Yuki Iozumi was fretting about how her shoulders might look in a wedding dress. “I feel like I look too muscular,” said the tiny-framed Ms. Iozumi, 20, relating how her friends had told her that practicing karate had changed her body. “I think it’s not so feminine.” Traditional femininity was her goal. Although Ms. Iozumi,…
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Abiquiú, New Mexico Photography by Justin Kaneps At the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, a remote abbey beside the Chama River in northern New Mexico, some two dozen Benedictine monks begin their days in darkness. At 3:30 a.m. one Sunday this past winter, a bell summoned the monks to vigils, the night prayer. Under…
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Ms. Khemsurov (a contributing editor to T: The New York Times Style Magazine) and Ms. Singer, who stumbled into design as journalists, met while working as editors at I.D., a trade magazine for the industrial design profession that folded in 2010. They began Sight Unseen as a two-person blog, writing and shooting their own material.…
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A single subvariant is not gaining all of the new mutations, however. Ben Murrell, a computational biologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and his colleagues are tracking more than 180 Omicron subvariants that have independently gained mutations causing them to grow faster than BA.5. These subvariants are going through a process that Charles Darwin…
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Listen. I can be laid back when I have to be. I have been known to wait five or six hours before answering the occasional email. I have at times neglected to shake a towel vigorously before using it, risking unknown vermin latching onto my vulnerable, naked body. So when my husband and I decide…
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Edward BerthelotGetty Images If you missed out on the mega Apple AirPods Prime Day deals, we’re here to tell you it’s your lucky day. Amazon has dropped the AirPods (2nd Generation) to just $79 as a Black Friday treat, and Best Buy has AirPods (3rd Generation) priced at $159.99. The deals tend to sell out…
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You ready for some good news? DeMellier, a.k.a. designer Mireia Llusia-Lindh’s handbag line that’s loved by Meghan Markle and legions of fashionable people alike, is taking 20 percent off its entire site for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. And when I say entire site, I can also specifically attest that the swoon-worthy forest green top-handle…
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The headline says it all: We are entering a turkey-free zone. (Unless you have turkey leftovers, in which case I recommend this pho.) The flavors below are a departure from archetypal Thanksgiving dishes. But first, I want to hear about your holiday meal. Were there any culinary triumphs? Disasters? Did you finally nail that pie?…
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Courtesy of brand Major shopping holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday aren’t just lucky breaks to help us check off our holiday gifting lists for less. It’s also the rare occasion when never-on-sale brands finally hold can’t-miss sales. Skims, famously founded by Kim Kardashian, keeps its sales to a few, which makes its Black…
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Amazon You love certain athleisure lines for performance (hello, favorite 5K leggings) and others for cute and comfy pieces you can lounge, travel, or run errands in with ease. But what if we told you Amazon’s cult fitness brand, Core 10, is the kind that does both without bankrupting you? Among the many hits you’ll…
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