Susanne Bliss Stansell excitedly recapped the festivities of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in May 2018 to Jordi van den Heiligenberg during their first date at Nix, a vegetarian restaurant in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “She gave a very elaborate summary,” he said with a laugh. He attentively listened to her rundown of the…
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In late February, Jordan Tyler saw a TV commercial for the dating app Match, and while “not big on an online thing,” decided, nonetheless to give it a try. In late February, Brittany Swoboda, also took note of a television spot for Match, perhaps, Mr. Tyler later speculated, the very same ad that had inspired…
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One day in 2016, the Republican minority leader in the Connecticut House of Representatives, Themis Klarides, received an email that raised an eyebrow. After she read it, she strode into her chief of staff’s office and held up her phone. “What does this mean to you?” Ms. Klarides recalled asking. The message in her palm…
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Right about the time Lindsey Scannapieco was losing faith in online dating, in the summer of 2016, the dating app Tinder matched her with Sandy Machin. “I wasn’t enjoying online dating,” she said. “I guess some people do. But I wasn’t.” It took the two about six weeks to finally meet at a pop-up beer…
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Their first date lasted seven hours. It still wasn’t enough time. After a three-mile walk and conversation about their travels and favorite authors that ebbed seamlessly between Spanish and English, Lucia Macias, 37, and Matthew Jaffe, 40, both found themselves wanting more time with one another. The two, who met online on a dating website…
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Researchers at Uppsala University have found that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the closely related SARS-CoV-2 virus, the culprit in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The substance concerned is nitric oxide (NO), a compound with antiviral properties that is produced by the body itself. The study…
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WASHINGTON — The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today released the final report of a consensus study recommending a four-phased equitable allocation framework that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) authorities should adopt in the development of national and local guidelines for COVID-19…
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Do you know what style of beer you like? Wine? Do you know what type of hard cider you prefer? If you’re like most Americans, you could probably answer the first two questions with confident specificity, but the last one might give you pause. Despite having spent most of the last decade in a period…
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East Hanover, NJ – October 2, 2020 – The downshift in the September job numbers sparks concerns about employment prospects for Americans with and without disabilities, according to today’s National Trends in Disability Employment – Monthly Update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability (UNH-IOD). The declines in…
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Events at birth may affect the microbes living in a baby’s gut during the first few months of life, leading to a higher risk of childhood obesity and allergies, according to a new study published in the journal Gastroenterology. The researchers used data from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) to look at the complex relationships…
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