On this week’s Modern Love podcast, the actress Mira Sorvino reads “A Forgotten Prayer, Answered,” an essay about a couple’s fateful trip to Chimi Lhakhang, a fertility temple in Bhutan. Charlotte Bacon, the author of the 2011 essay, is the associate director of humanities grant support at Dartmouth College. She previously taught English and creative…
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Image Sugar rush: A fake-cake and cookie fantasia fills one of Bergdorf Goodman’s windows.CreditJackie Molloy for The New York Times David Hoey, the senior director of visual presentation at Bergdorf Goodman, was sitting in his “war room” the other day when his cellphone rang. Mr. Hoey begged a visitor’s pardon; the phrase “little crisis” was…
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Courtesy Dressing to the nines is not exactly a Thanksgiving Day priority, but that doesn’t mean you should default to overstretched leggings and a baggy T-shirt you found in your parents’ garage. Accommodate your growing food baby without sacrificing style by wearing wrap dresses in dizzy prints, cozy oversized sweaters, and other pieces that let…
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Michael O’Neal, a civic-minded New York restaurateur who, with his actor brother, Patrick, upgraded the emblematic Irish bar into an American bistro that beckoned singles and celebrities, died on Nov. 12 in Manhattan, where he was an owner of a number of its well-known eating establishments. He was 82. His wife, Christine Covey O’Neal, said…
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Around this time last year, I gave up jeans for 10 days. TL;DR: I was sick of wearing the same three pairs every week and, frankly, was in a bit of an outfit rut. So I posted an Instagram that I’d be giving up jeans until further notice and lasted for just over a week.…
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It started with “An Inconvenient Truth.” In 2006, Gregg Renfrew watched the Al Gore documentary on climate change, and became convinced that her next business would be one that introduced cleaner, less environmentally damaging products to the market. Ms. Renfrew, who grew up in New York City and its suburbs, had already had a successful…
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Seven years ago I lost 60 pounds, but recently I’ve struggled with gaining it back. I’m not alone in my weight struggles. Nor am I alone in the eating disorder I have wrestled with for the last 40 years. It’s the most common eating disorder, according to a meta analysis in the Annals of Internal…
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The “33 hour” sale at Dunham’s begins the morning after Thanksgiving and lasts through Monday, when the local schools are closed for deer-hunting season. There are no giant sales on flat-screen televisions or stockpiles of the hottest holiday toy. The big draw is the hot chocolate and the chance to win a $100 gift card.…
DetailsPeople with heart failure experience heart cell loss that can damage the heart muscle to such an extent that they need a transplant. One species of exotic fish, the tetra fish, has the amazing ability to repair its own heart. Can we apply this mechanism to healing human hearts? The tetra fish can regenerate heart…
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ONCE, HERBS WERE weapons. Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians recorded, in cuneiform, lifesaving prescriptions of myrtle and thyme. The oldest surviving text of Chinese herbal pharmacology, extolling the benefits of ginseng, camphor and cannabis, was set down in the first century A.D. Around the same time, the Greek physician Dioscorides documented the properties of…
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