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New York Times (May 2021)
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  Big Setbacks Propel Oil Giants Toward a ‘Tipping Point’
  
  
151 points • may 30, 2021
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  The Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’
  
  
151 points • may 07, 2021
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  Does Teaching America It’s Racist Make It Less Racist?
  
  
150 points • may 20, 2021
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  A Lost Brontë Library Surfaces
  
  
148 points • may 26, 2021
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  The Many Blunders of the Secret Service — and the Dangers They Pose to U.S. Presidents
  
  
145 points • may 18, 2021
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  Cops Don’t Belong at Pride
  
  
144 points • may 30, 2021
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  Gehry’s Quiet Interventions Reshape the Philadelphia Museum
  
  
144 points • may 31, 2021
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  The Oldest Productivity Trick Around
  
  
144 points • may 09, 2021
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  What Did That Oscars Show Say About Movies? Our Critics Puzzle It Out.
  
  
143 points • may 01, 2021
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  Secret Chats Show How Cybergang Became a Ransomware Powerhouse
  
  
142 points • may 30, 2021
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  The Cicadas Are Here. For the Chef Bun Lai, They’re on the Menu.
  
  
141 points • may 26, 2021
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  Hollywood Has Finally Deemed Black Women Worthy of Feel-Good TV
  
  
140 points • may 17, 2021
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  I’m the Executor of My Mother’s Estate. What Happens if Her Stuff Doesn’t Sell?
  
  
140 points • may 09, 2021
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  Silicon Valley Jumps Into the Fitness Business, and It Will Cost You
  
  
139 points • may 29, 2021
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  In the Market for a 529 College Savings Plan? Shop Around.
  
  
139 points • may 26, 2021
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  The Way of the Conscientious Objector
  
  
137 points • may 30, 2021
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  Is B.M.I. a Scam?
  
  
136 points • may 19, 2021
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  Linfield University Fires Professor Who Spoke Out About Misconduct Cases
  
  
134 points • may 02, 2021
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  The Caribbean Conundrum: United by Tourists, Divided by Covid
  
  
134 points • may 26, 2021
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  As Scrutiny of Cryptocurrency Grows, the Industry Turns to K Street
  
  
133 points • may 11, 2021
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  China’s ‘Long-Term Time Bomb’: Falling Births Stunt Population Growth
  
  
133 points • may 12, 2021
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  Why Have There Been So Many No-Hitters in 2021?
  
  
133 points • may 21, 2021
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  Jack Terricloth, Punk Rocker With a Cabaret Air, Dies at 50
  
  
132 points • may 17, 2021
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  Those Buzzy New Collagen Products Are Risky Business
  
  
132 points • may 13, 2021
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  House Hunters Are Leaving the City, and Builders Can’t Keep Up
  
  
130 points • may 30, 2021
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  Geoff Crowther, 77, Dies; Guided Travelers Looking to Get Lost
  
  
129 points • may 08, 2021
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  Paul Van Doren, 90, Dies; Built an Empire With Vans Shoes
  
  
128 points • may 22, 2021
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  Traveling This Memorial Day Weekend? Pack Patience.
  
  
128 points • may 29, 2021
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  E.U. Set to Let Vaccinated U.S. Tourists Visit This Summer
  
  
128 points • may 01, 2021
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  New York Is Reopening. Here’s What That Actually Means.
  
  
126 points • may 20, 2021
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  Elon Musk Hosts a Mother’s Day Episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’
  
  
125 points • may 09, 2021
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  Can the Covid Vaccine Protect Me Against Virus Variants?
  
  
124 points • may 20, 2021
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  ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Onstage. A Nightmare Off It.
  
  
124 points • may 28, 2021
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  His Legs Suddenly Felt Paralyzed. Could Intense Workouts Be the Cause?
  
  
124 points • may 13, 2021
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  They’ve Given $6 Million to the Arts. No One Knew Them, Until Now.
  
  
123 points • may 27, 2021
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  At a Small Maine School, Cursive Endures and Wins National Awards
  
  
122 points • may 26, 2021
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  The C.D.C. says unvaccinated children at U.S. camps can go without masks most of the time when they are outside.
  
  
122 points • may 30, 2021
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  Imagine, Surgery Without a Scar
  
  
121 points • may 02, 2021
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  One of the N.F.L.’s Fastest Is Among the Slowest on the Track
  
  
120 points • may 10, 2021
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  The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are 94 percent effective at preventing hospitalization in older adults, a study finds.
  
  
120 points • may 01, 2021
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  Ron DeSantis Does Disease
  
  
117 points • may 01, 2021
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  Eating Disorders in Teens Have ‘Exploded’ in the Pandemic
  
  
117 points • may 01, 2021
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  Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes
  
  
116 points • may 08, 2021
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  He Delivered for Me
  
  
115 points • may 01, 2021
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  Krugman Wonks Out: What We Talk About When We Talk About Money
  
  
113 points • may 24, 2021
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  Spencer Silver, an Inventor of Post-it Notes, Is Dead at 80
  
  
113 points • may 14, 2021
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  Republicans Are Still Waging War on Workers
  
  
113 points • may 12, 2021
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  A Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Splits the Gucci Family
  
  
112 points • may 30, 2021
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  Burning of Police Station After George Floyd’s Death Draws 4-Year Sentence
  
  
110 points • may 01, 2021
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  Tamara Press, Olympian Whose Feats Raised Questions, Dies at 83
  
  
110 points • may 06, 2021
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  Vaccinated 12- to 15-year-olds at U.S. camps will be able to remove masks outdoors, the C.D.C. director says.
  
