College life was designed around community and togetherness. Now we are attempting to retrofit it for the opposite — with physical distancing, fewer people and the elimination of most in-person gatherings. The final days of summer offer an opportunity for incoming students and their families to prepare for a semester anchored by public health principles.…
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Every so often a word bubbles to the surface of our cultural consciousness and then it’s seemingly unavoidable. This year, in addition to the term “trauma,” it’s “vulnerability.” (Both are apt for a time of widespread social inequality, illness and unemployment.) It’s been ten years since Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of…
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Courtesy of USPS, Parks Project, and @ClaraBelleUK Style Points is a new weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. Merch, like so many things, comes in waves. While the right band T-shirt has always been reliably cool, music merch’s fashion cred arguably crested with Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s T-shirts for Kanye West’s The…
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In an act of defiance, Joe Logue, a retired Marine, affixed a military gas mask and headphones before beginning his chest-and-arm workout at a New Jersey gym that had gone rogue. It is illegal for health clubs to be open for anything other than private training sessions in New Jersey, one of only seven states…
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Linus Adolfsson opened up the Madison Avenue location of Hästens Sleep Spa on March 1. By March 10, he closed the store, which sells high-end beds, and the three locations he owns in Los Angeles with his business partner Carl Larsson. His reaction involved unprintable exclamations of woe. Hästens is a Swedish mattress company that…
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I am a young Black woman who’s been quarantining with my white boyfriend for months. It’s been mostly great for us as a couple. When we visit his family nearby, they often ask me about the Black Lives Matter protests, in which we’re participating. I find them genuinely interested, respectful and curious about why expressions…
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“Wow, brother, you look awful!” the middle-aged woman called out to the 48-year-old man as he made his way slowly to the table. The siblings were from a large, close-knit family, together (back before Covid-19 hit) to celebrate the birthday of their 8-year-old niece. The woman always described her brother as strapping or robust; he…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageJohnny Salinas Jr. rearranges the bodies of people who died of Covid-19 at Salinas Funeral Home in Elsa, Texas, last month.Credit…Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times The U.S. reports its highest single-day virus death toll of the month. Officials across the United States reported more than 1,470 deaths…
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The coronavirus is raging through the White Mountain Apache tribe. Spread across a large reservation in eastern Arizona, the Apaches have been infected at more than 10 times the rate of people in the state as a whole. Yet their death rate from Covid-19 is far lower, just 1.3 percent, as compared with 2.1 percent…
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. This summer, The New York Times is commemorating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage. But Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are not the focus. Although their pioneering reform efforts in the 1800s helped…
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