless. If we had been this passive in 1776, we would still be part of Britain. Yet even as we prepare to ce...
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In the desperation to save lives in the coronavirus pandemic, we have already begun to relax scientific standards in the hope of finding a treatment without waiting to prove that it works. Bioethicists have proposed risky human challenge trials which expose volunteers to the virus to speed coronavirus vaccine developme...
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Will it be easier to get black led movies made over the next decade? When I talked to Lena Waithe for my project about the future of movies, she praised studios for greenlighting projects like her upcoming "Queen Slim," but noted that famous actors of color could be doing more to support small films. "You can make a ve...
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DEMOCRACY MAY NOT EXIST, BUT WE'LL MISS IT WHEN IT'S GONE By Astra Taylor Dismay over recent electoral outcomes including the victory of Donald Trump in the United States, the choice of Brexit in the United Kingdom and the selection of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has occasioned a torrent of commentary about the state of d...
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Priya Kim Prasad and James Francis Bowe III were married April 7 at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York. Msgr. Donald Sakano performed the ceremony. The bride, 30, works in interest rates in New York City for Citadel Securities. She graduated from Yale and received an M.B.A. from Columbia. She is also a chartered f...
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Fashion & Style
Stretching across 800 square miles of bucolic hills, Britain's Cotswolds region includes countless charming villages in five counties that personify the enduring appeal of the English countryside. Medieval wool merchants built stately manor houses and remarkable, timeless churches that have been lovingly preserved. And...
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A poor sense of smell may indicate an increased risk for dementia, a new study has found. Researchers recruited 2,906 men and women ages 57 to 85, testing their ability to identify five odors orange, leather, peppermint, rose and fish. Five years later, 4.1 percent of them had dementia. Of all the factors the researche...
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A decade after the Great Recession released its grip on the American economy, the job market shows no sign of falling into another slump. Weak hiring in May had given rise to fears that the long running expansion was foundering in the face of trade tensions and cooling growth overseas. But job growth rebounded sharply ...
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LAS VEGAS Medical staff had barely begun wiping the blood from Donald Cerrone's busted nose when other fighters started making it known they want to face Conor McGregor, who beat Cerrone in 40 seconds in the main event at U.F.C. 246. Some of those who want the next shot served notice on Twitter. "Weak," veteran U.F.C. ...
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Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater. 'THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE' at the Vineyard Theater (in previews; opens on May 23). John Marcher is convinced that something lies in wait fo...
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CANNES, France Forget Nicole Kidman in an Alexander McQueen sheer peach lace halter dress; forget Elle Fanning in a Rodarte lavender tulle ball gown and Tilda Swinton in a sparkling black Chanel jumpsuit. It is possible that the most jaw dropping fashion spectacle in Cannes this week took place not on the film festival...
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"I can't quite believe I'm involved in this," said Charles Finch, standing before a shelf of imported olive oils at Dean DeLuca in SoHo on a recent evening. He had the beaming face of a kid in a candy store. Or rather, a kid who runs the candy store. "It's such a joyous thing to walk in here because it feels happy," he...
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"The Joffrey Ballet's collection already feels at home at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, where many of Robert Joffrey's papers and the footage of the company are already housed and enjoyed by researchers, dancers, students and the public," Greg Cameron, the company's executive director, said in a ...
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A pathbreaking composer and saxophonist, a radio host and organizer, a storied bassist, and arguably the most distinguished vocal talent of his generation: These four figures will make up the 2020 class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, the agency announced on Tuesday. Jazz's highest public honor will go...
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BIG IVY, N.C. I live in Appalachia, and on Sunday mornings I hike the Appalachian Trail across the mountains I call home. It is my church. I drink from its springs and rest in the shade of its ancient forests. For decades, the trail has been my refuge. I have run for miles through tunnels of rhododendron, crossed paths...
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Lin Manuel Miranda's relationship with Disney started inauspiciously. He wrote a song on spec for a holiday show. The company rejected it. "It was a holiday song, called 'Holidays at Our House,' and I will never play it for you," he recalled recently. "It was not very good." But in the years since, the partnership has ...
