WASHINGTON — President Biden, facing a rise in coronavirus cases around the country, called on Monday for governors and mayors to reinstate mask mandates as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned of “impending doom” from a potential fourth surge of the pandemic. The president’s comments came only hours after the…
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For 27 days, they searched for clues in Wuhan, visiting hospitals, live animal markets and government laboratories, conducting interviews and pressing Chinese officials for data, but an international team of experts departed the country still far from understanding the origins of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 2.8 million people worldwide. The 124-page report…
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BERKELEY, England — It has been called the birthplace of modern vaccination. More than 220 years ago, the residents of an English village lined up outside a small wooden hut to have their arms scratched with a lancet as they were given the first vaccine for smallpox. The pioneering local doctor administering the vaccine, Edward…
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California continued its uneven progress in reopening schools on Monday, as elementary students began to return to classrooms in Long Beach, the state’s fourth-largest district with 70,000 students. Public schools in the state’s top three districts by enrollment — Los Angeles, San Diego and Fresno — have said they will begin to allow grade-school students…
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Cassoulet season has ended, but the handmade bowls that M. Wells in Long Island City, Queens, commissioned to bake and serve theirs this year are timeless. The blue-and-white pottery pieces, in slightly varied designs and tones, can just as easily hold servings of bouillabaisse or be used for summer berries, cherries, a thatch of coleslaw…
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Last week, calls for the cancellation of H&M and other Western brands went out across Chinese social media as human rights campaigns collided with cotton sourcing and political gamesmanship. Here’s what you need to know about what’s going on and how it may affect everything from your T-shirts to your trench coats. What’s all this…
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Gotham Bar & Grill has been closed for a little over a year (with plans to reopen this summer), but that hasn’t stopped the pastry chef Ron Paprocki from continuing to turn out his chocolate treats. For spring this year, there are pastel bonbons filled with passion fruit caramel, lemon olive oil and raspberry ganache.…
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Duck eggs, larger than hen eggs and containing bigger, deep golden yolks and a larger proportion of protein-rich whites, are sold at some farmers’ markets. Now Utopihen Farms has started selling the duck eggs nationally, raised on a group of small family farms with a home base in New Holland, Pa. Their duck (and chicken)…
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Eric “E.T.” Tecosky, the Los Angeles bartender behind the line of Dirty Sue cocktail condiments, has come up with a clever new product: a Bloody Mary mix with no tomato juice. Anyone can add tomato juice; Mr. Tecosky’s focus is the spices needed, in addition to his company’s own olive juice, to make a great…
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Back when we had a share in a ski house at Mount Snow, Vt., we’d drive up with a cheesecake in the trunk of the car. It was frozen by the time we reached our destination and delicious to eat without thawing. The new blueberry ice cream cheesecake that Nicholas Larsen and Petrushka Bazin Larsen…
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