Efforts to develop the next generation of Covid vaccines are running up against bureaucratic hassles and regulatory uncertainty, scientists say, obstacles that could make it harder to curb the spread of the coronavirus and arm the United States against future pandemics. The Biden administration, after months of delay, has now addressed at least a shortfall…
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I’ve been recently experimenting with shorter pants, something I can wear with a blazer, or simply a T-shirt or a sweater. I’ve been hemming some of them, but what’s too short? I want to stay away from Capri pants/clown pants territory. How do you know when you are doing it right? — Pavel, Athens The…
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Tony Shepard learned he had vocal cord cancer this spring, but he was encouraged when his doctor said he had an 88 percent chance at a cure with chemotherapy and radiation. That outlook began to dim in recent weeks, though, after the oncology practice he goes to in Central California began to sporadically run out…
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“Kagami,” the new “mixed reality” concert of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s music by the production company Tin Drum is meant to be a profound experience, a groundbreaking achievement in virtual reality that expands the visual limits of recorded performance. In practice, it feels like a wake in a laser tag arena. In some ways that’s unavoidable; Sakamoto,…
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For decades, one fashion accessory was more synonymous with Britain’s most famous music festival, Glastonbury, than any other: Hunter Wellington boots. Paparazzi photographs of the likes of Kate Moss, Cara Delevingne and Alexa Chung wearing their Hunters in the early aughts propelled what were once functional footwear favorites of country life into cool style statements…
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Good morning. One of the great joys of being a reporter for the Food section of The New York Times is the chance to go into restaurant kitchens to learn how a chef prepares a dish you love, and then figure out how to make that same dish at home. Eric Kim had that opportunity…
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Maggie Bullock, who wrote a book about J. Crew, reported that when the Fast Company issue was released, a high-ranking executive at the company (not Mr. Drexler, who denied knowledge of these events) sent “a team of employees out to scoop up every issue they could find,” in order to lessen the impact of the…
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SELF-MADE: Creating Our Identities from da Vinci to the Kardashians, by Tara Isabella Burton The Kardashians have sold so much to America — shapewear, cosmetics, beverage upon beverage — why not throw ideas onto the pile? That highly contoured family pulls up like a caboose at the end of Tara Isabella Burton’s “Self-Made,” a fast-moving…
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Name an L.G.B.T.Q. landmark. Perhaps it’s the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan. Maybe it’s Castro Camera, Harvey Milk’s shop in San Francisco, or even the Coral Sea Islands, where activists started their own micronation to advocate the legalization of gay marriage in Australia. All three places appear on Queering the Map, a digital…
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