Whether it was attending school lectures, making memorable first impressions at that first office job or packing the floor at a concert, many of the social rituals that had been rites of passage for young people were disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. That has left people like Thuan Phung, a junior at the Parsons School…
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Though Ms. Pleshkova moved to the U.S. for better professional opportunities, she could only find work as a camp counselor and a day care worker, despite her experience as an English literature professor in Ukraine. “I was upset when I found out that the payment is not adequate,” she said. “And I did feel like…
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Linda Brantman, a retired membership salesperson at a health club in Chicago, was paying attention last month when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended the new bivalent booster that protects against two variants of Covid-19. She went online and reserved an appointment at a Walgreens near her home. Ms. Brantman, 65, who was…
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He turned in a wonderful comic performance in Mr. Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and he enjoyed playing Lord Voldemort, once Martha explained who the “Harry Potter” villain was and told him it was a “stonkingly vast, mega, mega part.” Her middle son, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, plays a young Tom Riddle, who becomes Voldemort, in…
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Scientists at Boston University came under fire this week for an experiment in which they tinkered with the Covid virus. Breathless headlines claimed they had created a deadly new strain, and the National Institutes of Health rebuked the university for not seeking the government’s permission. As it turned out, the experiments, performed on mice, were…
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PHILADELPHIA — Less science, more Schwarber. That’s not a guaranteed prescription for success, but it appears to be one route Philadelphia can take to earn its eighth National League pennant. When Manager Rob Thomson said before the team left San Diego last week that “the science tells you you should stay over” but the road-weary…
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No había forma de conjurar, con antelación, todas las primeras veces que me perdería, el dolor de no haber sido elegida, las maneras en que mi vida se sentiría demasiado vacía cuando ella no estuviera y demasiado llena cuando estuviera aquí, un ir y venir en el que todavía me cuesta navegar. La otra mañana,…
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She completed a radiology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, followed by a fellowship at Brigham and Women’s in ultrasound, which was then still a rudimentary discipline. She chose that field because she wanted to have children and did not want to be exposed to radiation. After completing her fellowship and giving birth to a son…
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Everyone loves Stewie. Standing at 5 feet 8 inches tall — 7 feet, if you count the wooden paddle coming out of his head — Stewie is the official mascot of Brunswick County, Va. A smiley cast-iron pot, he’s filled with Brunswick stew, the motley mix of shredded meat with the “Virginia trinity” of tomatoes,…
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The water superintendent for Richmond, Vt., resigned this week after admitting that he had been lowering the fluoride levels in the town’s water below state guidelines for more than a decade. In a five-page resignation letter dated Oct. 17, the superintendent, Kendall Chamberlin, said he had lowered the fluoride level to 0.3 parts per million.…
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