A month after Rachel Christine Koppelman purchased a mountain bike from Gregory Alan Saxton, in October 2016, it was stolen from the bicycle shop where Mr. Saxton was working as the head mechanic. “When I came into the shop one day while working on the bike, it was gone,” said Mr. Saxton, who was doing…
In the bonus round of a March 2016 episode of “Wheel of Fortune,” Shawn Christopher Tracey Jones had 10 seconds on the clock and very few letters on the board. Pat Sajak, the show’s host, was readying him for defeat. “Obviously it’s challenging, but you know, keep talking. Stranger things have happened,” Mr. Sajak said.…
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…
Leonard Cole, a dentist who became an expert on biological weapons and chronicled in troubling detail a secret U.S. Army program that turned millions of Americans into unwitting germ-warfare guinea pigs in the 1950s and ’60s, died on Sept. 18 in Ridgewood, N.J. He was 89. His death, at a hospital, was confirmed by his…
A new study predicts hip fractures will nearly double worldwide by 2050. Here’s how to avoid them.
“It has a great granite-like reflection on it, which is bright, but also rugged and rough,” said Mx. Valle, who paid $2,250 for the ring from Kris Averi, a jewelry line in New York. Haley Biemiller, a co-founder of the jewelry line Venvs, which specializes in “atypical” stones including salt-and-pepper diamonds, says another style favored…
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved an experimental treatment for A.L.S., a severe neurological disorder that causes paralysis and death, despite questions about the therapy’s effectiveness. The treatment, conceived about a decade ago by two college students, was approved even though analyses by the F.D.A.’s reviewers concluded there was not yet sufficient evidence…
What can’t Selena Gomez do? The Disney Channel star turned singer, dancer, and actor sells out stadiums on the regular—she even has a cooking show. She happens to be one of our generation’s coolest fashion icons while doing all those fabulous things. And, the fact that she can be stylish in the wintertime has earned…
Before South Korea became globally known for its beauty products, kimchi and pop groups, it was known as the Land of the Morning Calm. The name has long been used to refer to the Korean Peninsula, before the division of South and North Korea, because of its tranquil, temple-dotted mountains and serene forests where dawn…
I love spaghetti and meatballs — making it, eating it, talking about it. That’s part of why I began obsessing over Anna Francese Gass’s new recipe for ricotta polpette before it was even published. Anna’s polpette are essentially ricotta dumplings, made from nothing more than cheese, bread crumbs and eggs, seasoned with parsley, salt and…