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Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act.
Fifty years ago, Congress voted to override President Richard Nixon’s veto of the Clean Water Act. It has proved to…
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Creating the Exiled Sea Creature of ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
Payakan, the estranged young tulkun, exemplifies the director James Cameron’s obsessive attention to the biomechanics of every entity that inhabits…
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Tributes Pour In as Brazil Readies for Pelé’s Funeral
Pelé’s body will lie at midfield at the Estádio Urbano Caldeira, his former club’s stadium, for 24 hours.
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When Pelé Took New York by Storm
In August 1967, it was hard to imagine that Americans might get interested in soccer. Then Pelé played at Yankee…
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Giancarlo Esposito Plays Other People So He Can Know Himself
Giancarlo Esposito is thinking about robbery. “Have you ever walked into a bank and thought, ‘There’s all this money here’?”…
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These Young Musicians Made an Album. Now It’s Nominated for a Grammy.
The debut album of the New York Youth Symphony, featuring some players who were in middle school, is up against…
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Unmotivated Cowboys Beat Unmotivated Titans
Take two teams. Subtract incentive. Result: Thursday night’s game.
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Magazine
Happy Low-Key New Year!
Some people are giving themselves permission to replace grand ambitions with more realistic expectations for 2023.
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Travel
When the Times Square Ball Drop Began at Midnight
Nowadays, the ball drop is a countdown, ending at the stroke of midnight. But it used to work more like…
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Business
An Architect of Biden’s Antitrust Push Is Leaving the White House
Tim Wu has been a leading proponent of a more aggressive approach to reining in the power of big business.