DJ Kaiser and Tom Saggio didn’t necessarily plan to marry last September — it just happened. The couple had bought a house together in St. Louis that July and decided that marriage should be the next step, despite the absence of proposals or the exchange of rings. Rather than attempt to wrangle family together during…
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration admonished the Republican governors of Texas and Florida on Friday for blocking local school districts from requiring masks or taking other measures to protect students from the coronavirus in the coming school year. The secretary of education, Miguel Cardona, sent a pair of letters to the governors and their education…
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Dr. Jose U. Scher, a rheumatologist at NYU Langone Health who has studied the effect of vaccines on the immunocompromised, said that the C.D.C. vote — and the guidance from its experts — would help patients who had been agonizing over whether to seek out a third shot. Previously, he said, when people tested themselves…
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Marvin Alexander, a makeup artist in New York City who decided to shift from the fashion industry to bridal during the depths of the pandemic, is also seeing lots of last-minute bookings, including from rescheduled weddings. The events are often more modest affairs, with smaller wedding parties and guest lists, in a nod to virus…
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“This might be the start of Kit Harington’s romantic comedy career,” Daniel Jones, the editor of Modern Love, said to me recently, only half joking. Though Mr. Harington may be better known for playing Jon Snow in “Game of Thrones,” viewers can now see him play an affable Irishman who is smitten with a woman…
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Daily Business Briefing Updated Aug. 12, 2021, 4:26 p.m. ET When to Clap Back I am a staff member at a predominantly white institution. The other week my colleague asked me to welcome a new employee to our university even though we’re working remotely and I do not work with this new person’s team. This…
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The dish I keep on repeat all summer long is something I’ve come to call the Super Caprese. It’s just a caprese salad, that ultra-Italian combination of fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, salt and olive oil, but made deluxe and regarded as a complete meal, with olives and capers added, maybe prosciutto and salami, and a…
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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday authorized third doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccines for some people with weakened immune systems, giving physicians more leeway to protect those who did not respond enough to an initial series of shots. The authorization, in the form of updates to the existing emergency use authorizations for…
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Entender que algo tan vago como la debilidad, la confusión o la pérdida de apetito puede ser señal de una infección por covid también puede ayudar a proteger a amigos y familiares, que pueden aislarse y hacerse las pruebas ellos mismos. “No solo ayuda al individuo, sino que también puede contener la propagación del virus”,…
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Ashley Psirogianes, a 26-year-old who works in fashion marketing, is a big “Sex and the City” fan. “I’ve been watching it a lot during lockdown,” she said. “I rewatched all the old episodes.” So on a Tuesday morning in July, during an ordinary coffee run to Starbucks, she was surprised, thrilled even, to run into…
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