I’ve been accused of reaching the age where I regularly refer to the past. It is true that I’m old enough to have built up a sizable store of memories and experiences. But I’ve been focused on the past all my life. Not because I believe in some hazy golden age from which it’s been…
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After surveying past studies of sleep-deprived mice, many of which Dr. Veasey conducted, the researchers found that when the animals were kept awake for just a couple of hours more than usual each day, two key parts of the brain were notably affected: the locus coeruleus, which manages feelings of alertness and arousal, and the…
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Soon after Adam Michael Topper met Jordan Cole Manekin in the spring of 2019, he started to compare him to another man in his life: Senator Cory Booker, Democrat from New Jersey, who was then Mr. Topper’s boss. During Mr. Booker’s presidential campaign, Mr. Topper had served as his director of scheduling. Like the senator,…
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We decided to go to 7-11 to restock our caffeine supplies. He wanted his favorite brand of iced coffee; I wanted some of those Yerba Mate energy drinks. These caffeine treks had become a new sort of love language for us, my growing feelings manifesting through the memorization of his coffee order. He parked the…
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Though Ms. Belson said that “from the beginning, we just liked each other,” she knew Mr. Rojas was the one before he felt that way about her. “It was just a feeling like, ‘This is my guy,’” she said, describing Mr. Rojas as someone who “always lives in a state of hope.” “He enjoys every…
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Ve Bui loved high school so much, he thought it would go on forever. In a way it has. Mr. Bui, who is often referred to as the mayor of his 1992 class at Indianola High School in Indianola, Iowa, has organized reunions for his roughly 175 classmates every fifth year since graduating. Brenda Renée…
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From the moment they accidentally bumped into each other on campus at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in August 2016, Kia Ashley Burks and Anthony Joseph Misiak have believed they were perfectly suited for each other. “He knows my mind,” said Ms. Burks, 24, who goes by Ashley. “He sees me.” Unfortunately, there were far…
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi had just urged Brown University graduates to stay resilient and summon their “better angels” on Memorial Day weekend when she was forced to turn her attention to a less uplifting situation: her husband’s arrest in California. The details emerging from the incident were not especially flattering. The night before, May 28, Paul…
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Harry Gesner, the dashing, surf-loving architect whose soaring designs celebrated California’s dramatic landscape in houses that straddled canyons, perched over beaches and cantilevered from cliffs, died on June 10 at his home in Malibu, Calif., a whorl of a place called the Sandcastle. He was 97. The cause was complications of cancer, said Casey Dolan,…
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