Two months into his deployment, Mr. McCourry was caught in a firefight. Amid a hail of bullets and mortar rounds, he spotted a white truck approaching from the opposite direction. Despite signaling the truck to stop and firing a warning shot, it kept approaching. Mr. McCourry began shooting at it. Later, he learned that the…
Leave it to Performa, the performance art institute, to elevate a dress code into a full-on spectacle. On Wednesday, the arts group held a black-and-white gala honoring Adam Pendleton at 99 Scott Studio in Brooklyn. About 400 artists and benefactors attended the dinner and party with barely a stitch of color, including a magnificent pair…
Tests also differ in their sensitivity, and people differ in how they perform them. “Some people do a swab test and it’s like they barely touch their nose,” Dr. Gordon said. “Whereas with other individuals — actually, with a family member recently, I had to be like, ‘Don’t hurt yourself,’ because they were really, really…
“There’s this idea that the goal of science is consensus,” Professor Carrion said. “The model they brought to it was that we didn’t need consensus.” She noted that the women she surveyed often used singular rather than plural pronouns. “It was ‘she needs to do her own research,” Professor Carrion said, rather than we need…