Let the Wedding Come to You

On a recent sunny day in June, a wedding chapel hit the road. It was just another day for the chapel on wheels, which brings the wedding to your front door — wherever that may be. “Onetime, a couple saw us coming down the Pennsylvania Turnpike, my phone goes off and they said, “‘We’re driving…

Nursing Homes Confront New Covid Outbreaks Amid Calls for Staff Vaccination Mandates

In saying last Friday that it was monitoring outbreaks at nursing homes related to the Delta variant, the C.D.C. said some measures under review would include “testing, quarantine, visitation, use of PPE and source control.” Underscoring the concern of regulators about unvaccinated workers, Colorado just implemented a new rule that unvaccinated staff members at nursing…

Twitter Is Stuck With Itself, Too

Twitter, by contrast, when it’s not recognizing and sanctioning new habits — not all of them good for the community — is more often in the position of merely applying a brake, or fiddling with a knob that turns between “Less Twitter” and “More Twitter,” with “Twitter” defined not by Twitter itself, but by hundreds…

Easy Grilled Chicken Recipes

Chicken is easily the most searched for ingredient on New York Times Cooking, and it stands to reason: It’s economical, it’s widely available, it’s better for the climate than other meats. And it’s endlessly adaptable, a blank canvas for all sorts of preparations and vibrant, delicious seasonings. In the cold weather months, that means cozy…

Tracing Freedom to a Pair of Jeans

Upon arrival, defectors spend up to three months being investigated by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service while living at an isolated building in the mountains. If they are approved, they move to a settlement support center called Hanawon, where defectors are taught the basics of banking, technology and shopping. Part of this education often includes…

The Making of an Olympian

World-class junior competitors, the scientists found, who stockpiled international medals while still in their teens tended to have settled on a single sport before about age 12, a year or two earlier than most of their competitors, including other young athletes who excelled at the regional and national levels. What separated great young athletes in…