SmileDirectClub, a telehealth company that sold teeth-straightening devices through the mail and faced criticism from medical groups, said on Friday that it had shut down. The company, founded in 2014, sold teeth aligners online and in its shops for $1,850. It marketed them as a faster, cheaper alternative to braces. SmileDirectClub’s initial public offering in…
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Miami Art Week is in full swing in South Florida, anchored by Art Basel Miami Beach. We were on the scene for parties in the area that featured the performer Janelle Monáe, the filmmaker Harmony Korine and prominent figures from the art world. Harmony Korine Introduces Miami to Edglrd The pop star Camila Cabello greeted…
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Toby Gould was an early adopter. In September, Mr. Gould, 78, went to a pharmacy in Hyannis, Mass., to get one of the new vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V. He has asthma, which would heighten his risk of serious illness if he were to be infected. Carol Kerton, 64, knew R.S.V. could…
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What’s on your own best-of list for 2023? Think about everything you consumed, regardless of genre: yes, the best thing you watched, but also the best thing you ate, the best advice you received, the best app you discovered, the best line you encountered in a movie, the best book you read that’s been sitting…
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Ella se ofreció a traer queso gourmet, de esos que cuestan 70 dólares el kilo. Le dije que un par de lonjas de supermercado, que cuestan la cuarta parte de ese precio, estarían bien. Cuatro días después, me dejó. ¿Fue por el queso? ¿Será que el queso representaba algo más grande, o fue solo un…
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In a slip gown that embodied ’90s simplicity, Vanessa Hudgens celebrated her marriage to the baseball player Cole Tucker on Dec. 2, in Tulum, Mexico. The couple met in October 2020 during a virtual meditation session led by Jay Shetty, a monk turned life coach, Ms. Hudgens told Vogue. Mr. Shetty led the wedding ceremony…
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The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought a rare moment of hope and celebration to people with the agonizing blood disorder. But there is no clear path for the new therapies — one-time treatments so effective in clinical trials that they have…
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In October, on the second floor of a former spinning mill in east Belfast, the visual artist and author Oliver Jeffers, 46, hosted a candlelit dinner for a group of Irish and Northern Irish artists and friends. The Portview Trade Centre, as the building is called, stopped producing textiles in the 1970s and is now…
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Every December, as I think back on the wines I most enjoyed over the course of the year, I wrestle with the word “best.” What does it even mean? The best tend to be the most memorable, wines that not only offer great pleasure but perfectly fit the circumstances of their consumption. With that in…
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More than two decades ago, Congress declared that victims of government-caused nuclear contamination who developed cancer and other serious illnesses — including uranium miners and those exposed to radiation from Manhattan Project-era atomic tests — should receive federal compensation. “The health of the individuals who were unwitting participants in these tests was put at risk…
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