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New York Times (Dec 2020)
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How Effective Is the Mask You’re Wearing? You May Know Soon
876 points • dec 17, 2020
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Early Vaccine Doubters Now Show a Willingness to Roll Up Their Sleeves
876 points • dec 27, 2020
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What’s Fauci Reading? We Take Another Look at Celebrity Bookshelves
875 points • dec 11, 2020
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Don’t Want to Spring for a Hot Tub? Try a Stock Tank Pool
860 points • dec 12, 2020
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Biden Admonishes Trump Administration Over ‘Obstruction’
856 points • dec 29, 2020
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The Epicenter
853 points • dec 04, 2020
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Buried Under Snow in a Car for 10 Hours. Who Would Come to the Rescue?
850 points • dec 19, 2020
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Yes, People Are Traveling for the Holidays. Stop Shaming Them.
840 points • dec 05, 2020
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The House voted to advance $2,000 stimulus checks demanded by Trump.
838 points • dec 29, 2020
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J.R.R. Tolkien House Comes on the Market
838 points • dec 03, 2020
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‘It Has to Stop’: Georgia Election Official Lashes Trump
834 points • dec 02, 2020
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Man Who Killed Two in Racial Attack at Kroger Gets Life
830 points • dec 19, 2020
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Should Isolation Periods Be Shorter for People With Covid-19?
827 points • dec 01, 2020
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Will Trump Force Principled Conservatives to Start Their Own Party? I Hope So
826 points • dec 23, 2020
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The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
822 points • dec 28, 2020
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She Saved Thousands of Best Friends. Then Covid-19 Killed Her.
821 points • dec 18, 2020
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Treasure Washes Up on Venezuela’s Shore, Bringing Gold and Hope to a Village
818 points • dec 12, 2020
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A Gymnastics Coach Accused of Emotional Abuse Speaks Out
814 points • dec 01, 2020
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A King Above and Beyond Politics
812 points • dec 06, 2020
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Covid Study Shows an Arthritis Drug May Help Patients Recover
810 points • dec 15, 2020
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At Rally for Georgia Senators, Trump Focuses on His Own Grievances
804 points • dec 06, 2020
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The Olive Garden Is Open, but Marilyn Hagerty Isn’t Eating There
797 points • dec 11, 2020
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The Fall of the House of Belichick
794 points • dec 23, 2020
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U.S. Will Require a Negative Coronavirus Test for All Travelers From U.K.
794 points • dec 25, 2020
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Pfizer’s Covid Vaccine and Allergies: How Concerned Should You Be?
793 points • dec 12, 2020
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Biden Picks Latino Chief of Connecticut Schools as Education Secretary
790 points • dec 23, 2020
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New York City Will Reopen Elementary Schools and Reduce Hybrid Learning
790 points • dec 01, 2020
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I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music
772 points • dec 28, 2020
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New Train Hall Opens at Penn Station, Echoing Building’s Former Glory
770 points • dec 30, 2020
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Treasury will begin sending the $600 stimulus checks.
770 points • dec 30, 2020
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Can 4 Seconds of Exercise Make a Difference?
768 points • dec 30, 2020
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1st Vaccination in U.S. Is Given in New York, Hard Hit in Outbreak’s First Days
764 points • dec 15, 2020
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F.D.A. Panel Endorses Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine
762 points • dec 18, 2020
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A Christmas Eve ‘Travel Nightmare’: Snow, Flooding, Maybe Tornadoes
760 points • dec 25, 2020
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Trump Administration Passed on Chance to Secure More of Pfizer Vaccine
759 points • dec 08, 2020
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Magnum Opus: ‘Bloom County’ 40 Years Later
758 points • dec 09, 2020
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A Beloved World War II Photo Comes to Life in a Virtual Reunion
753 points • dec 27, 2020
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This Is the Test of Our Lifetimes
751 points • dec 12, 2020
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Pick Up the Knitting Needles for a Mood Booster
750 points • dec 21, 2020
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An Ode to the Before Times
739 points • dec 14, 2020
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Is Dairy Farming Cruel to Cows?
736 points • dec 30, 2020
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For John Lennon, Isolation Had a Silver Lining
730 points • dec 09, 2020
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Kamala Harris Deserves a More Important Job
727 points • dec 16, 2020
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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Review: It’s Not About What We Deserve
720 points • dec 26, 2020
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Dear Joe, It’s Not About Iran’s Nukes Anymore
718 points • dec 01, 2020
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Ariana Grande Announces Engagement to Dalton Gomez
717 points • dec 22, 2020
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Watch This Snowball Fight From 1897 for a Jolt of Pure Joy
713 points • dec 25, 2020
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Mystery Couple Found in a Roll of Film From Nearly 70 Years Ago
713 points • dec 05, 2020
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Roald Dahl’s Family Apologizes for His Anti-Semitism
712 points • dec 07, 2020
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A congressman-elect from Louisiana died from Covid-19 complications.
