It was three days before Christmas, and Elizabeth Widders was perched in her upstairs bathroom, fastening red and green bows in the hair of her 4-year-old daughter, Liviah. But as Liviah stood in the morning light, her mother noticed that the whites of her eyes had turned yellow. She hustled Liviah downstairs to ask her…
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It’s time for boxwood-loving gardeners to learn the abbreviation B.M.P. — best management practices — and get with the program. Boxwood needs our informed attention and care to do its job as the indispensable landscape element it has become since the first Buxus were planted in the United States in the mid-17th century. It is…
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courtesy of the brands When it comes to glamorous summer style, no one did it better than the OG It-girls: Jackie Kennedy, Grace Kelly, and Audrey Hepburn. From oversized sunglasses to elegant breezy frocks, all three fashion icons paved the way with memorable and statement-making sartorial choices that continue to make a mark during the…
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In person, Ms. Afualo seemed a stark contrast from her energetic, sharp-tongued online persona. “I’m a lot more laid back than people think I am,” she said. “I’m only like that because that’s what I do — react to that terrible content.” At Boris and Horton, a cafe for people and their dogs, a corgi…
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“Access to medicines for the treatment of obesity is dismal in this country,” said Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. But even if a patient’s insurer will cover weight loss drugs, most doctors do not suggest the drugs and most patients do not ask for…
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This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Nathan Ko, the author, is 17 and goes to the The Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Conn. Told He Had Six Months to Live, He Opened an Art Exhibit By Nathan Ko In 2019, the South Korean photographer…
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This piece is one of 10 winners of our 2022 Profile Contest. You can find more here. Gauri Gupta, the author, is 14 and goes to the The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, India. Street Market Sweets By Gauri Gupta In March 2020, India experienced the first wave of Covid-19 and went into…
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Sorry in advance for the frequent use of the phrase “finger foods” in this newsletter. As a society, we have got to come up with something more appealing. Hand cuisine? Digit diet? Those two options are even worse. “Finger food” also minimizes just how enjoyable and engaging it can be to eat food by hand,…
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His Hand on My Thigh “Do you hear it?” the midwife asked. Holding a stethoscope to my newborn’s heart, I couldn’t hear anything. “Let me try removing my hearing aids,” I said. “Sometimes they get in the way.” I became a parent and learned I had hearing loss in the same year. Wyn, alert for…
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Headliner La Marchande Nearly 200 years ago, the financial district was New York City’s hub for fine dining. With Crown Shy, Harry’s, Nobu Downtown, Temple Court, the new Le Gratin and this gracious restaurant and bar by John Fraser in the Wall Street Hotel, it’s heading in that direction again. The hotel, owned by Paspaley,…
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