Their wedding, first planned for New Year’s Day 2022, was postponed because of the Omicron variant. They were married April 9 in front of 72 guests on the rooftop of Flannery Exchange, an office building and events venue in downtown Palm Springs, with the San Jacinto Mountains as a backdrop. Tony Bradford, a minister of…
After what seemed like light years, Stephen Daniel Sullivan grabbed Alexandra Lauran Ullman Wagner’s hand in March 2018 under the stars projected onto the dome of the Grainger Sky Theater at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. “I was crazy nervous,” Mr. Sullivan said. The two had met about a year and a half earlier, in August 2016,…
While Andrew D’Alton Eversden was studying abroad at the American University of Rome in the fall of 2017, one of his professors offered students extra credit for volunteering. He chose to do so at a meet-and-greet event with a local refugee center, which was how he found himself waiting outside an Italian government building in…
He then left his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to stay with Ms. Walsh in Harrisburg, Pa., where she was working at a hospital and had recently begun helping to admit Covid patients. He lived with her for about two months — at first, they stayed in separate bedrooms — before the two moved back…
One afternoon I left for the grocery store, forgot my notepad, and doubled back to get it. There I discovered the building manager in our apartment, going through the dresser drawers. Despite her initial startled expression, she snapped at me as she explained it was a routine apartment inspection. As I furiously described the incident…
In 2014, Mr. Shirley took the distance out of their long-distance relationship by transferring to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., where Ms. Valdez had enrolled upon graduating from high school. The following year, in May 2015, doctors deemed Mia cancer-free. “Our prayers were answered,” Ms. Valdez said. “We were so thrilled for her.”…
In 2020, they relocated to Ms. Naini’s parents home in Dallas for a few months after the pandemic set in. There, they became even more confident in a future together. Ms. Naini’s grandmother was also living with her parents at the time and bonded with Mr. Elofson. “She taught him how to make Indian tea…
An experimental drug has enabled people with obesity or who are overweight to lose about 22.5 percent of their body weight, about 52 pounds on average, in a large trial, the drug’s maker announced on Thursday. The company, Eli Lilly, has not yet submitted the data for publication in a peer-reviewed medical journal or presented…
Health providers say they are seeing more patients than ever with pain and joint ailments in their hands, necks, shoulders and upper backs — and that mobile phones are most likely playing a part.
Public health advocates have long sought a menthol ban. When the landmark Tobacco Control Act passed in 2009, giving the F.D.A. the authority to regulate tobacco products, menthol was exempted from the tobacco flavors that would be banned. The exception rankled public health groups and a cadre of former U.S. cabinet health secretaries, who noted…