A few months after Mr. Balazs hired the firm to do the 338-room Standard hotel, Alex Calderwood, a co-founder of the Ace Hotel chain, commissioned it to design interiors at the Ace Hotel New York, a 258-room property inside a 1904 building formerly known as the Hotel Breslin, in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan. The…
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In fields from Sag Harbor to Ithaca, a new crop ripened this fall: cannabis plants grown for recreational marijuana. It was a longtime cash crop in the United States, as American as apple pie. Cannabis sativa fields stretched from New England to Virginia even before the Revolutionary War, when the crop’s main product, hemp, was…
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Las reglas estaban poco definidas, es decir, no había ninguna. Mi novio y yo no hablábamos de lo que estaba ocurriendo, más allá de un jadeante: “¿No es increíble?”. Sabíamos que la pasantía del Tercero terminaría en agosto de todos modos, entonces, ¿por qué preocuparse? No había tiempo que perder. A mediados de julio, me…
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On Twitter, if users change their avatar photo and display name — this is different from a user’s Twitter handle, the name that begins with an @ — it’s already fairly easy to trick other Twitter users into believing an account is the official account of a celebrity or organization. The comedian Jaboukie Young-White was…
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WASHINGTON — A new study by Pfizer and BioNTech suggests that their updated coronavirus booster is better than its predecessor at increasing the antibody levels of people over age 55 against the most common version of the virus now circulating. Federal officials are hoping that the encouraging results will improve what has so far been…
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“I feel very strongly that this is a misuse of their power,” said Dr. Meredithe McNamara, an adolescent medicine physician at Yale who treats transgender children and testified at the meeting. Mr. DeSantis nominated Dr. Ladapo, a physician and clinical researcher then at the University of California, Los Angeles, as surgeon general in September 2021.…
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New York has the High Line, Miami has the Underline and, in the next few years, Miami Beach will have the ReefLine — a monumental public work featuring an art-studded underwater sculpture park, a carbon-sequestering artificial reef and a seven-mile snorkel trail running from Fourth Street in South Beach to Bal Harbour. Ximena Caminos, an…
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While Karen Brown and her husband were separating, their family dog died. Ms. Brown was devastated. After months of mourning her dog and her marriage, Ms. Brown craved connection. She just couldn’t decide whether a new boyfriend or a new dog would make a better companion. She writes about her decision in this week’s Modern…
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Welcome to T Wanderlust, a new travel newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Twice a month, we’ll recommend global destinations and hotels worth visiting. Sign up here to find us in your inbox every other Friday, along with our T List newsletter each Wednesday. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com. Curving along…
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“I’m much more likely to get people that don’t agree with me politically to listen to me if they think we’re on the same ‘team,’” Ms. Blair said. Though she is openly in favor of abortion rights and considers herself to have become more liberal since starting her blog, Ms. Blair deliberately played on assumptions…
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