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This Is Not the Answer to Soaring Health Care Costs
1+ min ago (364+ words) Their diagnosis is half right. Prices are high, opaque and frequently baffling, and they often do not reflect superior quality or convenience. The economist Friedrich Hayek’s insight was that the knowledge needed to coordinate a complex economy is dispersed, local…...
A Hyrox coach says these are the 3 biggest beginner mistakes
1+ min ago (789+ words) Chances are, you’ve heard of Hyrox. If not, it may only be a matter of time. Hyrox, a group fitness competition, has ballooned in popularity. The race combines 1-kilometer running stints with functional fitness stations like sled pushes and pulls,…...
‘Heated Rivalry,’ ‘Dukes,’ ‘Othello’ and More Crowd-Pleasing Theater to See
1+ min ago (76+ words) Through July 23 at the Cell Gallery Space, Manhattan. Through July 25 at the Brick, Brooklyn. Through July 26 at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park, Manhattan. Through Aug. 2, SoHo Playhouse, Manhattan. Through Aug. 2 at the Tank, Manhattan. Through Aug. 15 at…...
Why Epidemics Breed Rage at Health Workers
1+ min ago (1010+ words) Efforts to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo did not begin well. Patients fled a treatment unit in Mongbwalu, a mining town, after community members set it on fire. Residents assaulted a burial team in the town of…...
One of the world’s great opera voices hails from an unexpected place
1+ min ago (1145+ words) MUNICH, Germany — Nicholas Brownlee had just fallen in love with opera and was eager to see if his emerging bass-baritone voice could handle Richard Wagner’s music. It did not go well. “I kept reading how you have to wait to…...
With His Latest, Colson Whitehead Pulls Off Another Score
1+ min ago (1356+ words) “Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them,” Colson Whitehead wrote in “The Colossus of New York” (2003), his panoramic nonfiction book about the city that never sleeps, the big uneasy. “Pay tribute, for they are…...
Elite Young Runners Are Becoming Freakishly Fast. Welcome to ‘Trackflation’
1+ min ago (1136+ words) My son had the race of his life at sectionals, shaving several seconds off his personal best. He also got absolutely smoked. The top three boys all finished in well under 4 minutes and 30 seconds. The next six broke 4:38. By the…...
It’s not just Taco Bell lettuce and possible glass in Pillsbury rolls: Food and drink recall events reached a 6-year year-over
1+ min ago (383+ words) General Mills has had a recall reckoning: Earlier this month, the food manufacturer recalled nearly 736,000 Pillsbury bread rolls over possible glass contamination, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration notice from this week. Taco Bell issued a statement earlier this…...
Backed by Daymond John and Post Malone, this Afghan-born founder built a $150M brand. Her real mission: the women back home
49+ min ago (590+ words) Durana Elmi says in the country where she was born, birds now have more rights than women. The cofounder of Cymbiotika, the San Diego–based wellness brand behind the rip-and-sip supplement packets that have turned up in gym bags and…...
Warren Buffett says his $147 billion investing career was an accident: ‘I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world’
49+ min ago (734+ words) Warren Buffett has spent nearly nine decades building an investing empire. But he mostly attributes his massive success to one thing: luck. “Out of eight billion people, I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world,” Buffett said. Ahead…...