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The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden
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...
Donald Kennedy, Who Led Stanford in 1980s, Dies at 88
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.
Brothers Who Hoarded 17,700 Hand Sanitizer Bottles Avoid Fine After Donating Supplies
Two Tennessee brothers who stockpiled 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer have avoided prosecution and a fine, but will not recoup the thousands of dollars they spent on the supplies under the terms of a price-gouging settlement that the state attorney general announced this week.
Why Michael Savage Is Blasting Hannity and the Right-Wing Media on the Virus
There are a lot of people who are ruining the country right now, according to Michael Savage. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Liberal mayors in big cities like San Francisco. Undocumented immigrants. Homeless people.
Richard Passman, Space-Age Engineer Who Kept His Secrets, Dies at 94
(Those We’ve Lost)
Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour.
(Critic’s Notebook)
The Future That Hollywood Feared Is Happening Now
(The Carpetbagger)
Oklahoma City Marks 25 Years Since America's Deadliest Homegrown Attack
Timothy J. McVeigh slaughtered 168 people, including 19 children, by gutting a federal office building with a massive truck bomb on April 19, 1995, yet he features only fleetingly in the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
Henry Grimes and Giuseppi Logan, Lost and Found Jazz Stars, Are Both Gone
(Critic's Notebook)
Fears of Ventilator Shortage Unleash a Wave of Innovations
As the coronavirus rages across the globe, ventilators that pump oxygen into the lungs of critically ill patients have been embraced as the best hope for saving lives.
Beryl Bernay, Children's TV Host with a Varied Career, Dies at 94
(Those We've Lost)
Henry Graff, Columbia Historian of Presidents, Dies at 98
(Those We've Lost)
Class Is in Session Everywhere Now
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.
Testing Falls Woefully Short as Trump Seeks to Lift Stay-at-Home Orders
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.
Surprising Poll Results: People Are Now Happy to Pick Up the Phone
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.
Ketty Herawati Sultana, Tireless Indonesian Physician, Dies at 60
(Those We've Lost)
3,000 Interviews. 50 Years. Listen to the History of American Music.
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.
A Coronavirus Death in Early February Was 'Probably the Tip of an Iceberg'
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.
The Women Doctors Who Fought to Serve in World War I
(Books of The Times)
Shut by Virus, Met Opera Announces Starry 'At Home' Concert
NEW YORK — Starry (and often epically long) concerts are a Metropolitan Opera stock in trade.
