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Arts
Oxford’s 2021 Word of the Year Is a Shot in the Arm
By Jennifer Schuessler Apologies to jab, shot and “Fauci ouchie.” Oxford Languages’s 2021 Word of the Year is “vax.” That…
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Arts
What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong?
One August night in 2020, David Graeber — the anthropologist and anarchist activist who became famous as an early organizer…
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Arts
5,000 Shows Later, the Grand Ole Opry Is Still the Sound of Nashville
NASHVILLE — The survival of the Grand Ole Opry was anything but guaranteed when Bill Anderson started performing in it…
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Arts
Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and Carole King Join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
CLEVELAND — Like many awards shows during the pandemic, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame hosted a virtual induction…
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Science
Blue Origin Loses Legal Fight Over SpaceX’s NASA Moon Contract
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Jeff Bezos’ latest legal attempt to overturn NASA’s multibillion-dollar moon lander contract with Elon…
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Science
A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos
American astronomers on Thursday called for the nation to invest in a new generation of “extremely large” multibillion-dollar telescopes that…
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Food
At One Alaskan Hospital, Indigenous Foods Are Part of the Healing Plan
While Aaron Osterback was hospitalized with Covid-19 and pneumonia in September, he leaned on the foods he grew up with,…
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Health
He Can’t Cure His Dad. But a Scientist’s Research May Help Everyone Else.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When Sharif Tabebordbar was born in 1986, his father, Jafar, was 32 and already had symptoms of…
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Sports
A Game 6 Redemption That Was 10 Years in the Making
HOUSTON — Ron Washington has worked in professional baseball for over 50 years, since he signed with the Kansas City…
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Sports
How the New York City Marathon Grew Up
Back in 1970, when the first New York City Marathon was run, it was something very different than we know…