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A Hotbed of Distance Running Talent Emerges in Uganda
With a mile to go in the 2017 World Cross Country Championships, Joshua Cheptegei had one thing on his mind: win gold for his country on home soil. It was a balmy afternoon in the Ugandan capital of Kampala, and against a field of far more seasoned ...
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Newyork
I Have a Choice to Make About My Blindness
I recently visited a local Mexican restaurant with my family. It was the first time we’d gone out together for a meal since the start of the pandemic. As I gazed up at the familiar menu boards hanging behind the counter, I realized with some dismay ...
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W.H.O. Ends Mpox Global Emergency
The News The World Health Organization announced on Thursday that mpox — previously known as monkeypox — no longer constituted a public health emergency, almost exactly a year after the virus emerged as a threat. In lifting the emergency designation ...
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Newyork
Is the World Really Turning Away from the United States?
Last year, the buzzword of the geopolitical memeplex was “polycrisis,” a term that seemed to capture the pervasive vibe of cascading global turmoil: pandemic, war, climate change, the energy crunch, deglobalization, inflation and global debt. This ...
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I Went to Syria to See Biblical Devastation in a Land of Political Tragedy
JINDIRES, Syria — She has no memory of the earthquake that broke her back and swallowed her daughters. Khaira Al Halbouni only knows what her husband told her afterward. In the middle of the night the building shook. He grabbed one daughter, Bisan ...
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Sports
Mikaela Shiffrin Wins Gold at the World Championships
Shiffrin’s seventh gold medal at the Alpine world skiing championships on Thursday eases the sting of a disappointing Olympics.
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Disney Toasts a Century as Business and Political Challenges Mount
Walt Disney has been dead for nearly 57 years. In the coming weeks, however, he will begin greeting museum visitors on two continents. As part of its 100th anniversary marketing-palooza, the Walt Disney Company used archival video and artificial ...
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Newyork
Bon Voyage, Boeing 747. You Really Did Change Everything.
SEATTLE — Some legends really are true, and indeed it is the case that two men on an Alaskan fishing trip in the mid-1960s struck a bargain that wound up starting the era of the jumbo jetliner, which democratized air travel in ways that are hard to ...
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Sports
Saudi Sponsorship Catches Women’s World Cup Hosts by Surprise
Officials from Australia and New Zealand were blindsided by reports that FIFA would make Saudi Arabia’s tourism authority a partner for the tournament.
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Toyota Makes a Change at the Top as a Toyoda Steps Aside
Akio Toyoda, who has been reluctant to embrace all-electric vehicles, will be succeeded as C.E.O. by a Lexus executive.