The Mütter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year. Among the anatomical and pathological specimens exhibited are skulls corroded by syphilis; spines twisted by rickets; skeletons deformed by corsets; microcephalic fetuses; a two-headed baby; a bound foot from…
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Last summer, Antonia Steinberg heard chatter on her walkie-talkie that would make any camp director shiver: Two kids hadn’t shown up for the 10 p.m. “put-to-bed” curfew. Ms. Steinberg, then all of 22 and in her first summer as president of the camp, got into her car and drove in the darkness to search. At…
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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Walking a dog during the summer in Phoenix begins with a test: Hold the back of your hand to the sidewalk for a few seconds. If your hand can’t take the heat, neither can your…
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John Barrett, a hair dresser whose relaxed wit, scissor-sharp style and long line of A-list clients put him literally on top of the luxury fashion world, with a salon spanning the penthouse level of the Bergdorf Goodman department store, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 66. The death, at NYU Langone hospital, was confirmed…
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I was splayed out on the brown couch, eating my daily (OK, twice daily) mint chocolate chip Popsicle, imagining his birth. I was eight months along, gearing myself up for what would be a miraculous, life-altering event, one that billions of women had experienced before me. It would be dramatic, yet serene. Painful, but worth…
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Si tienes familia, pero nadie puede verla, ¿existe realmente? Esa era la pregunta que acechaba tras nuestras constantes respuestas, susurrada bajo el interminable zumbido de nuestros teléfonos. Había un miedo al olvido que se escondía en la clasificación de nuestros días y pensamientos interiores: no responder al grupo era quedarse congelado en el tiempo. Y…
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After months of prompting, I have finally managed to help my husband form a daily sunscreen habit. Whenever I see traces of paper white cream in his dark beard, I think, We’re halfway there. Hoping to avoid the white cast, heaviness and greasiness common in many sunscreen products available in U.S. drugstores, some Americans, including…
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“On one hand, it’s very frustrating,” said Ms. Hasson, a 43-year-old associate director of development at SAR Academy and High School. “I look at my wedding pictures, and my hair is not done the way I wanted it to be done. It was in the process of being straightened.” Half of her hair was poofy,…
DetailsProvisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that deaths by suicide were up last year — but not for all groups.
An ice cream company based in Brooklyn has issued a recall of all flavors of its soft serve ice cream and sorbet brand after two people who ate its vanilla chocolate flavor fell sick and were sent to the hospital, according to the company and health officials. The illnesses were possibly linked to listeria, a…
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