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Hootie and the Blowfish and the End of History
On Twitter this week, it seemed everyone was sharing communiqués from GPT-3, the A.I. chatbot that can answer just about any question with extraordinary facility, as long as you don’t mind answers whose political assumptions are safely conditioned by ...
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When a Prisoner Swap Is a Rorschach-Test
The scene on the tarmac with Brittney Griner and Viktor Bout didn’t just show a prisoner trade. It told the story of where two rival countries had landed decades after the Cold War.
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Eric Allison, Prison Reporter Who Knew the Beat All Too Well, Dies at 79
A career criminal in England for nearly a half-century, he was hired by The Guardian to report on injustices in prisons — work that led to exposés and honors.
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Silver Saundors Friedman, Who Helped Found the Improv, Dies at 89
She ran the famous New York comedy club with her husband for years as they launched the careers of many comic stars.
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We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We?
The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation is causing her heart to fail. “Time is quickly running out for me,” writes a man in his mid-30s whose DNA harbors a genetic mistake ...
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Dominique Lapierre, 91, Dies; Popular Author Wrote ‘Is Paris Burning?’
His books, many co-written with the American journalist Larry Collins, were international best-sellers, among them “City of Joy,” based on his travels to India.
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This Case Should Never Have Made It to the Supreme Court
“The most important case for American democracy” in the nation’s history — that’s how the former appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig described Moore v. Harper, an extraordinary lawsuit that the Supreme Court considered in oral arguments Wednesday ...
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She Preached Death Without Fear. Could She Practice It?
Many people hope for a good death, even plan for it, but few prepare for it as thoroughly and cheerfully as Shatzi Weisberger. She had a certificate in the Art of Dying from the Open Center in New York, and she helped run a monthly discussion group ...
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N.Y.P.D. Officers Leave in Droves for Better Pay in Smaller Towns
This year has seen the highest number of resignations in two decades.
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How Darren Criss Spends His Sundays
One would think, given his holiday album, “A Very Darren Crissmas,” that Darren Criss would be kind of obsessed with Christmas. This is not quite accurate, he said. “However, aside from the convenient, yet eye-rolling pun that is the title, it is a ...