A Starter Kit for Biking in New York
A few tips if you’re new to urban biking — or if you’re rediscovering it.
The Times’s Newsletter The Veggie Isn’t Just For Vegetarians
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Tejal Rao, The New York Times’s California restaurant critic, enlisted a fridge full of ’70s-era vegetable Muppets this month to help announce her new vegetarian newsletter on Twitter — and her followers couldn’t get enough…
Why Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers in Classrooms and Restaurants May Make Things Worse
Most researchers say the screens most likely help in very specific situations. A bus driver, for instance, shielded from the public by a floor-to-ceiling barrier is probably protected from inhaling much of what passengers are exhaling. A bank cashier behind a wall of glass or a clerk checking in patients in a doctor’s office may…
Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse
Most researchers say the screens most likely help in very specific situations. A bus driver, for instance, shielded from the public by a floor-to-ceiling barrier is probably protected from inhaling much of what passengers are exhaling. A bank cashier behind a wall of glass or a clerk checking in patients in a doctor’s office may…
Hypebeasts Hit the Road
And so, too, do the Abushis, though with one difference. They are wealthy themselves. Though raised in a tightknit first-generation clan by parents whose lives were often defined by displacement and financial reversal, they became rich in their own right following the sale, in 2014, to a venture capital group of a chain of 100…
Brazilian Butt Lifts Surge, Despite Risks
But it can be difficult for doctors to know where exactly they’re injecting; they have sometimes mistakenly injected fat into the gluteal muscle, or right below it. Fat can then travel directly to the heart and into the lungs, obstructing blood flow and causing immediate death. Concerned about the mortality rate, in 2018 the American…
What to Know About Boosters if You Got the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
Health experts say that boosters are likely to be needed eventually and that more data should be available in the next several weeks.
Biden Ramps Up Virus Strategy for Nursing Homes, Schools
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration moved on multiple fronts on Wednesday to fight back against the surging Delta variant, strongly recommending booster shots for most vaccinated American adults and using federal leverage to force nursing homes to vaccinate their staffs. In remarks from the East Room of the White House, President Biden also directed his…
Vaccine Booster Shot Distribution to Begin Next Month in US
The Biden administration moved on several fronts Wednesday to fight back against the surging Delta variant of the coronavirus, strongly recommending booster shots for most vaccinated Americans and using federal leverage to force nursing homes to vaccinate their staffs. The Department of Education, following a directive from President Biden to use its full power to…
Hiro, Fashion Photographer Who Captured the Surreal, Dies at 90
Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, the Japanese American photographer known as Hiro, whose fashion and still-life images captured a relentlessly inventive vision of American life that critics likened to those of his idol and mentor, Richard Avedon, died on Sunday at his country home in Erwinna, Pa. He was 90. The death was confirmed by his son, Gregory…