That’s the route that Dr. Amber Schmidtke, 40, and her family, who live in Kansas City, took during the pandemic. Over the summer, for example, she and her family packed up their camper and traveled for three weeks through Colorado and Utah. Camping, she said, is “sort of pandemic-proof.” In March, after she and her…
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Ms. Siegle graduated from Wesleyan University and received a master’s degree in sociology and education from Columbia, where Mr. Cephus is about to begin his junior year, double majoring in computer science and sustainable development. He had attended St. John’s University in Jamaica, Queens, for two years after high school, but couldn’t afford to continue…
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Tiana Ehinome Idoni-Matthews, who lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, connected with Nathaniel Wagner Koppel, who lived in Woodside, Queens, on the dating app JSwipe in January 2017 after she extended her Manhattan-centric dating radius from five to 25 miles. A few weeks earlier, a dating coach had advised that “expanding filters can be refreshing”…
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Natalie Rose Dicker ran out to greet Max Elliot Fruchter with a friendly hug in July 2019 as he walked up the path to her parents’ front door in Great Neck, N.Y., for their first date. One of her sisters and her sister’s friend, a longtime friend of Mr. Fruchter, agreed they went well together,…
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In a scene from “Saturday Night Live,” the English actor Daniel Craig stares into the camera and flops his arms halfheartedly, as if he meant to raise them above his head but got tired halfway. “Ladies and gentlemen, the Weeknd,” he says, announcing the episode’s musical guest: the Canadian pop star Abel Tesfaye. The studio…
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand — When New Zealand, for the first time in months, reported a case of community spread of the coronavirus on Aug. 17, residents sprang into action. They stripped supermarket shelves of pasta and toilet paper, dug masks out of drawers and fled to vacation homes in the mountains or at the beach.…
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s decision not to block a Texas law sharply curtailing abortions abruptly vaulted the issue to the forefront of American politics on Thursday, reshaping the dynamics of elections in California this month, in Virginia in November and in midterms next year that will determine control of Congress and statehouses. Republicans hailed…
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At the height of the pandemic, doctors and nurses made furious efforts to protect themselves with gowns and masks and scrambled to save the lives of the severely ill Covid-19 patients with ventilators. But these efforts, among other life saving measures, had a side effect: drug-resistant infections have increased in hospitals. The development, reported on…
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