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Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography

Every winter in the early 1980s, a sturdy bus departed Kolkata, India, for a concert tour of provincial towns. On…

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K. Alex Müller, Innovator in Ceramic Superconductors, Dies at 95

His and a colleague’s breakthroughs in high-temperature superconductors were honored with a Nobel Prize in Physics and opened up a…

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David Byrne, Maria Cornejo Celebrate the Latest Art ‘Drop’

GBA, a new art collective, displayed work by the artist Lakea Shepard at the Ace Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn.

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Nurses Are Burned Out and Fed Up. For Good Reason.

It is enraging but not particularly surprising that our health care system is failing the most essential of its workers.…

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Why China’s Shrinking Population Is Cause for Alarm

China struggled for years to curtail its rapid population growth. Now that its population is declining, economists and others fear…

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No Visitors, No Drinking, Home by 9: Renting as a Single Woman in India

India says it must do more to harness women’s economic potential. A good place to start, many say, would be…

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Your Wednesday Briefing: China’s Dual Crises

Last year, China’s economy had one of its worst performances in decades. Its population is also shrinking.

Business

As France Moves to Delay Retirement, Older Workers Are in a Quandary

A measure to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62 is expected to expose more people to age discrimination:…

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Giving Brooklyn Nonprofits a Bigger Piece of the Pie

The Brooklyn Community Foundation has awarded grants to organizations in the borough, including the Workers Justice Project, which aids delivery…

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The Defenders of the Amazon Never Wanted to be Martyrs

What I’d heard of a little Brazilian town on the eastern edge of the Amazon had prepared me for the…

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