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A 23-Month Pregnancy? Scientists See Hints in Bowhead Whales.
Confirming the finding would give the species the longest period of gestation known in mammals, although more research is needed.
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Magazine
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Gay, Dominant, Single, White, Female’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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World
8 Men Are Convicted in 2016 Terrorist Bombings in Brussels
The series of attacks was the deadliest such assault in Belgian history. Six of the accused had already been convicted over terrorist attacks in Paris the previous year.
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World
Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ When Barbara Kingsolver set out to write her latest novel, “Demon Copperhead,” she was already considered one of the most accomplished writers of our time. She had won awards including the Women’s Prize for Fiction ...
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Sports
Nick Price and the Thrill of Winning the Open
He won three majors in his career, but it was taking the British Open in 1994 that meant the most.
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World
Stephen M. Silverman, Biographer of Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 71
An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.
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World
The Hysterical Overreaction to Jayapal’s ‘Racist State’ Gaffe
Last weekend, Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Washington Democrat who is chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, made a significant political error. She called Israel a “racist state,” instead of simply a state that has racist leaders who ...
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Arts
What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles The Loss of His Vision
In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people
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World
‘Why Does God Keep Making Poets?’
In the heat of the summer, this slow curve of the midyear, I find myself wanting to pause and catch my breath. As many people take summer vacations or simply enjoy a cold drink on their porch, it is a good time to take up new kinds of reading. I have ...
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Business
‘Mission: Impossible’ for Tom Cruise: Meeting Hollywood Expectations
The seventh film in the 27-year-old movie franchise was No. 1 at the box office, taking in $80 million over its first five days. But the movie industry was hoping for more.