If you let a Roku idle long enough, you will eventually be transported to a magenta cityscape beyond time and space. The screen slowly pans across cozy diners, gothic mansions and a sumptuous, moonlit lagoon, all sheathed in a groovy, “Blade Runner”-esque color palette. A small gallery of vivid Hollywood references are hidden in the…
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My first pecan tart came from a crush. A guy who lived next door. In the way of queer latchkey teenagers globally, we baked at his place in the afternoons. I crushed pecans. He sifted sugar. Sometimes we brushed hands, folding butter into flour. Once the tarts had been baked, we split them down the…
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A Visit to a Dude Ranch The patient was a slender, energetic man who looked younger than his 62 years, Azar noted when he met the man the following week. Informed by the results of the biopsy, the infectious-disease doctor asked the patient the same questions the C.D.C. raised about his recent travel. Had he…
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“We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country,” said Mr. Vance, whose mother-in-law is a college provost at the University of California San Diego. “The universities do not pursue knowledge and truth,” he added. “They pursue deceit and lies.” That world has, in turn, started to reject Mr. Vance. Ahead of…
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A pediatrician in Mount Zion, Ill., sent a video of a 6-month-old named Natalie to a colleague for advice: The infant’s belly was puffing and retracting with every pant as she struggled to breathe, her nostrils flaring and bubbles forming on her lips. Like dozens of Dr. Caitlyn Berg’s patients in recent weeks, Natalie was…
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But the tally also underestimates the number of abortions in some ways. It does not include people who ordered pills from other overseas websites. Aid Access is the largest such provider, but others have recently started or expanded. The data also excludes women who got an abortion outside the formal health system in another way,…
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The countdown to Thanksgiving has officially begun. And while most people gather at a loved one’s house for dinner (4 p.m. or bust!), a brave, avant-garde few forgo the headaches and the dishwashing and their worst relatives, choosing instead to leave the work to the professionals. Whether you’re a restaurant Thanksgiving lifer, or you’re just…
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For some people, a bad table is one where nobody can see them. For others, it’s one where everybody can. In my book, a table is bad when it distracts you from settling down and paying attention to the meal. There’s a table like that at the new East Village restaurant Claud, a lone two-top…
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No Need to Be Anyone Else After I fell down the stairs as a toddler, I became very timid. Hoping to expand my comfort zone, my parents signed me up for a baby gymnastics class, enlisting my grandfather to take me. Week after week, he sat with me on the sidelines. I never got the…
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