In recent years, many Americans have embraced vitamin D and fish oil pills, their enthusiasm fueled by a steady trickle of suggestive research studies linking higher levels of vitamin D with lower rates of cancer and other ills, and fish consumption with reduced heart disease. Now a large and rigorous government-funded randomized trial — the…
Feminist values do not contradict the desire to create a family. The main thing is to find a person who will share your beliefs. Approaching relations as a partnership is the surest way to create a healthy family. The family model is laid from the first days of living together. Here are some expert tips…
Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey and George D. Crowley III are to be married Nov. 11 at the Butterfly Conservatory, Fairchild Garden in Coral Gables, Fla. Ashley Jansen, a friend of the couple who was ordained by the Renewal of the Spirit Institute, is to officiate in a nondenominational ceremony. The bride, who is 62 and will…
Getty ImagesTIMOTHY A. CLARY Since it launched in 1995, the Victoria’s Secret fashion show has become a global spectacle of toned bodies, feathery costume wings, big hair, and bright white smiles, consumed by millions across TV and social media. It bolsters the superstardom of the models it casts, with alumna including Tyra Banks and Gisele…
WASHINGTON — Under a canopy of poplar and oak trees, a team of geophysicists surveyed the forest floor for century-old wartime relics. They positioned an electromagnetic scanner atop the carpet of leaves while the delicate instrument harvested data about objects in the soil beneath. In 1918, mortars and artillery shells arched toward this spot near…
Susan Good was sitting with a group of women in her home in Palm Springs, Calif., when one of them began lamenting the difficulties of aging. But it wasn’t the usual script about aches, pains and skyrocketing cholesterol levels. “She said that she felt invisible,” recalled Ms. Good, who is in her 70s. The speaker…
Two years ago, Dane and Brooke Carillo brought home Mackey, an English cream golden retriever, to their two-bedroom apartment in Manhattan, but they quickly realized he wasn’t cut out for city life. When they leave for work, “Mackey’s usually a little sullen, a little sad,” said Mr. Carillo, 34, a finance trader who lives in…
Rates $159 and up. The Basics Founded in the once-rough East London district of Shoreditch in 2006 and rapidly expanding to progressive cities like Amsterdam and Portland, Ore., the Hoxton is like a naughty little sister to the popular Ace chain, replete with rose-colored velvet and china bunny sculptures. There is a certain inevitability to…
Most Americans will go their entire lives without ever holding a piece of paper that is more than three times longer than a normal piece of paper, but of standard width. Try, for a moment, to envision such a sheet. Does the paper of your reckoning curl inward at both ends, like an ancient scroll?…
The Boeing 737 Max, which the company unveiled in 2017, quickly became one of its most popular planes: 200 Maxes bought by airlines ranging from American to Southwest, are already in the air and more than 4,700 are currently on order. But, in the wake of the fatal Lion Air accident in Indonesia last month…