Lorelei Ramirez demonstrates how to express a full range of emotions when turning down your co-workers’ holiday outings. We relish the chaos. What’s holding you back? Say yes! Progress is associated with an open door, taking the invitation, putting yourself out there. That “it will work out somehow,” that “everything will fall into place” and…
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Progress against malaria has stalled, and the disease remains a significant threat to billions of people despite the expensive, decades-long efforts to contain it, the World Health Organization reported on Monday. According to the W.H.O.’s latest annual assessment, there were an estimated 220 million cases of malaria last year, and about 435,000 deaths from the…
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Charlotte Moss wishes people would pay more attention to the hardware on their doors. “It’s one of those items that sometimes gets left to the end” of renovations, said Ms. Moss, the well-known interior designer. “To me, it’s equivalent to a buzzkill when you spend all this money decorating or building a house and forget…
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Parents tend to think of getting in to college as the finish line of a race. They may worry about their high schooler’s grades, or tech usage, or friend group, but tell themselves, “As long as my kid gets off to college, it will be fine.” Unfortunately, that’s not always so. Thirty percent of freshmen…
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More than 30 years ago, I went to a parent meeting at my oldest child’s day care center, when he was in the 2-year-old room, and it turned out that many of the children in the room were not reliably sleeping through the night. It felt like a revelation, discovering that mine was not the…
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A new study reveals how social media use could affect the self-perceived body image of young women. Being active on social media may affect how young women perceive their own appearance. Recently, the effects of social media use on our mental health and well-being have been the topic of much debate. According to the social…
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Western luxury money has been pouring into China at a rapid rate this fall. In the last four weeks alone Richemont, the Swiss owner of brands like Cartier and the e-tailer Yoox Net-a-Porter, announced a joint venture with the Chinese online retail giant Alibaba in a bid to crack the online shopping market of a…
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The top five influencers in China Kirstin Sinclair/Getty Images 1. Peter Xu (above) A blogger, now known for fashion collaborations and appearances 2. Tao Liang, or Mr. Bags His online shop sold thousands of handbags in seconds 3. Ye Si, or Gogoboi One of China’s most influential fashion bloggers 4. Ji Liang Writer, blogger, fashion…
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[What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox] Mikaila Bonaparte has spent her entire life under the roof of the New York City Housing Authority, the oldest and largest public housing system in the country, where as a toddler she nibbled on paint chips that flaked to…
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Ever since a bite-size peanut butter cracker made him sputter and cough and break out in hives when he was a toddler, Carter Grodi has been under doctors’ orders to stay away from peanuts. He brought his own cupcake to school birthday parties, learned to read food labels, and turned 15 without ever tasting a…
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