Robert Wright for The New York TimesChris Ely, an English butler, and Carol Johnson, a fitness instructor at Crunch NYC, perfecting a houseworkout. CAN housework help you live longer? A New York Times blog post by Gretchen Reynolds last month cited research linking vigorous activity, including housework, and longevity. The study, which tracked the death rates of British civil servants, was the latest...
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: Dec. 27
Label: WorldNEWS China began service Wednesday morning on the world’s longest high-speed rail line, from Beijing to Guangzhou — covering a distance in eight hours that is about equal to that from New York to Key West, Florida, or from London across Europe to Belgrade, Serbia. Keith Bradsher reports from Hong Kong.Syria’s embattled leadership suffered a new setback Wednesday with the defection of its military...
Dec
26
Fiscal Cutoff Gradually Morphs Into a Horizon
Label: BusinessQuick action by President Obama and Congress could still help the economy escape the full impact of hundreds of billions in tax increases and automatic spending cuts set to take effect shortly after the last minutes of 2012 tick away next week. But if the deadlock in Washington persists much longer than a few weeks, the consequences will quickly mount, economists warn. Until late last week,...
Recipes for Health: Penne With Mushroom Ragout and Spinach
Label: HealthAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesPenne with mushroom ragout and spinach. Mushrooms and spinach together is always a match made in heaven. I use a mix of wild and regular white or cremini mushrooms for this, but don’t hesitate to make it if regular mushrooms are all that is available. 1/2 ounce (about 1/2 cup) dried porcini mushrooms 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive...
Recipes for Health: Penne With Mushroom Ragout and Spinach
Label: LifestyleAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesPenne with mushroom ragout and spinach. Mushrooms and spinach together is always a match made in heaven. I use a mix of wild and regular white or cremini mushrooms for this, but don’t hesitate to make it if regular mushrooms are all that is available. 1/2 ounce (about 1/2 cup) dried porcini mushrooms 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive...
The 30-Minute Interview: The 30-Minute Interview With Nick J. Romito
Label: TechnologyMr. Romito, 30, is the founder and chief executive of View the Space, a new real estate technology business that creates online video tours, primarily of office space, and provides data-tracking services to commercial real estate companies, among them SL Green Realty, Vornado Realty Trust and Silverstein Properties. Before starting the business last year, Mr. Romito worked as a commercial...
Israel to Review Curbs on Women’s Prayer at Western Wall
Label: WorldRina Castelnuovo for The New York TimesMembers of a group called Women of the Wall read from the Torah near the Western Wall in Jerusalem in December. JERUSALEM — Amid outrage across the Jewish diaspora over a flurry of recent arrests of women seeking to pray at the Western Wall with ritual garments in defiance of Israeli law, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Natan Sharansky, the chairman...
Dec
25
News Analysis: Getting Polio Campaigns Back on Track
Label: HealthHow in the world did something as innocuous as the sugary pink polio vaccine turn into a flash point between Islamic militants and Western “crusaders,” flaring into a confrontation so ugly that teenage girls — whose only “offense” is that they are protecting children — are gunned down in the streets? Nine vaccine workers were killed in Pakistan last week in a terrorist campaign that brought...
News Analysis: Getting Polio Campaigns Back on Track
Label: LifestyleHow in the world did something as innocuous as the sugary pink polio vaccine turn into a flash point between Islamic militants and Western “crusaders,” flaring into a confrontation so ugly that teenage girls — whose only “offense” is that they are protecting children — are gunned down in the streets? Nine vaccine workers were killed in Pakistan last week in a terrorist campaign that brought...
India Ink: Adding Indian Spice to Christmas
Label: WorldFor those who celebrate Christmas, the meal eaten to mark the holiday can be as important as the ritual of exchanging gifts or decorating a green tree.South Asians, of course, make food center stage at any occasion, and many have come to embrace the tradition of Christmas dinner, whether they’re Hindu, Muslim or Christian. But just as Indians adjust Western dishes to their tastes – like adding cilantro...
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