Month: August 2023

Style Points is a weekly column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. FOMO has long been the driver of fashion trends. Whether it’s a limited-edition drop, that show only 100 people got invited to, or a miles-long waiting list for an “It” bag: introduce scarcity, and you have a recipe for desire. But
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A Wax Man Lit a Fire in My Heart Chloe Aridjis Share article Dialogue with a Somnambulist by Chloe Aridjis Winter has the city in its grip and at three forty-five the streetlights crackle back on, throwing a tenuous light onto everything. Lean days, little hanging to them apart from long shadows and stubborn leaves,
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In recent weeks the astrophysics community has been buzzing following the discovery that the universe appears to be filled with a background hum of gravitational waves. Using radio telescopes in the Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the US, several teams have noted the same thing: that gravitational waves leave a faint fingerprint in the signals
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Peopleimages | E+ | Getty Images The U.S. retirement system is a sprawling complex, a so-called “three-legged stool” of Social Security payments, workplace savings plans and individual wealth. But is the system falling short in its primary goal of achieving a secure retirement for all Americans? related investing news Fitch downgrade of long-term U.S. debt
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CatVideoFest, which is just what it sounds like, joined notable indie debuts and festival favorites Shortcomings and Passages, the re-release of Shiva Baby and juggernaut Talk To Me in another weekend of varied specialty fare, both new and holding over. Indies are helping drive a buoyant box office. They’re also waiting for the Barbenheimer tsunami
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WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin, a company that for decades has built schoolbus-sized spacecraft for the U.S. government, opened a new facility to assemble small satellites, which are now in higher demand.  Lockheed Martin’s 20,000-square-foot factory is located at the company’s Waterton campus near Denver, Colorado. It has six parallel assembly lines and capacity to manufacture
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Former President Donald Trump speaks as the keynote speaker at the 56th Annual Silver Elephant Dinner hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party on August 5, 2023 in Columbia, South Carolina. Melissa Sue Gerrits | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump‘s attorney John Lauro said Sunday that he believes former Vice President Mike Pence will
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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie speaks at a town hall event at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester, New Hampshire, June 6, 2023. Sophie Park | Reuters New charges brought against former President and Republican nominee front-runner Donald Trump likely solidify the case against him, according to fellow Republican presidential candidate Chris
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Every season of The Chi feels like the show has reinvented itself, keeping the same drift but with different strokes. The Chi Season 6 Episode 1 caught us up with where everyone was emotionally, economically, and of course, romantically. The cold open felt like a flashback as we met Keisha and Emmett in a familiar position
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Affirmative action supporters and counterprotesters shout at each other outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2023. Kent Nishimura | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Even before the Supreme Court‘s ruling on affirmative action policies in college admissions, the nation’s top business leaders expressed concern over how the decision could
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