In a study of inflammation mechanisms in the brain, researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany have identified how, as we get older, a vicious cycle of poorly regulated inflammatory responses leads to the loss of brain cells. How does chronic inflammation occur in the brain? Recently, those researchers conducted a study that investigated…
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Studies in this field are also “hard to randomize,” said Dr. O’Haire, whose own research has looked at the potential benefits of classroom guinea pigs for children with autism. Scientists who are testing a drug, for example, can easily give some participants a look-alike placebo. But what is the equivalent in a trial that pairs…
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This cousin of tequila is handcrafted by farmers in small batches from the maguey plant, which takes 7 to 30 years to reach maturity. Photographs and Text by Brett Gundlock Sept. 6, 2018 Mezcal is a drink like no other. “El elíxir de los dioses” (the elixir of the gods) is a potent and largely…
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On a related note, we have Bill’s make-do-and-mend, zero-waste sensibility. Costumes and hats are often made from discards and objets trouvés. Any garret, no matter how grim, can be transformed into a nifty salon de chapeaux with a dollop of white paint and some moth-eaten Austrian drapes bought from the Salvation Army. Just be sure…
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Advertisement Overweight women limited their weight gain with a diet and exercise program during pregnancy, but it did not lower their rate of complications like gestational diabetes. Image Heather Kinion joined a body weight study at Northwestern in her first trimester and was assigned to work with a nutrition coach.CreditCreditAlyssa Schukar for The New York…
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There were pedestrians ambling and drinkers drinking alfresco on the warm June day that Carla Sozzani stood outside what would shortly become 10 Corso Como New York, the American outpost of her pioneering Italian concept shop. That descriptor, now common for boutiques that stock not only fashion, but also art, furniture, books and whatever else…
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The earbud modules are also extremely small — about the size of a pinkie fingertip. You insert them into silicone tips that go into your ear canal and tuck under your ear ridge. Bose provides three sizes, and I used the small eartips. The Sleepbuds are noise-masking — not noise-canceling — earbuds. Noise-canceling earphones eliminate…
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Morgan Allen, a 20-year-old from Minneapolis, was contacted last November by a photographer named Haythem Lafhaj via Instagram, a relatively common way for new models, especially those outside fashion centers like New York, to network with image makers. Ms. Allen met with him a few times to work on photographs for her portfolio without incident,…
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MARSEILLE, France — The nearly 20-year-old images have entered French folklore: peasants, farmers and ex-hippies dismantling a rural McDonald’s, panel by panel, in what became a symbol of France’s resistance to American fast food. Today that aging newsreel is being played in sharp reverse. A group of workers and their union leaders in Marseille are…
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Kenny Shopsin, the colorful proprietor of a fabled Manhattan restaurant where the menu is vast and the customer has never been king, died on Sunday at his home in the West Village. He was 76. His son-in-law Andrew Lampert said he had fallen last year and had had a series of health problems since. Mr.…
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