The hype around Cyberpunk 2077 had been building for nearly a decade. When CD Projekt Red, the Polish studio behind the video game, announced the title in 2012, it was billed as a gripping, free-flowing saga that would immerse players in a lifelike sci-fi universe. Since then, fans have been treated to impressive teaser trailers,…
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In college, Josh Martin struggled to answer a question that stumps plenty of students: What’s next? Martin played football for Columbia University from 2009 to 2012 but wasn’t expecting his career to consist of tackles and sacks. He majored in anthropology and considered law school, but a student-athlete adviser told him he didn’t have the…
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“It’s so satisfying when I take a picture and hear the little sound,” Ms. de la Rochefordière said. There are over 1,000 mosaics in Paris, where the first pixelated alien invaded the Bastille neighborhood in 1996. The retro tiles have long rewarded attentive Parisians with interludes of color in the otherwise muted city, mostly on…
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Just in time for the holiday snuggles, there’s a new matchmaking service that promotes itself, half seriously, as a “membership-based dating app for Jews with ridiculously high standards.” It’s called the Lox Club, and to join, you have to make it past a committee that examines your ambition, Instagram persona and perceived authenticity. A sense…
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the coronavirus vaccine made by Moderna for emergency use, allowing the shipment of millions more doses across the nation and intensifying the debate over who will be next in line to get inoculated. The move will make Moderna’s vaccine the second to reach the American public, after…
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Looking ahead to spring While the majority of Americans won’t get their shots until spring, the vaccine rollout is a hopeful sign of better days ahead. We asked Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, as well as several epidemiologists and health and science writers for The Times, for their predictions about the months ahead. Here’s some of…
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That is markedly lower than the company’s official price, which has been announced at $19.50 per dose, which is also what the United States government paid. Rollout of the Pfizer vaccine began in the United States this week. The Moderna vaccine, which is the next in line for E.U. approval, on Jan. 6, and is…
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Henry Haller’s entree to the White House came in late 1965, after the executive chef hired by the Kennedys had quit, finding it beneath his dignity at long last to prepare food like the spare ribs, spoon bread and mashed garbanzo beans requested by the subsequent White House occupants, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson. Mr.…
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Even so, employers may need to be careful about how they handle the process. Prescreening vaccination questions could violate an A.D.A. provision on disability-related inquiries. Employers administering vaccines, the guidance said, must show that prescreening questions are “job related and consistent with business necessity.” Covid-19 Vaccines › Answers to Your Vaccine Questions With distribution of…
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Welcome. Friday again, weekday drifting into weekend, the final thread of the year unspooling. The Styles desk took a look at the things that came out on top in 2020 — like rescue animals, adopted in massive numbers by affection-starved Americans newly stuck at home, and rotten bananas, once compost-bound but now the raw material…
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