In the summer of 2017, Mrinal Kalakrishnan and Preeti Murali Talwai arrived at a crossroads. They had met the previous October as colleagues at Google’s X research lab, also known as “the moonshot factory,” in Mountain View, Calif. Ms. Talwai was told to consult with Dr. Kalakrishnan, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from…
The summit on Hawksbill Mountain in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia provides sweeping views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah Valley. On a clear day, miles of lush forest and valleys can be seen in any direction. It’s the kind of vista that begs for a square on Instagram, isn’t terribly difficult to…
Nozomu Abe, the renowned sushi chef, remembers telling his family in elementary school that he wanted to make pizza for a living. But fish, it seems, was his destiny. His family ran a seafood business in Hokkaido, the northernmost prefecture in Japan, where he grew up. After some culinary training in Sapporo, Mr. Abe moved…
The public finds the system “very confusing,” said Linda Devlin, executive director of the Allegheny National Forest Visitors Bureau, one of the co-signers of the U.S. Travel letter. “If they want to rent a cabin at Red Bridge on the Allegheny National Forest, they have to go through multiple pages to first find the Allegheny…
SEOUL — Appointment day was finally here. The parents had waited for a month to see the renowned psychiatrist in South Korea about their child’s issues. They entered the room, the doctor arrived, and the door closed. Then the teleprompters turned on, the cameras started rolling, and the producer shouted, “Action!” So began the taping…
The generation entering adulthood now faces novel, sometimes debilitating, challenges. Experts offer tools to navigate a “quarterlife crisis.”
Marvina Robinson fell in love with champagne as a “broke college student,” when she and her friends would scrape together enough money to buy a bottle or two, for no particular reason, except to enjoy. From then, she had a goal: to create her own label, along with a place to sample it. In February…
Name: Gabriel Gomez Age: 31 Hometown: Brooklyn Currently Lives: On the top floor of a brownstone in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, with his girlfriend. Claim to Fame: Mr. Gomez is a commercial video director for fashion brands including Nike, North Face, Dr. Martens and H&M, known for his encyclopedic knowledge of New York subcultures.…
She worked with a teacher from the center to better understand her past relationships, warts and all. Afterward, “I decided that, unless it was a relationship where there’s a higher purpose and benefits to the world, I didn’t want to engage in it,” said Ms. Saraf, who grew up in Israel and Switzerland before moving…
When both graduated from law school in 2019, Ms. Davis cum laude, they moved to Washington together, where they spent hours in law libraries cramming for the bar exam (both passed). Ms. Davis, 28, is now an associate at the Washington office of the law firm Hogan Lovells. Ms. Naseef, 30, who also holds a…