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Yoshimitsu Yamada, Who Brought Aikido to the U.S., Dies at 84
He emphasized the basics of the Japanese martial art, and he encouraged his students to develop their own interpretations of…
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Expert Panel Votes for Stricter Rules on Risky Virus Research
The White House will decide whether to adopt the panel’s recommendations on so-called gain of function experiments.
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Jerry Blavat, D.J. Who Channeled the Soul of Philadelphia, Dies at 82
A live-wire personality and an epic self-promoter, he got a generation of youth in the City of Brotherly Love on…
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Making Farms Organic Is Paying Off
I talked by phone on Thursday with Garrett Mussi as he was driving around 1,000 acres in California’s San Joaquin…
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the U.N. Hears of a Little-Known Killing Field
At the United Nations’ annual ceremony to mark the Nazi horrors, Karen Frostig described her work to commemorate a concentration…
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At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers
Dramas about couples (“Cat Person”) and families (“A Thousand and One”) tackle complex lives; documentaries on Judy Blume and Nikki…
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Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’
New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer expands on “Rodeo” to make an evening-length work set to some of Aaron Copland’s…
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Jay Leno Is Recovering From Surgery After a Motorcycle Accident
The former late-night host and comedian drove into a wire a few miles from his garage in Burbank, Calif., he…
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‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn
The one-man show means to draw the audience into a moral quandary pitting immigrants and the American poor against each…
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Is ‘Workism’ Dooming Civilization? Notes on the New Pew Parents Study.
This week the Pew Research Center released a study looking at the attitudes of contemporary American parents toward their own…