Savannah Shyne has big plans for the summer, and none of them involve leaving her backyard in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. On her quarter-acre lot, she’s managed to squeeze in a 15-foot-wide inflatable pool, a 10-foot-wide trampoline, a vegetable patch, a climbing dome and a butterfly garden, all while leaving enough space for the new family puppy…
Kevin Bradford is a seventh-grade math teacher in Westchester County at Isaac E. Young Middle School in New Rochelle. With stay-at-home-orders, his commute from Manhattan has certainly gotten easier, but he can’t say the same about remote learning (and he’s been in education for 26 years). “The students, they are constantly forgetting the password,” he…
If it wasn’t for a blowup with one of her three children, Kirsten Wazalis might never have called a friend to come over and commiserate one July evening in 2012. And if the friend hadn’t suggested that the two go out and listen to music, she might have never met Glenn Leader. Ms. Wazalis, 50,…
In 1867 Charles Feltman, a German immigrant, opened the first hot-dog stand in Coney Island. He called his signature frankfurter the Coney Island red hot, and it was served with mustard, sauerkraut and diced raw onions. Soon, Feltman’s red hots were all the rage. President William Howard Taft tried one. Al Capone is said to…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageA family, wearing protective equipment at a Srinagar graveyard in the Kashmir Valley on Thursday, offered prayers for a woman who died of Covid-19.Credit…Tauseef Mustafa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A million new infections were confirmed in less than two weeks. More than five million people worldwide have contracted the coronavirus,…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageVolunteers with the Los Angeles Unified School District provided meals to families in their community at a drive-by grab-and-go on Monday.Credit…Ryan Young for The New York Times A fraud network siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment funds. A sophisticated fraud network targeting Washington State’s unemployment system claimed…
You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his dogs. My ex-husband called Tilly, our Labrador retriever mix, “pinhead.” He banished her from our bed (while welcoming our other dog) because she lavished affection on me, or so I surmised, and by doing so, he managed to punish us both. After…
Multidisciplinary study of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging impact has become an urgent endeavor worldwide. To further and deepen global understanding of the crisis, the Harvard Data Science Review (an open access platform of the Harvard Data Science Initiative) is publishing a special issue examining the novel coronavirus and its impact through the lens…
There are an estimated 2 million older adults who are homebound or unable to leave their homes due to multiple chronic conditions and functional impairment. Home-based primary care provides access to care for these patients and has been shown to save costs for the Medicare program. The federal government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Although heart disease is the leading cause of death in women, and older adults are more likely to have heart and vascular disease than young people, randomized clinical trials testing medications to lower cholesterol have historically underenrolled both groups. Randomized clinical trials generate the best evidence regarding the benefits or harms of given drug, and…