The lessons that the University of Illinois learned have also served as a model for other institutions and communities. The university helped set up laboratories and testing programs at other universities, community colleges, public school districts, the Illinois General Assembly and private companies. Dr. Burke said he was most excited about the program in the…
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The New York Times is looking into the high costs of American health care and the wide price variation that patients face from one hospital or doctor’s office to another. And we need your help. Medical bills help us see the prices that hospitals and insurers have long kept secret. If you have a medical…
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan began accelerating with stunning speed, The New York Times quickly shifted into live coverage mode: Reporters and editors posted developments as they happened on the collapse of Kandahar, the…
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Both her parents attended Gallaudet, and Barbara, known as Kanny, followed in their footsteps, earning her bachelor’s degree in deaf education in 1961. She received a master’s degree in educational technology from the Catholic University of America in Washington in 1970. For her dissertation at Georgetown, where she earned her doctoral degree in 1985, she…
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Texas Emergency Hospital, a small health system near Houston that employs 150 nurses and has 50 unfilled shifts each week, has been losing experienced nurses to recruiters who offer $20,000 signing bonuses and $140-an-hour wages. Texas Emergency, by contrast, pays its nurses $43 an hour with a $2 stipend for those on the night shift.…
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On an isolated archipelago off the coast of Georgia, where the vestiges of America’s Gilded Age aristocracy keep sprawling estates in tropical wilds, a controversy is roiling over a proposed spaceport. On one side of the fight are the commissioners of Camden County, Ga., who have put nine years and close to 10 million taxpayer…
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In July, short-term rental occupancy hit 84 percent in the busiest destinations, including Myrtle Beach and Cape Cod, Mass. The average rate among rentals — which run the gamut from shared rooms to mansions — was $294 in July, up 21 percent compared to July 2019. Beach and resort destinations like these are “the types…
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“There’s that old paradigm that even though we think we’re self-aware, there are parts of us that are still wounded, ” said Ms. Lyman. “And we attract people who are a mirror to our fears.” Unlike matchmakers, who introduce potential love interests to one another, Ms. Lyman connects people to themselves. She believes that finding…
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“It’s vicarious,” Mr. Goldstein said, trying to explain why a 50-year-old French film starring actors who were largely unknown in America, has been such a hit. “It’s a vacation in the south of France that a lot of people can’t take. There’s also the incredible magnetism and chemistry of the two stars, who were real-life…
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Addressing the challenges ahead in the U.S., Abbott’s public affairs director, Aly Morici, said in an email that it was “difficult to scale up on a dime, but we’re doing so again.” She acknowledged that “there will be some supply constraints over the coming weeks.” Abbott invited workers back to the plant in Maine this…
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