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Business
Immigrants in Maine Are Filling a Labor Gap. It May Be a Prelude for the U.S.
Maine has a lot of lobsters. It also has a lot of older people, ones who are less and less willing and able to catch, clean and sell the crustaceans that make up a $1 billion industry for the state. Companies are turning to foreign-born workers to ...
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Magazine
Leap Day Wants a Little Respect
Those born on Feb. 29 are trying to get some recognition for “a day that doesn’t exist.”
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Arts
The Artists We Lost in 2023, in Their Words
The many creative people who died this year built their wisdom over lives generously long or much too short, through times of peace and periods of conflict. Their ideas, perspectives and humanity helped shape our own: in language spoken, written or ...
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Health
A Simple Way to Save Premature Babies
The News Shortly after a baby is born, doctors clamp the umbilical cord linking the infant to the placenta, which is still inside the mother’s uterus, and then cut it. New research shows that if doctors wait at least two minutes after the birth to ...
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World
They’ve Been Stateless for 10 Years. Now Many Are Facing Deportation.
Ten years after a court order ruled that children of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic were not entitled to citizenship, many live in fear of arrest or expulsion.
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World
Bob Born, Who Brought Marshmallow Peeps to the Masses, Dies at 98
By mechanizing and greatly expanding production, he made the gooey yellow chicks an Easter favorite and a pop-culture phenomenon.
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Arts
The Artists We Lost in 2022, in Their Words
Music innovators who sang of coal country and “Great Balls of Fire.” An actress who made a signature role out of a devilish baker who meets a fiery end. The trailblazing heart of “In the Heat of the Night.” The creative people who died this year ...