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How Did 🍆 Become Our Default Sex Symbol?
THE THAI EGGPLANT is tiny and round, dainty in the hand. The Annina eggplant hangs straight down, like a bell.…
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Health
Moon Jars, Luminous and Graceful, Are Entrancing Modern Ceramists
THE TRADITIONAL KOREAN moon jar — a large, rounded vessel glazed with an opaline sheen — has been a much-celebrated…
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Finance
Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built
In late June, Microsoft released a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that could generate its own computer code. Called…
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World
Haunted by Disaster, Volunteers Search for Survivors in Indonesia
Heavy rains drenched the collapsed mountainside, making sludge of the rust-colored soil. Intermittently, the earth violently shuddered as an ...
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World
In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception
“I know we brothers,” Lincoln tells his younger sibling, Booth, in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog.” With a slight hesitation, he then…
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World
‘The Fabelmans’: What’s Real and What’s Fictional
Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love…
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World
Peek Inside a $200-a-Night ‘Room’ at the World Cup in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — After Sheng Xie, a 33-year-old soccer fan from Vancouver, booked his flight to the World Cup, he…
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Health
How to Survive Your First Holiday Season as Newlyweds
The main issue looming over Erica and Aaron Weiss this holiday season: whether to hide a bear or pickle ornament…
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Opinion
What Is Indigenous Power?
Of all the striking monuments you might encounter while driving an overstuffed minivan west across the United States, few leave…
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Opinion
Overconfident Regulators Caused the Ticketmaster Mess
Before the federal government let Live Nation merge with Ticketmaster in 2010, it obtained some very solemn promises that the…