After three days in orbit, a physician assistant, a community college professor, a data engineer and the billionaire who financed their trip arrived back on Earth, heralding a new era of space travel with a dramatic and successful Saturday evening landing in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission, which is known as Inspiration4, splashed down off…
The extremely transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus, which overtook all other variants in the United States just a few months ago, now represents more than 99 percent of cases tracked in the country, according to the data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The variant caused caseloads to surge in Britain and…
When astronauts return to Earth from space, they can experience a number of health and physical issues after they land — a result of living without gravity. For flights that go as long as six months, astronauts can experience difficulties with balance, muscle weakness and cardiovascular deconditioning, according to NASA. Although the Inspiration4 flight was…
“One thing is clear is that he loves it,” Mr. Probst’s friend, the director Tyler Perry, wrote in an email. “Just look at him sitting there in the rain at tribal council. He ain’t no diva. That’s the love of the game.” Authenticity, “Survivor” fans have come to know, means warts and all. It means…
Lanson Jones did not think that the coronavirus would come for him. An avid tennis player in Houston who had not caught so much as a cold during the pandemic, he had refused a vaccine because he worried that it would spoil his streak of good health. But contracting Covid shattered his faith in his…
Name: Emmanuel Olunkwa Age: 27 Hometown: Los Angeles Now Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in the Stuyvesant Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Claim to Fame: Mr. Olunkwa is a filmmaker, independent magazine editor and furniture designer who was just named the new editor of Pin-Up magazine. He views his cross-disciplinary practice as keeping with the mantra…
Before Juhi Singh, 46, who owns a high-end wellness center on the Upper East Side, jetted off to the Amalfi Coast last month, she packed her bathing suits and left her 10-year-old son with his grandmother. Her personal driver also took her to Sollis Healthcare, a concierge medical service in Manhattan, to measure her antibodies…
Organizations like ChabadMatch and the Shidduch Center of Baltimore, which maintain large regional databases of shadchanim, have even begun offering digital meetings with some of their matchmakers in the Covid era. (Both ChabadMatch and the Shidduch Center declined to comment, with a representative from the Shidduch Center citing privacy concerns.) [Sign up for Love Letter…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageSarah Back, a registered nurse, preparing a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine during a clinic held by San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health District in Texas last week.Credit…Matthew Busch for The New York Times The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data on Friday indicating that the level of protection…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data on Friday indicating that the level of protection against Covid hospitalizations afforded by the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine dropped significantly in the four months after full inoculation. The data was released hours before a scientific advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended authorizing booster shots for…