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After 7 Weeks in Burn Unit, Another Maui Fire Victim Dies
Laurie Allen had to run through a wall of flame to escape the August wildfire. Doctors went to extraordinary lengths…
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Opinion
Running San Francisco Made Dianne Feinstein
When I was interviewing Senator Dianne Feinstein in 2011 for a book about San Francisco’s tumultuous history from the 1960s…
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World
Two Books Explore the Lives of Witches
In Allyson Stone’s “Ashes and Stones” and Diana Helmuth’s “The Witching Year,” authors confront ancient stereotypes through modern eyes.
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Evelyn Fox Keller, Who Turned a Feminist Lens on Science, Dies at 87
Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted…
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Nancy Van de Vate, Composer and Advocate for Women in Music, Dies at 92
An American who settled in Vienna, she had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in…
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Lori Teresa Yearwood, Journalist of Life on the Edge, Dies at 57
Once a reporter for The Miami Herald, she became homeless. She later returned to journalism, calling on her experience to…
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World
One Way to Help Teacher Salaries Go Further: Free Housing
With affordable housing scarce, one Connecticut child care center is providing its staff with rent-free homes designed by Yale architecture…
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Finance
The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers
The day almost two years ago when Harvard Business School informed Francesca Gino, a prominent professor, that she was being…
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Opinion
DiFi, Breaking Into the Boys’ Club
WASHINGTON — I’ve always said that the Washington Monument is an apt symbol, a Freudian obelisk redolent of all the…
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U.S.
San Francisco Mourns Its Homegrown Senator and the End of the Feinstein Era
Dianne Feinstein’s life was inseparable from the fortunes and tragedies of San Francisco over nine decades.
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