Should your doctor ask you to make a donation to help the medical center where you were treated? If you are a generous donor, should you be rewarded with a better room — or your doctor’s cellphone number? Medical centers across the United States are asking patients, especially wealthy ones, to donate money, in addition…
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Last month, the writer Bill Buford attempted to teach me, using Zoom, how to bone, stuff, tie and poach a chicken. It was something like one of those MasterClasses that everybody is watching these days, except that those run for 20 minutes, and my lesson lasted more than six hours. It may not have been…
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The number of people infected with the coronavirus in different parts of the United States is anywhere from two to 13 times higher than the reported rates for those regions, according to data released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The findings suggest that large numbers of people who did not have…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageA mobile testing site in Miami on Tuesday.Credit…Saul Martinez for The New York Times The C.D.C. says the number of people infected ‘far exceeds the number of reported cases’ in parts of the U.S. The number of people infected with the coronavirus in different parts of the United States…
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This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ImageA grocery store in Altamonte Springs, Fla., on the weekend. No state has had more food stamp growth than Florida.Credit…Charlotte Kesl for The New York Times With the U.S. economic outlook dimming, talks on a new round of stimulus get…
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Attention shoppers: Everlane is having a huge summer sale, where you can save up to 40 percent on a bunch of clothes and accessories. While Everlane regularly has discounts in its “Choose What You Pay” section, it’s rare to find already-marked down deals this good. Wearing—let alone—buying new clothes seems daunting. (I mean, I too…
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The 2020 CFDA Fashion Awards are moving ahead, but with a few changes. Earlier this year, the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced that it had postponed the in-person ceremony (dubbed by industry insiders as “fashion prom”) as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The new date is September 14, when winners of the…
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The pinnacle of Donald J. Trump’s TV career lasted one night, and he has never stopped trying to relive it. The finale of the first season of “The Apprentice” in 2004 was the top-rated show on TV. Afterward the host, finally a mass-media star after decades of courting fame, believed that giving people twice as…
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The very thought of crawling through TSA still makes our sanitized skin crawl, so the idea of taking a vacation still feels farfetched. But even if you can’t book a room at an all-inclusive resort, the resort 2021 collections are extensive enough to soothe your wanderlust. Virtually jet off with Chanel to Capri, visit Gucci’s…
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About four years ago, David Strauss was separated but not yet divorced when he and a friend, having just finished playing tennis in Mamaroneck, N.Y., decided to have a bite to eat at the yacht and tennis club. Mr. Strauss’s friend recognized a couple, Susan and Stephen Flaxman, at a table, and the two men…
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