New York Times – Page 5

A quarantine nightmare: Three weeks in a hotel, if you can find one

January 7, 2021 at 11:09 a.m.

Travelers rich and poor, hotels and airlines alike have scrambled to adjust since Hong Kong abruptly introduced its three-week quarantine policy. At a time when global travel has been disrupted...

It spied on Soviet atomic bombs. Now it’s solving ecological mysteries.

January 7, 2021 at 10:16 a.m.

To map a landscape's history, foresters long depended on maps and traditional tree inventories that could be riddled with inaccuracies. But now they have a bird's-eye view that is the...

Drew Barrymore Is keeping it clean

January 6, 2021 at 4:44 p.m.

Barrymore, famously, is not only a crier but also a sharer, even before the sharing economy picked up online. She has always been quick to confess her fears, her insecurities;...

Without tourism, life in a Tuscan village slides back in time

January 6, 2021 at 4:11 p.m.

But the pandemic — which has unsettled the globe and taken more than 75,000 lives in Italy alone — has brought tourism to a halt across the country and in...

She’s starring opposite Tom Hanks. She’d never heard of him.

January 5, 2021 at 10:15 a.m.

In "News of the World," Helena Zengel's character, Johanna Leonberger, is left orphaned after her German parents are violently murdered on their farm when she is 4. Taken in and...

An Olympic dream is reborn, despite fears of brain trauma

January 5, 2021 at 10:13 a.m.

The bobsled feels safer to him, he said, because he sits upright and can see where he is going. His family is still concerned. After an article about the dangers...

Inside the CIA, she became a spy for planet Earth

January 5, 2021 at 10:07 a.m.

Linda Zall's program, established in 1992, was a kind of wayback machine that looked to as long ago as 1960. In so doing, it provided a new baseline for assessing...

‘A slap in the face’: The pandemic disrupts young oil careers

January 4, 2021 at 1:19 p.m.

The industry has attracted thousands of young people in recent years with the promise of secure careers as shale drilling took off and made the United States the world's largest...

A COVID-19 relief fund was only for Black residents. Then came the lawsuits.

January 4, 2021 at 12:03 p.m.

Black civic leaders in Oregon heard the alarm bells early in the pandemic.

As rollout falters, scientists debate new vaccination tactics

January 4, 2021 at 11:49 a.m.

As governments around the world rush to vaccinate their citizens against the surging coronavirus, scientists are locked in a heated debate over a surprising question: Is it wisest to hold...

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