Hit the health headlines recently, and you’ll no doubt have seen stories hailing red wine as a miracle cure-all, with some claiming that it can add years to your life. With so much hype surrounding this controversial beverage, it can be not easy to discern fact from fiction. So what’s the real story? Read on…
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OSCEOLA, Iowa — So many of Deborah Krauss’s friends and neighbors have died of drug overdoses during the pandemic that she said she felt as if she had been living inside of a dream. The longest she has gone without someone dying, she noted, is three weeks. Her calendar grew cluttered with funerals. “I lost…
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For 10 years, Eileen Patricia Fitzpatrick and Robert Mitchell Minondo refused to ruin their close-knit friendship. So they never even tested the waters of romance. But they could only hold out for so long. The two met in 2003 in junior high school — at what was then Intermediate School 30 in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn —…
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From the moment Matthew Alec Davis and Dr. Marc Mahoney Beuttler first made eye contact, they each felt an instant attraction. The two had connected on the dating app Grindr and agreed to meet on Aug. 11, 2015 at the now-closed restaurant Yuki Izakaya in New Orleans, where they talked easily over dinner. “Our eyebrows…
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To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Early last October, the mink on a fur farm in Spain suddenly began to fall ill. They stopped eating and began salivating excessively. They became clumsy, started to experience tremors and developed bloody snouts. At first, experts…
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The gas station reopened in 2008, and its balky sign was lit again in 2019. Mr. Okura “did more for California’s Route 66 than any other person in preservation,” Beth Murray, a photographer, wrote on Facebook. “We have lost someone who saw a goal and made it happen, saw a town and made it prosper,…
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The gas station reopened in 2008, and its balky sign was lit again in 2019. Mr. Okura “did more for California’s Route 66 than any other person in preservation,” Beth Murray, a photographer, wrote on Facebook. “We have lost someone who saw a goal and made it happen, saw a town and made it prosper,…
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The gas station reopened in 2008, and its balky sign was lit again in 2019. Mr. Okura “did more for California’s Route 66 than any other person in preservation,” Beth Murray, a photographer, wrote on Facebook. “We have lost someone who saw a goal and made it happen, saw a town and made it prosper,…
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The gas station reopened in 2008, and its balky sign was lit again in 2019. Mr. Okura “did more for California’s Route 66 than any other person in preservation,” Beth Murray, a photographer, wrote on Facebook. “We have lost someone who saw a goal and made it happen, saw a town and made it prosper,…
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I don’t wear my wedding ring anymore. I haven’t for the last 20 or so years. I’m not divorced, nor do I plan to be anytime soon. After 47 years, I haven’t outgrown my marriage but I have outgrown my ring. No amount of exercise reverses the flabbiness in my fingers. My gold band, size…
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