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Life Gave a Pastry Chef Lemons. She Made Lemon Bars.
These sunny, sweet-tart treats have a little twist: a rich pecan short crust.
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With the Capital One-Discover Deal, Credit Holds All the Cards
A fight has commenced over Capital One’s effort to acquire Discover, a deal that would birth an enormous credit-card company rivaling Visa, Mastercard and American Express. The resulting competition could, in the short run, lower some costs to ...
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Listening to the Homeless in America
More from our inbox: For Chefs, Rewards as Well as ChallengesAtoning for Past HorrorsA Life Without a Home Voices from the tents, shelters, cars, motels and couches of America. To the Editor: Re “A Life Without a Home” (Sunday Opinion, Feb. 25 ...
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One Way to Preserve Alcatraz? Capture Everything in 3-D.
The former prison known as the Rock faces seismic activity, climate change and general deterioration. A wondrous new map could help save it.
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Read Your Way Through Lagos
Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos.
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Books
With Tom Wilkinson, Would You Get a Time Bomb or a Warm Hug?
In his performances in “Michael Clayton” and other films, he brought an element of danger and uncertainty that kept us on edge.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Revisits His ‘Illusion of Suffering’ on Broadway
As with so many family reunion plays, the squabbling Lafayette siblings in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” dislodge their share of skeletons from the closets of their childhood home, a former plantation in southern Arkansas. But here those ...
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Pushing the Body to Extremes to Find Serenity
Why do some people put their bodies through extreme acts? Why cross the Seine on a wire or climb a mountain during a thunderstorm? The reasons are probably the opposite of what you imagine: Peace. Calm. Serenity. In his evening-length “Corps Extrêmes ...
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Newyork
A Japanese Pancake That Wastes Nothing and Saves Everything
Okonomiyaki, special in its simplicity, can be a culinary home of your making.
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US
‘My Body Was Poisoned’: Biden’s Lead Pipe Removal Plan Faces Hurdles
A string of unexpected impediments could delay the administration’s timeline on an issue that is central to its effort to address racial disparities.
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