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Four Astronauts Spent 3 Days in Space. Here’s What It Did to Their Bodies and Minds.
Space changes you, even during short trips off the planet. Four people who spent three days off Earth in September 2021 experienced physical and mental changes that included modest declines in cognitive tests, stressed immune systems and genetic changes within their cells, scientists report in a package of papers published on Tuesday in the journal…
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West Wilson of ‘Summer House’ Discusses His First Taste of Infamy
When a 28-year-old unemployed journalist named Westling Wilson, who goes by West, was enthusiastically embraced by Bravo fans during his first season on the reality TV show “Summer House” this year, it made some wonder: Could he keep the good vibes going? Last week many viewers issued a resounding answer to that question: No. Over…
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At Max Mara, Brie Larson Sees Venice for the Very First Time
Marco Valmarana When I think of Max Mara, I think of chic, timeless designs, great tailoring, and [something that looks] perfect off the rack. Marco Valmarana The [beauty] inspiration was Catherine Deneuve: lucious hair with clean, simple makeup. Elevated but easy. Marco Valmarana I’ve found so much love for fashion the older I get. It’s…
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Why Did My Wife’s Sister Confess to Taking Her Clothes 50 Years Later?
My wife is the second of four children who were raised in a frugal, middle-class household. To supplement her wardrobe, she babysat as a girl to earn money to buy clothes. She also sewed many of her outfits. Out of the blue — 50 years later — her younger sister confessed that she and their…
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On Canal Street, A New Exhibition on Fake Designer Bags
Peering through the windows of the storefront at the corner of Broadway and Canal Street, it might seem like just another upscale boutique. Inside, luxury handbags — Dior’s Lady D-lite, Louis Vuitton’s Loop, Loewe’s Puzzle bag, Telfar’s Shopping Bag, and several Hermès Birkins among them — are arranged on a grid of white shelves and…
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Pasta Nada: The Culinary Art of Making Something From Nothing
In John Guare’s play “Six Degrees of Separation,” there’s a scene in which a father asks a second-grade teacher, at parents’ night, why the art her students make is so especially brilliant. “Look at the first grade,” he says to her. Blotches of green and black. Look at the third grade. Camouflage. But the second…
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The Perfect Cake Does Not Exi … Is That Buttermilk Tres Leches?
To make a stodgy cake is human. To soak that cake in sweet milk is divine. The long and sometimes boozy history of soaked cakes is a varied and delightful category of the human baking experience. For reasons from old bread to stale pastry to clumsy baking, we have learned, with time and ingenuity, to…
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Exploring the Remote Gila Wilderness in New Mexico
On a crisp spring morning, I trusted a horse — a bay named Sino — to show me the vast Gila Wilderness of southern New Mexico. Red rock walls rose beside us as we wove back and forth across a shallow creek separating ponderosa pine on the shady south side of Rocky Canyon from barrel…
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At the Ambani Wedding Celebrations, a Dazzling Display of Jewels
When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India abruptly changed her country’s constitution in 1971 and abolished the Privy Purse, a government allowance for the country’s former princely rulers, she also moved to nationalize their storied treasuries. Among the maharajahs, nizams and nabobs that once ruled the subcontinent, this set off a frenzy as they scurried…
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