Dear Tripped Up, When the pandemic broke out in March 2020, my wife and I cut short a trip to Norway, changing flights and canceling reservations that included a train ride from Bergen to Oslo that we had booked using Euro Railways. All the other vendors reimbursed us long ago, but we still haven’t received…
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When Laura Kurtz staged lemonade stands as a child in Raleigh, N.C., they were simple affairs. “We would bring out the folding card table and chairs and pop them at the end of the driveway,” said Ms. Kurtz, who is now 34 and a management consultant in Chapel Hill. “The lemonade would come from concentrate.”…
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People who search genealogy websites often find birth and marriage records, newspaper clippings, faded photographs or maybe a long-lost relative. Hopwood DePree found a 60-room English manor. As a child growing up in Holland, Mich., in the 1970s, Mr. DePree was transfixed when his beloved maternal grandfather, Pap, a history buff, told him about a…
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Black women represented just under 10 percent of the 208,587 uterine cancer cases diagnosed in the United States between 2000 and 2017, but they made up almost 18 percent of the nearly 16,797 uterine cancer deaths during that period, Dr. Clarke’s study found. The uterine cancer death rate for Black women is 31.4 per 100,000…
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Cruise lines would like to see booking windows expand again and some are incentivizing it. Virgin Voyages, which operates in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, is offering 10 percent off bookings made 180 days or more in advance, and five percent off those more than 120 days out. High-end ships are filling up Luxury ocean, river…
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A group that supports ethical non-monogamy sent an open letter to Meta on Thursday calling for Facebook to allow users to list more than one relationship status in their profiles. The letter, which was initiated by the Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Non-monogamy, or OPEN, said that Facebook’s current policy is “arbitrary” and “exclusionary.” Signees…
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When the Australian pop star Troye Sivan sings the line, “Take a trip into my garden, I’ve got so much to show ya” in his 2018 summer bop “Bloom,” he probably isn’t referring to an icy Eden of corn, carrots and peas. But he should be. Buried inside freezers all over the United States today,…
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Four or five times a week these days, some old friend will contact Louis Theroux and tell him, “My daughter keeps going around the house singing your rap,” or, “My wife was exercising to your rap in her Pilates class.” Passing by a primary school, Mr. Theroux has the feeling he is being watched, a…
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I am in search of a perfect summer dress that can handle the heat waves I hear we should all start to expect. I want something that will be cool without being naked, adult without being stiff, and won’t overwhelm a normal-size frame. Any suggestions? — Charlene, Pacifico, Calif. Ever since Irwin Shaw crafted his…
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