MALÉ, Maldives — The largest Covid-19 treatment facility in the Maldives has nearly 300 beds and a steady supply of oxygen. But as the country reported some of the world’s highest caseloads per capita last month, Covid wards ran low on another essential resource: employees. “At worst, we had one nurse to attend to 20…
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Officials in a county in Taiwan are facing a storm of criticism after banning foreign laborers from going outside as part of an effort to stamp out a cluster of coronavirus infections among workers at several technology manufacturing companies. Under the measures announced last week by the authorities in the central county…
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Perhaps with that in mind, Ms. Wright is not the only high-level executive from outside the watch world whom Audemars Piguet has hired over the last few years. “The Audemars Piguet brand is on a path to a different type of journey,” said Olivia Crouan, the company’s chief brand officer, who worked with several spirits…
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Surfacing The stars of Pet Tube are modeling the radical caretaking of strange animals. But they are only human. Tomas Pasiecznik lives in New Jersey with his parents, his dog and 26 other species of animals, including a reticulated python, a Chilean rose hair tarantula, a colony of Central American giant cave cockroaches and an…
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Rising vaccination rates and pent-up demand are expected to speed up travel’s rebound this summer. Despite Europe’s reopening, lingering skittishness about flying, increasing worries about coronavirus variants and testing requirements for overseas travel practically guarantee that the majority of summer vacations by Americans, like last year, will be domestic, and many taken by car. In…
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Name: Akeem Smith Age: 29 Hometown: the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn Now Lives: In the same, four-bedroom Crown Heights apartment that he grew up in and which he now shares with his grandmother. Claim to Fame: Mr. Smith is a multimedia artist, dance-hall archivist, fashion stylist for Helmut Lang and other labels, and a…
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“I would like to have lived longer, worked longer,” Sister Mary Andrew Matesich, a Catholic nun, told me in 2004. But, she said, “It’s not the hand I’ve been dealt.” She had breast cancer that had spread, and she had volunteered for experimental treatments, knowing they would probably not save her but hoping the research…
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Avidale Balanzat, who goes by Avi, quickly arranged a building tour, asking the leasing agent to show her a unit facing the inner courtyard, not so she could see the swimming pool, but so she could have an apartment where she could see her sisters. “I wanted to see everyone from the balcony,” she said.…
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In December 2015, Amanda Winer went on a 10-day Birthright Israel trip as a participant researcher. Her focus, as preliminary research for her dissertation, was relationships and social habits of Jewish millennials. Finding a mate was last on her list, especially since she had been dating someone for the past six months. Yet when she…
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Katherine Clark Harris and Abhishek Gupta were driving back from the Napa Valley region of California — where they had spent their first Valentine’s Day together — to Mr. Gupta’s San Francisco home in 2018. Ms. Harris, 32, a native New Yorker then living in Washington, was navigating the hourlong return trip when they suddenly…
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