What’s the easiest way to make any room look better? A vase of fresh flowers. It’s also one of the least expensive ways — if you have access to a garden, a yard or a container garden on a balcony. Assembling flower arrangements like the ones you see in magazines or on social media doesn’t…
Magic was in the air the first time Michelle Navarro and Christopher Zegunis met. It was 10 a.m. on a Saturday in November 2016, and the two were the first arrivals for a class at the Magic Castle, a private club for magicians in Los Angeles. “We started talking and I thought, he’s a cute…
Somewhere in the archives of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is a document claiming that my wife and I met on Tinder in the summer of 2015. Among the papers of the hundreds of thousands of people who get welcomed to or deported from the United States each year, it may or may not…
Raj Thakker first met Trisha Vijay on the Bollywood dance team at the University of California, Berkeley in September 2014. His first impression was that she wasn’t the type of person he’d normally befriend. “I was always more on the quiet and reserved side,” Mr. Thakker said, “whereas she was more of the pretty, outgoing…
Jamauri Amir Bogan got Kaylah Kasmir Howard’s attention the only way he knew how in fifth grade. “I teased her,” said Mr. Bogan, who had a crush on Ms. Howard in 2008 at Central Five Jefferson in Union, N.J., and tried to stay cool in front of his friends when he saw her at lunch…
Madison La’akea Te-Lan Hall Chock and Evan Christian Bates have had a long, intense journey together as skating partners for the last 13 years. They have competed in more than 100 competitions globally and won five U.S. national champion titles, two world champion titles and one Olympic gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in…
It didn’t become part of vaccination programs in Africa until 2024. What if it had come faster? What if the shots had arrived9 years ago? 143,000. That’s how many children’s deaths could have been averted. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen interviewed more than 30 scientists, health officials and other key players in the development of…
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When I was maybe ten years old, I asked my dad what it felt like to be a grown up. He considered it, and then said something to the effect of, “You feel the same inside, you’re just taller.” It both relieved and disturbed me at the time, and still does now that I understand…
The experience: On the elevator ride up 69 floors, I wasn’t sure what to expect. My amusement-park-loving mind had me envisioning an I-beam that swung out to suspend me over the edge, like the X-Scream ride at the top of the Strat Hotel in Las Vegas. But this is much, much tamer than that. The…