At Downtown Magnets High School in Los Angeles in mid-April, Lynda McGee, one of the school’s college counselors, checked her paper shredder. She needed to make sure it had the optimal effect: loud, obnoxious and finite. Soon, her high school seniors would parade into the room clutching rejection letters from colleges across the nation, and…
Functionality is important in a foyer or entry hall: You need somewhere to put down your packages and keys, take off your shoes and hang up your jacket. But there’s something else that matters just as much. Whether you have a proper foyer or not, the entry to your home is the first space you…
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Not long into the pandemic, Americans were eager to tip their front-line-working baristas and servers. But now that tip fatigue has set in — driven by the proliferation of payment tablets that suggest tipping for everything from a sandwich at a grab-and-go counter to an ultrasound — consumers are often bewildered by when and how…
Just 3 percent of all Covid-19 vaccine doses delivered in 2021 went to Africa, home to a fifth of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization. In the vast debacle of global vaccine inequity, it was Africa that was left furthest behind as the pandemic raged, and that had the least leverage to…
Traditional and inventive dishes will be prepared by five Indigenous chefs for New York City Eatss, a benefit and tasting to support the American Indian College Fund, on May 2. The chefs are Ben Jacobs (Osage Nation), Andrea Murdoch (Andes region, from Venezuela), Bradley Dry (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Sherry Pocknett (Mashpee Wampanoag Nation), and…
Zendaya, because she surprised everyone during Labrinth’s set on weekend two. And because of the way her lace-up over-the-knee black dominatrix boots put a spike in her sweet pink slip dress. This rose has thorns. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Coachella
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the fall of 1994, the psychiatrist Dr. Judith Herman was at the height of her influence. Her book “Trauma and Recovery,” published two years earlier, had been hailed in The New York Times as “one of the most important psychiatric works to be published since Freud.” Her research on sexual abuse…
My colleague Genevieve Ko and I have much overlap in our culinary tastes, like a predilection for dark meat chicken on the bone and a taste for bourbon cocktails. Her excellent column in this week’s New York Times touches on another subject dear to my heart, as she makes the case for filling your freezer…