We are inside a glass box of a gondola, part of the longest passenger cable car in the world, flying silently along on a nearly five-mile ride, and some 50 stories above a sapphire sea just off the coast of Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam. On this bright March afternoon, hundreds of colorful wooden…
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To see a field of common milkweed in midsummer — a sea of a thousand nodding pink flower heads — you would not imagine that anything could ever stand in the way of the genus Asclepias. Yes, common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), the most widespread milkweed east of the Rocky Mountains, can colonize disturbed sites and…
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Part of that business, Mr. Crawford said, would be to offer a curated mix of items considered both beautiful and the best of their kind. “And if it didn’t exist, we’d try to make it,” he said. When Gardenheir’s website debuted, in September 2021, it sold the clogs and some shirts and hats from its…
DetailsHealth officials have revised their recommendations on which children should receive the new drug.
Over the weekend, something happened to Ivanka Trump that hasn’t occurred since before her father was elected president: Celebrities were willing to be seen with her. On Friday night, Ms. Trump, an adviser in former President Donald J. Trump’s White House, attended Kim Kardashian’s 43rd birthday party at Funke Restaurant in Beverly Hills, Calif., where…
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The fourth state dinner hosted by the Biden administration, to honor Anthony Albanese, the prime minister of Australia, will feature a menu of fall vegetables, a backdrop of florals and a selection of instrumental music performed by military bands. “Nurturing our partnerships and relationships with our allies is critically important, especially in these tumultuous times,”…
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The Toll: Nearly five days of poor mental health a month. Federal researchers tracked self-reported mental health symptoms among more than a thousand adult workers in 2018 and 2022, including 226 health care workers in 2018 and 325 in 2022. Compared with other groups surveyed, health care workers reported a substantial jump in poor mental…
DetailsDengue, the excruciating mosquito-borne disease, is surging throughout the world and coming to places that had never had it. California just confirmed a rare U.S. case.
The Covid vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna may be linked to a slight increase in the risk of stroke when administered along with a high-dose flu vaccine, according to a new analysis by the Food and Drug Administration. The high-dose flu vaccine is usually given to older people, and the risk association is clearest…
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Donlin M. Long, a pioneering neurosurgeon whose brain research helped millions of patients manage pain and who collaborated on the invention of an implantable pump to deliver insulin to people with diabetes, died on Sept. 19 near Gettysburg, Pa. He was 89. The cause was complications of a fall he suffered while fly-fishing for trout…
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