If biometric data is stolen or misused, travelers don’t have much recourse, said Alex Alben, who teaches privacy, data and cybersecurity at the University of California Los Angeles and University of Washington law schools. There are no federal laws regarding the use of biometric data, he said, although a few states are beginning to create…
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The first time Kendra Nicole Morris met Randall Lee Woodfin, in May, 2021, she was at a charity golf tournament in her hometown, Birmingham, Ala. Ms. Morris’s real estate brokerage was sponsoring one of the holes, while Mr. Woodfin made an appearance in his capacity as the city’s mayor. The two chatted briefly, but the…
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She had Googled me. Actually, she had Googled herself, and because we have the same name, it was me who popped up on her screen. Curious, she went to my website and read some of my essays. Then Jennifer Graham in Lucas, Ohio, composed an email to Jennifer Graham in Hopkinton, Mass. “This is going…
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Elisabeth Claire Rivard rarely found anyone who spent as much time as she did in art museums and galleries. Alec Jason Woletz was one of those rare people. “This is someone I’d like to get to know better,” Ms. Rivard, who goes by Lizzie, recalled thinking. It was June 2013, and the two were hanging…
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In 2017, they finally landed in the same place. They moved in together in Rosslyn, Va., just outside of Washington. Mr. McFawn was in graduate school and Ms. Chen was a news anchor at WJLA-TV. In February 2020, Ms. Chen moved to New York City for a job as a correspondent at CBS Newspath, and…
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In July 2020, Lawrence James Handerhan walked from his home in Washington to a local brewery for a date — his first ever from the dating app Hinge. His date, Donnelly Lon McDowell, lived four blocks away from him. While the two had mutual friends, they had never crossed paths before. They sat outside with…
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Hi, I’m Pete Wells, restaurant critic for the Times and unarmed duck hunter. Each October, I get hungry for duck. There’s no good explanation for my timing. In some parts of the country, fall is when you pull on waders, whistle for the retrievers and crouch in a marsh waiting for mallards and teals to…
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“It took weeks to get the walls rebuilt,” his daughter, Anuschka, said, “and during that time, my father’s medical students came on a schedule, protecting the house with broom poles and sticks, sitting out all night. There was so much love from his community of students.” In addition to his son and daughter, he is…
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An international team of scientists has mapped the human brain in much finer resolution than ever before. The brain atlas, a $375 million effort started in 2017, has identified more than 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously reported. The researchers have only a dim notion of what the…
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In meal-train cooking — be it for an ailing friend, a weary new-parent neighbor or a grief-stricken co-worker — the cheesy casserole often prevails. Few things can comfort like, say, a tray of easy-to-freeze lasagna at the onset of difficult times. But the reality of hard times is that they can outlast even the biggest…
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