As concern grows over the potential for children to become seriously ill from the coronavirus, a new study paints the most detailed picture yet of American children who were treated in intensive care units throughout the United States as the pandemic was taking hold in the country. None of the children in the study, published…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageMasks were required when Shanghai Disneyland reopened to the public on Monday.Credit…Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A faint hope emerges as people return to public places. The world is far from open again, but people are slowly being allowed to return to some of the places they once…
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Good morning. With the assistance of his young student Titian, Giovanni Bellini made a painting in 1514, “The Feast of the Gods.” It’s terrific and someday maybe you’ll see it for real at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. They’re all there: Mercury, Jupiter, Cybele, Pan, Neptune, the whole gang. Everyone’s drinking wine, eating, hanging…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImagePresident Trump, senior military leaders and members of his national security team gathered, maskless, at the White House on Saturday. Credit…Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times “We have to get our country open again,” President Trump said last week, even as he acknowledged that meant more people could die. “People want…
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Your love of lines, dark lipsticks and glowing skin spoils the whole image. How to look great after 45 years with the right makeup? Avoid these anti-age makeup mistakes! Glowing skin Glowing skin (sometimes even too glowing) is in fashion now, but this technique can sometimes emphasize wrinkles. The way out is to use products…
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Image In the city’s Muslim Quarter, meals are a celebration of globalization and ethnic diversity — and a lasting defense against erasure. A dumpling steamer outside one of the shops in the Muslim district of Xi’an in central China, where locally cultivated wheat — once foreign to the country — is now crucial in the…
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Here’s what you need to know: When will this end? And how will we know? ImageA Sicilian fresco of “The Triumph of Death” from 1445. In the previous century, the Black Death killed at least a third of Europe’s population.Credit…Werner Forman/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? And how? According…
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Beneath the waves, two smoldering coals for eyes watched me with an intense, unyielding stare. Pristine white bodies floated up elegantly from the depths, one after another, surrounding my kayak in the open water. Their ghostly pale faces with wide, Joker-esque smiles pushed closer. A long, powerful sound burst up through the air, like a…
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The day before Megan LeCrone, a soloist dancer with the New York City Ballet, turned 36, she got an urgent call from her longtime friend and fellow soloist Harrison Ball. “If we don’t leave now, we’re not going to be able to get out,” he told her. The date was March 20, when only 17,000…
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Even if no other good for health care emerges from the coronavirus crisis, one development — the incorporation of telemedicine into routine medical care — promises to be transformative. Using technology that already exists and devices that most people have in their homes, medical practice over the internet can result in faster diagnoses and treatments,…
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