Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers found preliminary evidence suggesting that people’s blood type might be an important risk factor — both for being infected by the virus and for falling dangerously ill. But over the past few months, after looking at thousands of additional patients with Covid-19, scientists are reporting a much weaker link…
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As the coronavirus pandemic upended wedding plans and industry jobs, many couples rescheduled their engagement photo shoots in order to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Others hired illustrators to commemorate their upcoming nuptials, ceremonies and other relationship milestones. Here are a few creative examples from artists. ImageCredit…MariaAlejandra Ramirez, Moda Illustrated Engagement and Save-The-Date Cards For…
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A Four-Bedroom House in Israel’s Lower Galilee Region $4.3 MILLION (15 MILLION ISRAELI SHEKELS) This Israeli version of a Mediterranean country home faces northwest toward the biblical Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee region east of Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city. The four-bedroom stone house, built in 2010, is in Kfar Kish, a “moshav,” or agricultural…
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Exercise may help change exercisers’ brains in surprising ways, according to a new study of physical activity and brain health. The study, which included both mice and people, found that exercise prompts the liver to pump out a little-known protein, and that chemically upping the levels of that protein in out-of-shape, elderly animals rejuvenates their…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageCalifornia’s two largest districts, Los Angeles and San Diego, have announced they will teach 100 percent online.Credit…Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times Some of the biggest school districts are in counties where infection rates are high. As education leaders in the United States decide whether to reopen classrooms…
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Image Meera Parat, Jacob Brian Wilson and Alex Rose in their childhood bedrooms. Those who moved back to their childhood bedrooms during quarantine are finding more than just N’Sync posters. By Taylor Trudon July 15, 2020 When Meera Parat decided to leave her one-bedroom apartment in Seattle and return to her childhood home in Palo…
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Shopping for flower bulbs: It’s one of the more joyful summertime garden chores, certainly better than dragging hoses and sprinklers around or keeping ahead of the most incorrigible weeds. Bulb catalogs and their corresponding websites have no shortage of enticing choices, and now is the time to order spring-flowering bulbs for fall planting — or…
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Shopping for flower bulbs: It’s one of the more joyful summertime garden chores, certainly better than dragging hoses and sprinklers around or keeping ahead of the most incorrigible weeds. Bulb catalogs and their corresponding websites have no shortage of enticing choices, and now is the time to order spring-flowering bulbs for fall planting — or…
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The day after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, the schoolteacher Jane Elliott scrapped her lesson plan — teaching her third graders the Sioux prayer about not judging another person until you have “walked a mile in his moccasins” — for an experiential learning exercise. She split the children at…
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This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: ImageCredit…Zack Wittman for The New York Times Florida breaks its record for most deaths in a day, and Texas and Arizona are readying refrigerated morgue trucks. After Florida reported a record 132 deaths on Tuesday, a group of mayors from…
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