The style on the streets at New York Fashion Week is often an indicator of what people will be wearing as fashion weeks continue in London, Milan and Paris. Based on the crowds outside the latest round of shows, which ended Wednesday, one might wonder if individuality is going out of fashion. While there were…
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Solía ser voluntario en la escuela dominical de mi iglesia, y una vez me di cuenta de que el pastor me miraba desde la puerta mientras yo guiaba a un niño a lo alto de un tobogán de plástico. Intenté saludarlo, pero no dijo nada. Siguió mirándome, con los labios apretados, como si intentara decidir…
DetailsThe comedian’s mental health got so bad she had to stop performing. Now she has returned.
Tucker Marr’s life changed forever last October. He was on his way to a wedding reception when he fell down a steep flight of metal stairs, banging the right side of his head so hard he went into a coma. He’d fractured his skull, and a large blood clot formed on the left side of…
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At some point in the future, the sentient beings running the planet may want to study how the humans dealt with the technological revolution of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. After they have ingested the pertinent scholarly essays and news reports, they will have a pretty good idea of how we managed the…
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Dr. Leslie Hendeles began prodding the Food and Drug Administration to reject a decongestant in cold medicines when he had a mop of curly red hair and Bill Clinton had just become president. By the time opposition to the drug had coalesced, Dr. Hendeles was appearing, at age 80, as an expert to testify before…
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Fashion month — or the back-to-back fashion weeks in New York, London, Milan and Paris — is underway once again. Hundreds of shows will take place before it ends, not to mention dozens of parties. And for every look shown on the runways, there will be others worth noticing on the streets outside the spring…
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Close your eyes and imagine the last gossipy conversation you had with a friend in a public setting. Maybe you were complaining about your spouse over a cappuccino in your neighborhood coffee shop. Or loudly talking over the din of the subway about your boss. You love your spouse, and genuinely like your boss, but…
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A typical Hollywood charity auction, like the Baby2Baby Gala, might consist of beauty sessions with sought-after dermatologists, autographed books and set memorabilia, and the occasional five-minute photo op. It might also be closed to the public, available only to those connected individuals who can afford to bid richly. The charity auction organized by the Union…
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“Accuracy for the time doesn’t matter to me,” Solomon Chen, the chief executive of a consumer electronics company, said recently by phone. “When my jaw just drops and also when people say, ‘What is that? What do you have in there?,’ that’s why I collect clocks.” For the last 25 years, Mr. Chen, 62, has…
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