Qian Julie Wang and Marc Ari Gottlieb are to be married Sept. 1. Rabbi Jeffrey J. Sirkman is to officiate at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Judge Morgan B. Christen, who serves on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has her chambers in Anchorage, and for whom the bride was a law clerk in 2014-15,…
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Kara Ann Kaufman and David Michael Fisher are to be married Sept. 1 at Jacob’s Pillow, a performance space in Becket, Mass. Rabbi Getzel Davis is to officiate. The bride, 29, was until last month a research associate at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., from which she received a master’s degree in public…
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To what extent, the researchers asked middle-aged adults, do your parents ignore suggestions or advice that would make their lives easier or safer? Ignore instructions from their doctors? Insist on doing things their own way, even if that makes their own or others’ lives more difficult, inconvenient or unsafe? That’s how several studies directed by…
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Via Apple Podcasts | Via RadioPublic | Via Stitcher “No touching!” the nurses would scream whenever Jeannie Vanasco got too close to her friend and fellow patient, Anita. Despite strict regulations limiting their contact, Ms. Vanasco and Anita were able to develop a strong relationship…
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San Francisco is a city transformed by programmers, staggering wealth and start-ups. But the Michelin-starred chef Dominique Crenn remains attuned to the sense of possibility that has long drawn artists, innovators and pioneering spirits to the City by the Bay. Ms. Crenn, the first woman in the United States to receive three Michelin stars for…
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One of the few things known about the Nordmann’s greenshank is that it is one of the most endangered shorebirds on earth. No one had studied the bird in depth since 1976, and its nesting habitat remained a mystery. But this summer, an American graduate student and Russian ornithologists spotted a pair of Nordmann’s greenshanks…
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Bella Thorne, the 21-year-old ex-Disney star, Instagram provocateur, cat enthusiast, weed entrepreneur, porn director and fanatical crafter, wanted more glitter. She yanked a length of sparkling pink yarn around a wooden shuttle and wove it back and forth across a loom. A videographer she brought along traced the zigzag movement, but Ms. Thorne would never…
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The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Isabella Kwai, a reporter with the Australia bureau. ______ Adut Akech is a 19-year-old modeling superstar. She’s earned a coveted spot in a Chanel haute couture show and graced magazine covers,…
DetailsBuilding on previous findings, a new study concludes that people with gout are more likely to develop kidney disease. The authors believe that the results offer new ways to reduce the risk of chronic kidney disease. A recent study looks at whether gout influences kidney health. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a long term condition,…
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GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — The yearlong Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has hit what officials are calling a milestone: more than 3,000 confirmed and probable cases and a death toll above 2,000, according to government data released on Friday. The outbreak, Congo’s 10th, is the second-worst epidemic of the virus…
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