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Newyork
Among New York’s Sidewalk Sideshows, 2 Goats and a Story of Despair
In a city thick with spectacles and showmen, Beverly Shaw arrived from Indiana with a desperate plea.
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Newyork
Public Schools Struggle to Say the Right Thing About the Israel-Hamas War
Across the country, public schools, like colleges and universities, are facing backlash as they try to respond to the Hamas attacks and war in Gaza.
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News
If You Plant Milkweed, They Will Come. (And Not Just the Butterflies.)
These underappreciated plants attract a “hungry throng” of beneficial insects. They’re not bad to look at, either.
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Books
When the Skyscraper You Hate Blocks the Skyscraper You Love
Sometimes New York’s a downer. I had an appointment the other day near Madison Square Park. For years, one of the great architectural twofers in the city has been the view up and down Fifth Avenue from the pedestrian plaza next to the park, south ...
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Books
How Philip Roth’s Raunchiest Novel Made It to the Stage
For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book.
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Newyork
Joseph J. Kohn, Who Broke New Ground in Calculus, Dies at 91
The techniques he developed in the field of complex numbers have found use in tackling a wide range of fundamental equations in physics.
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Newyork
Why My Fall Made Me Feel So Ashamed
The morning after I fell, I lay in bed assessing the damage. My knees were banged up. The right one was painful and swollen. I felt for the bandage my husband had secured around my chin the night before. It was still in place, sticky with blood. My ...
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US
There’s Still No House Speaker. What Happens Now?
The House has been without a permanent speaker since Oct. 3. Here is how a new one could be elected, or how the process could go off the rails yet again.
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US
The Race to Save Our Secrets From the Computers of the Future
They call it Q-Day: the day when a quantum computer, one more powerful than any yet built, could shatter the world of privacy and security as we know it. It would happen through a bravura act of mathematics: the separation of some very large numbers ...
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Newyork
The Path to Reducing Pedestrian Deaths Is Steep but Straight
Last year, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association, more than 7,500 pedestrians were killed while walking on U.S. roadways. Between 2010 and 2021, in fact, pedestrian deaths rose 77 percent, from an annual total of 4,302 to 7,624. These ...