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Growing Wildflowers Isn’t Difficult. And It’s Urgent.
The native perennial species of our meadows — milkweeds, asters, Joe Pye weed and others — will make one more offering in fall, as if they haven’t given enough already. They will offer up their seed. Gardeners can nurture the next generation by collecting some of it, and propagating more of their favorite wildflowers. But…
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Plant-Based ‘Fish’ Is Here (and Lab-Grown Versions Are Coming)
The chef Tsang Chiu King is preparing a subtle-but-significant change to his menu: He’s replacing the fish in some dishes with a plant-based alternative. “Its flavor is light and bland and the texture, like grouper, is a bit tougher,” Mr. Tsang said, referring to the alternative fish varieties he has been testing at Ming Court,…
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Hong Kong’s Global Watch Dominance Comes to an End
Hong Kong was the Swiss watch industry’s No. 1 export market for more than a decade. Not anymore. “It is the end of El Dorado,” Thierry Huron, founder of The Mercury Project, a Swiss watch and jewelry consultancy, wrote in an email. With its tourism-driven sales dented by pro-democracy demonstrations in 2019 and then blocked…
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Where Women Are in the Online Watch Picture
“This new wave of young female watch enthusiasts is a relatively new phenomenon,” said Roberta Naas, a veteran horology journalist, author and founder of the website A Timely Perspective. And as “watches have become more universal,” she said, Dimepiece is an example of a community of “women supporting each other, having fun and sharing stories.”…
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‘Gender Alchemy’ Is Transforming Art for the 21st Century
Organizing a museum survey of feminist art can be as politically fraught as organizing a women’s march, for some of the same reasons. Different women are bound to have different political goals or priorities. There are competing theoretical frameworks, from Marxist feminism, which sees capitalism as the main source of women’s oppression, to the intersectional…
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Philipp Plein Adds Skulls and Bones to Watches
Watch brands need to have strong identities, said Paolo Marai, a Timex executive who is also chief executive of the new Swiss company WorldTime Watches & Jewelry. “The space on the watch is very small,” he said, “so you need the symbol that can be easily identified by the end consumers.” Enter Philipp Plein, the…
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Playing for Team Logo
Logomania reaches new heights this fall with baseball caps. “They’re definitely a hot item,” said Jian DeLeon, the men’s fashion director at Nordstrom. “It’s an easy way for people to dip their toes into the world of a brand.” In the process, the humble cap has been elevated to a snazzy fashion staple. “It used…
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In Turkey, a Watery Grave Becomes a Park
A predawn thunderstorm had cleared the air and brought comfortable temperatures after days of 100 degree heat. As we motored out of Seddulbahir harbor, I could see, on the Asia Minor side of the Dardanelles, the hilltop site of the ruins of ancient Troy — first excavated by Heinrich Schliemann in 1870. Behind us, on…
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He Had Chest Pain and Dangerously Low Blood Pressure. What Was Wrong?
Back in the I.C.U., Glick followed the patient closely. Hours passed, then days, and though his blood pressure was better, it remained too low. Why? Glick sent test tube after test tube to the lab, looking for signs of infection, inflammation, autoimmune disorders — everything she could think of. After the man’s near-death experience, Glick…
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