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Horses, guns and swords: How cumbersome equipment gets to the Olympics
Athletes are responsible for getting their stuff to the Paris Games. For some sports, that’s more complicated than for others.
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The children who remember their past lives
What happens when your toddler is haunted by memories that aren’t hers?
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A restaurant wanting a ‘grown and sexy’ vibe bans diners under 30
A Missouri restaurant’s age minimums — women must be 30 or older, men 35 and up — is polarizing people.
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12-sided Roman relic baffles archaeologists, spawns countless theories
Amateur archaeologists found a Roman-era dodecahedron in Norton Disney, England. Dozens have been found in Europe since the 1700s, but experts can’t agree on what they are.
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AI trained on a baby’s experiences yields clues to how we learn language
Using a headcam, scientists recorded the world from a baby’s point of view. Now they have trained AI with those recordings to probe how children learn language.
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He spent his life building a $1 million stereo. The real cost was unfathomable.
Ken Fritz spent 40 years turning his living room into what some audiophiles called the world’s greatest hi-fi system. What would it all mean in the end?
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At 93, he’s as fit as a 40-year-old. His body offers lessons on aging.
The human body maintains the ability to adapt to exercise at any age, showing that it’s never too late to start a fitness program.
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What happened when an Ohio school district rushed to integrate classrooms
Shaker Heights sorted students by ability level, and the top classes always had more White students. In the pandemic, it unraveled this “tracking.”
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Why falling off a cruise ship is so deadly
Overboard incidents on cruise ships are rare, but factors including alcohol use, delayed reporting and the challenges of an ocean rescue can make them fatal.
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Opinion | Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness.
No one's offering men a model except the right. It's time for a new plan.
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A shrinking Alaskan village needs new families to save its school. Thousands responded.
Karluk's school only has a few months to meet a minimum of 10 students to qualify for state funding. Officials believe the answer lies in a social media ad.
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Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors.
After decades as rivals and friends, tennis greats Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova found themselves more intertwined than ever as they battled cancer.
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Opinion | He has flown 23 million miles. Here are his travel secrets.
In 1990, Tom Stuker paid a fortune for a lifetime pass on United Airlines. "Best investment of my life," he says, 23 million miles later.
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Why beef-loving Brazil is so obsessed with an American steakhouse chain
Despite Brazil's own grilling culture, the American riff on Australian barbecue has gained extraordinary cachet
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A catatonic woman awakened after 20 years. Her story may change psychiatry.
New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.
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Opinion | Why I’ve spent the days after my mother’s death polishing copper pots
Remembering how much love can be packed into the smallest acts, and what comfort can be found in performing them.
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Smaller, safer, cheaper? Modular nuclear plants could reshape coal country
The Biden administration wants dozens of small nuclear plants to sprout across the country. Coal communities see big opportunity.
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Analysis | The happiest, least stressful, most meaningful jobs in America
Trees make us happy, according to data, even when we're chopping them down.
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Russia wanted Viktor Bout back, badly. The question is: Why?
Many U.S. officials and analysts believe that Russia was motivated by Bout’s links to military intelligence.
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A college wrestler fought a bear to save his teammate — and won
A quiet day in forest turned into a story about friendship and bravery
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We visited Studio Ghibli’s long-awaited theme park. It’s a sensory delight.
The 494-acre park will open next month in Japan. By design, it’s no Disney.
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How vigilante ‘predator catchers’ are infiltrating the criminal justice system
It began with a live-streamed shaming in an Olive Garden parking lot. It ended with an Indiana cop on trial for child solicitation.
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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.
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Do Swedes truly not feed their young guests? Maybe once upon a time.
Some families didn't feed their kids' friends -- but Swedes say it's not like that anymore.
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Opinion | Watch for a return of the ignominious Disinformation Governance Board
After the 10-thumbed debut of this boneheaded idea, the DGB was "paused." That way, the Biden administration can feign deliberation while plotting its resurrection.
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The Belarusian railway workers who helped thwart Russia’s attack on Kyiv
A clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces wreaked havoc on supply lines.
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The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 languages
In a city where diplomats and embassies abound, where interpreters can command six-figure salaries, where language proficiency is résumé rocket fuel, Vaughn Smith was a savant with a secret.
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The death spiral of an American family
After generations of stability, a family reckons with death, debts and a desperate fall from the American middle class.
