When Jeffrey Epstein said “massage” in the years after he got out of jail in 2009, what did his friends and associates think he meant? Epstein had been convicted in a Florida court of sex crimes with minors in 2008. His method, reported in The New York Times at the time, had been to recruit […]
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Not to be all Russell Crowe about it, but this morning, I biked to the gym before dawn, loaded up a barbell and did three sets of five squats with the weight of a small washing machine on my back. Then, having done that without too much trouble, I picked more than a hundred pounds
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Kristin Cabot was caught on camera with her boss at a concert. The video went viral. Soon she was drowning in the vitriol of strangers. “You can make mistakes, and you can really screw up. But you don’t have to be threatened to be killed for them.” Kristin Cabot has come to believe that her
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On Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023, Sam Terblanche, a junior at Columbia University, went to a soccer match at Yankee Stadium. On the subway ride there, he told friends he felt lousy. On Sunday, he went to the emergency room complaining of headache and chills. On Monday, sicker, he went again. On both visits, Sam was
It’s Just a Virus, the E.R. Told Him. Days Later, He Was Dead. Read More »
Stuck in their bedrooms, the class of 2021 missed important rites of passage — first job, first car, first date. Now young adults, they’re making up for what they missed at 16.
The Pandemic Ruined High School for Them. They’re Learning to Live Again. Read More »
Doctors warn about their physical side effects, but they can also have unexpected effects on intimacy.
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Not to brag, but I have stellar “crunchy” bona fides. I was raised on wheat bread, limited television and camping vacations, and at 17 went off to Oberlin College, that notorious incubator of crunchy achievers. I am deeply familiar with old-school crunchy in all of its hues: the lumpy hand-knit sweaters, the unkempt hair. In
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For decades, breast augmentations have been one of the most popular cosmetic surgeries in the United States. But in recent years, a new trend has emerged: the breast reduction. LISA MILLER, who covers personal and cultural approaches to health for The Times, discusses why the procedure has become so common.
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Thousands of health seekers, many of them distrustful of the medical system, made a pilgrimage to Florida to commune with the influencers and the self-proclaimed healers they believe in most.
Eudemonia, a Wellness Summit, Brings Health Seekers Together Read More »
Breast reduction is all the rage in cosmetic surgery. Are women asserting their independence or capitulating to yet another impossible standard of beauty?
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