Years ago, when Madigan Beck was just a girl, one of the interns on her family’s community-supported agriculture farm in Osceola, Wis., made a big impression on her. “She was a big sister figure to me,” said Ms. Beck, 28. So, in 2013, when Ms. Beck was an undergraduate at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.,…
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I do not own a car or a house or even a bicycle. Nor am I prone to following Instagram trends. Yet for weeks I have had an obsession: getting rid of all my possessions, breaking the apartment lease, and moving with my dog and my girlfriend into a tricked-out van. The things I would…
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Sophia Antipolis – 3 July 2020: Trouble sleeping after heart bypass surgery? Morning walks are the solution, according to research presented today on ACNAP Essentials 4 You, a scientific platform of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). “Many patients have trouble sleeping after heart bypass surgery,” said study author Dr. Hady Atef of Cairo University,…
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By Brianna Holt In recent months, people all over the world have taken to social media and to the streets to reject police brutality and injustice toward Black people. Protests have erupted in the United States, driven by recent deaths of Black people, including the death of George Floyd, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and…
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By Brianna Holt In recent months, people all over the world have taken to social media and to the streets to reject police brutality and injustice toward Black people. Protests have erupted in the United States, driven by recent deaths of Black people, including the death of George Floyd, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and…
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Judging when to tighten, or loosen, the local economy has become the world’s most consequential guessing game, and each policymaker has his or her own instincts and benchmarks. The point when hospitals reach 70 percent capacity is a red flag, for instance; so are upticks in coronavirus case counts and deaths. But as the governors…
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For restaurants and the New Yorkers who love them, the outdoor cafes that have sprung up across the city over the past two weeks have been one of the few bright spots in a grim season. Under an emergency program that began on June 22, about 6,800 establishments have been authorized to serve food and…
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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The colorful boardwalk is crowded again, the Ferris wheel spins near one of the piers, tourists are browsing in the souvenir shops, and throngs of young people are cutting loose as they always do, guzzling and carousing in the beachside bars and clubs that earned the city the nickname “Dirty Myrtle.”…
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I learned the secret to making the best, crunchiest fruit crumble over two decades ago. And I subsequently ignored it. A pastry chef friend shared the technique. Instead of sprinkling the raw crumbs on top of the fruit, where they absorb the juices and turn a little mushy on their undersides, he spread them out…
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This week, Boeing completed test flights of its troubled 737 Max airplane to demonstrate that it can fly safely with new flight control software. The Max was grounded in March 2019 after a pair of fatal crashes — in Indonesia and Ethiopia — that killed 346 people. Even as the company began testing the planes…
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