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Standing Before the Sublime
The Wall Street Journal

Standing Before the Sublime

An enthralling show highlights the career of the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich

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3 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Times Square's Revolving Restaurant Spins Again
New York magazine

Times Square's Revolving Restaurant Spins Again

Danny Meyer wants you to check out the View.

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2 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
HOW THIS MONEY ACTUALLY MOVES
New York magazine

HOW THIS MONEY ACTUALLY MOVES

ALTHOUGH IT MAY not look like it when you walk into your artist friend's Cobble Hill brownstone, there are limits to how much a parent can bestow on their child.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
THE LAST TABOO
New York magazine

THE LAST TABOO

14 ADULTS ON COMING TO TERMS WITH, LYING ABOUT, DEPENDING ON. AND SPENDING THEIR PARENTS' MONEY.

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10+ mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
AFTER LORNE
New York magazine

AFTER LORNE

The ringmaster of Saturday Night Live is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he retires?

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10+ mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
Some Minority Voters Cheer the End of Diversity Efforts
The Wall Street Journal

Some Minority Voters Cheer the End of Diversity Efforts

Some of President Trump's Black and Latino supporters say they are pleased with his immediate efforts to dismantle federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, according to interviews conducted by The Wall Street Journal, though they were uneasy about the way he talked about race and some worried he might spark a rise in discrimination.

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Obesity-Drug Users Splurge On Body Lifts for Saggy Skin
The Wall Street Journal

Obesity-Drug Users Splurge On Body Lifts for Saggy Skin

Those who lose weight on Ozempic often find success has left them with sagging skin-a common side effect that is driving a boom in cosmetic surgery.

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3 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Pros and Cons Of the AirPods Hearing Aids
The Wall Street Journal

Pros and Cons Of the AirPods Hearing Aids

Apple’s $249 pods are better for amplifying conversation, but fall out easily, users say

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5 mins  |
February 10, 2025
BOOMERS TO THE RESCUE
New York magazine

BOOMERS TO THE RESCUE

THEY'RE SLOWLY TRANSFERRING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO THEIR NEW YORK CITY CHILDREN, ONE DOWN PAYMENT OR VIA CAROTA TAB AT A TIME.

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9 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
DEI Didn't Change Workforce All That Much
The Wall Street Journal

DEI Didn't Change Workforce All That Much

Corporate diversity pledges and DEI programs have generated a lot of controversy. They haven’t generated as much diversity.

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Vought Halts Work at Consumer Bureau
The Wall Street Journal

Vought Halts Work at Consumer Bureau

President Trump's newly installed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Russell Vought is closing the bureau's headquarters and has ordered staff to halt all of their supervisory efforts, ramping up the administration's attempt to revoke the financial regulator's authority.

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1 min  |
February 10, 2025
Sinister Symptoms
The Wall Street Journal

Sinister Symptoms

'We were having Easter dinner,\" Faith Preston tells the writer Andrea Dunlop. Faith's little cousin Alyssa \"was walking around to the tables where everybody was eating and she just wanted food.\"

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4 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Free Country: Sam Adler-Bell - Deadly Interference Trump and Musk profit from the breakdown.
New York magazine

Free Country: Sam Adler-Bell - Deadly Interference Trump and Musk profit from the breakdown.

IN THE MOMENTS BEFORE an Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with a passenger jet over the Potomac River on January 29, killing 67, an air-traffic controller at Reagan National Airport repeatedly alerted the helicopter to the presence of the jet.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
Neighborhood News: Visibility Through Absence
New York magazine

Neighborhood News: Visibility Through Absence

As the deportation raids begin, the Day Without Immigrants tries to show what's at stake.

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1 min  |
February 10-23, 2025
The Less-Glamorous Side of Collecting: Special Storage, Insurance and Fakes
The Wall Street Journal

The Less-Glamorous Side of Collecting: Special Storage, Insurance and Fakes

Many people begin collections without realizing the costs and commitment required to preserve value in their holdings

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4 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Sonos Finally Hits The Hard Reset Button
The Wall Street Journal

Sonos Finally Hits The Hard Reset Button

Sonos Chief Executive Tom Conrad's job would be hard enough if he just had to sell expensive speakers. Selling the idea that his speaker company can finally master the software game is a heavier lift.

