Safari camps are the stuff of dreams and bucket lists. They can also be leaders in conservation, sustainability, design, eco-sensitivity and hospitality. Take Kisawa Sanctuary, set to open next summer on an island off the coast of Mozambique. The construction of the marine safari camp incorporated 3-D sand printing, along with traditional weaving, thatching and…
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As the Tripped Up columnist, I’ve fielded hundreds of emails about the ways in which Times readers have spent their time off, whether it’s for a 90th birthday trip or a family vacation with five children, and how things frustratingly went wrong. For the final column of the year, I took inspiration from several stories…
DetailsResearchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, may have found a combination of drugs that can relieve the pain of passing a kidney stone. They performed their study in pigs. Share on PinterestNew research may help alleviate kidney stone pain. Anyone who has ever passed a kidney stone knows that it can…
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Everlane Attention, Everlane shoppers: The event you’ve been waiting for is finally here. Right now, your favorite destination for sustainable staples is having its highly anticipated Choose What You Pay Winter Event. Everlane puts transparency first and foremost, so the brand offers three discounted prices and tells you exactly what that money goes toward. Simply…
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. I Have Nothing to Wear is the series asking ELLE staffers and industry influencers to obsessively record what they wore for a full seven days. From the discarded to the which-shirt-goes-better? moments, it’s a complete snapshot of how we think about getting dressed. This week, Angel Lenise is taking us back to her summer…
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Hi and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes. This is one of those strange in-between weeks, right? Not bad-strange, not at all, but what you need for the next few days most likely bears no relation to what you’ll need in two weeks, as we loll around in these post-Christmas, pre-New Year’s days. And so below…
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[This is the Love Letter newsletter. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. ] A mother’s love can’t pay the bills. It can’t put a roof over your head, and it can’t make ends meet. But maybe, with its strength and stability, it can be enough to inspire the pursuit of a better…
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Surfacing As the mall declines, American Dream — a “destination” at the height of capitalism — rises. ImageNickelodeon Universe is the largest indoor theme park in the Western Hemisphere.Credit…Ross Mantle for The New York Times One morning in early December, I left my office in midtown Manhattan, took a 20-minute bus ride to the New…
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“Are you sure you want me to move in with you?” I asked. “Where the hell else are you going to go?” he responded. Ah, love and real estate. In New York City, they are always entwined. I sputtered before recognizing his answer as unequivocal commitment, to me. My new love — his name is…
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Every winter, in Nepal’s snow-covered hills, young women keep dying because of a deadly superstition. The tradition here says that any woman who has her period must be banished outside, to a cowshed or makeshift bunker, no matter how cold or dangerous. This has been a ritual, believed to protect the purity…
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