3 Exercises to Test Your Physical Fitness Level
Try these tests to evaluate your strength and cardiovascular fitness.
Women Are Paying for Birth Control When They Shouldn’t Have To
Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chair of the Senate health committee, called on a government watchdog to investigate why insurance companies are still charging women for birth control — a move that thrust access to contraceptives back into the spotlight. In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, the senator noted that insurance…
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A Night Out in New York With Sabrina Fuentes of the Band Pretty Sick
It was a Tuesday night in June, and Sabrina Fuentes, the frontwoman of the band Pretty Sick, was about to make her usual Tuesday night rounds in Lower Manhattan. That meant hitting a bar or two with the idea of ending up at Studio 151, a sushi restaurant above the nightclub Nublu. As the night…
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The Key to the Best Roasted Chicken Thighs
I’ve long hoarded the fat from every strip of bacon, every duck breast or leg I cook, decanting the drippings into jars like drops of a golden elixir. Almost every potato that enters my house gets the duck fat treatment for roasting. I smear bacon fat on the bread to ennoble a classic BLT. And…
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All the Best Comforters Are Sold on Amazon—These Are My Favorites
Based on the reviews, you’d think this down alternative comforter was five times more costly than it is. Sizes: Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, Oversized Queen, King, Oversized King, California King Colors: 10 options Material: Polyfill Customer review: “I’m a mighty picky person; when shopping, I have a certain criteria that must be met, and…
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Dreamy, Creamy Coconut-Lime Rice With Peanuts
Hello! Mia again, filling in for Melissa Clark today. She’ll be back with us next week. When I moved into my first New York City apartment (on 112th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue), there was enough space in my teensy galley kitchen for exactly one kitchen appliance. Would it be a microwave? A food…
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Why Do I Have to Choose Between My Grandmother’s Funeral and a Birthday Party?
My grandmother’s funeral and my niece’s first-birthday party are scheduled for the same date and time in New York. (The baby is my brother-in-law’s daughter.) Neither side will shift the start time by even an hour. We live in California with the rest of my family, so my husband, two children (7 and 9) and…
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C.D.C. Warns Doctors About Dengue as Virus Spreads to New Regions
Federal health officials warned that the risk of contracting dengue in the United States has increased this year, a worrying sign as global cases of the mosquito-borne disease hit record numbers. In the first half of this year, countries in the Americas reported twice as many cases as were reported in all of 2023, the…
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Alec Baldwin’s Long Journey to Court After ‘Rust’ Shooting
The actor Alec Baldwin is scheduled to go on trial next month for involuntary manslaughter in Santa Fe, N.M. Baldwin’s long journey to the courtroom started on Oct. 21, 2021, on the set of the western movie “Rust,” when the gun he was holding while blocking out a shot discharged, firing a live round that…
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Off to Norway, With Three A.I. Travel Assistants
The assignment was clear: Test how well artificial intelligence could plan a trip to Norway, a place I’d never been. So I did none of my usual obsessive online research and instead asked three A.I. planners to create a four-day itinerary. None of them, alas, mentioned the saunas or the salmon. Two assistants were, however,…
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