The Biden administration is planning to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes, a long-sought public health goal of civil rights and anti-tobacco groups that has been beaten back by the tobacco industry for years, according to a federal health official. For decades, menthol cigarettes have been marketed aggressively to Black people in the United States.…
No vacations, no picnics, no concerts: Last summer left much to be desired. This year, let’s make up for it by spending as much time outside as possible, grilling great foods with good friends. (Safely, of course.) These 16 tried and true recipes are easy and versatile, and there’s something here for every palate at…
My adventures in wildflower propagation began on my knees, as so many garden tasks do. It was decades ago; this old house was new to me then. I spied three small bits of green tucked just beneath the edge of the front porch and crawled down to investigate. “Whoever you are, you cannot grow under…
Given these statistics, you might expect that the record for longest life span would be increasing, too. Yet nearly a quarter-century after Calment’s death, no one is known to have matched, let alone surpassed, her 122 years. The closest was an American named Sarah Knauss, who died at age 119, two years after Calment. The…
Good morning. Some store-bought puff pastry, goat cheese, crème fraîche, asparagus, fresh tarragon, plenty of Parmesan and a sprinkle of red-pepper flakes — you don’t need much more than that and an hour to make Melissa Clark’s fantastic springtime tart (above). And I hope you will make it, tonight or sometime soon. But I also…
What young people find when they go looking for fitness information can be highly problematic. They are likely to come across harmful “thinspiration” and “fitspiration” posts celebrating slim or sculpted bodies, or even sites that encourage eating disordered behavior. Worse, algorithms record online search information and are “deliberately designed to feed harmful weight loss content…
Here’s what you need to know: People dining outdoors at a restaurant in Manhattan in July. New Yorkers will soon be able to drink at bars and restaurants without the requirement of ordering food.Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times The leaders of the New York State Legislature said Tuesday they would move on the…
Nathalie Cadet-James started Luxe Fete, an event planning and design studio, in 2009. Like many others in the industry, the pandemic forced her to shift her focus from over-the-top luxury weddings to producing shippable celebration boxes for intimate gatherings. “When the pandemic hit, weddings stopped,” said Ms. Cadet-James, 44, who lives in Miami with her…
So, for the new study, which was published in March in the Journal of Applied Physiology, scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and other institutions first gathered a large group of mice. Some of the animals, male and female, were allowed to gorge on a high-fat, high-calorie diet, inducing obesity and metabolic…
1. He spent nearly a half-century in rehearsals. If you want to assess Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s first 100 days in office, it helps to wind back nearly 18,000 days to the beginning. When President Biden was first elected to the United States Senate, in Stone Age 1972, the country was still mired in Vietnam;…