As a second-year medical student at Michigan State University, Dr. Aliyya Terry was scrolling through Facebook in February 2017 when she stopped on a photo taken at an event on campus that included Martin Childs IV. “His face stood out instantly to me,” Dr. Terry said. The reason he was so familiar: Mr. Childs and…
No one ever really owned up to their part in how, during the summer of 2015, Elliot Imani Griffin and Matthew Armand Stitt ended up on an impromptu date after the biweekly Flow fund-raiser, an event for young Black professionals in Philadelphia. “I’m not sure how much engineering took place,” said Ms. Griffin. Mr. Stitt,…
Olivia Rivera liked what she called Version 1.0 of Harrison Shanklin a lot. But Version 2.0 — the “committed and available” man who emerged after the couple took a break just a few months into dating — was something else entirely. “Once we hit that 2.0 version, we were so sure,” she said. “I tell…
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is planning to broaden eligibility for coronavirus vaccine booster shots on Monday, allowing 12- to 15-year-olds to receive third doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine, according to people familiar with the agency’s deliberations. Regulators are also expected to authorize an extra shot of Pfizer’s vaccine for both adolescents and adults…
Airlines may have thought their pandemic troubles were behind them in the fall as a coronavirus wave subsided and travelers increasingly took to the skies. But a new virus surge and winter storms have left the carriers and their passengers in a holiday mess. Heading into the New Year’s weekend, when return flights will produce…
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Half a world away, two former strongmen who led South Korea in back-to-back regimes in the 1980s and ’90s died within a month of each other: first, in October, Roh Tae-woo, a former general who oversaw, with a stern eye, his country’s transition from dictatorship to democracy; then, in November, Chun Doo-hwan, the bloodstained dictator…
Some users, however, report feeling more anxious after using them. Nick Rafter, 38, a real estate agent in the Ozone Park section of Queens, was running the numbers before social gatherings or trips away. “It was mostly out of curiosity, not to decide whether or not to do them,” he said. “I wanted to be…
I’m at home in Los Angeles, vaccinated, boosted, happy to be alive and absolutely exhausted — frazzled and shattered in ways I didn’t even know I could be. What a year. I’m not going to a party tomorrow, but I’ll celebrate with my husband, a couple of friends, two good dogs in silly hats and…
And so closes the second year of the pandemic, 12 months more of worry, of working from home, of trying to make each meal feel like something new. The articles that readers of the Food section and New York Times Cooking craved this year acknowledged this new reality. Many of our most-read stories offered tips…