Name: Manuela Soto Sosa Age: 30 Hometown: Lausanne, Switzerland Now lives: A one-bedroom loft in a high-rise in Downtown Los Angeles. Claim to fame: Ms. Sosa is a tattoo artist known for her portraits of voluptuous, G-string-clad young women, called Soto Girls, that evoke Japanese anime and gang tattoo culture. Her tattoo work, which graced…
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A few times a week, Elizabeth Reninger ambles to a pizza restaurant near her job for lunch. She orders the same thing every time: a cheese slice and fries for $6. For a little adventure, she sprinkles on some Parmesan and red pepper flakes. Before the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country, Ms. Reninger, a…
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“It’s great for routine stuff, but when it comes to safety surveillance, it’s all about size,” said Dr. Daniel Salmon, director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, and a former federal vaccine official. “The bigger it is, the faster you get an answer. Eventually the VSD will get a really good…
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Humor and perspective were similarly useful below the water. “We’d say things like, ‘Life sucks, but at least the ocean’s not coming into the submarine,’ and we’d laugh,” he said. “Sailors have dark humor, but it helped.” One informal rule to maintain comity on the sub was to “assume good intent,” Cmdr. Marquet said. “If…
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As adults at high risk for Covid-19 line up to be immunized against the coronavirus, many parents want to know: When will my child get a vaccine? The short answer: Not before late summer. Pfizer and Moderna have enrolled children 12 and older in clinical trials of their vaccines and hope to have results by…
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A crowd of strangers Shmoney dancing to Bobby Shmurda in McCarren Park; the Green Lady chuckling on a street corner; a dead rat being blessed with Hennessy as it rests among flowers, bodega candles and Newport cigarettes. There are countless symbols that capture the spirit of New York City, and over the last seven years,…
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The last few weeks have been a roller coaster for Tessica Brown, the Louisiana woman who used Gorilla Glue instead of hair spray one day in January. She catapulted to internet fame last week after posting a video on TikTok in which she called the decision to use the adhesive spray a “bad, bad, bad…
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More vaccine shots will be given to Americans beginning Friday with the start of a federal program that delivers doses directly to drugstores and grocery store pharmacies. The program will start small, with one million vaccine doses distributed to about 6,500 retail pharmacies. Over time, it will expand to as many as 40,000 drugstores and…
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On a handful of days in 2017 and 2018, when the humidity was low and the sky was free of smoke from burning sugar cane, Benjamin Hampton Ewing was able to look out from a ridgeline on Viti Levu, the main island in Fiji, and see something special. At 6 a.m., Mr. Ewing would board…
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Spring breaks on the ground offer opportunities to fully explore seasonal renewal beyond the famed cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C. (its annual festival March 20 to April 11 will be adjusted for safety, including no parade). About 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles, a seasonal explosion of orange poppies and lavender lupine paint the nearly…
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