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Magazine
Moon Jars, Luminous and Graceful, Are Entrancing Modern Ceramists
THE TRADITIONAL KOREAN moon jar — a large, rounded vessel glazed with an opaline sheen — has been a much-celebrated…
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News
Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built
In late June, Microsoft released a new kind of artificial intelligence technology that could generate its own computer code. Called…
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World
Haunted by Disaster, Volunteers Search for Survivors in Indonesia
Heavy rains drenched the collapsed mountainside, making sludge of the rust-colored soil. Intermittently, the earth violently shuddered as an ...
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Arts
In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception
“I know we brothers,” Lincoln tells his younger sibling, Booth, in Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog.” With a slight hesitation, he then…
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Arts
‘The Fabelmans’: What’s Real and What’s Fictional
Steven Spielberg’s new semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” hits many standard biopic beats: A Jewish boy, Sammy Fabelman, falls in love…
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News
Peek Inside a $200-a-Night ‘Room’ at the World Cup in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — After Sheng Xie, a 33-year-old soccer fan from Vancouver, booked his flight to the World Cup, he…
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Style
How to Survive Your First Holiday Season as Newlyweds
The main issue looming over Erica and Aaron Weiss this holiday season: whether to hide a bear or pickle ornament…
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News
What Is Indigenous Power?
Of all the striking monuments you might encounter while driving an overstuffed minivan west across the United States, few leave…
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News
Overconfident Regulators Caused the Ticketmaster Mess
Before the federal government let Live Nation merge with Ticketmaster in 2010, it obtained some very solemn promises that the…
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News
Elon, the Mosh Pit Called. It Wants ‘Hard Core’ Back.
Have you ever gotten an email at midnight from the boss with an ominous subject line like “a fork in…