But “two weeks later, she came around,” Ms. Gaebe said. “She told me she loved me.” In late November, Ms. Gaebe asked Ms. Bozorg to meet her after physical therapy for a surprise. “Oh you’re taller than me,” Ms. Bozorg said when she saw Ms. Gaebe without her crutches. And then for the first time,…
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Their backgrounds, however, were vastly different. “We grew up incredibly poor,” Ms. Matteson, a social worker in the Argyle, Texas, school district, said. She and her three siblings moved around the West Coast frequently with their mother, until she was placed in foster care as an adolescent. After aging out of foster care, she won…
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Ms. Evans is a registered radiologic technologist. She works for Urgent Doc, an urgent care center, in Livingston, Texas, and occasionally covers shifts at Dedicated Medical Center & Urgent Care in Woodville, Texas. She holds an associate degree in science from John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill.; another associate degree in radiology from Southern…
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“No way,” I said. “He’s my friend.” “Exactly.” She stood, brushed off her snow pants and wandered off to explore. Kevin came over and we sat silently, watching as penguins offered each other pebbles in hopes of winning over a mate. After a few minutes, he pulled two plastic-wrapped cookies from his chest pocket and…
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Why It Matters As more than a dozen states banned abortion in the past year, women with unwanted pregnancies have turned in growing numbers to self-managed medication abortions. But the arduous and time-consuming methods needed to procure the drugs create delays, often meaning pregnancies are more advanced by the time the drugs arrive. The new…
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A change in hair color can be emblematic of a shift in someone’s personal life, a fresh start or an attempt to hit pause on the aging process. Depending on the person, it may be a significant change that lasts for a while — or just till the next haircut. For many men, it can…
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On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to the drug Leqembi for patients who are in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, and Medicare said it would cover 80 percent of the cost of the $26,500-per-year medication. The decisions by the two federal agencies will vastly increase access to the drug but…
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By Wei Tchou This spring, the chef Molly Levine began serving seasonal cuisine from a refurbished 1971 Airstream trailer parked on a former dairy farm in the Hudson Valley. Westerly Canteen’s trailer holds a compact kitchen with cream-painted walls and blond wood counters. “I had this wild idea, like, ‘What if we took the food…
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Call it the melee of the middle-aged men. We already know the main event. That would be Elon Musk versus Mark Zuckerberg in Las Vegas, or maybe the Colosseum in Rome. The rival tech billionaires are inching toward a cage match, brokered by Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. And for an undercard,…
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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday gave full approval to the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi, and Medicare said it would cover much of its high cost, laying the foundation for widespread use of a medication that can modestly slow cognitive decline in the early stages of the disease but also carries significant safety risks. The…
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