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Health
A Sweet Squash Offering for Día de los Muertos
In many Latin American countries, families attract their ancestors in cemeteries with the spiced, syrupy dessert ayote en miel.
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Magazine
Inside the Wild and Wonderful World of Mushrooms
On a temperate fall afternoon, Vito Vacirca sported a black Borsalino fedora lined with dried turkey-tail mushrooms and violet-tinted sunglasses,…
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Business
Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry
News organizations are scrambling to adjust to the latest rift in the long-fractious relationship between publishers and tech platforms.
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Business
Markets Look to Powell Amid Rising Tensions in the Middle East
Investors will listen to the Federal Reserve chair’s speech on Thursday for clues on interest-rate moves, as the Israel-Hamas conflict…
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World
Thursday Briefing
President Biden’s wartime visit to Israel.
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Politics
In Antitrust Trial, Google Argues That Smart Employees Explain Its Success
While the Justice Department says Google has squeezed partners and made expensive deals to maintain its search dominance, the company…
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News
Lenient Grading Won’t Help Struggling Students. Addressing Chronic Absenteeism Will.
Two weeks ago, when I wrote about the proliferation of 50 percent grading floors in K-12 schools, I was shocked…
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News
If You’ve Ever Heard a Voice That Wasn’t There, This Could Be Why
With a ghostly finger in a lab, researchers coaxed people to hear phantom voices.
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News
Jim Jordan Is a Lousy Strongman
Oops, they did it again. On Tuesday the House Republican gong show once again failed to choose a new speaker…
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News
Exxon Mobil’s Pioneer Acquisition Is a Direct Threat to Democracy
Last week, Exxon Mobil agreed to buy Pioneer Natural Resources for $59.5 billion, in a move widely expected to set…