The women’s bathrooms and lounges at wedding receptions are often filled with guests who are sweaty and sometimes disheveled from a long day and night of activities or a few spins on the dance floor. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a hair and makeup artist on hand to re-pin an updo, touch up eye…
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Image CreditDaniel Krieger for The New York Times Jimmy Bradley and Danny Abrams opened the Red Cat in 1999, on the west side of 10th Avenue north of 23rd Street, just south of a carwash. The restaurant was meant to evoke, Mr. Bradley said, New England by way of Paris, and his cooking did the…
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Our columnist, Jada Yuan, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2018 list. This dispatch brings her to Bhutan (no. 9 on the list); it is the 50th stop on Jada’s itinerary. Image From top right: A farmer and her child on the road to Punakha Dzong; prayer wheels at the…
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Photographed by Max Papendieck and Styled by Charles Varenne Dec 18, 2018 Two of fashion’s brightest young stars, models Anok Yai and Grace Elizabeth, take the season’s most head-turning looks for a spin. Feather embroidered cady blouse, Oscar de la Renta, $4,990. Beauty Tip: Estée Lauder Brush-On Glow BB Highlighter ($32) subtly reflects light for…
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Nutrition experts have long debated whether there is an optimal diet that humans evolved to eat. But a study published this month adds a twist. It found that there is likely no single natural diet that is best for human health. The research, published in the journal Obesity Reviews, looked at the diets, habits and…
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Pam Williams didn’t love her loft in the Pearl District of Portland, Ore. Its orangy bamboo floors and cabinets didn’t speak to her, nor did the imposing steel ductwork from a previous renovation. To create a place that felt like her own, she figured she would have to move. Then she saw another apartment in…
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Joaquin Lopez had emergency gallbladder surgery after rushing to an emergency room last year. He has been haggling with Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis over what he owes ever since. The 37-year-old college professor was hit with a nearly $8,000 bill from the out-of-network hospital — that was after the $11,000 he and his insurer…
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Image Andrea Boyle, a family nurse practitioner, practiced inserting an IUD into an artificial uterus during a training session for Upstream in Delaware.CreditMichelle Gustafson for The New York Times When a woman of childbearing age goes to the doctor in most places, she gets standard queries about her smoking, drinking, seatbelt use and allergies. In…
DetailsNew research investigating the effect of gut microbiota on the efficacy of type 2 diabetes drugs suggests that the composition of gut bacteria may explain why diabetes medications work for some people and not others. Our gut microbiome can inhibit or boost the action of anti-diabetes drugs. According to some estimates, over 415 million people…
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Julian Niccolini, the face of the Four Seasons Restaurant in Manhattan who for years had weathered sexual misconduct allegations, was forced to resign on Monday, the restaurant said in a statement. Mr. Niccolini, 65, was told to resign by Alex von Bidder, a co-owner with whom he had operated the restaurant since the mid-1990s, according…
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