MOREHEAD, Kentucky — En este hermoso pueblo que colinda con el territorio del carbón, 30.600 luces ledes rosas y amarillas y sodio de alta presión hacen brillar un invernadero tan grande que podría cubrir 50 campos de fútbol americano. Al interior, sin una cucharadita de tierra, casi 1,5 millones de kilogramos de tomates corazón de…
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New York City’s recovery will depend in large part on the success of a restaurant industry now required to extend its definition of prosperity to include the ability of workers, both front and back of house, to live decently. In this case, the rhetoric of returning to normal is inapt, because “normal” was dysfunctional and…
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“During Covid, bookings never slowed down,” she said, noting that some resorts are planning to begin charging for the tests later this month, with rates running from $50 to $150. In Los Cabos, Mr. Chung paid $40 for his Covid test. Lynda Hower, a travel adviser based in Pittsburgh, was vacationing in the Cancún area…
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Unlike so many small businesses, Downtown Yarns, Leti Ruiz’s yarn store in New York’s East Village, managed to make it through the pandemic intact. A surge in interest in crafting — including knitting and crocheting, the store’s specialties — brought both returning and new customers in search of comfort and distr action. When people were…
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In 1999, while in a sixth-grade math class at Hudson Falls Middle School, in Hudson Falls, N.Y., Tracy Nash and Stacey Pratt bonded over a shared appreciation for Pokémon cards. Each was shy, anxious and introverted, and became best friends. After high school they attended SUNY Adirondack, a community college in Queensbury, N.Y. Ms. Nash…
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“I think at first we thought it wasn’t going to stick, especially when Trump became president in 2016, and then the coronavirus,” Ms. Garcia said. “But both our families really wanted to see it happen this time around, so we made it happen.” It happened on the 20-year anniversary of the day the two brides…
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Alexis Joondeph-Breidbart let Ryan Linden know before their first date that if he wanted to win her over, he should come armed with better-than-average conversational skills. “The first thing she said to me when we met on Hinge was, ‘You can do better than that,’” Mr. Linden said. That was in response to a February…
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Name: Cautious Clay Age: 28 Hometown: Cleveland Currently Lives: In a nine-bedroom brownstone in south Brooklyn, with 11 roommates. Claim to Fame: Joshua Karpeh, who is known professionally as Cautious Clay, is a musician, songwriter and producer known for his dreamlike R&B songs about love in the digital era, when identities are carefully constructed and…
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In 2011, Eddie Rosenbaum had just returned to his hometown Cleveland from a year in Rio de Janeiro, when he and Dr. Donelle Cummings, who was headed for Brazil soon himself, found each other on a dating website for men. “His profile was in Portuguese, and I was like, who in Cleveland speaks Portuguese?” Mr.…
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