A scientist who has pored over public accounts of early Covid-19 cases in China reported on Thursday that an influential World Health Organization inquiry had most likely gotten the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. The new analysis suggests that the first known patient sickened with the coronavirus was a vendor in a large Wuhan…
For many people, coping with the anxiety of going out and about may be the hardest part of adjusting to this next phase of pandemic life.
Parents are often the first people who teach us how to exist in the world. But sometimes all it takes is one incident for our image of them to be upended. Then we’re left with a new understanding that our parents are just people, fallible like us. Tell us about a time when you saw…
If Americans know one thing about wine, they know this: Napa Valley makes cabernet sauvignon. They know it so well that many Americans simply assume that all cabernet sauvignon comes from Napa Valley. Paul Draper, the longtime head of Ridge Vineyards, which makes Monte Bello, perhaps the greatest American cabernet, once joked to me that…
No, I don’t think it’s fear so much as unfamiliarity, as a few readers suggested, though admittedly, what separates these feelings can sometimes be a fine distinction. “Being new to Greek reds, I do find their names distractingly complicated,” said Shweta of Michigan. And, referring to a Greek grape, Bunk McNulty of Northampton, Mass., (a…
Jeremy MoellerGetty Images Money can buy you happiness, excitement, a sense of achievement—honestly, just fill in the blank. When searching for the most exciting gift to give or get during the holidays, a fashion-lover really can’t do better than seeing some very familiar letters on a garment tag, embossed on buttery smooth leather, spread across…
Eric’s gravy recipe also calls for basic vegetable stock, but before you start your Thanksgiving cooking, it’s worth remembering that there are so many vegetarian stocks you can use when you’re making gravies, stuffings and other dishes, too. Some quick veg stocks: Miso broth: It’s so simple to dissolve a spoonful of sweet and salty…
CVS will close about 300 stores a year in the next three years, the company said on Thursday, as the pharmacy chain focuses on offering more health care services and expanding its digital services. The closures, which will affect about 9 percent of the company’s stores, are part of an effort to realign its retail…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the discovery of vials that are labeled “smallpox” at a laboratory in Pennsylvania, the health agency said on Thursday. The frozen vials “were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine research in Pennsylvania,” Belsie González, a…
You’re never getting into her bedroom. You probably won’t get past the front door. For years, people have tried to deduce where exactly the supermodel Iman and her husband David Bowie had secreted themselves in the Catskill Mountains, the place where the singer’s ashes are said to be scattered. They never managed to find out.…