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A Brutal Disease May Soon Be Transformed
The sickle cell crises were always different. Sometimes Lynndrick Holmes would wake up with a searing pain in his legs, as though there were knives growing out of his bones. Sometimes it was in his arms, like needles digging into his nerves. Other ...
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Arts
Back-to-Back Premieres Defy a Season of Leaner Offerings
Institutions are cutting back, but in corners of the city there is still new music to be found, like song cycles by Ted Hearne and Paul Pinto.
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Business
When Your Age, and Everyone Else’s, Is Showing
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to [email protected]. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. Alone and Feeling Irrelevant A strange new world isn’t a bad ...
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Politics
These Tiny, Beautiful Wasps Eat the Hearts Out of Cockroaches
Jewel wasps carve up cockroaches like jack-o’-lanterns in a way scientists have never seen before.
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World
The Main Problem With Pedestrian Deaths Isn’t the Pedestrians
I want to talk about two things that have happened since last weekend’s newsletter on pedestrian deaths. One of them was covered in this newspaper, and the other was a personal experience. The news item is that a young child was killed in Brooklyn ...
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Arts
Joey Evans Is Back. This Time He’s a Struggling Artist.
Joey Evans is a charming cad, a heel, an unapologetic womanizer, a gigolo. He’s a second-rate nightclub entertainer who breaks the heart of an ingénue and seduces a rich older woman, trading sex for money. In 1940, some people found Joey, the ...
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World
Where Hamas Is Winning
In 2014, a new state was formed in the heart of the Middle East. It had a capital, a government, an army and almost 12 million subjects — a larger population than Jordan or Israel. It also had a commitment to butchery, savagery and fanatical violence ...
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World
A Dispatch From the Muslim Girl Scouts of Astoria
In her short 17 years on earth, Amira Ismail had never been called a baby killer. That’s what happened one Friday this month, Amira said, on New York City’s Q58 bus, which runs through central Queens. “This lady looked at me, and she was like: ‘You ...
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World
There Is Another Paris
Tourists visiting the Sacré-Coeur Basilica, the magnificent snow-white cathedral towering over northern Paris, tend to descend the Butte Montmartre the way they came up. After visiting the church, they might make a stop at the Place du Tertre, the ...
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Arts
From ‘The Exorcist’ to ‘Bambi,’ These Movies Messed Us Up as Kids
Our first horror movie is often a memory imprinted on our brain and, for some of us, our heart.