I Survived ‘Guiding Light’

Deep inside the CBS Broadcast Center in Midtown Manhattan, I stood in a corridor observing a melee. The soap opera where I worked was going off the air, and the wardrobe department had filled an empty suite of offices with piles of designer purses and handbags. With a limit of four per person, everything was…

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The Undoing of George Santos

In the end, it may have been the luxury goods that brought down George Santos. Not the lies about going to Baruch College and being a volleyball star or working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Not the claims of being Jewish and having grandparents who were killed in the Holocaust and a mother who died…

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Scientists in Discredited Alcohol Study Will Not Advise U.S. on Drinking Guidelines

Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health abruptly pulled the plug on an ambitious study about the health effects of moderate drinking. The reason: The trial’s principal scientist and officials from the federal agency’s own alcohol division had solicited $60 million for the research from alcohol manufacturers, a conflict of interest and a violation…

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