“There are times when my wards look more like a battlefield than a pediatric unit,” Dr. Heagarty once wrote. But if caring for Harlem’s children was a battle, she was an unrelenting fighter. She helped reduce the hospital’s infant mortality rate to the New York City norm. To care for children with AIDS, she, along…
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The Spanish government on Thursday approved a law allowing people 16 and older to change their legally registered gender without undergoing psychological and medical evaluations to show gender dysphoria, becoming one of the few countries to allow such gender change by self-declaration. Spain’s minister of equality, Irene Montero, said on the Parliament floor on Thursday…
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The trick, Mr. Javier said, is to strike the right tone: “If you are a prospective employer, seeing someone vent about a past employer can be a red flag. I encourage everyone to stay positive, to focus on the actions you are taking to find a new job.” Some people are heeding that advice. Ms.…
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What a gift it would be to bottle up summer and enjoy it in the thick of February. Plenty have tried. Sea salt hair spray never quite replicates those natural beachy waves, piña colada hard seltzer won’t transport you to the tropics and that garden vegetable candle just doesn’t stand in for the real thing.…
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It’s easy to forget that citrus has a season unless you live among the trees, somewhere warm where you can catch its daydream scent with the winter breeze. If you know that magic, you want to capture it. If you don’t, you want to experience it. There’s a hint of it when peeling an orange,…
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Hanging out: It’s a loose social dynamic in which people spend unstructured time together with no set agenda. (Did you need a reminder? Has it been a minute?) The shortage of idle hangs in our culture is what inspired Sheila Liming, an Edith Wharton scholar, writing professor, professional bagpipe player and devoted socializer, to write…
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About one-fourth of respondents in Gallup’s poll said they put off care last year for what they considered a “serious” condition. When Margaret Bell, 71, found that her cancer had returned four years ago, she hesitated to resume her chemotherapy because she could not afford it, and higher prices have made it even harder. She…
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By Tilly Macalister-Smith Since starting her brand Completedworks in 2013, the British jeweler Anna Jewsbury has sold her signature organic forms and asymmetrical earrings online and through retailers like Dover Street Market and Bergdorf Goodman. But she wanted to have more direct interactions with her customers and, as of January, she’s created a space for…
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