The 67-year-old man dropped heavily into the plastic chair inside the Alta Mountain resort in Utah. It was his third day skiing the Rockies but his first at Alta. He had been excited to try these new slopes, but his run that morning was brutal. It was a clear, cold day, and the sharp mountain…
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To Matthew Atkatz, the college snapshots he kept in shoe boxes in his closet for years raised a koan-like question: “If they are sitting in a box,” Mr. Atkatz, 46, said, “do they have any meaning?” They do, it seems, when displayed alongside hundreds of forgotten snapshots collected from other art students from the grunge…
DetailsHigh-tech vacuums and robotic mops are having their moment in a pandemic that has contributed to never-ending messes at home.
Sandra Di Carlo Valdez looked at her Christmas tree in January and felt a wave of sadness. One week into 2022 and nearly two years into a pandemic, the tree was a source of joy; she wasn’t ready to take it down. So Ms. Valdez, 46, a nail technician and blogger in Miami with nearly…
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The photographs of trashed flowers still haunt florists. In 2020, when much of the world went into lockdown because of the pandemic, many flower farms’ crops were discarded. Since no one knew what was going to happen, new crops were not planted as usual. Now, because of pandemic-related supply chain challenges, labor shortages and poor…
DetailsThe key to staying active long term may be to care less about how you look and more about how you feel.
We’ve known and loved the one and only Hill House Home Ellie Nap Dress since it dropped in 2019. The epitome of comfy and chic, this dress quickly became a fan-fave fashion piece for its comfortable, loose fit, perfect for frolicking in a field or brunching with friends. I mean, what’s better than a dress…
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HYDERABAD, India — On the outskirts of this centuries-old Indian city, a world away from its congested roads and cacophony, the gleaming modern laboratories of Bharat Biotech are churning out a Covid vaccine that would be sprayed into the nose rather than injected into the blood. Currently available vaccines produce powerful, long-lasting immunity against severe…
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Early humans had to move around often to hunt for food, the thinking goes, and those who moved the most and found the most food were likeliest to survive. Over eons, this process led to the selection of genes that were optimized by plentiful physical activity. Physical activity likewise appears to jump-start various cell processes…
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