PARIS — That the final day of Paris Fashion Week was also a Mardi Noir — a Black Tuesday, with massed demonstrators marching furiously across the Place de la Concorde to the National Assembly to protest pension reform — seemed inevitable. Of course there would be revolt. There have been fires, plague, floods. How else…
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HONG KONG — The streets of this city, usually teeming with people, are practically empty, and no one knows when Hong Kong might recover from the coronavirus outbreak that has crippled the economy and devastated tourism. But Lindsay Jang, a Canadian restaurateur, said she is prepared to ride it out. Nine years ago, Ms. Jang…
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With frozen dirt road crunching under the car tires, my longtime fishing buddy (and paleontologist) Mike and I pull out of the driveway of my family cottage in New Hampshire for the hour drive north east toward the White Mountains , where an invite we’ve long coveted has us giddy. It’s to sit on a…
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When Martha Rose Ormerod, an engineering student from Wales, travels by air, she has a ritual. As soon as she is seated in her tiny economy-class seat, she sets out to personalize the space. Ms. Ormerod, 29, arranges a blanket and pillow, and the other essentials — “water bottle, book, lip balm and moisturizer” —…
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Does exercise help or hinder our bodies’ ability to fight off infections? In the context of the novel coronavirus outbreak, that question has gained urgency and also, thanks to recent research, emergent answers. The latest science suggests that being fit boosts our immune systems, and that even a single workout can amplify and improve our…
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The plastic sign, about 10 feet long with A-R-B-Y-’S spelled vertically, lay on its side by a ladder and some construction tools. “Do you want it?” Sohui Kim, the chef and an owner of the Brooklyn restaurants the Good Fork and Insa, asked a visitor. “You can have it.” That made it official: Gage &…
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A mother stands outside her house, ushering two adorable kids into the family minivan. A gray-haired man sits in a diner, his newspaper in front of him. A fresh-faced young guy in a button-down shirt pushes a bicycle out of an office building. A doctor stands in an examining room, surrounded by the tools of…
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In Paris this winter, with the weather seesawing between frigid and mild, I found myself baking with apples. I made pandowdy, twice. I made a few apple crisps, one with a gingerbread spice that I liked a lot. I made an apple tart that had a layer of applesauce and a pinwheel of sliced apples.…
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PARIS — When the last model stepped off the runway at Louis Vuitton and the fall 2020 shows drew to a close this week, it was clear that diversity on the catwalks had become a genuine reality and not just a seasonal trend — at least as far as race was concerned. But in show…
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March 4, 2020 — The U.S. is witnessing a dramatic rise in nontraditional ‘gig economy’ labor markets where workers are hired for single projects often on a short-term basis. An estimated 0.4% of U.S. adults are currently receiving income from such platforms each month. Research conducted based on collaboration between Columbia University Mailman School of…
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