The Biden administration, looking ahead to a possible winter surge of Covid-19, announced on Wednesday that it was reviving its program of offering Americans free coronavirus tests through the mail and would spend $600 million to buy tests from a dozen domestic manufacturers. The website for the program, covidtests.gov, will begin accepting orders on Monday,…
Still, there was an acculturation process — particularly for Mr. Feldman, who is not really the dance-like-no-one-is-watching type. To begin with, Ms. Allison was immersed in a scene, centered on Burning Man, about which Mr. Feldman knew nothing. “Many of Julia’s friends have jobs I didn’t know existed until I met Julia,” Mr. Feldman said.…
On the heels of an exceptionally fiery and smoky summer, two new reports released Wednesday confirmed what many Americans have been already seeing and breathing. Smoke from increasingly frequent and increasingly large fires has started to undo decades of hard-won gains in air quality, and the problem is expected to only get worse, not just…
Here, Bündchen gets her hair and makeup done while on the phone. She started modeling in 1994 when she took a class with her sister to prepare for an upcoming debutante ball. Her course included trips to Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo, and it was during this time that Bündchen was scouted by…
Sufjan Stevens, the indie-rock singer-songwriter, said in a statement on his website on Wednesday that he was in recovery from a rare neurological condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome that had taken away his ability to walk, saying he had been hospitalized for several weeks but was expected to recover. “Last month I woke up one morning…
Mr. Blazy has become the epitome of an alternative approach: a designer who puts himself second to the products, the people who make them and the people who buy them. “He doesn’t see himself in the driver’s seat of the company,” said François-Henri Pinault, the chief executive of Kering, the group that owns Bottega Veneta.…
I nearly always end this newsletter with a dessert, as my sweet tooth demands, but sometimes you have to start off with a treat. And Jessie Sheehan’s Nutella brownies demand a spot right at the top. Using only four ingredients — Nutella, flour, eggs, salt — and one bowl and a spatula for mixing, it’s…
Por muy antiestética que sea, la infección suele ser manejable, pero solo con el tratamiento adecuado.
People who think positively about getting older often live longer, healthier lives. Here is how to reconsider your perspective.
On a warm day in early July, Ed Houlihan guided kayakers on a four-mile trip on Cape Cod from Popponesset Bay up the Mashpee River to a freshwater pond. It was three hours of paddling round trip, but afterward Mr. Houlihan, 83, felt no worse for wear — at first. Five days later, his left…