The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum quietly walked away from the Sacklers last week, erasing the family’s name from an education center due to the family’s ties to the opioid crisis. No public announcement was made. “The Guggenheim and the Mortimer D. Sackler family have agreed to rename the arts education center,” museum spokeswoman Sara Fox …
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How did Matt Richtel talk to adolescents and their families for this series? In mid-April, I was speaking to the mother of a suicidal teenager whose struggles I follow closely. I asked how her daughter was. It’s not good, the mother said: “If we don’t find something drastic to help this kid, this kid won’t …
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The cost of Paxlovid to UNICEF – including Pfizer’s insistence that it keep secret how much UNICEF is paying – remains a point of contention, said Dr. Philippe DunetonLeading the therapeutic arm of the WHO consortium. In announcing its “strong recommendation” for Paxlovid, WHO took the highly unusual step of berating Pfizer for its “lack …
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The senior executive at McKinsey & Company appeared before Congress on Wednesday to respond to the consulting firm’s role in fueling the opioid crisis, drawing harsh criticism from Democratic lawmakers. One likened the firm’s earnings from advising Purdue Pharma and other pharmaceutical companies to “blood money” from drug dealers. McKinsey’s managing partner, Bob Sternfels, testified …
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How did reporter Matt Richtel talk to adolescents and parents for this series? In mid-April, I was speaking to the mother of a suicidal teenager whose struggles I follow closely. I asked how her daughter was. It’s not good, the mother said: “If we don’t find something drastic to help this kid, this kid won’t …
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DURBAN, South Africa — In 2009, officials in the port city of Durban moved hundreds of residents from their tin huts near the city center to a flood-prone area south of the city as they prepared to host next year’s World Football Cup. The new settlement, a narrow cluster of drywall slums, was built without …
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The authors write that black Americans are overrepresented in key worker positions, increasing their risk of exposure to the virus. They were also more likely than white Americans to live in multi-generational homes or crowded areas, be incarcerated, or live in densely populated areas. Many Black Americans who contracted the coronavirus suffered from serious illness …
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THE HOUSE BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE MOONby Rebecca Scherm Rebecca Scherm’s second novel, A House Between Earth and Moon, focuses on Parallaxis, a space station designed by tech company Sensus as an orbital luxury apartment for billionaires. Sensus hired a team of world-class scientists to build the station and make it habitable for the …
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Unfortunately, this means abandoning the popular view that a return to “normal” for children – face-to-face education, cutting off masks – will reverse these trends. In fact, such measures can increase the stress many students are already feeling, says Lisa Fortuna, UCSF chief of psychiatry at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. And an estimated 200,000 …
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“Thousands of users, many of whom may have had a suicide attack, are seeking help and not getting the life-saving help they deserve,” the report said. According to another recent government report, an estimated 4 percent of Lifeline callers are believed to be at imminent risk or actively attempting suicide, while another 23 percent suicidal …
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“We are in a state of war, we are in a state of emergency, and we must now responsibly increase short-term supply to stabilize the market and minimize damage to American families,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm told oil and gas executives on Wednesday. At an industry conference in Houston. “This means you are producing more …
THE INSECT CRISIS: The Collapse of the Tiny Empires Ruling the World, by Oliver Milman Anyone with a car has collected data on the decline of insects. Entomologists call this the “windshield effect,” a relatable metric that is neatly summed up by the question: When was the last time you had to clean insect splatter …
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