708 points • dec 30, 2020
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David Attenborough Still Has Hope for Our Future
702 points • dec 28, 2020
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MSNBC Names Rashida Jones as President, Succeeding Phil Griffin
697 points • dec 08, 2020
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Ann Reinking: Playful, Refined and With Legs for Days
697 points • dec 16, 2020
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Midtown Is Reeling. Should Its Offices Become Apartments?
696 points • dec 11, 2020
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Honestie Hodges, Whose Handcuffing Changed Police Policy, Is Dead at 14
684 points • dec 01, 2020
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Watch a Lunar Eclipse, or at Least Try To
682 points • dec 01, 2020
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Ann Reinking Dies at 71; Dancer, Actor, Choreographer and Fosse Muse
682 points • dec 16, 2020
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Truck Driver Crashes Into Cyclists, Killing 5, Outside Las Vegas
676 points • dec 11, 2020
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9 Great John le Carré Adaptations to Stream
674 points • dec 15, 2020
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Pound for Pound, Taiwan Is the Most Important Place in the World
671 points • dec 15, 2020
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E.P.A.’s Final Deregulatory Rush Runs Into Open Staff Resistance
668 points • dec 01, 2020
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‘Small Town, No Hospital’: Covid-19 Is Overwhelming Rural West Texas
664 points • dec 10, 2020
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Looking for Nice Jewish Guys With ‘Standards’? Click Here
660 points • dec 19, 2020
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Red Sox. White Sox. Blue Sox? Manny Is Still Manny.
656 points • dec 17, 2020
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Here’s What People With Allergies Should Know About Covid Vaccines
655 points • dec 19, 2020
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Trump’s Fraud Claims Died in Court, but the Myth of Stolen Elections Lives On
646 points • dec 27, 2020
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America, We Have a Problem
643 points • dec 16, 2020
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What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers
636 points • dec 01, 2020
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Who Can Endure the Loneliness Required of This Moment?
635 points • dec 23, 2020
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Disney to Reveal Plans to Turbocharge Streaming Offerings
628 points • dec 10, 2020
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Even in Defeat, Trump Tightens Grip on State G.O.P. Lawmakers
628 points • dec 10, 2020
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The Rotting of the Republican Mind
625 points • dec 01, 2020
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The Places That Had the Biggest Swings Toward and Against Trump
621 points • dec 08, 2020
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The Real Estate Collapse of 2020
619 points • dec 26, 2020
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Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Debt
618 points • dec 04, 2020
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Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts?
618 points • dec 22, 2020
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In the Rio Grande Valley, Death Has Become a Family Affair
612 points • dec 25, 2020
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Biden’s Climate Team Begins to Take Shape
608 points • dec 16, 2020
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Auctioning Off a Dead Mall
604 points • dec 21, 2020
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Everyone Gather Round the Squirrel Table. (Chipmunks Too!)
603 points • dec 13, 2020
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Employers Can Require Workers to Get Covid-19 Vaccine, U.S. Says
603 points • dec 19, 2020
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20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays
600 points • dec 16, 2020
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An Oral History of the World’s Biggest Coupon
599 points • dec 20, 2020
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The Nation Reached ‘Safe Harbor.’ Here’s What That Means.
598 points • dec 10, 2020
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Pfizer Nears Deal With Trump Administration to Provide More Vaccine Doses
594 points • dec 23, 2020
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Jose Garcia, New Mexico Farmworker, Dies at 68
594 points • dec 23, 2020
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She Couldn’t Open for Outdoor Dining. The Film Crew Next Door Could.
594 points • dec 06, 2020
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How New York City Vaccinated 6 Million People in Less Than a Month
592 points • dec 18, 2020
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Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?
587 points • dec 10, 2020
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Donald Trump and the Damage Done
582 points • dec 15, 2020
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China Brings Moon Rocks to Earth, and a New Era of Competition to Space
580 points • dec 17, 2020
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Material From Giuliani Spurred a Separate Justice Dept. Pursuit of Hunter Biden
580 points • dec 12, 2020
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Hugh Grant and David E. Kelley Discuss the ‘Undoing’ Finale
577 points • dec 01, 2020
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With First Dibs on Vaccines, Rich Countries Have ‘Cleared the Shelves’
576 points • dec 16, 2020
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How You Can Help Count and Conserve Native Bees
574 points • dec 08, 2020
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How to Pretend You’re in Quebec City Tonight
574 points • dec 22, 2020
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Rolling Homes That Make an R.V. Look Palatial
572 points • dec 25, 2020
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The Best of ‘This American Life’: 25th Anniversary Episodes
569 points • dec 17, 2020
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‘A Social Species’: How Kangaroos Communicate With People
569 points • dec 19, 2020
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Tommy Lister, Actor Who Menaced as Deebo in ‘Friday,’ Is Dead at 62
564 points • dec 12, 2020