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Kenya The New York Times entertainment
20 Aug 2024
Mixing memories of his North African childhood with his day-to-day life as a husband and father in New Haven, Connecticut, Ficre Ghebreyesus conjured up an imaginary space of his own. He created this multilayered world in his studio, where, after his sudden death at 50 in 2012, he left behind more than 700 paintings and several hundred works on paper. And he performed a similar magic in the popular Caffe Adulis, where he earned his living by cooking hybrid recipes that drew on the culinary he...
The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden
Kenya The New York Times world
20 Aug 2024
Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who headed the Food and Drug Administration before becoming president of Stanford University, where he oversaw major expansions of its campus and curriculum and weathered a crisis over research spending, died April 21 in Redwood City, California. He was 88.
Donald Kennedy, Who Led Stanford in 1980s, Dies at 88
Kenya The New York Times world
20 Aug 2024
Sometime in mid- to late March, it seemed as if the whole world suddenly shut down and moved online in a matter of days as the coronavirus crisis intensified.
Class Is in Session Everywhere Now
Kenya The New York Times world
20 Aug 2024
As President Donald Trump pushes to reopen the economy, most of the country is not conducting nearly enough testing to track the path and penetration of the coronavirus in a way that would allow Americans to safely return to work, public health officials and political leaders say.
Testing Falls Woefully Short as Trump Seeks to Lift Stay-at-Home Orders
Kenya The New York Times world
20 Aug 2024
It was a straightforward telephone survey of New Yorkers, a series of questions about the effects of the coronavirus crisis, and it was meant to take just a few minutes. But a strange thing kept happening. Many of the people who answered the phone wanted to keep talking — about their loneliness, about their sadness, about their fears for the future — even after the questions had stopped.
Surprising Poll Results: People Are Now Happy to Pick Up the Phone
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
20 Aug 2024
In 1968, Vivian Perlis, a research librarian at Yale, knew that she needed to talk to Julian Myrick. A man who had spent his life in the insurance business was not the most likely of musicological sources. But Myrick’s business partner not only had been significant in the field of life insurance but also was one of the most important figures in American music history: composer Charles Ives, who had died 14 years earlier.
3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music.
Kenya The New York Times world
20 Aug 2024
SAN FRANCISCO — Weeks before there was evidence that the coronavirus was spreading in U.S. communities, a 57-year-old woman developed flulike symptoms and abruptly died in her San Jose kitchen, triggering a search for what had killed her. Flu tests were negative. The coroner was baffled. It appeared that the woman had suffered a massive heart attack.
A Coronavirus Death in Early February Was 'Probably the Tip of an Iceberg'