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The pool at the Andaz Scottsdale Resort Bungalows, in Scottsdale, Ariz., where the author went off season. To celebrate my daughter's college graduation in May, I wanted to treat her to a luxurious getaway with my sister. We initially eyed a spa weekend in Massachusetts or Pennsylvania, but got sticker shock from the p...
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Though there have been protests at airports across the country, the actual routine of daily tourism seems to be largely unaffected by President Trump's executive order banning people of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Citizens of the affected countries Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, S...
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On Christmas of last year , the singer Alicia Keys, wearing red bauble earrings, posted a video on Instagram, in which one of her sons instructed her not to scream when she saw her present. But Ms. Keys danced and shrieked anyway, so much was her joy upon seeing a sleek 52 inch rectangular Mirror mounted on her wall. W...
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The author Noel Ignatiev in an undated photo. His book "How the Irish Became White," published in 1995, was foundational to what became known as whiteness studies. Noel Ignatiev, a provocative scholar who argued that the idea of a white race is a false construct that society would be better off without, died on Nov. 9 ...
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You've surely seen before, and often enough that you may be surprised at where you'll be able to see him this Saturday night. Mr. Kravits is one of those Everyman actors who are all over television in supporting roles, and when he's not on TV he might be on a Broadway or Off Broadway stage. Even if you haven't absorbed...
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Now, all of this may sound like old history. But the raw racism of postwar housing policy cast a long shadow over our society. For the 20 or so years that followed World War II represented a unique opportunity for the middle class to solidify its position an opportunity that was denied to Black people. You see, the '50...
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LOS ANGELES The embattled Weinstein Company on Monday secured a financial lifeline and possible new owner from an investor with experience in distressed Hollywood assets. But the fate of the studio, including whether its co founder Bob Weinstein would stay involved, remained far from resolved. Tarak Ben Ammar, one of t...
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When the composer Joan Tower went to Bennington College to study music, her teachers told her she needed to compose something. "So I wrote a piece," she recalled recently, laughing, "and it was a disaster from beginning to end. I said, 'I know I can do better than that.' So I did that for the next 40 years, trying to c...
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This article was published in 2020 and was updated on June 18 to reflect President Biden's signing of a bill that made Juneteenth a federal holiday. When Opal Lee was growing up in Texas, she would spend Juneteenth picnicking with her family, first in Marshall, where she was born, then in Sycamore Park in Fort Worth, n...
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When I wrote about fending off math anxiety last month I learned both from the experts I interviewed and from people to whom I happened to mention the topic that math anxiety is found across all lines of gender, ethnicity and educational background. There are plenty of men and women out there, including the highly educ...
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Credit...Andre D. Wagner for The New York Times In the late 1980s, Bruckner Boulevard was a forbidding stretch of asphalt strung with disused factories, dim tattoo parlors and fast food depots. The thoroughfare, blisteringly sketched by Tom Wolfe in his satirical novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities," was part of the was...
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Fashion & Style
Elwyn L. Simons, an intrepid scientist known as the father of modern primate paleontology for his discovery of some of humankind's earliest antecedents, died on March 6 in Peoria, Ariz. He was 85. His death was announced by Duke University, where he was an emeritus professor of evolutionary anthropology. Though Dr. Sim...
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Over the past few years, there's been an interloper in the dog days of summer, a period when the concert season slows to a trickle . The Time Spans festival, put on since 2015 by the Earle Brown Music Foundation Charitable Trust, has filled a bare corner of the New York calendar not with seasonal pops, but with contemp...
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In the past five years, New York's blue chip galleries have produced a surge of exhibitions of abstract, monochromatic oil painting from South Korea's dansaekhwa school, by artists like Park Seo bo, Ha Chong hyun, Yun Hyong keun, Chung Chang sup and Chung Sang hwa. Grateful though I've been to see so much Korean painti...
