The pharmaceutical industry has opposed drug price adjustments in social spending and climate legislation, but hasn’t been vocally opposed to the insulin bill. While the bill lowers costs for many individual patients who take insulin, it does nothing to lower the prices paid to companies that do. Instead, insurance companies would only pay a larger …
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A villa full of idols. Mr. Howard’s latest poetry collection in 2014 benefited from his own early education.Credit…Turtle Point Press In his latest collection, “A Progressive Education” (2014), Mr. Howard imagined in poetic form the letters written collectively by a class of sixth graders in Sandusky, Ohio, circa 1950. Disturbed by a science experiment with …
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There are hints of autobiography throughout the film, especially in young Aline’s drive to perform. Lemercier grew up in a farming family with three sisters and quickly learned that clowning around could ease her depressed mother’s mood. “When I made people laugh at a young age, even when they were younger than five, I immediately …
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One day in December, only a few blocks from the New York Stock Exchange, skipping the sun and descending the escalators that lead down to the bowels of a skyscraper, Skip Elsheimer suddenly stopped scouring the sea of moldy, mismatched boxes to marvel at a discovery. held it in dust-covered hands. It was a VHS …
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‘Cause it’s a brainchild Builders Association — Written by one of its “core collaborators,” James Gibbs, and directed by its founder, Marianne Weems — genre leaks are not unexpected. Previous Builders, “alladeen” (a multimedia piece about Bangalore call centers) and “Elements of Oz” (a riff on the MGM movie musical featuring smartphone filters you show …
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The National Labor Relations Board said on Thursday that union supporters narrowly followed the opposition in union elections held at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama. However, the vote was much closer than the vote in the same warehouse last year. voted down unity is more than a 2 to 1 ratio. The union received 993 …
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African art has had a place in the Museum of Modern Art since its early days—although it might not be the African art you might think. In 1935, when the museum settled in a townhouse on West 53rd Street, curator James Johnson Sweeney “African Negro Art” 600 examples included Dogon painted masks, Baoulé ivory and …
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Adriana Hoffmann, a botanist who traveled through Chile deciphering vegetation and tirelessly working as a scientist, activist, writer and policy maker to protect her country’s vast forests from corporate exploitation, died at her home in the capital, Santiago, on March 20. She was 82 years old. His daughter, Leonora Calderón Hoffmann, said she had been …
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The US imported more than half of its supply of at least 46 minerals in 2020, and 17 of its entire supply. US Geological Survey. Most of the materials come from China, which leads the world in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries and is known to halt exports of certain products in times of political …
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The spectacle around Oldman isn’t entirely up to the standards set by his performance, but it’s not far off—”Slow Horses” is an immensely satisfying celebration and reference to the John le Carré novels that inspired him. A complex plot thriller that intersects with an office comedy and lightly dusts its eroded realism with non-lethal, absurd …
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The Academy has taken steps to address these issues, but it is not yet clear whether this will be enough to quell opposition. Last year, it eliminated its long-term use. anonymous screening committees Identifying many candidates that The Weeknd and others describe as unfair. Still, just a day before this year’s roster is announced in …
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After a year of Covid delay, the Whitney Biennale has recently arrived in town and it’s a welcome sight. Other recent editions—the 80th such collection—have tended to be lively, timid, youthful jolts. That doesn’t read that way, even with the many young artists amongst its 60+ contributors, many represented by brand new, quarantined works. A …