One of the many upsides to having a spouse who loves to bake bread is that our soup consumption goes up as the temperatures go down. Because, really, is there a homier winter meal than a butter-slathered slice of sourdough dunked in a bowl of homemade soup? I’ll make soup out of almost anything that…
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The unions representing the nation’s health care workers have emerged as increasingly powerful voices during the still-raging pandemic. With more than 100,000 Americans hospitalized and many among their ranks infected, nurses and other health workers remain in a precarious frontline against the coronavirus and have turned again and again to unions for help. Nurses across…
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[With a D.I.Y. sound] there wasn’t a lot of, “Oh, I’ve got to master my instrument and I’ve got to sit there and learn how to play quadruple paradiddles upside down for six hours.” It wasn’t until a few years later, which we’ve talked about openly, that we [Ulrich and the guitarist Kirk Hammett] were…
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MONTREAL — Feigang Fei doesn’t like to boast about the orange beef at his restaurant in downtown Montreal. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t much like it. “Comparing to our General Tao Chicken, this one is not THAT good,” reads the description on the online menu of his restaurant, Cuisine AuntDai, under a glossy…
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Birds’ nests may not be all that unusual in the Hudson Valley. But at the rural retreat of Susan Orlean, the author and writer for The New Yorker known for her animals beat, the most notable tangles of sticks and straw are not in trees but her kitchen, displayed along a neat bluestone wall just…
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With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Adam D. Weinberg Age: 67 Occupation: director, Whitney Museum of American Art Favorite charities: American Academy in Rome; Storm King Art Center; Coalition for the Homeless; N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund…
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The coronavirus pandemic has been rough on virtually everyone. But those who have been single through the isolation, fear and upheaval say they’ve been confronted with a distinct set of challenges — not necessarily more or less severe than those who are coupled up, but different. Some who said they were content with being single…
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Johnson & Johnson announced on Friday that its one-dose coronavirus vaccine provided strong protection against Covid-19, potentially offering the United States a third powerful tool in a desperate race against a worldwide rise in virus mutations. But the results came with a significant cautionary note: The vaccine’s efficacy rate dropped from 72 percent in the…
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Tune into Jessica Tull’s YouTube channel, with its half a million subscribers, and you can watch her clean her house. Really. On time-lapse videos, some attracting more than three million views, she washes floors, scours sinks, dusts fixtures and folds laundry. Occasionally, one of her three young children passes through the shot. But mostly, she’s…
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MOLLY SJ LOWE; GIO STAIANO; MYRTHE GIESBERS Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. The designer Iris van Herpen recently became fascinated by what scientists call the “wood wide web,” the communication network used by fungi to send messages between plants—think of it as nature’s answer to the…
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