World
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The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection
When DaShawn Hickman was 4 years old, living just 32 steps from the tiny granite House of God church in…
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Review: Black Grace Dances Out a Different Kind of Buzz
I was expecting an energy boost, and then some. But Black Grace, a celebrated company from New Zealand known for…
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Theater at Geffen Hall to Be Named for Two Key Donors
In late 2020, as coronavirus infections surged and cultural institutions shuttered, the fate of the long-delayed renovation of David Geffen…
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Would We Have Paid Parental Leave if More Moms Were in Congress?
In “Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House … Yet,” the NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent…
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Max Hollein Consolidates Roles as Met Museum’s Chief
Max Hollein, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will add the title of chief executive, the museum’s board…
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Days After N.Y. Speed Cameras Go Full-Time, Two Pedestrians Die in Crash
Two pedestrians were killed Wednesday morning in northern Manhattan’s Inwood neighborhood after two vehicles collided, the police said. A BMW…
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‘This is America’s fight’: Europe largely stays out of the fray on Pelosi’s trip.
BRUSSELS — Europe is increasingly wary about China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang, crackdown in Hong Kong, widespread censorship and…
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A ‘Reversible’ Form of Death? Scientists Revive Cells in Dead Pigs’ Organs.
The pigs had been lying dead in the lab for an hour — no blood was circulating in their bodies,…
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‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love
MOTHERCAREOn Obligation, Love, Death, and AmbivalenceBy Lynne TillmanIllustrated. 161 pages. Soft Skull. $23. Care work — tending to the sick…
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Read Your Way Through Cairo
Credit...Raphaelle MacaronThis story is part of a new series exploring the world through books. We’ve asked some of our favorite…