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How Ajla Tomljanovic Faced Down Serena Williams and 24,000 Others
When Ajla Tomljanovic was a little girl, she asked her father about a prized photograph of him holding a big…
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Why LeBron James Is Worth $100 Million to the Lakers, Win or Lose
If one believes in science, historical trends and the limits of human capabilities, there’s a high likelihood that the 37-year-old…
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NASA Scrubbed Another Moon Launch. It May Not Be the Last Time.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Before the first launch attempt of the Artemis I mission last Monday, Wayne Hale, a…
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School Is for Us
OAKLAND, Calif. — School is a community, a common place to gain relationships. School is for social interactions and learning…
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Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
I’ve watched Americans in recent years acclimate to some very grim realities. Especially since the ascension of Donald Trump, numerous…
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Stanley Turkel, Manager and Avid Historian of Hotels, Dies at 96
Stanley Turkel, whose career as a hotelier, hospitality consultant and historian required him to check into more hostelries than a…
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Earnie Shavers, Hard-Punching Heavyweight, Is Dead at 78
Earnie Shavers, who was regarded as one of the hardest punchers in boxing history, but who failed in his two…
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‘That Nurse Should Be Alive’: How Police Delays Left a Suspect at Large
On the night of June 18, 2018, a hospital in New York City summoned the police to meet a woman…
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How the Editor in Chief of Elle Decor Spends His Sundays
When Asad Syrkett became the youngest-ever editor in chief of Hearst Magazines, one of his goals at Elle Decor, the…
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What Urban Planners Can Learn From This Idealistic Coffee Shop
By any measure, the area around an industrial patch of Ninth Street in Brooklyn, straddling Park Slope and Gowanus, ought…