Linda Neff, chief of the epidemiology branch in the C.D.C.’s Office on Smoking and Health, said that the sheer number of young people continuing to vape suggested the agency needed to keep working to educate teens about the effects of nicotine addiction, which “harms the parts of the brain that control learning, mood and impulse…
One of the first dishes I learned to make when I moved to Los Angeles a few years ago was Minh Phan’s rice porridge with squash and brown butter. I’d fallen in love with it at her restaurant Porridge + Puffs, where she served the soft, comforting rice — somewhere between risotto and congee —…
Barnard, the private women’s college in New York City, will begin offering abortion pills on campus next year, college officials announced Thursday. The decision, to take effect in September, signals how the nation’s colleges and universities are becoming another front in the nation’s pitched battle over abortion after the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe…
About half of the 14 contestants wore Americana garb: a shirt with a toile-esque pattern of bald eagles, red-white-and-blue camouflage, shortalls that looked like an American flag. Almost all wore wraparound sunglasses. Many sipped tallboy cans of beer as they shared tales of barbers, including one dramatic anecdote about a hairstylist being unreachable that morning…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday asked U.S. physicians to watch for cases of Ebola, which has been surging in Uganda in recent weeks. As of Thursday, there were 44 confirmed cases and 10 deaths in Uganda, with a few dozen possible cases and 20 deaths still under investigation, making this the…
In an October 2021 episode of his podcast, “Let’s Go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray,” Mr. Brady was asked how he balanced his career with family life. “I think my wife has, you know, held down the house for a long time now,” Mr. Brady said. “And I think there’s things that…
STREET STYLE Fashion week’s young crowds are breathing life into dressing once again. Photographs and Text by Simbarashe Cha Outside Le Carreau du Temple in Paris, where the Valentino runway show was being held, I spotted a young woman named Solène, standing on a corner taking a puff on a cigarette. She was wearing a…
For the TikTok star Victoria Paris’s 1.5 million followers, her girlfriend is often a background feature in her videos, ever-present but never fully revealed. By intentionally choosing to conceal her, either by covering her face with objects, filming the back of her head, or posting only her hands, Ms. Paris has kept their relationship in…
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
After it was reported that a typical New York Fashion Week emits up to 48,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, there were calls for the fashion weeks in London, Milan, New York and Paris to rein in their harmful environmental impacts. The booming digital fashion industry, with its virtual runways and NFTs, promises to make…