Many Americans won’t be visiting relatives for Thanksgiving this year in light of the pandemic. With this puzzle you can still experience the thrill of travel, minus the crowds. Fill in each Thanksgiving-related phrase on the departure board using airport codes from the boarding passes. Each boarding pass contains the answer for a line on…
Ghost stories aren’t necessarily meant to frighten — often, they’re ways to explain to ourselves the living’s unresolved matters of the heart: old ambitions, old loves, old hatreds. T’s Nov. 15 Travel issue is dedicated to such tales, and includes three short stories inspired by place and written exclusively for the magazine. Below is “The…
Joanna Harcourt-Smith was a 26-year-old European socialite in Switzerland in 1972 when she met Timothy Leary, the psychedelic Pied Piper to the flower children of the 1960s. He was 52 and a fugitive from justice, having escaped from prison in California where he was serving a 10-year sentence on drug charges. Ms. Harcourt-Smith was instantly…
With the prospect that a coronavirus vaccine will become available for emergency use as soon as next month, states and cities are warning that distributing the shots to an anxious public could be hindered by inadequate technology, severe funding shortfalls and a lack of trained personnel. While the Trump administration has showered billions of dollars…
When Vice President-elect Kamala Harris called to congratulate Joseph R. Biden Jr. on winning the election last Saturday, she was wearing what women everywhere in the United States seem to be wearing during the pandemic: leggings. Leggings have been a staple of workouts, errands and lounging at home for well over a decade now, but…
“Nobody’s sorry to see someone say something nice,” said Savannah Guthrie, the 48-year-old co-host of the “Today” show. “But I also see people say things that aren’t nice. I try not to let any of it in. It’s not reality.” This was a week after Ms. Guthrie moderated a hastily scheduled Oct. 15 conversation with…
What The Study Did: This study used a large U.S. registry of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests to asses the association between the COVID-19 pandemic and the outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, including in areas with low and moderate COVID-19 disease. Authors: Paul S. Chan, M.D., M.Sc., of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri, is the corresponding…
With the days growing colder and al fresco dining still the norm, bars and restaurants are likely to offer more hot cocktails on their menus. One cold-weather treat is spiked hot chocolate — a drink just as warming when made at home. For David Kaplan, co-founder of the bar group Death & Co, sipping hot…
Courtesy iPhone 12 mini Appl apple.com $779.00 Another year, another Apple drop. Just in time for the stress of holiday shopping to make your 2020 a little bit worse, Apple has dropped two new phones that everyone is buzzing about. The new styles bookend its 12 line, following the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro…
Unforgettable. That’s the word that brought the worlds of Kaitlyn Folmer and Jonathan Morris back into the same orbit after a brief but indelible encounter more than seven years earlier. “When I first met Kaitlyn, I found her to be super smart, super happy, very efficient, and very energetic,” Mr. Morris, 48, said. “She was…