On an early morning in late autumn 2019, I drove with two friends from my family’s small rural home in Northern Italy toward the town of Bassano del Grappa, where we would meet our fishing guides. The car axles whimpered through each turn. The road was flanked by walls of dolomite, valley floors of grapevines…
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One afternoon in July 2017, Malcolm Gladwell stopped at Casa Magazines in the West Village to purchase a copy of The New York Review of Books. He started chatting with the store’s owner, Mohammed Ahmed, which led to a longer conversation about print. Mr. Ahmed bought the store in 1994. In the early aughts, he…
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Market Overview The city of Granada, a cultural hub in the autonomous Spanish community of Andalusia with about 240,000 residents, may be best known for its historic architecture and monuments, but for Andalusians it’s also the capital of Granada province, serving as an employment and lifestyle center. The city’s housing stock mostly consists of apartments…
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But in that case, we are not exercising for at least four days of the week, which can be problematic. “There are a number of health benefits,” most of them related to better blood sugar and blood pressure levels, he said, that occur only on days when we exercise. When we skip working out, even…
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Probing for Inflammation James Katz was a senior research physician at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. After hearing the patient’s story, he stepped out of the exam room to give her a chance to change into a hospital gown. As he…
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The salad leaves used at Gage & Tollner come from local farms and change every week. Sometimes it’s beautiful radicchio, other times it’s frisée; mustard greens are often featured. “Each leaf has its own integrity and flavor and composition,” Kim says, which is why when you’re making a salad, you should taste the leaves as…
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WASHINGTON — Pfizer and BioNTech asked federal regulators Tuesday to authorize their coronavirus booster shot for those 18 and older, a move that would likely make every adult in America eligible for an extra injection. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to grant the request, perhaps before Thanksgiving and well ahead of Christmas travel…
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Nov. 9, 2021 By Juno DeMelo Every time someone tells me their back’s been giving them trouble, I lower my voice before launching into my spiel: “I swear I’m not woo-woo, but … ” Let me rewind a bit. For more than a decade, I had a near-constant throbbing in my left piriformis, a small…
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WASHINGTON — Moderna and the National Institutes of Health are in a bitter dispute over who deserves credit for inventing the central component of the company’s powerful coronavirus vaccine, a conflict that has broad implications for the vaccine’s long-term distribution and billions of dollars in future profits. The vaccine grew out of a four-year collaboration…
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