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Bold Lines on the Block In Bed-Stuy, a deconstructivist tries his hand at affordable housing.
New York magazine

Bold Lines on the Block In Bed-Stuy, a deconstructivist tries his hand at affordable housing.

WALK DOWN AN ordinary, blah-colored stretch of Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, past the dispiriting bulk of Woodhull Hospital and the brown-brick boxes of the Sumner Houses, and you'll come upon an incongruous apparition, a giant sugar cube that's been carved, beveled, and knocked askew.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
Global Tongue A class in Iran probes English's transformative and oppressive powers.
New York magazine

Global Tongue A class in Iran probes English's transformative and oppressive powers.

SOMETIMES I THINK you can only speak one language,\" says a character in Sanaz Toossi's English.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
Lonely Islands The epic melancholy of Caspar David Friedrich.
New York magazine

Lonely Islands The epic melancholy of Caspar David Friedrich.

YOU KNOW THE WORK of Caspar David Friedrich even if you don't think you do.

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3 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
The Making of an All-Time Oscars Villain
New York magazine

The Making of an All-Time Oscars Villain

How Emilia Pérez-then its star, Karla Sofía Gascónbecame this awards season's most hated nominee.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
The Reluctant Romantic
New York magazine

The Reluctant Romantic

An afternoon of banter and bottled water with Leo Woodall, Hollywood's favorite new heartthrob.

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9 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
Podcasters and Influencers Gain New Standing in White House
The Wall Street Journal

Podcasters and Influencers Gain New Standing in White House

John Ashbrook, a co-host of the conservative podcast “Ruthless,” was granted a question during a White House briefing last month. He asked if the media was “out of touch” in its coverage of immigrant deportations. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said yes.

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Trump Plans 25% Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum
The Wall Street Journal

Trump Plans 25% Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum

Measure to be followed by new reciprocal levies on all U.S. trade partners

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3 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Syrian Suburb Grapples With Ruin
The Wall Street Journal

Syrian Suburb Grapples With Ruin

Scale of destruction in former rebel stronghold of Jobar ranks among heaviest

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
Israel Starts Leaving Security Zone
The Wall Street Journal

Israel Starts Leaving Security Zone

Pullout removes one of its bargaining chips in negotiations to end Gaza war

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2 mins  |
February 10, 2025
53 MINUTES WITH ...Spencer Pratt
New York magazine

53 MINUTES WITH ...Spencer Pratt

The former reality-TV star lost his home in the fires and ascended to a new level of fame.

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5 mins  |
February 10-23, 2025
TECH TIP: HOW TO BLOCK YOUR PHONE FROM TRACKING YOUR LOCATION
Techlife News

TECH TIP: HOW TO BLOCK YOUR PHONE FROM TRACKING YOUR LOCATION

Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they're privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you've been ― if you let them.

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4 mins  |
Techlife News #693
HOW THE NONPROFIT CHANGE REACTION GETS MONEY TO LA HOUSEHOLDS IMPACTED BY WILDFIRES SO FAST
Techlife News

HOW THE NONPROFIT CHANGE REACTION GETS MONEY TO LA HOUSEHOLDS IMPACTED BY WILDFIRES SO FAST

As Angelenos reel from the devastating wildfires that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses and killed at least 29 people, an LA-based nonprofit is handing out cash payments of as much as $5,000 to provide fast, unrestricted help to some of those impacted.

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4 mins  |
Techlife News #693
GOOGLE SCRAPS ITS DIVERSITY HIRING GOALS AS IT COMPLIES WITH TRUMP'S NEW GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR RULES
Techlife News

GOOGLE SCRAPS ITS DIVERSITY HIRING GOALS AS IT COMPLIES WITH TRUMP'S NEW GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR RULES

Google is scrapping some of its diversity hiring targets, joining a lengthening list of U.S. companies that have abandoned or scaled back their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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3 mins  |
Techlife News #693
HONEYWELL, ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING US INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES, WILL SPLIT INTO THREE COMPANIES
Techlife News

HONEYWELL, ONE OF THE FEW REMAINING US INDUSTRIAL CONGLOMERATES, WILL SPLIT INTO THREE COMPANIES

Honeywell, one of the last remaining U.S. industrial conglomerates, will split into three independent companies, following in the footsteps of manufacturing giants like General Electric and Alcoa.

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2 mins  |
Techlife News #693