When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I thought my phone was wrong when it showed the time as 7:45. So I checked my watch and my microwave—both 7:45. It was nearly dark out and not because it was dawn, but because the San Francisco sky was choked with wildfire smoke, turning the landscape a…
Sept. 1, 2020In late January, as the new coronavirus was beginning to spread from China’s Hubei Province, a group of lay Buddhists traveled by bus to a temple ceremony in the city of Ningbo — hundreds of miles from Wuhan, center of the epidemic.It was a sunny day with a gentle breeze, and the morning…
Image copyright Getty Images In our series of letters from African writers, journalist and former Ghana government minister Elizabeth Ohene writes about how the prospect of living abroad has lost its attraction in the time of coronavirus.We used to say here in Ghana, half in jest, half in truth, that you can find a Ghanaian…
As the name indicates, this is a running shoe with serious pedigree and debuted in the 90s and is now in its twenty-third iteration. This new version has a plush but responsive mid-sole, and crushes both long and short tuns. Brooks added two millimeters more of cushioning to the forefoot, reducing the drop to 8
EU Commission considers more cereulide testing Published: June 19, 2026, 12:06 am A charity in the United Kingdom has made several recommendations to regulators after the cereulide infant formula contamination incident. First Steps Nutrition Trust said the situation exposed important weaknesses in the safety and security systems governing infant foods. Contaminated products may have been
Getty Images; MH Illustration, Taryn Colbert 5 min read SO YOU PAID your $600 for the headliners at an event like Gov Ball, Bonnaroo, Coachella, and ended up seeing…the inside of the medical tent. Kind of classic, which is why there are such things as “event medical specialists.” And they’ve seen it all, from garden-variety