How Therapy Dogs Can Help Kids With Stress Relief
A new study suggests that spending time with therapy dogs may help lower children’s stress levels even more than relaxation exercises.
Josh Jensen, California Pinot Noir Pioneer, Is Dead at 78
Josh Jensen, who, after a single-minded quest in the 1970s to find the perfect site in California to grow the pinot noir grape, became the first producer of consistently excellent American pinot noir through his Calera Wine Company, inspiring a new generation of West Coast winemakers, died on Saturday at his home in San Francisco.…
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How Nike Won the Cultural Marathon
For its 50th anniversary this year, Nike could have done a lot of things. It could have done what many fashion brands do and had a series of enormous parties in multiple capitals around the world with special guests like LeBron James and Billie Eilish and Naomi Osaka and Travis Scott, all of whom work…
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These Cupcakes Are Pure Childhood Magic
Whenever one of my children reaches a milestone, I become hopelessly teary. Tears of joy? I don’t think so. My tears are for a moment so precious and fleeting that I fear it may be lost. It’s a confusing place in the sad-to-happy range that makes me strangely gloomy. The cream-soda-and-raspberry cupcakes came out of…
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Father’s Day Recipes: Desserts, Brunch Ideas, Steak and More
This Father’s Day, skip the whiskey stones, the razor subscriptions, the graphic tees, mugs and ties in favor of a gift that won’t take up cabinet or closet space: a meal so delicious he won’t want to crack jokes between bites. Whether prepared with the help of the littlest assistants or the inevitable fatherly supervision…
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If Those Chairs Could Talk
Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy was born in Beauvais, a city north of Paris, where his grandfather was the director of the revered Beauvais and Gobelins tapestry workshops. Mr. de Givenchy chose fashion design as a career, and while working for Elsa Schiaparelli after World War II, he fell in love with Mr.…
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Abortions Increase in the U.S., Reversing a 30-Year Decline, Report Finds
The number of abortions in the United States has increased, reversing what had been a three-decade decline, according to a new report. The uptick began in 2017, and as of 2020, one in five pregnancies, or 20.6 percent, ended in abortion, according to the report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that supports abortion…
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Black Death: A Clue to Where the Plague Originated
Where and when did the Black Death originate? The question has been asked for centuries and led to heated debate among historians. Now, a group of researchers reports that it has found the answer in the pulp of teeth from people buried in the 14th century. Based on their analysis of the preserved genetic material,…
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The Korean Recipes Eric Kim Can’t Live Without
Good morning. “If I could have only 10 Korean dishes for the rest of my life, these would be it.” Eric Kim wrote this week in the Food section of The Times. Eric’s a writer for the Food desk, an Eat columnist for The New York Times Magazine and a son of South Korean immigrants…
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The Battle Over Gender Therapy
And just like that, after four years of painstaking work, Leibowitz, de Vries and the rest of their group were being called out as traitors by peers and the community they sought to care for. “We understood the enormity of the need for these standards from the beginning,” Leibowitz told me. “I’m not sure we…
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