  
110 points • may 07, 2021
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  How a $180 Million Parking Lot Could Change N.Y.C.’s Historic Character
  
  
110 points • may 07, 2021
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  Rest Better With Light Exercises
  
  
110 points • may 22, 2021
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  Roger Hawkins, Drummer Heard on Numerous Hits, Is Dead at 75
  
  
109 points • may 24, 2021
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  Why Kristi Noem Is Rising Quickly as a Republican Prospect for 2024
  
  
108 points • may 03, 2021
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  ‘Staggering’ Legal Fees in Boy Scouts Bankruptcy Case
  
  
107 points • may 12, 2021
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  Jimmy Kimmel Rakes Republicans for Downplaying the Capitol Attack
  
  
107 points • may 21, 2021
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  Why a $10,000 Tax Deduction Could Hold Up Trillions in Stimulus Funds
  
  
106 points • may 02, 2021
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  The Broad Museum Reopens With a Celebration of Basquiat
  
  
106 points • may 21, 2021
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  As Cars Go Electric, China Builds a Big Lead in Factories
  
  
106 points • may 05, 2021
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  N.J. Teacher Suspended After Calling George Floyd a ‘Criminal’
  
  
106 points • may 02, 2021
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  One of Roxane Gay’s Go-To Recipes
  
  
105 points • may 26, 2021
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  16 Grilling Recipes You’ll Want to Make All Summer Long
  
  
105 points • may 01, 2021
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  Decluttering for a Renovation
  
  
104 points • may 30, 2021
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  If the Left Got Its Wish for Israel
  
  
103 points • may 19, 2021
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  ‘I’m Not Anti-Anything. I’m Pro-Hawaii.’
  
  
102 points • may 18, 2021
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  Hail Kevin McCarthy, People Pleaser and Trump Appeaser
  
  
102 points • may 25, 2021
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  Trump Justice Dept. Tried to Use Grand Jury to Identify Nunes Critic on Twitter
  
  
100 points • may 19, 2021
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  Giant Confederate Monument Will Remain at Revamped Stone Mountain
  
  
100 points • may 26, 2021
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  What to Expect in the First Round of the N.F.L. Draft
  
  
100 points • may 01, 2021
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  The PawSox Moved, but Pawtucket Has Yet to Move On
  
  
100 points • may 13, 2021
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  A Big Climate Problem With Few Easy Solutions: Planes
  
  
99 points • may 29, 2021
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  Ruth Freitag, Librarian to the Stars, Dies at 96
  
  
97 points • may 26, 2021
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  The Dream: International Travel. The Reality: Chaos and Confusion.
  
  
97 points • may 07, 2021
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  The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
  
  
97 points • may 21, 2021
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  Jacques d’Amboise, Charismatic Star of City Ballet, Is Dead at 86
  
  
97 points • may 05, 2021
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  After Hurricane’s Devastation, a Dilemma in Nicaragua: Rebuild or Relocate?
  
  
97 points • may 07, 2021
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  The Husband-and-Wife Team Behind the Leading Vaccine to Solve Covid-19
  
  
96 points • may 22, 2021
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  Deadly Stampede at Israeli Religious Festival Followed Years of Warnings
  
  
95 points • may 01, 2021
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  Was 1971 the Year ‘Music Changed Everything’?
  
  
94 points • may 29, 2021
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  A Glut of Chinese Masks Is Driving U.S. Companies Out of Business
  
  
93 points • may 30, 2021
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  To Draw Nature, Pick Up a Pencil and Really Look
  
  
93 points • may 12, 2021
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  I Feel Great About My Neck
  
  
93 points • may 26, 2021
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  The Benefits of Moderate Exercise
  
  
92 points • may 18, 2021
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  She Built a Baltimore Restaurant Empire, but Still Works the Stove
  
  
92 points • may 26, 2021
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  Scenes From America’s Reopening
  
  
92 points • may 17, 2021
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  Do Statins Really Cause Muscle Aches?
  
  
91 points • may 10, 2021
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  Humans Have Been Sharing Food With Animals for Centuries. Why Is That?
  
  
91 points • may 12, 2021
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  Another Group of Scientists Calls for Further Inquiry Into Origins of the Coronavirus
  
  
90 points • may 17, 2021
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  When a Summer Day Calls for a Beer
  
  
90 points • may 24, 2021
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  These Invisible Whales Could Sink the Economy
  
  
89 points • may 19, 2021
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  ‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does.
  
  
87 points • may 24, 2021
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  Ruffled Feathers Among the Birders of Central Park
  
  
86 points • may 27, 2021
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  A Chinese Rocket Is Tumbling Back to Earth. Where Will It Land?
  
  
86 points • may 08, 2021
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  Our Digital Pasts Weren’t Supposed to Be Weaponized Like This
  
  
86 points • may 30, 2021
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  Marilyn Manson Is Sought on Arrest Warrant in New Hampshire
  
  
86 points • may 27, 2021
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  Coco’s Choice: A Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist’s Road Back From Hell
  
  
84 points • may 23, 2021
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  The Weight-Loss Industry Is Coming for Our Post-Lockdown Bodies
  
  
84 points • may 06, 2021
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  Fatigue Is a Luxury You Can’t Afford
  
  
84 points • may 14, 2021
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  Apple AirTag Review: A Humble Tracker With Next-Generation Tech
  
  
83 points • may 01, 2021