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News
Why Are American Drivers so Deadly?
In the summer of 1999, a few years after graduating from medical school, Deborah Kuhls moved from New York to Maryland, where she had been accepted as a surgical fellow at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. Founded by a pioneer in ...
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Newyork
How the Met’s Prop-Shop Magic Makes Trucks Move Onstage
In the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Carmen,” three pickup trucks and a tractor-trailer are crucial props.
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World
Red Sea Attacks Leave Shipping Companies With Difficult Choices
Attacks on two dozen ships since November are forcing shipping lines to figure out whether and when to skip the Suez Canal and send vessels on longer voyages around Africa.
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Newyork
Subway Service Still Snarled as M.T.A. Works to Remove Derailed Trains
Twenty-six people were injured when two trains collided on Thursday afternoon. Officials said they hoped to restore service on the 1, 2 and 3 lines later on Friday.
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Books
‘Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go’ Turns 50
My wife was editing our teenager’s bedroom, hunting things to pass on to his younger cousins, or donate to Goodwill. He is a high school senior aiming for college next fall, and we have lived in this Maine house since his birth, so his room is jammed ...
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Newyork
Shecky Greene, High-Energy Comedy Star, Is Dead at 97
A Las Vegas institution, he would do just about anything for a laugh, including physical comedy so broad that it sometimes left him black and blue.
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News
Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.
After almost 10 years of marriage, Christine Dowdall wanted out. Her husband was no longer the charming man she had fallen in love with. He had become narcissistic, abusive and unfaithful, she said. After one of their fights turned violent in ...
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Sports
Paula Murphy, Once ‘the Fastest Woman on Wheels,’ Dies at 95
She proved that women could gain fame as a speed demons on land by setting records on the Bonneville Salt Flats and on the nation’s racetracks.
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World
In This Mexican Neighborhood, Locals Say ¡Viva el Beetle!
A northern community in Mexico City cannot give up on the famous 1960s hippie-favorite Volkswagen.
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News
Chaos, Injustice and Joy: This Year’s College Essays About Money
Some of the most basic questions about money are also central to figuring out what and who you want to be: What do I have, what do I want, how does that compare to others around me and how should I feel about it? In The New York Times’s 10th year of ...