Tips for Dealing With Jet Lag
Insomnia, drowsiness and brain fog can all take some of the fun out of your first few days in a faraway place. You can’t avoid jet lag, but you can follow some tips to bounce back faster.
11 Easy Vegetarian Summer Dinners
After those excursions to the beach, leisurely park meet-ups and daylong pool hangs, you’ve still got to eat. Chances are you’re a bit wiped from the sun, too. So turn to the best produce summer has to offer and keep things as easy and breezy as the season. The recipes below come together in 30…
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How Restaurants Are Dealing With Heat Waves
Around midday on Wednesday, as the heat index reached more than 102 degrees in Baton Rouge, La., Tremaine Devine was searing burgers on the grill inside his food truck when he began to turn pale and felt lightheaded and short of breath. “I can’t do this, we have to stop,” Mr. Devine told his fiancée,…
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A Mystery on the ‘Planet of the Bass’
Get ready for blast off: We’re going to the Planet of the Bass. This week, social media users were bumping “Planet of the Bass,” a parody of a ’90s Eurodance song with clubby synths and grammatically confounding lyrics. Its female vocalist delivers lines like “All of the dream/How does it mean” while its goggle-wearing hypeman…
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Three Shots for Fall: What You Need to Know
Most Americans have had one or more shots of the flu and Covid vaccines. New this year are the first shots to protect older adults and infants from respiratory syncytial virus, a lesser-known threat whose toll in hospitalizations and deaths may rival that of flu. Federal health officials are hoping that widespread adoption of these…
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Recipes That Meet You Where You Are
Good morning. I came down with Covid for the second time last week, and it left me shivering, sweating, panting a little, unable to sleep, unable to get out of bed. I watched things on my screens. I drank a lot of Gatorade and swallowed my dose of Paxlovid in the mornings and at night.…
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How to Decorate Your Outdoor Space for Summer
It’s hard to beat summer in the city — except maybe on the very hottest days. And if you’re lucky enough to have a little outdoor space, like a balcony, terrace or patio, it’s even better. But how to make the most of that prime real estate? Christine and John Gachot, the designers who founded…
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How to Find Inclusive Wedding Vendors
Ask Tough Questions Consider reading online reviews from couples of who have worked with a vendor so that “you can read firsthand what their experience was like working with this person,” Mx. Blattel said. If you’re unable to find reviews, Mx. Blattel said, ask vendors if they can connect you with previous clients. You can…
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Japan’s High School Baseball Tournament is the Sound of Summer
In addition to being a starting pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays, Yusei Kikuchi is an accomplished karaoke crooner who is proud of his spirited version of the fight song of his former team in Japan, the Seibu Lions. Asked if he knew the words of a more popular song, “Eikan ha Kimi ni Kagayaku,”…
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Would Marrying Her Be a Giant Mistake?
I am Muslim. My potential father-in-law, Bob, is an evangelical Christian. I wanted to spend the rest of my life with his daughter, Jillian, but Bob had some serious concerns about that plan. “What if he exerts his Muslim manhood on you?” he asked Jillian. When Jillian told me about her father’s remark, I thought,…
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