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Books
Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography
Every winter in the early 1980s, a sturdy bus departed Kolkata, India, for a concert tour of provincial towns. On…
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News
K. Alex Müller, Innovator in Ceramic Superconductors, Dies at 95
His and a colleague’s breakthroughs in high-temperature superconductors were honored with a Nobel Prize in Physics and opened up a…
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Style
David Byrne, Maria Cornejo Celebrate the Latest Art ‘Drop’
GBA, a new art collective, displayed work by the artist Lakea Shepard at the Ace Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn.
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News
Nurses Are Burned Out and Fed Up. For Good Reason.
It is enraging but not particularly surprising that our health care system is failing the most essential of its workers.…
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World
Why China’s Shrinking Population Is Cause for Alarm
China struggled for years to curtail its rapid population growth. Now that its population is declining, economists and others fear…
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World
No Visitors, No Drinking, Home by 9: Renting as a Single Woman in India
India says it must do more to harness women’s economic potential. A good place to start, many say, would be…
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World
Your Wednesday Briefing: China’s Dual Crises
Last year, China’s economy had one of its worst performances in decades. Its population is also shrinking.
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Business
As France Moves to Delay Retirement, Older Workers Are in a Quandary
A measure to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62 is expected to expose more people to age discrimination:…
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Newyork
Giving Brooklyn Nonprofits a Bigger Piece of the Pie
The Brooklyn Community Foundation has awarded grants to organizations in the borough, including the Workers Justice Project, which aids delivery…
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News
The Defenders of the Amazon Never Wanted to be Martyrs
What I’d heard of a little Brazilian town on the eastern edge of the Amazon had prepared me for the…