LUPICA: Billie Jean King on Clinton's journey, unfunny Trump
King is clear on the choice for president as Trump feuds with parents of a dead Muslim-American soldier.
King is clear on the choice for president as Trump feuds with parents of a dead Muslim-American soldier.
In the Mexican village of Nanacamilpa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine and fir trees on the outskirts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. AP photographer Rebecca Blackwell documented the thousands of them lighting up a magical spectacle at dusk in the old-growth forests on reserves like the Piedra Canteada park.
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“I’ve always loved the Olympics, especially the Summer Games,” Mark Ulriksen says of his cover for the new issue. “But the upcoming Rio Olympics already feature the inevitable cost overruns and crucial infrastructure that may or may not be completed in time, polluted waters for the rowing events, and doping allegations against the Russian Federation. And, yes, to top it all, that mosquito-born virus that is scaring the bejeebers out of spectators and the athletes alike. It feels like a perfect... Читать дальше...
In the Mexican village of Nanacamilpa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine and fir trees on the outskirts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. AP photographer Rebecca Blackwell documented the thousands of them lighting up a magical spectacle…
In the Mexican village of Nanacamilpa, tiny fireflies are helping save the towering pine and fir trees on the outskirts of the megalopolis of Mexico City. AP photographer Rebecca Blackwell documented the thousands of them lighting up a magical spectacle…
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Your story in this week’s issue, “Dido’s Lament,” involves a chance encounter between two people who were once married but haven’t seen each other in years. As always, you’re so good at capturing character through small cultural signifiers—the fact that Lynette wears a bright-pink coat from a second-hand shop and is embarrassed by a department-store shopping bag, for instance. How much do you think can be conveyed through this kind of detail?
A man has been rushed to Gold Coast University Hospital with serious head injuries after an alleged hit and run in Coomera.
To vacation or not to vacation -- that is the question. At least, that’s the question this highly scientific flowchart can answer for parents of a preschooler. Take a look at the chart, which we put together in partnership with Walt Disney World, and find out if a vacation is in your near future:
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A 6-year-old girl in rural Afghanistan was reportedly sold in marriage recently to a Muslim cleric in his 50s or 60s. She was later rescued and held in a shelter, while the man was arrested and jailed, Afghan officials said last week.
This touring exhibition in the newly refurbished Drill Hall Gallery focuses primarily on paintings from the present.
OLDENZAAL - De röntgenafdeling in het Oldenzaalse ziekenhuis gaat vrijwel zeker weer op zondag open. Dat betekent dat patiënten van de Huisartsenpost Oldenzaal daar binnen afzienbare tijd toch weer terecht kunnen. Zij het dan in een beperkt tijdsbestek.
Grab your relatives and some marshmallows and let's party.
You hear the high-pitched yowls of straysfighting for scraps tossed from a kitchen window. They sound like children you might have had.Had you wanted children. Had you a maternal bone, you would wrench it from your belly and fling itfrom your fire escape. As if it were the stubbornshard now lodged in your wrist. No, you would hide it. Yes, you would hide it inside a barren nesting doll you’ve had since you were a child. Its smilereminds you of your father, who does not smile.Nor does he believe you are his. Читать дальше...
New England Bound, by Wendy Warren (Liveright). Whereas most studies of slavery in the United States concern the antebellum South, this one stakes out less visited territory—the laws and decisions made by the colonists in New England two centuries earlier. In 1638, eight years after John Winthrop’s famed “City Upon a Hill” sermon, the first documented shipment of enslaved Africans arrived. That same year, the colonist Samuel Maverick, “desirous to have a breed of Negroes,” attempted to create slaves through rape. Читать дальше...
Jana Prikryl’s first book of poems, “The After Party” (Tim Duggan Books), brings to a close the long period of silent evaluation known as childhood. The “after party” is our memory of the past, not so much recollected in tranquillity as relived in the riotous terms of style and form. But it is also the afterlife: this is a book haunted by generations of the dead, including Prikryl’s brother, who died suddenly in 1995; the book is dedicated to him. In this bonus interval of borrowed time, the hour... Читать дальше...
Computers may one day be able to reason exactly as humans do, but will they ever be as dumb? I had always thought that was impossible. Now, however, I’m not so sure. The other day, I was in Penn Station on my way home from work. A team of scientists had set up a table with a laptop running the latest pattern-recognition software, and they were asking passersby to suggest questions for the computer. With twenty minutes on my hands, I asked it to find the best place for me to sit while waiting for my train. Читать дальше...
A couple of guys in their late sixties, strolling around Macdougal and Bleecker, pointing out old haunts: it’s as familiar a part of a Village morning as the beer trucks delivering kegs of Stella or the bleachy reek of industrial floor cleanser. The pair poking around one recent morning was the band Eggs Over Easy, or two-thirds of it—Jack O’Hara and Austin de Lone. That Chinese bakery on Sixth? It used to be a coffee shop. They often unwound there after performing at a nearby club (Café Feenjon... Читать дальше...
When “BoJack Horseman” débuted, in 2014, it didn’t look particularly original. It was the hundredth series about a middle-aged man—well, a horse, but still—who did bad things. It was the latest scathing portrait of the downside of fame. It was the newest streaming dramedy: yet another adult animated alt-comedy meta-sitcom.
Gloria Allred, the crusading women’s-rights lawyer, was racing through the Pennsylvania Convention Center last week when someone screamed, “Gloria! Can we take a picture?” It was another lawyer, Brenda Bergis. “You are my hero,” Bergis said, and described her work defending victims of domestic violence. She said that Allred—who typically represents women, from exploited porn stars and ex-girlfriends of N.F.L. players to sexually harassed workers—had inspired her. “I want you to run for office!”... Читать дальше...
Some sloppy Googling at the Vatican,and James Richardson the soccer commentator,or the JR who builds boats, or some JRthe Internet has never heard oflost out on an immortal gig:St. Jim, Patron of Apology.Sorry, guys: admittedly your Workswere nobler than mine, your Faith purer.
I moved to Geneva to be with my husband, Olivier, who had moved there because his job required him to. My restaurant French was just passable. Drugstore French was a stretch. IKEA French was pretty much out of the question, meaning that, since Olivier, a native speaker, worked twice as many hours a week as Swiss stores were open, we went for months without things like lamps.