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A Skateboarder’s Secret Grind

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

John Branch “If he can make it through his teen years, I think he’s the future of street and park skateboarding,” Dan Bostick, president of World Cup Skateboarding, said at the time. In the same article, Adeyemi Huston acknowledged that the attention was overwhelming. He handled all aspects of Nyjah’s......

In the Capitol, the Delta Variant Spreads Worry and Partisanship

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 202108

WASHINGTON — Breakthrough coronavirus cases have emerged in multiple offices in Congress, including the speaker’s. The line for in-house testing snakes through a long corridor and into a visitors’ center atrium. The Capitol’s doctor has warned of the possible return of a mask mandate. The Delta variant has reached Capitol......

Tokyo Olympics Open to a Sea of Empty Seats

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

New York Times – For more and to sign up click here TOKYO — The opening ceremony of the 32nd Summer Olympics unfolded in subdued fashion on Friday night inside a nearly empty Tokyo stadium, inaugurating a Games delayed by a year and diminished in atmosphere by a tenacious pandemic.......

Delays, More Masks and Mandatory Shots: Virus Surge Disrupts Office-Return Plans

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 202100

He did not respond, but days later Apple posted an internal video in which company executives doubled down on bringing workers back to the office. In the video, Dr. Sumbul Desai, who helps run Apple’s digital health division, encouraged workers to get vaccinated but stopped short of saying they would......

Amazon will investigate gender bias claims in its cloud division.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 202100

Amazon has hired an outside law firm to investigate claims of widespread gender discrimination in part of its cloud computing division, the company said in an email to employees late last week. The investigation comes in response to a petition filed by a group of employees in Amazon Web Services’s......

We Need a New Term for Video Games

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 202100

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Everyone is trying to get us to come out — or stay in — and play. Seriously. Peloton, Netflix, Zoom, TikTok, Amazon, Apple and Google are all either experimenting or going much......

Ugandan weight lifter who went missing in Japan returns home.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Musinguzi Blanshe and Abdi Latif Dahir A weight lifter who went missing in Japan this month as he sought to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics has returned to Uganda and will be interrogated by police, authorities said on Friday — a week after his disappearance prompted international news headlines and......

Even the Sheet Cakes Are Bigger in Texas

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 202100

When Michelle Lopez immigrated to Houston from Manila as a teenager, her family’s new neighbors all dropped off the same welcome dessert: Texas sheet cake. Their kitchen was filled with five thin slabs of moist chocolate cake, each adorned with a pecan-laden chewy fudge frosting. “My family had never had......

Three-on-Three Basketball at the Olympics: What to Watch For

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Kelly Whiteside Eighty-five years after basketball’s debut in the Olympics, at the 1936 Berlin Games, a twist on the sport makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo. Three-on-three basketball, or 3×3 as the sport’s world governing body refers to it, promises a faster version than the traditional form. What is three-on-three......

Boosting Vaccinations

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

New York Times – For more and to sign up click here Vaccine mandates are controversial. They’re also effective. Before Houston Methodist became one of the first hospital systems in the U.S. to mandate Covid-19 vaccines, about 85 percent of its employees were vaccinated. After the mandate, the share rose......

Naomi Osaka lights the cauldron.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Victor Mather The torch relay ended with the tennis star Naomi Osaka lighting the Olympic cauldron, in what is typically one of the most memorable parts of the opening ceremony. Following in the footsteps of Muhammad Ali, Paavo Nurmi, Rafer Johnson, Midori Ito, Yuna Kim and Wayne Gretzky, Osaka climbed......

Telfar Clemens designed the Liberian outfits.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Vanessa Friedman Formal Olympian wardrobes are rarely “cool” — and rarely available to smaller countries with less promotional muscle. But this year Liberia changed that narrative. They have only three athletes competing, but have fielded a Summer Olympic team almost every year since 1956. They have never, however, won an......

$600,000 Sexual Harassment Settlement Reached in Batali & Bastianich Case

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 202100

An investigation into the once-towering Manhattan restaurant business built by the chef Mario Batali and his former partner Joe Bastianich revealed a sexualized culture so rife with harassment and retaliation that it violated state and city human rights laws, the New York State attorney general, Letitia James, announced on Friday.......

One by One, African Countries Dismantle Colonial-Era Death Penalty Laws

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

New York Times – For more and to sign up click here DAKAR, Senegal — Lawmakers in Sierra Leone were expected to debate and possibly vote Friday on whether to abolish the death penalty, a momentous step that would make the West African country the 23rd on the continent to......

Russia isn’t at the Games. Yet there it is.

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

Victor Mather Russia has been banned from the Games because of its state-sponsored doping program. Well, sort of. Russian athletes who have not been caught doping themselves are still allowed to compete. But their team cannot be known as “Russia,” the Russian flag is banned and so is its anthem.......

How a Frontline Nurse Trained for the Olympics in a Time of Pandemic

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

New York Times – For more and to sign up click here As many of her competitors spent their days preparing for the Olympics, Joan Poh spent much of the past year helping Singapore fight the coronavirus pandemic. Ms. Poh, a 30-year-old rower who is representing Singapore at the Tokyo......

Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony: Live Updates as the Games Begin

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 202100

The New York Times July 23, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET July 23, 2021, 6:30 a.m. ET Pedestrians walk past a huge display showing a news report about the firing of the opening ceremony’s director, Kentaro Kobayashi.Credit…Kimimasa Mayama/EPA, via Shutterstock Opening ceremonies are an opportunity for the Olympics’ host nation to......

Crypto Nomads: Surfing the World for Risk and Profit

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021016

It is just after midnight in Hong Kong, and Sam Bankman-Fried stares at the trading data on his six monitors, watching a global cryptocurrency crash happening in real time. Mr. Bankman-Fried, a 29-year-old from California, often works around the clock, as he was on that May evening. He naps on......

What to Do This Summer: Lower Manhattan

New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 2021

by New York TimesJuly 23, 2021July 23, 202100

The big toe of Lower Manhattan dips into the water where the East River meets the Hudson, outlining a harbor rich with attractions. Three inviting neighborhoods in the area — Battery Park City, TriBeCa and the South Street Seaport — are easily reached by public transportation and offer breezy marinas,......

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