BRUSSELS — The trade group Safer Phosphates would seem to have a pitch-perfect message for an environmentally conscious European Union. It advocates cleaner soil and healthier food, with a website showing pristine fields of wheat. It is also supporting legislation that would place tighter regulations on fertilizer. But the group is not run by environmentalists.…
JOHANNESBURG — Congolese rebels have killed 15 civilians and abducted a dozen children in an attack in the center of the latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, Congo’s military said Sunday. The violence threatened to again force the suspension of efforts to contain the virus. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Phone snubbing is a social phenomenon which is spreading so that many feel there must be a special word for it. The obvious choice is “phubbing” (Millennials will be long remembered for coining new words like “bae” or “fomo”) as an instantly recognized hybrid word. To cross the t’s it means that somebody pays more…
Cancer develops due to mutations in our DNA. However, until now, little has been known about how mutations build up in healthy tissue over time. A new study provides fresh detail. Genetic mutations in healthy tissue are more common than previously thought. As people age, mutations in their DNA slowly build up. Mutations in healthy…
Matthew Louis Rimi and Geoffrey Scott von Barton III were married Oct. 20 at the Park Hyatt, a hotel in New York. The Rev. Louis Olivieri, who was ordained by the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary, officiated, Mr. Rimi (left), 31, works in New York as a legal marketing and business development practitioner for Hogan Lovells,…
Elizabeth Anne Petkanics and Andrew Arthur Van Tassel were married Oct. 20 at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Anne Sundberg, the groom’s aunt who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. Mrs. Van Tassel, 29, is a staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University in Manhattan.…
Patricia Grace Abad-Santos and Luis Vincent Nuñez were married Oct. 20 in Manhattan. The Rev. Daniel R. Corrou performed the ceremony at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier. Ms. Abad-Santos, 30, is a group partner in Universal McCann, an advertising agency in Manhattan, where she spearheads digital media strategy for Johnson & Johnson.…
Emily Claire Ollis and Jason Edward Mlynek were married Oct. 19 at Calamigos Ranch, an events space in Malibu, Calif. The Rev. Bradley L. Reed, a minister of the Evangelical Covenant Church, officiated. Mrs. Mlynek, 26, is the marketing manager at G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a commercial fiction imprint of Penguin Random House, where she leads…
Kristina Hortencia Rios and Anthony Charles Acevedo were married Oct. 19 at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier I. The Rev. Charlotte Worsley, a Christian minister ordained by Joy Church, officiated. Mrs. Rios-Acevedo, 39, is a Bronx-based freelance photographer. She graduated from Baruch College. She is the daughter of Nelson Rios of the Bronx and the late…
Zachary Ryan Styskal and Corey Matthew Goodman were married Oct. 15 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Angel L. Lopez, a staff member of the New York City Clerk’s Office, officiated. On Oct. 20, Andrew M. Glenn, a friend of the couple, led them through an exchange of vows and rings in a ceremony, which included…