It was a pleasant 86 or so degrees in Plains, Ga., when President Biden and Jill Biden visited former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, at their home on April 29. Dr. Biden wore a dress covered in lemons and two delicate silver bracelets. Ms. Carter was dressed more casually in a white…
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The second new study, which was published in The Lancet, was conducted by researchers at the Israel Ministry of Health and Pfizer. It is based on more than 230,000 coronavirus infections that occurred in Israel between Jan. 24 and April 3. During that period, B.1.1.7 accounted for nearly 95 percent of all coronavirus cases in…
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Welcome. What would it take for you to flourish? To wake up eager to begin the day rather than burrow back into the covers? Flourishing — a combination of physical, emotional and mental well-being — is the opposite of languishing, that joyless blah feeling that’s been a feature of recent months for so many of…
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GERARD JULIENGetty Images Whether you like it or not, that hazy period between the ’90s and the 2000s is back with a vengeance. It was an era of campy glamour, bright colors, and Paris Hilton. Maybe it’s because of my recent rewatch of The OC, Blumarine’s millennium-inspired runway collection, or a never-ending love affair with…
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Don’t be fooled. This pasta may look like your average fettuccine. But cook it for seven minutes in boiling water and it will transform, coiling into a neat spiral. The dynamic noodle is one of several designed and debuted this week by researchers at a Carnegie Mellon University lab. Each new pasta design starts out…
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Some of this, Mr. Duffy said, was the result of production delays. Switzerland was shut down for much of the spring. Areas of Rolex’s factories had to be evacuated during Covid outbreaks over the summer and fall. All the while, the stock market soared, leaving high-earning investors with huge amounts of disposable income. Still, Paul…
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Governments, tourism boards, airlines, hotel companies, travel agencies and cruise operators, along with tour bus drivers, housekeepers, local guides, pilots, restaurateurs, museum operators, bed-and-breakfast hosts, entertainers, caterers, fishermen, shopkeepers and bar owners — in short, all the people standing to profit from tourism dollars — are facing extreme economic pressure not to lose out on…
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Of all the imaging equipment, the only one generally unsuitable for the operating room is that needed for magnetic resonance imaging — commonly known as an M.R.I. — because of its size. As a result, Ms. Saba said, some hospitals essentially are stationing them adjacent to an operating room in case an M.R.I. is needed.…
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Good morning. J. Kenji López-Alt is in The Times this week with a lengthy and fascinating article about one of the most influential recipes ever published in The Times, for Jim Lahey and Mark Bittman’s no-knead bread. “This was the recipe that democratized bread-baking,” Peter Reinhart, the author of “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice,” told him.…
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As experts in philanthropy, finance, technology and global health scramble to predict what the divorce of Melinda and Bill Gates could mean for their industries, others are wondering: Who will get their lakefront estate in the Seattle suburbs, which is valued at upward of $131 million? And will the public finally get a peek inside?…
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