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World
The Quiet Reading Room That Gets Trippy After Dark
Midtown Manhattan doesn’t usually come to mind when thinking about the epicenters of psychedelic culture. But just three blocks from…
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Magazine
Her Strange Blisters Wouldn’t Go Away. What Was It?
It started with a bout of dry, itchy skin. Soon everything hurt. A specialist found a way to find some…
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World
Migrant Crisis Tests New Yorkers Who Thought They Supported Immigration
As the city’s resources strain under the influx of thousands of migrants, New Yorkers are still resolutely in favor of…
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News
Travis, Don’t Fumble Taylor!
The blond glamour girl and the sports superstar were doomed from the start. The galaxy exploded when Marilyn Monroe, sex…
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News
Why Does the Nobel Committee Overlook Saudi Women Activists?
The Iranian women’s rights activist Narges Mohammadi well deserves her Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called…
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Magazine
My (Liberating) Secret Shame
I may be unable to have children, and I am relieved.
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Magazine
They Met the Old-Fashioned Way: Playing Glow-in-the-Dark Dodgeball
Yan Fu and Leslie Hamilton, the marathon sea swimmer, were on opposing New York City teams. But after late-night hot…
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US
How Do Americans Feel About Politics? ‘Disgust Isn’t a Strong Enough Word’
Whitney Smith’s phone buzzed with a text from her mother, alerting her to the latest can-you-believe-it mess in Washington: “Far…
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World
Narges Mohammadi, Iranian Rights Activist, Receives Nobel Peace Prize
Ms. Mohammadi, currently held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, has pushed for peaceful change in Iran for 30 years, with…
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News
Jhumpa Lahiri Translates the Varieties of Strangeness
In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.