Members of the Sackler family, the billionaire owners of Purdue Pharma, will receive full immunity from all civil legal claims — current and future — over their role in the company’s prescription opioids business, a federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday. The ruling gives the family the sweeping protection that it has been demanding…
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Every morning, as millions of Americans light up the gas stoves in their kitchens to heat some water or griddle their hash browns, they aren’t just sending delicious breakfast smells wafting through their homes. The blue flames also emit harmful pollutants like nitrogen dioxides, as well as planet-warming gases. So a team of scientists from Stanford…
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Unofficial summer is officially underway. I’m looking forward to eating outdoors as much as humanly possible before it gets unbearably hot. (I’m a summer agnostic.) That said, it’s reader question time and, as usual, my inbox was full of thoughtful and fun requests, including where to go for large-format dining, where to find carciofi alla…
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In any game, there are, of course, losers. Shruti Marathe — who organized three different rounds of betting that included more than 60 participants across five different social groups — had her sights set on Kendall. (Money was not involved because of the elaborate betting process.) “Even when I was watching the finale, I did…
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New York’s Peking duck enthusiasts have had reason to be on edge lately. In the fall, a kitchen fire knocked down Decoy, the small, sunken rathskeller below RedFarm in the West Village that once served what many people considered the finest version of the dish in the city. The restaurant is expected to survive, but…
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Lucky There Isn’t Another Place I owned a small laundromat called “The Laundromat” on Fire Island. Carol walked in with musty sheets and towels from her share house. I quoted her $48.50 (this was in 1976). “I’m from the Bronx,” she said. “I don’t pay $48.50 for laundry. I’m going to the other place.” She…
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London’s magnificent Elizabeth line opened last May, and on its first birthday there’s so much to celebrate. Running from Reading and Heathrow Airport in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, the Elizabeth line brings an additional 1.5 million people within 45 minutes of the capital’s busiest districts; eases congestion on older…
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This week, the Carnegie Hill section of the Upper East Side is being treated to a new scoop shop. In the space that housed Noglu, the gluten-free bakery imported from Paris by Eli Zabar now a few doors south, Mr. Zabar’s son Sasha is opening Glace (French for ice cream) on Friday. Its roster of…
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Blue Box Café by Daniel Boulud at Tiffany & Company In the newly reopened flagship store, breakfast (a continental option for $32 and a more elaborate spread for $58), afternoon tea ($98) and an à la carte menu are served from lunch through early supper in an airy, bejeweled Tiffany blue setting designed by Peter…
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During the pre-Broadway run of “Good Night, Oscar” at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, the actress Emily Bergl was known to the staff as “the lady in the Dress.” As June, the wife of the troubled raconteur-pianist Oscar Levant, Bergl wears a floral dress and matching chartreuse coat. The dress radiates the energy of a…
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