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As hospitals fill, travel nurses race to virus hot spots

December 3, 2020 at 1:48 p.m.

As the coronavirus has spiked across the country — leaving a record 100,226 Americans hospitalized Wednesday — travel nurses, who work on temporary contracts for higher fees and move from...

The best theater of 2020, according to The New York Times

December 2, 2020 at 3:59 p.m.

It wasn't the year for celebration. But watching innovation flourish inspired our chief critic, while other writers found the joys of the stage in other media. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/theater/best-broadway-theater-show.html

Why the pandemic has made streets more dangerous for blind people

December 2, 2020 at 11:52 a.m.

For pedestrians who cannot see or have limited vision, navigating the chaotic sidewalks and crosswalks of New York City was dicey enough before the pandemic. But the outbreak, blind people...

Goodbye, blazers; Hello, ‘coatigans.’ Women adjust attire to work at home.

December 2, 2020 at 10:35 a.m.

As many professional women have found themselves in an extended period of remote work, their notions of work wear have transformed, shaking up businesses that have sought to outfit them...

Pantyhose and trash bags: How music programs are surviving in the pandemic

December 2, 2020 at 10:13 a.m.

many districts, schools have paused their music programs or moved them online out of concerns that aerosol transmission of the coronavirus during band or chorus practices would turn them into...

How to pretend you are in Tokyo

December 1, 2020 at 5:21 p.m.

there are ways to capture the spirit of a sometimes impenetrable, always fascinating city. Perhaps, just for a night, these recommendations might even make you feel like you are there....

Without crowds, is Times Square really Times Square?

December 1, 2020 at 5:16 p.m.

Before the pandemic, the square, where Broadway meets Seventh Avenue from 42nd to 47th streets, helped to draw a crush of tourists to the city. A record 66.6 million visited...

Amanda Seyfried finally stakes her claim

December 1, 2020 at 4:31 p.m.

In Netflix's new drama "Mank," directed by David Fincher and due Friday on Netflix, Amanda Seyfried plays Marion Davies, the 1920s and '30s screen star better known today as the...

Teaching in the pandemic: ‘This is not sustainable’

December 1, 2020 at 12:59 p.m.

All this fall, as vehement debates have raged over whether to reopen schools for in-person instruction, teachers have been at the center — often vilified for challenging it, sometimes warmly...

COVID combat fatigue: ‘I would come home with tears in my eyes.’

December 1, 2020 at 12:37 p.m.

Frontline health care workers have been the one constant, the medical soldiers forming row after row in the ground war against the raging spread of the coronavirus. But as cases...

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