How can you give yourself a buzz cut? Here, let us show you. You will need: Clippers with guards, which attach to the clippers and control the length of a cut A mirror, plus maybe another mirror or a phone. A garbage bag or towel A comb or hair pick, depending on your hair type…
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MANILA — Even before the coronavirus arrived in Manila, a saying in the capital’s sprawling San Roque slum — “no one dies from a fever” — crystallized the many threats that its residents faced in their daily lives. Drug-fueled petty crime. Food shortages. Overcrowding and poor sanitation. Fever, body aches and coughs were commonplace long…
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Celebrating your birthday this year isn’t selfish. It’s generous. Whether you’re turning 12, 42 or 92, inviting people to come together in a unique, specific way to celebrate your birth is actually a form of meaning-making for everyone else. Birthday celebrations, when designed well, are an opportunity to express love, to mark life and to…
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In mid-March, just around the time that American schools and offices started closing because of the coronavirus pandemic, not that long before numerous designers had suddenly become heroes for volunteering their services to hand-sew masks so that surgical-grade ones could go to those who needed them most, the staff at Draper James, Reese Witherspoon’s fashion…
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With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’re turning to photojournalists who can help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places. We’re calling this new series “The World Through a Lens.” This week, Stephen Hiltner, an editor on the Travel desk, invites you to join him on an arduous multiday…
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It has been weeks since the coronavirus brought our lives to a halt, shutting down our schools, offices and gyms. Stuck at home, we have had nothing but time to reflect on the things that matter. Consumer technology — most of it, anyway — is low on the list. That’s right. I’m admitting that many…
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Luke Ackroyd wandered his family’s backyard Sunday morning, surveying an expanding vegetable garden. Before him were rising arugula sprouts and the stiff green spikes of young onion plants. A nurse anesthetist, Ackroyd was due on Monday to start a four-day shift on an airway team at Boston Medical Center, a 514-bed hospital and trauma center…
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Everyone has heard the advice: Don’t smoke. Maintain a healthy weight. Exercise regularly. Use alcohol in moderation. Now researchers have created a method for estimating how many extra years of healthy living might be gained by following those admonitions. Their analysis, in JAMA Internal Medicine, followed 116,043 people ages 40 to 75 over an average…
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It may be a good idea to give one another more than six feet of space while exercising outside during the current coronavirus pandemic, according to a compelling new study that looked at how air flows around bodies in motion. The study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal and the results need…
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Obesity in preschoolers may be linked to bone fractures in childhood, scientists report. Spanish researchers recorded body mass index in 466,997 children who underwent routine preschool health screening at age 4 between 2006 and 2013. They followed them for up to 11 years. In this study, which used World Health Organization definitions for body weight,…
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