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Your Tuesday Evening Briefing – The New York Times

(Want to get this newsletter in your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday. 1. Fourteen children and a teacher were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said that the gunman was an 18-year-old man who had abandoned […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 24, 2022, 5:44 pm
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The Joy Workout – The New York Times

Researchers have identified several movements like this that are recognizable in many cultures as inspired by joy: reaching your arms up; swaying from side to side, like concertgoers losing themselves in the music; other rhythmic movements, such as bouncing to a beat; or taking up more space, like dancers spinning, arms outstretched. These physical actions […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 24, 2022, 10:11 am
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Biden’s Tough Words – The New York Times

President Biden is a famously imprecise speaker. He sometimes makes statements that convey his emotions more than any specific policy views (like his declaration in March that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power”). Biden seemed to do it again yesterday. In response to a reporter’s question, he said that the U.S. would take stronger military […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 24, 2022, 5:31 am
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Spot the greenwashing – The New York Times

There are a lot of corporate climate pledges out there, and it’s easy to be cynical about them. I get it. We’ve been fed so many unsubstantiated claims (for example, on airline carbon offsets) and so much outright disinformation (oil companies, I’m looking at you) that it would be easy to just dismiss them all. […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 23, 2022, 2:43 pm
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Biden in Asia – The New York Times

The politics of trade policy have become toxic in the U.S. For decades, the mainstream of both the Democratic and Republican parties favored expanding trade between the U.S. and other countries. Greater globalization, these politicians promised, would increase economic growth — and with the bounty from that growth, the country could compensate any workers who […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 23, 2022, 5:44 am
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Rural Philippines, Long Neglected, Newly Appealing in Covid Times

LEYTE, the Philippines — For nearly all the pandemic, Marlen Zilmar woke up to the sound of roosters. Before the sun reached its fierce apogee, she’d swing a makeshift watering can made of a perforated plastic bottle over the garden in her family home, where she had returned after the coronavirus hit Manila. The scene […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 22, 2022, 9:31 am
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France’s Ransom – The New York Times

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and a new Times investigative series explores why. One stunning detail: France demanded reparations from Haitians it once enslaved. That debt hamstrung Haiti’s economy for decades — and kept it from building even basic social services, like sewage and electricity. The series is based on […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 22, 2022, 6:39 am
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Summer Reading Suggestions – The New York Times

Yong, who’s become well known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The Atlantic, helping to make sense of the pandemic, here turns his attention to sensory experiences throughout the animal kingdom. All creatures, from ticks to elephants, perceive the world in different ways. Yong does the best he can to put readers inside those bubbles […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 21, 2022, 6:32 pm
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Fun, but With Structure – The New York Times

Growing up in the 1980s, I knew there were kids like those on “Stranger Things,” which returns Friday for its fourth season, who spent their after-school hours playing Dungeons & Dragons. I was not one of them; I played with Barbies. I figured what I was doing with dolls — acting out scenes involving homework, […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 21, 2022, 6:12 am
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Vacation Reading, Unpacked – The New York Times

What books do you read on your trips? I generally choose mine in the manner of a bride organizing her “something old, something new” accessories. So: one contemporary book that I’ve been saving as a reward — this summer, it might be Jennifer Egan’s “The Candy House”; one book that I’ve been meaning to read […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 21, 2022, 4:19 am
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Do Waist Trainers Work? – The New York Times

Are there long-term risks? Most doctors agree that you would have to wear a waist trainer way too tightly, for way too long, to harm your internal organs. And in the short term, any discomfort you might feel would probably prompt you to loosen the stays. If you did ignore the discomfort and kept your […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 20, 2022, 9:20 pm
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What Is Monkeypox? – The New York Times

The rare monkeypox virus, usually confined mostly to Central and West Africa, has spread in unusual ways this year, and among populations that have not been vulnerable in the past. But while the transmissions have created some alarm among officials and infectious disease experts, and while a Covid-weary world is on high alert for new […] More

by Tonya Frazier May 20, 2022, 3:51 pm