Name: Whitney Peak Age: 18 Hometown: Born in Uganda and raised in Port Coquitlam, a city outside Vancouver, British Columbia. Now Lives: in a loft apartment in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: A teenage actress who first made her mark playing small but pivotal roles in Aaron Sorkin’s “Molly’s Game” and “Chilling…
Australian researchers and oncologists have been awarded $2.4 million to investigate the causes and treatments for neuroblastoma, the deadliest and most common solid tumour in children under the age of five. Associate Professor Yeesim Khew-Goodall and Associate Professor Quenten Schwarz from the University of South Australia and SA Pathology’s Centre for Cancer Biology will lead…
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Friday cleared a batch of vaccine that could furnish up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot coronavirus vaccine, deciding they can be safely distributed despite production failures at the factory that ruined 75 million other doses. The move brings the total number of Johnson & Johnson doses…
Midsummer means the market is brimming with great produce. With such a colorful bounty of goods, we can settle into our summer cooking routines with tasty meals that are bright, casual and best enjoyed outdoors as much as possible. When green beans come to market, early tomatoes are usually ready, too. I love a big…
I have always frowned at shorts in the office. But now I like the idea of long shorts, an untucked shirt and open-toe sandals at work. Is this OK? — Michael, New York Given the heat wave currently sweeping the United States; the fact that most of us have been stuck at home for 16…
“We send our kids to school, we send them to college,” he said. “A person doesn’t go to high school, grade school or community college for some type of fishing and become a waterman. You don’t have your kids educated to pick crabs.” Seasonal workers, he said, have traditionally filled a critical labor gap. Heather…
The Oakland Zoo in California started this week with bears, mountain lions, tigers and ferrets, the first of about 100 animals that are set to receive an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus over the summer. Zoetis, a veterinary pharmaceutical company, is donating 11,000 doses of the vaccine to about 70 zoos as well as sanctuaries,…
What can office desk salads tell us about the state of the pandemic? To Sweetgreen, which has been selling $10 to $15 salads to lines of office workers for more than a decade, they say the end is in sight. “Covid’s over,” Jonathan Neman, chief executive of Sweetgreen, said in a recent Zoom interview from…
Everyone loves a good renovation project. There are few things more satisfying than seeing a decrepit house transformed into a beacon of beauty. However, for Kelly Sundberg, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, her fixer-uppers tend to be emotionally unavailable men. Ms. Sundberg, who calls herself a “man flipper,” has had her fair…
There’s an unwritten rule that dictates if you’re cooking a celebratory dinner, for the Fourth of July or any other summer gathering, then grill you must. But what if you don’t have access to any outdoor space? Or what if it rains? Or what if it’s just too hot to even consider standing outside over…