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The actor Taye Diggs didn't want to. On a scarf snapping fall day, Mr. Diggs had arrived at Steps on Broadway, a dance studio on the Upper West Side where he used to study. His publicist had suggested that he'd want to peek into a couple of classes and maybe dance some steps on the side. But Mr. Diggs was adamant. "Do ...
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MANTEL PIECES Royal Bodies and Other Writing From The London Review of Books By Hilary Mantel The person we meet at the beginning of Hilary Mantel's collection of essays is 35 and has already published two novels. She's immensely ambitious, but she's had some obstacles to literary success: She's female; she's the daugh...
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Iceman is having his comeback moment: Marvel Entertainment announced this month that the superhero, also known as Bobby Drake, would be getting a new solo series in September. His previous series had been canceled in March. Then something curious happened. Collected editions of Iceman were "selling really well on the b...
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Dr. Gayatri Devi's patient, a 55 year old former headmistress, had good reason to be distraught. The woman had a yearlong history of progressive memory loss and behavioral problems and was referred to Dr. Devi, a neurologist, with a possible diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. As Dr. Devi recounted in the journal Obs...
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The MMSphere, a ring of LED lights, casts a red glow over my face. It sits adjacent to my laptop so that as I write, research and procrastinate , I can simultaneously calm a fiery constellation of acne on my left cheek. Red light's anti inflammatory and collagen building effects on the skin are well documented. But thi...
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Dr. Marianne S. Goodman, a psychiatrist at the Veterans Integrated Service Network in the Bronx. "The fact is, we can't rely on trained medical experts to identify people who are truly at high risk," she said. At a recent visit to the Veterans Affairs clinic in the Bronx, Barry, a decorated Vietnam veteran, learned tha...
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. Back on the march as the best player in men's tennis, Novak Djokovic stumbled in the desert sunlight on Tuesday on his favorite surface. Djokovic flubbed some forehands and returns he normally makes in his third round match at the BNP Paribas Open and cracked a racket in frustration. But he also ra...
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Q. How do "indoor" maps work? I thought GPS had a hard time getting signals if your phone wasn't outdoors in a clear area. A. The United States Global Positioning System (GPS) currently uses a system of 31 operational satellites transmitting radio signals to receivers on the ground. Once the GPS device on the ground re...
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The death of Roger Ailes on Thursday was always fated to be channeled through partisan filters. He was the man most responsible for building Fox News into a powerhouse conservative network, before he was ousted last summer amid accusations of sexual harassment. Commentary on his legacy was particularly split on social ...
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When Ilana Ozernoy was a young girl growing up in the Soviet Union, her father, Leonid Ozernoy, a prominent astrophysicist in Moscow, bought her a telescope. Ms. Ozernoy and her father, who was a scientist at the P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow, along with her older sister and mother, would spend summers in th...
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is recalling about 907,000 vehicles for electrical problems in two separate actions. The larger of the two recalls covers 470,000 vehicles equipped with power steering and 3.6 liter V6 engines, including 2011 14 Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger sedans, Dodge Challenger coupes and Dodge Durango s...
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When Joe Longo bought a new 2003 Dodge Ram 2500 he figured, even with a heavy duty pickup, normal wear and tear would cause some parts to fail. But something happened that he had never imagined. About three years ago, he saw a crack on the dashboard and figured it was a freak occurrence. "The last thing I ever thought ...
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THE promise of an airplane parked in every driveway, for decades a fantasy of suburban commuters and a staple of men's magazines, resurfaced this month in Manhattan. On display at the New York auto show was the Terrafugia Transition, an airplane with folding wings and a drive system that enabled it to be used on the ro...
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ANI CORDERO at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m.). The New York based singer and instrumentalist uses music to tap into her Puerto Rican heritage, performing traditional music from the island, as well as from around Latin America (she's worked with the Brazilian ensemble Os Mutantes, amo...
