Jane Goodall’s Hopeful Survival Guide for Humans
The 87-year-old conservationist, best known for her work with chimpanzees, has written a hopeful survival guide for Homo sapiens.
C.D.C. Recommends Covid Booster Shots for Millions of Americans
In a sweeping victory for the Biden administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed booster shots of the Moderna and the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines for tens of millions of Americans. The decision follows an agency endorsement last month of booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and opens the door…
N.I.H. Says Bat Research Group Failed to Submit Prompt Virus Findings
The National Institutes of Health said on Wednesday that a nonprofit group under fire from some congressional Republicans for its research collaborations in China had failed to promptly report findings from studies on how well bat coronaviruses grow in mice. In a letter to Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, the N.I.H. said that the…
Pfizer Says Booster Shots of Its Vaccine Are Highly Protective Against Covid
Booster shots in adults who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were highly effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 breakthrough infections, Pfizer announced on Thursday. The company said that out of more than 5,000 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recipients enrolled in its study who received a booster shot, only five later developed symptomatic disease, compared with 109 people among a…
The Enduring Appeal of Laura Ashley
In this way, and on account of the sheer number of wearers, there was always something populist about the brand. At the same time, of course, the British countryside idyll was traditionally a lifestyle reserved for a certain kind of person, namely someone white and Protestant. Designers like Hay, who draws on her Jewish heritage…
What Are Next Steps as C.D.C. Panel Considers Moderna and J. & J. Boosters?
An independent committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on Thursday unanimously recommended extra doses of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines for tens of millions of Americans. The panel also endorsed the so-called mix-and-match strategy — whether people fully immunized with one company’s vaccine should be…
Watch Bottega Veneta’s Salon 03 Show Live From Detroit
Victor VirgileGetty Images The fashion house that brought us the Pouch is back, this time in Detroit, following creative director Daniel Lee’s string of unorthodox shows in London and Berlin rather than the expected New York, Paris and Milan circuits. This content is imported from Third party. You may be able to find the same…
Democrats’ Campaign to Control Drug Prices Nears Collapse
On Thursday, negotiations continued over how to finance the measure, with White House officials and congressional Democrats discussing proposals to bolster the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to collect unpaid taxes and to increase taxes on income earned overseas by multinational American companies. Ms. Sinema, who has rejected the idea of raising individual income or corporate…
Embracing an Unloved Grape
He wondered what would happen if the grape were farmed differently, with the goal of achieving ripeness at a lower sugar content, and made into wine with a lighter touch. “It was never really about liking or not liking the variety,” he said. “It was about finding a path that seemed untrodden and being really…
Cozy Fall Recipes
It was 90 degrees the other day in Los Angeles, but I desperately wanted it to feel like fall! Specifically, the New York fall setting of “Only Murders in the Building.” I’ve been watching it lately, and I’m thoroughly charmed by Martin Short’s character — the catastrophically confident theater director in a long blue coat…