Late last year, when my husband was very ill, my friend Debbie Goldberg dropped off a tsimmes, a holiday dish that I had not eaten in years. After heating it up and dipping my fork into the meat and sweet potatoes, memories of my own family — the sweet potato-and-pineapple casserole topped with marshmallows at…
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Not so long ago, things didn’t look so great for the guitar, that global symbol of youthful freedom and rebellion for 70 years running. With hip-hop and Beyoncé-style spectacle pop supposedly owning the hearts and wallets of millennials and Generation Z — and so many 20th-century guitar deities either dead (Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain) or…
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Tightlining is often referred to as the greatest secret of Hollywood makeup. The point is that the manipulations performed seem to be invisible to the naked eye. What is tightlining Today, you will learn about the “tightlining” makeup technique and its benefits. To reproduce the effect, it is necessary to draw a line inside the…
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He broke up with you and left. How to live now? How to be happy? What will happen to you? Sadness, despair, loneliness, questions, and hopes. What if we get together?! If he sees me more often, he will come back to me! It is much easier to get over a breakup if you do…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageAn empty Covid-19 testing site next to W.V.U.’s Coliseum in July. The university said it was moving all undergraduate courses online through Sept. 25 following reports of parties held over the Labor Day weekend.Credit…Kristian Thacker for The New York Times For reopened U.S. universities, parties and pushback are upending…
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Claire Ko and Eugene Kwak didn’t want a woodland cabin or beach house as their weekend getaway from Manhattan. They dreamed of living on a working farm. Never mind that neither had any experience farming. After years of shopping at the Union Square Greenmarket, they had become increasingly curious about where their food came from.…
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CAPRI, Italy — On a sweltering Monday morning in August, half an hour before a ferry to Capri was scheduled to depart from a harbor in Naples, dozens of sweating people crowded on the dock, their face masks in various states of ineffectiveness. The ferry ride to Capri, an island off the coast of southern…
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ImageMany coronavirus testing sites do not screen children. One that does, outside Chief Sealth High School in Seattle, swabbed 1-year-old Quentin Brown late last month. Credit…Elaine Thompson/Associated Press When Audrey Blute’s almost 2-year-old son, George, had a runny nose in July, she wanted to do what she felt was responsible: get him tested for coronavirus. It…
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It has been a prolonged period of retail carnage: storied names declaring bankruptcy, mass market brands closing thousands of stores, tens of thousands of shop employees furloughed or laid off, garment workers in dire straits. More ominous still are the predictions that we will never shop the same way again. For Jamie Salter and David…
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Covid-19 patients who are 80 or older are hundreds of times more likely to die than those under 40. That’s partly because they are more likely to have underlying conditions — like diabetes and lung disease — that seem to make the body more vulnerable to Covid-19. But some scientists suggest another likely, if underappreciated,…
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