Many opponents have challenged the F.D.A.’s legal authority to regulate tobacco products in far-reaching ways. But no matter how the companies promote their position, industry critics say that their goal is to maintain the lucrative share of the cigarette market at all costs. No wonder: Sales in the U.S. totaled $65 billion in 2021 —-…
It was a week of beginnings. The new David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center held an opening night gala on Oct. 26 with a lively concert that featured Alicia Keys, Renée Fleming, Vanessa Williams and the New York Philharmonic. Mayor Eric Adams gave opening remarks at the cocktail reception, which was followed by a dinner…
Dr. Samuel L. Katz, a virologist who was part of the research team at Harvard Medical School that developed the measles vaccine, an advance more than half a century ago that has saved countless lives, died on Monday at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 95. His son David confirmed the death. Dr.…
To stir up even more publicity for its cruise collection—and incite jealously among its legion of fashion fans—Chanel tapped Sofia and Roman Coppola to direct a short film promoting its stopover at the Faena Hotel in Miami. (The runway show first took place on the beach in Monte Carlo back in May.) Set to the…
The sales pitches show up in your mailbox and inbox, in robocalls and texts. Ads target you on radio and television and social media. Touting Medicare Advantage plans, these campaigns promise low premiums and all kinds of extra benefits. And they work. The proportion of eligible Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, funded with…
A few months after Mr. Balazs hired the firm to do the 338-room Standard hotel, Alex Calderwood, a co-founder of the Ace Hotel chain, commissioned it to design interiors at the Ace Hotel New York, a 258-room property inside a 1904 building formerly known as the Hotel Breslin, in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan. The…
In fields from Sag Harbor to Ithaca, a new crop ripened this fall: cannabis plants grown for recreational marijuana. It was a longtime cash crop in the United States, as American as apple pie. Cannabis sativa fields stretched from New England to Virginia even before the Revolutionary War, when the crop’s main product, hemp, was…
Las reglas estaban poco definidas, es decir, no había ninguna. Mi novio y yo no hablábamos de lo que estaba ocurriendo, más allá de un jadeante: “¿No es increíble?”. Sabíamos que la pasantía del Tercero terminaría en agosto de todos modos, entonces, ¿por qué preocuparse? No había tiempo que perder. A mediados de julio, me…
On Twitter, if users change their avatar photo and display name — this is different from a user’s Twitter handle, the name that begins with an @ — it’s already fairly easy to trick other Twitter users into believing an account is the official account of a celebrity or organization. The comedian Jaboukie Young-White was…
WASHINGTON — A new study by Pfizer and BioNTech suggests that their updated coronavirus booster is better than its predecessor at increasing the antibody levels of people over age 55 against the most common version of the virus now circulating. Federal officials are hoping that the encouraging results will improve what has so far been…