A new study of genetic data from a market in Wuhan, China, said the data did not support the case that the pandemic had started with illegally traded animals, touching off fresh debate about samples that other scientists see as critical pieces of the puzzle of how the coronavirus reached humans. The new study, which…
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Decidí comprar un cachorro. Para prepararme, hice una hoja de cálculo con las características que buscaba: que no soltara pelo, que fuera amistoso, que paseara alegre y que babeara lo mínimo posible. Hablé con amigos amantes de los perros, investigué sobre adiestradores y leí Dog Training Revolution: The Complete Guide to Raising the Perfect Pet…
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Through talent, longevity and sheer productivity, it is possible that Karl Lagerfeld did more than any other designer to shape the look of the latter 20th century and the early 21st century. Across more than six decades, five different brands (three at the same time) and numerous collaborations, he flooded the zone from Paris to…
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The modern men’s perm is loud for a hairstyle so soft. On TikTok, the hashtag #menperm, referring to one of the latest hair trends to be born from the app, has garnered more than 20.7 million views. Those videos often begin with a man in a salon chair, pictured from the shoulder up. The camera…
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On the night of April 17, a crowd of 20- and 30-somethings, many of them queer, packed into Georgia Room, a Georgia O’Keeffe-inspired nightclub at the Freehand Hotel in Manhattan. They were there to drink and dance, but they hadn’t paid $25 each to grind or freestyle. They came to line dance. More than 300…
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Equine art lives in many airports: Seattle and San Francisco have bronze horses shaped like driftwood, Central Illinois has wire horses suspended from the ceiling, Tucson has a winged horse and Barcelona has a burly horse. None of them have a horse like Blucifer. Rearing 32 feet tall in a median outside Denver International Airport,…
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For people making a longer journey to attend the coronation, the event is not only a celebration of Charles’s coronation, but a way of connecting to their heritage. Paul Dabrowa, a biotech company founder who lives in Melbourne, Australia, said that being in London for the coronation is a way for him to honor his…
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Last fall, my wedding day ended with me crying in my mother’s lap as my new husband held my hand, both of them assuring me I had done so well. All I had wanted was one spotless day. But there are no spotless days in a chronically ill life and my wedding day was not…
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Yoga was an accident that paid the bills. “I had moved back to the city after college and was living with a friend on Ludlow Street,” Ms. Auder said. “I was depressed on the couch, trying to sell my book.” That was her senior thesis, her first pass at a story about life with Viva.…
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On Thursday, a week after BuzzFeed closed its Pulitzer Prize-winning news division and laid off 15 percent of its staff, Jonah Peretti, the company’s chief executive, predicted in a memo to his remaining employees that the future of the media business lay in “huge cultural moments” and “fun.” Things that sow division will go out…
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