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World
From Zero Covid to No Plan: Behind China’s Pandemic U-Turn
After micromanaging the coronavirus strategy for nearly three years, the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, has suddenly left the populace to…
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World
How Can Tainted Spinach Cause Hallucinations?
A food recall from Australia sheds light on an unusual aspect of brain chemistry.
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How Dapper Dan, Harlem Haberdasher, Spends His Sundays
The style icon is a news obsessive, a reader, a salsa dancer and a churchgoer (he skips the sermons, though).
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News
My So-So Encounters with ChatGPT
A mountain man buys his first chain saw. He comes back to the store a week later complaining that it…
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Health
New Covid Booster Shots Cut Risk of Hospitalization by Half, C.D.C. Reports
The research was conducted in part when older variants of the coronavirus were spreading. Other factors may have influenced the…
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News
What Should You Do When the Bear Is Cinnamon?
Scientists have uncovered a genetic mutation that makes it dangerously difficult to distinguish a black bear from a grizzly.
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World
Police Officers May No Longer Hold People to Check for Warrants
A settlement filed Friday will bar N.Y.P.D. officers from detaining people at length as they check databases for reasons to…
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News
Will ChatGPT Make Me Irrelevant?
Like every other journalist I know, I often and unabashedly ask for help. Friends give me ideas. Colleagues give me…
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World
A Look Inside New York’s Swirling Kaleidoscope of Faiths
New York City is a place of maximum diversity in minimum space, to borrow a phrase from the writer Milan…
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World
Can New York’s Plan for Mentally Ill Homeless People Make a Difference?
In a big city, the number of untreated, severely mentally ill people is relatively small. But making sure they get…