Jake Rowton first noticed Morgan Wolfe at a fraternity party in August 2016, when both were juniors at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kan. “She was the most attractive girl there,” said Mr. Rowton. “But she was with someone else.” Several months later, when Mr. Rowton was working at a temporary job at Einstein Bagels,…
Eight years ago, just before the dating app Hinge started up, Julia Silva invested some of her spare time to serve as a beta tester. Her job was to help try out its software from a consumer perspective. That investment paid handsome dividends for Ms. Silva when it came to a man named Brian Whelan,…
It was October 2017 and they were in Paris for a two-day history-of-medicine colloquium on the subject of the French royal court. As she handed him his name tag, the first thing that Nathalie Demirdjian noticed about Justin Rivest was that he was all smiles. “I thought he was hitting on me — I couldn’t…
Mutual friends from their teen years had told Sapna Maheshwari that Devjoy Sengupta was a “keeper” at 17. She was not about to let him go when they met more than a decade later. “Incredibly, we had two mutual friends who went to a high school program in New Jersey with Devjoy,” said Ms. Maheshwari,…
In April 2010, Albert Rupert Gladden was hoping that luck was on his side. He was at a fund-raising event for New York Needs You, now named America Needs You, an organization that promotes college completion for first-generation students. The fund-raiser included a silent auction, where attendees could bid on lunches with various executives in…
Parents hoping for an early-fall vaccine may have to wait until the end of the year to get children under 12 vaccinated.
Yousra Attia If the past year or so has taught us anything, athleisure is more than just a state of mind. It’s a lifestyle. As I put my recurring clothing favorites on the bench during the early stages of quarantine, I brought a slew of new clothing players to my roster. Soon enough, I was…
What did you make of the news that Mike Richards and Mayim Biyalik would be replacing Alex? Well, I felt like the point of the guest hosts was that they were trying to promote diversity. And they ended up picking a very vanilla option. Another white man doesn’t reflect the contestants very well, especially now.…
I was stunned by the summer squash at the market this weekend — table after table of long, yellow and green zucchini with drooping, shaggy blossoms still attached; tiny patty pans, dimpled all the way around; and lumpy tangles of goosenecks. I went for some shiny-skinned zucchini, and have been eating them raw, cooked and…
But while airlines are eager to capitalize on the demand, many appear to lack the staffing to keep up. Bureau of Transportation Statistics data show that the number of full-time-equivalent employees at U.S. scheduled passenger airlines was nearly 14 percent lower in June 2021 than in March 2020. Tens of thousands of flight attendants took…