Jamila Ross and Akino West both work in the food and hospitality business, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. When the pair, who had dated off and on for several years before becoming a couple, opened the Copper Door Bed & Breakfast in Miami in 2018, their schedules were grueling. “We were at…
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It was the classic tale with a twist: Victoria Hogan was always the officiant, never the bride. The 35-year-old owner of a Las Vegas-based pop-up wedding company, Flora Pop, had single-handedly married more than 3,000 couples over the past seven years before she finally had an opportunity to stand in the spotlight. “It was an…
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Shortly after Summer Hofford and Dr. Sujay Kulshrestha connected on Tinder, they agreed to meet at a Chicago bar one cold and rainy Saturday in April 2016. Their first round of drinks went smoothly. Dr. Kulshrestha, 29, had just graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. He later received a medical degree from the University…
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Madeline Rhiana Belloff was at the ready with Red Bull Energy Drinks, Sour Patch Kids candy and Goldfish crackers, while Daniel Alexander Martinez fortified them with sandwiches from the local deli when they often studied together at Columbia. “We were both studious and nerdy,” said Ms. Belloff, who likes to say they met “across the…
DetailsVarious people working to stop the pandemic reflected on the life skills their parents taught them: determination, teamwork, resilience and more.
Humanity has planted flags on the moon, yet a moonshot for brain cancer has yet to be realized. Diagnosis known, we gradually stopped removing more tumor. The more tumor you remove, the longer the average survival, meager though it may be. But the quest for surgical perfection sometimes comes with a cost. In the brain,…
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A cabin weekend, in February 2018, with perhaps a bit of hockey, some snowmobiling and football, and definitely with a big fire in the middle of Lake 26, in Danbury, Wis., is the event that Nicole Nelson and Kyle Kriewall mark as the beginning of their story. The “romance” part, though, didn’t actually transpire for…
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On paper, Emily Capilouto and Dr. James Harb didn’t seem to have much in common when they connected through the dating app Bumble in 2018 and agreed to meet for a first date in Birmingham, Ala., where both lived. But they did have lots of dentists in their family trees. Ms. Capilouto, 33, whose parents…
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“How do you guys do this sleepover thing?” I wrote. “I can’t sleep at all.” Customarily, my flings with strange men were brief. The men did not take note of my bathtub or my educational history before sex, and they did not linger after. I came back into bed, disturbed by the rumble of his…
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What The Study Did: International medical graduates often practice as physicians in locations and specialties less preferred by U.S. medical graduates. This study reports on physician mortality from COVID-19, and on the mortality of international medical graduates in particular. Authors: Abraham Verghese, M.D., of Stanford University in California, is the corresponding author. To access the…
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