Name: Marie Tomanova Age: 36 Hometown: Mikulov, Czech Republic, a castle-laden town near the Austrian border. Now Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her husband, Thomas Beachdel, an art historian and curator. Claim to Fame: Ms. Tomanova is a photographer and wide-eyed documentarian of New York who uses…
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American Airlines told employees on Friday that it would require all U.S.-based employees and some international crew members to be vaccinated. In a letter to employees signed by the company’s chief executive and presidents, American said the move was necessary because of its status as a government contractor. Last month, President Biden announced that employees…
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday scheduled three days of public meetings with its panel of independent vaccine experts for later this month, as the agency prepares to make high-profile decisions on whether to authorize emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 and booster shots for adult recipients of…
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Under the watch of a ceremonial honor guard, the bride walked slowly down the aisle as a flock of young attendants held her 23-foot train aloft. The groom, clad in black coattails, stood expectantly under the golden dome of St. Isaac’s Cathedral as his mother watched from a thronelike marble enclosure.…
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Newer variants of the coronavirus like Alpha and Delta are highly contagious, infecting far more people than the original virus. Two new studies offer a possible explanation: The virus is evolving to spread more efficiently through air. The realization that the coronavirus is airborne indoors transformed efforts to contain the pandemic last year, igniting fiery…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageMore performances of Aladdin have been cancelled by Disney.Credit…Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Disney Theatrical Productions announced that “Aladdin,” which had resumed performances on Broadway this week for the first time since the pandemic hit, was canceling all of its shows starting Friday night through Oct. 10 after…
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Recently I popped on a favorite T-shirt purchased some years ago. It fits nicely, but I noticed that it was a size large. The tees I’ve bought more recently have been XS/petite, and yet often they’re too roomy. Has something happened to women’s clothing sizes? Are they being inflated? Please explain. — Barbara, White Plains,…
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Leah RomeroGetty Images After the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police, the protests that ensued during the summer of 2020 cornered a number of industries into publicly declaring their support for the Black community. Fashion was no exception. Long-known for its less-than-stellar reputation for racial diversity, brands across all facets of the…
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Gayle Brandeis, the writer of this week’s Modern Love essay, wasn’t sure if her marriage could rebound from her obsession with another man. However, a glimmer of hope arrived in the form of an unexpected 98 percent match on a dating app. That match was with her husband, and from there they were able to…
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Autumn is here and, despite the aggressive push for pumpkin spice, it’s unequivocally apple — and cider — season. At its most basic definition, cider is fermented apple juice. But like wine, it contains multitudes, skewing tart, sour, dry, bitter, sweet, wild, herbal, acidic, sparkling with big bubbles, sparkling with fine, fizzy bubbles or not…
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