PORTLAND, Ore. — It would hit Alina Black in the snack aisle at Trader Joe’s, a wave of guilt and shame that made her skin crawl. Something as simple as nuts. They came wrapped in plastic, often in layers of it, that she imagined leaving her house and traveling to a landfill, where it would…
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“Thirty-one percent is the highest it has ever been,” since the company started the tracking survey in March 2020, said Mr. Eylon. “It’s an early indication that the travelers are going through a change of mind-set.” This comes after domestic leisure travel had a strong year in 2021, rebounding well after extraordinary losses in 2020,…
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Amena, 7 months old, lay silently in her hospital crib amid the mewling of desperately ill infants in the malnutrition ward. Her mother, Balqisa, had brought the child to Indira Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, the night before. “Her body was so hot,” she said, stroking her daughter’s emaciated leg.…
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For $995, Love Cloud will fly you and a partner in a private airplane for 45 minutes so that you can have sex. Granted, you don’t have to have sex on the plane. You could pay $1,195 to get married on board. For $100 more, it can be booked for a romantic one-course meal; for…
DetailsLa inmunidad que adquieres después de una infección de COVID-19 podría no ser suficiente para defenderte del virus de nuevo. Esto es lo que hay que saber.
The rainforest and the runway may seem worlds apart, but deforestation in the Amazon is partly fueled by something that’s on display in every fashion capital this month: leather. A New York Times investigation published in November established the connection between deforestation and American appetites for leather in luxury cars, but the problem goes beyond…
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Not only did gyms, yoga studios, pools, adult day programs, community and senior centers all close for extended periods; many older people also undertook fewer ordinary chores and errands and may have skipped recreational pastimes. “If you’re limiting visits to the grocery store or having groceries delivered, or not going to visit or help with…
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When Tim Pham learned to ski in the 1980s, the sport seemed simpler. He would go to quiet resorts in Northern California like Sugar Bowl, where he would show up any time of day, buy a $35 lift pass, and ski without facing lines or crowds. “I could just decide I wanted a lesson and…
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Dos semanas después de conocernos por internet, vino a verme. Lo llevé al único lugar de la ciudad donde sabía que preparaban sándwiches de queso a la parrilla, su gusto culposo preferido. Acabamos en el mismo lado del gabinete para poder ver las elecciones presidenciales en el televisor de la barra. En el viaje de…
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The aqua slapped onto the canvas first. Then white, cobalt and cotton candy pink. Yellow blurted on with a rude noise, followed by red and black. This was on a frigid morning in a borrowed art studio in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn. In a crumbly brick building along the industrial waterfront, the actor…
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