Trainers Share 5 of the Most-Hated but Beneficial Exercises
Loathe burpees? Fear planks? Trainers share tips to make dreaded moves work for you.
Architects’ Los Angeles Home Embraces Tube-Like Design
This article is part of our Design special section about innovative surfaces in architecture, interiors and products. Lucía Cano and José Selgas are architects who have no fear of color. Founders of the studio SelgasCano in Madrid, they designed a conference center in Cartagena, Spain, that looks like a translucent organ glowing orange from within…
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Hotels Take Sleep Tourism to the Next Level
To sleep, perchance to dream. Or if not dream, at least to feel vaguely rested the next day, especially on vacation. Is that too much to ask? For many people, yes. The United States is tired, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health,…
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You Don’t Need a Greenhouse to Grow Citrus Indoors
Shattering the glass ceiling isn’t always a goal — not if you’re a certain beloved lemon tree growing in a Victorian-era greenhouse. The tree in question, a Ponderosa lemon planted almost 125 years ago by the founder of Logee’s nursery, in Danielson, Conn., has been pruned to stay within bounds by three generations of his…
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Just Try to Find Women in Horology History
Since the late 19th century, more than a third of the work force in the Swiss watch industry has been women, according to statistics from the Swiss government. Yet you wouldn’t know it from exploring the Musée International d’Horlogerie, a brutalist architecture monument with wavelike walls in the watchmaking city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Four women…
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Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46
Shafiqah Hudson was looking for a job in early June of 2014, toggling between Twitter and email, when she noticed an odd hashtag that was surging on the social media platform: #EndFathersDay. The posters claimed to be Black feminists, but they had dubious handles like @NayNayCan’tStop and @CisHate and @LatrineWatts. They declared they wanted to…
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Why Did I Choose Her?’
A Crush Since Day 1 In 1997 I wanted a new tax guy. I was referred to Mike. He had a great smile, and I immediately crushed hard. Each year I’d offer up a new persona to get his attention: The damsel in financial distress. The rising PR exec who catered on the side and…
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6 Charged With Smuggling Goose and Duck Intestines From China
Some were in crates marked as “pet nail clippers.” Others were hidden under packaged rattlesnakes, a complaint filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn said. The crates concealed exotic delicacies that were illegal contraband, the complaint said: raw goose and duck intestines, sent from China and destined for New York City shops and restaurants. Federal…
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Patti Smith Sings for the Morgan Library & Museum’s 100th Anniversary
Over a century ago, J.P. Morgan built a majestic library for his opulent mansion in Midtown Manhattan. After his death, his son, the financier Jack Morgan, opened it to the public in 1924, and it eventually became the Morgan Library & Museum. Last night, crowds of art patrons and well-heeled bibliophiles gathered in that grand…
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Frank Popoff, Who Sought to Lead a Friendlier Dow Chemical, Dies at 88
Frank Popoff, a chief executive and chairman who tried to make Dow Chemical more conciliatory toward regulators and environmentalists in the late 1980s and ’90s, and who prodded the chemical industry to adopt safer practices, died on Feb. 25 at his home in Midland, Mich., where Dow is based. He was 88. A spokesman for…
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