The world spends at least $22 billion every year to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, dengue and other devastating diseases. That money buys billions of liters of insecticides, millions of kilograms of larvicides and 75 million insecticide-treated bed nets. Hundreds of millions more dollars are poured into research each year on new ways to kill…
It was a seemingly unlikely match. One afternoon in December 2013, Dalijah Amelia Franklin, a pole dancer and instructor, approached Willie Dwayne Francois III, a pastor, outside First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. Ms. Franklin only meant to introduce herself, but he was entranced. “It was the beauty of the contradictions,” he said, that drew…
Alexa Jayne Nicolette and Mladen Vasic both worked for about eight months in the same office building in Midtown Manhattan, but their paths never crossed until one day in early May 2014, when they shared the same elevator. They said hello and awkwardly smiled at each other. “As soon as I got out of the…
The moment it became clear that Hurricane Lee was headed for the coast of Maine this month, over a year’s worth of wedding planning went out the window for Jackie Anne Brew and Robert James Hayes. The setting for their wedding was Cushing’s Island, a privately owned 266-acre island off the coast of Portland. Ms.…
Within minutes of meeting William Sam Gleason at a restaurant in the East Village of Manhattan, Fareez Giga knew that Mr. Gleason was special. At the time, Mr. Giga was actively dating with the goal of finding a serious relationship. “He was like my 250th date,” he said, jokingly. It was late January 2020, and…
On Bruce Linton Hager’s first date with Florence Leggett Buchanan in February 2018, he thought “everything was stacked against us,” Mr. Hager said. They met at Michael Jordan’s Steak House NYC in Grand Central Terminal, which has since closed. “Eighties music was blasting out of the bar,” he said. “There was a flash mob downstairs.…
Carlos Paz Jr. and Abigail Diaz had a rule: to see each other at least once a month in their mostly long-distance relationship. One of those visits — a trip to Chicago in 2018 — would test their future. In the Uber from the airport to their hotel, they talked about where things stood. Ms.…
It is unusual, doctors tell me, for a woman to become psychotic for the first time at age 50. Rarer still, I had no family history of serious mental illness. I was three years divorced, living in leafy, small-town New Jersey, when I looked out my kitchen window and saw a neighbor friend drop off…
It’s the most wonderful time of the sartorial year. The time when temperatures fluctuate just enough for us to don layers and style shoes in combinations that are unexpected, chic, and absolutely wearable. So it’s no surprise that this season, the style icon of the moment, Doja Cat, is entering the conversation to help us…
Delta Air Lines will make “modifications” to its SkyMiles frequent flier program after receiving negative feedback from customers to changes it announced this month, the company’s chief executive, Ed Bastian, said this week. The Atlanta-based airline announced on Sept. 13 that it was making changes to the program starting next year. Rather than focusing on…