Good morning and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, brilliant ideas for busy people. This week’s recipes are full of flavors to love, the kinds of ingredients that make dinner come alive. Ginger and chiles! Feta and olives! Fish sauce and lime! Even — maybe especially — the pickled red onions that top the skillet chili.…
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In November 2007, Emily Kaczmarek and dozens of other high-school students from throughout the country met with several Supreme Court justices in Washington. Among them was Justice Anthony Kennedy. “Why is discrimination wrong?” Justice Kennedy asked the students. The students, all seasoned overachievers, struggled to devise impressive, long-winded responses. No, no, he said. Not complicated.…
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Advertisement Ask Well Drink more fluids, consume less sodium and eat a diet that includes calcium-rich foods. Image CreditCreditMarilyn K. Yee/The New York Times By Richard Klasco, M.D. Sept. 14, 2018 Q. What foods should I avoid if I’m prone to kidney stones? A. Drink more fluids, consume less sodium and eat a diet that…
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As rats scampered among trash cans by moonlight in Chinatown, a procession of tall and very good looking people started entering an old Italian restaurant on Baxter Street called Forlini’s. They walked past its grand wooden doors and moved right through the stuffy chandelier-lit dining room, where middle-aged customers looked up from their veal marsala…
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Dr. Baselga, 59, is an expert in breast cancer research and played a key role in the development of Herceptin, which was developed by Genentech, a subsidiary of Roche. He came to Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2013 after serving as chief of hematology and oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Before that he was…
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Hurricane season coincides with wedding season, and up and down the Carolinas, brides and grooms who had ceremonies planned this week were frantically trying to reschedule as Hurricane Florence bore down on the coast. Deborah Sawyer, a veteran wedding planner and photographer in the Outer Banks, moved a beach wedding scheduled for Friday up to…
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Boon was spearheaded mainly by Palisa Anderson, Ms. Chanta’s daughter, who wanted to present food that spoke to her generation. On Boon’s daytime menu, the spicy Thai herbs and pork sausage come mixed into a plate of fusilli, and you can get your nahm prik makua — the spicy eggplant relish from northern Thailand —…
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Gender Letter helps you keep up with the world, and the women shaping it. Tell me what you think at dearmaya@nytimes.com. “When a woman is emotional, she’s ‘hysterical’ and she’s penalized for it. When a man does the same, he’s ‘outspoken’ and there are no repercussions.” That was the message the tennis great Billie Jean…
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Amid the uproar surrounding Serena Williams’s U.S. Open defeat and the clamor of the primary elections, the shows in New York this season were calibrated to cut through the city’s noise — with more noise. Prabal Gurung’s collection was heavy on suits in divergent vertical halves, wearable schisms in kaleidoscopic colors. Eckhaus Latta’s show —…
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I didn’t notice my skipped period. I had switched birth control pills, and my menstrual cycle had always been a little irregular. It wasn’t like a movie, either. When I started vomiting, it didn’t even dawn on me that I was pregnant. I thought it was some symptom of cancer. Nor can I remember where…
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