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It's rarely dull when artists take their careers into their own hands. In the 1950s and early 1960s, between the waning of Abstract Expressionism and the canonization of Pop Art and Minimalism, younger artists decided to stop waiting for attention from uptown galleries and began opening artist run cooperatives and alte...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Gov. Kate Brown recently negotiated an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to remove federal agents in stages and have them replaced by Oregon State Police. The governor acknowledged that this might not be the end of the violence. I hope she is wrong. Portland is a beautiful and vibrant city with smart, ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Opinion
People throughout the sports world, from athletes to arena staff members, tell The New York Times how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic. Bridget Pettis said she has always chosen her next move based on what's in her heart, from the basketball court to the coach's chair to her new nonprofit geared...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Sports
CHRISTIANSTED, V.I. Warren Mosler is a card carrying member of the 1 percent. A deeply tanned, tennis lean hedge fund executive, Mr. Mosler lives on this run down but jewel toned Caribbean island for tax reasons. Transitioning into an active retirement, he recently designed and had built an 850,000 catamaran called Kno...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
What does it take to get a dog into a no pet building? The question is becoming a hot topic in New York City. Because depending on whom you ask, the answer is A) a legitimate disability or B) a dubious note from a doctor or therapist. Most people know that federal, state and city laws require building owners and landlo...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Real Estate
Its vitality as a tourist center is largely built on memories of the days when the Vanderbilts and the Astors summered at seaside mansions awash in servants and when a party might feature swans in the fountains or monkeys in the trees. The Gilded Age is long over, but this city still works to protect its past by preser...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design
Mark Zuckerberg said this week that Facebook would shift toward a "privacy focused platform," but the business model for such a change remained unclear. Each week, technology reporters and columnists from The New York Times review the week's news, offering analysis and maybe a joke or two about the most important devel...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
One of the great success stories of the 20th century was the decline in poverty among the elderly. That story, however, is starting to change. A typical American worker in the middle rung of the earnings ladder whose career pay averaged out at about 46,000 a year in today's money could retire this year at age 65 with a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Economy
Chameleons snack by shooting out their impressive tongues, zapping a meal as far as two body lengths away. But no one has figured out how those tongues latch onto the prey and snap it back into the animal's mouth. Researchers now have the explanation: Amucus secreted by the animal's tongue pads makes for very sticky sp...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
A Good Day in New York for a Former TV Anchor At first glance, it seemed as if Greg Kelly soared into Judith Grey's world straight from the colorful panels of a comic book series. When they met for a first date in December 2015, Mr. Kelly was already a millionaire playboy with an alter ego a broadcast journalist with a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Fashion & Style
It's impossible to say that any particular scientific development was the most important in a given year. But if we had to choose some highlights, we'd opt for these unforgettable events and findings. (Find the year in climate change news here.) We learned that nothing brings people together like the sun hiding behind ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
Are you a man who plays dress up with your daughter? Do you enjoy bowling, and are you terrible at it? Do you have hopes and dreams and insecurities and flaws and a belly that looks more like baked alaska than Hawaiian rolls? You, sir, could be an underwear model. A number of ads for briefs, boxers and other products a...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Media
In his 2005 novel, "Saturday," the acclaimed writer Ian McEwan describes what his protagonist, Henry Perowne, sees when he visits a London seafood market to buy ingredients for a fish stew: crates of crabs and lobsters, still moving, and marble slabs arrayed with "bloodless white flesh, and eviscerated silver forms." W...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Science
YouTube this week cracked down on the videos of some prominent far right actors and conspiracy theorists, continuing an effort that has become more visible since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month caused a torrent of misinformation to be featured prominently on the site. A week after the shooting, many o...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Technology
Lang Lang, at the piano, playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Andris Nelsons, in black at the Tanglewood Music Festival on Friday. LENOX, Mass. Let's just get this out of the way: There was no sign that Lang Lang, the superstar pianist and patron saint of sold out ...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Music
One of the highlights of the week is Christie's quirky auction Tuesday called "La Menagerie," featuring animal sculptures. It includes this welded hippo by Francois Xavier Lalanne from 1969 that folds out to reveal a sink, vanity, and full bathtub. New York's biannual billion dollar "gigaweek" of sales, whose latest se...
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N24News: A New Dataset for Multimodal News Classification
Art & Design