“There’s this idea that the goal of science is consensus,” Professor Carrion said. “The model they brought to it was that we didn’t need consensus.” She noted that the women she surveyed often used singular rather than plural pronouns. “It was ‘she needs to do her own research,” Professor Carrion said, rather than we need…
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It takes a certain panache to wear white in New York City. And Khrzielle Vargas, a 21-year-old seaman apprentice from Fremont, Calif., was strolling through Times Square on Thursday afternoon in her white trousers, white jumper top and white sailor hat. “When you walk around the city in your uniform, you look like you’re glowing,”…
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The Netflix Lobby Metric Over a three-hour dinner, Mr. Sarandos was charming and upbeat, dressed down in Levi’s and sneakers. You would never know he had been through a Job-level run of bad fortune in the last few months. First, his father, with whom he was very close, died. Soon after, his mother-in-law, Jacqueline Avant,…
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En julio, después de mi tercer año de universidad, mi madre vino a mi ciudad para llevarme al hospital. En la sala de preparación, me puse la bata y el cirujano me dibujó marcas en el pecho con un plumón azul. “¿Para qué son esas líneas?”, preguntó mi madre. “Para hacer las incisiones”, respondió el…
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Ron Rice, a high school chemistry teacher who had been trained to explore for oil, but who instead made a fortune by concocting coconut-laced suntan lotion in a 20-gallon garbage can in his garage and seductively branding it Hawaiian Tropic, died on May 19 in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was 81. His death, in a…
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I think I’m suffering from a case of fashion stubbornness: I just don’t like any of the office wear that is “in.” Since coming back to work, I’ve noticed that the way I dress has diverged quite a bit from the other women in my office. I much prefer the tailored styles of yore to…
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What is it like to be Derek Blasberg’s muse? Mr. Blasberg, the social butterfly and YouTube fashion ambassador, had just introduced Lauren Santo Domingo at a benefit dinner for the Parsons School of Design, as his “mentor and muse.” “I can only compare it to being Josh Safdie’s muse in ‘Uncut Gems,’” said Ms. Domingo,…
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If the Met Gala has become the ultimate high-fashion costume party, the Oscars the ur-brand marketing opportunity, and the VMAs an expression of pure dress-up id, the Cannes Film Festival, which will draw to a close on May 28, is the anything-goes oleo of all of the above. It is simply so long — 11…
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Yousuf Bakshi, a junior at Harvard, recalled getting in line at El Jefe’s Taqueria at 2 a.m. in Cambridge, Mass., to grab a late-night snack after a recent night out. Mr. Bakshi, 20, couldn’t help noticing that nearly everyone ahead of him in line was on their phones, all scrolling through the same app: Sidechat.…
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