Ms. Brown and Mr. Powell met with Melanie Benware, a local trainer and the president of the International Association of Canine Professionals. “People are going out less,” Ms. Benware said, “therefore their dogs are not being exposed to as many people, dogs, sights and sounds.” She taught the couple how to train Hopper to respond…
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Stephanie Goodman was in her early teens when she declared, “I’m going to marry Mark Clifford someday.” Her friend and teammate Whitney Braswell remembers it well. “We were in middle school and Mark was this cool, older, college guy, and she was totally in love with him,” Ms. Braswell said. Spoiler alert: Ms. Goodman knew…
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My father protects for a living, but he is invisible by design. For more than two decades, he watched the halls of a shopping plaza in Koreatown in Los Angeles as a security guard. Three stories of salmon-colored walls with a signature glass skylight, the plaza is a community landmark for Korean immigrants who weathered…
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Name: Caitlin Stasey Age: 30 Hometown: Melbourne, Australia Now lives: In a two-bedroom, 1950s ranch-style house on the east side of Los Angeles. Claim to fame: Ms. Stasey is an actress, writer and director who stars in the new Epix series “Bridge and Tunnel,” a dramedy set on Long Island in the 1980s. She plays…
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For his first date with Anessah Taheerah Cabiness, in January 2019, Robert Eugene Williams III picked a scenic restaurant in Edgewater, N.J., on the bank of the Hudson River. Ms. Cabiness and Mr. Williams had been texting since matching on the dating app Bumble about a week and a half earlier, and Mr. Williams was…
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Their first outing together was in Harlem, where they went to a concert at the home of Marjorie Eliot, who has hosted jazz concerts in her Harlem apartment for decades. Ms. Keshwani and Mr. Navodia had also discussed plans to go out dancing together — Ms. Keshwani wanted to learn the fox trot; Mr. Navodia,…
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After meeting at a bar in South Delhi, India, in August 2019, Clémence Vidal de la Blache went to the nearby home of Rohan Venkataramakrishnan. He had invited her and some others to “finish conversations” they had started at the bar. “He had an incredible collection of books on Delhi heritage as well as a…
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Not long before the latest fully-digital London Fashion Week began on February 19 — with a pared-down schedule that reflected the ongoing fallout of the pandemic on the sector — more than 450 leading industry figures, including designers like Paul Smith, Katherine Hamnett and Roksanda Ilincic, sent an irate letter to 10 Downing Street. In…
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When Darla and I had our first real conversation, she was so delirious from hunger that she had passed out behind the self-help section where she had been pretending to shelve books. I found her lying on the dingy store carpeting, propped up on one pencil-thin arm, eyelids fluttering, trying to focus on me. Months…
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The ability to speak is one of the essential characteristics that distinguishes humans from other animals. Many people would probably intuitively equate speech and language. However, cognitive science research on sign languages since the 1960s paints a different picture: Today it is clear, sign languages are fully autonomous languages and have a complex organization on…
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