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$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School

Related media – Connected media When she focused on the bequest, she realized immediately what she wanted to do, she recalled. “I wanted to fund students at Einstein so that they would receive free tuition,” she said. There was enough money to do that in perpetuity, she said. Over the years, she had interviewed dozens […]

A Fading Weapon in the HIV Fight: Condoms

Connected media – Connected media Gay and bisexual men are using condoms less than ever, and the decline has been particularly steep among those who are young or Hispanic, according to a new study. The worrisome trend points to an urgent need for better prevention strategies as the nation struggles to beat the H.I.V. epidemic, […]

Biden Issues Executive Order to Restrict Personal Data Sales to China and Russia

Connected media – Related media President Biden will issue an executive order Wednesday seeking to restrict the sale of sensitive American data to China, Russia and four more countries, a first-of-its-kind attempt to keep personally identifying information from being obtained for blackmail, scams or other harm. The president will ask the Justice Department to write […]

Cyberattack Paralyzes the Largest US Health Care Payment System

An urgent care chain in Ohio may be forced to stop paying rent and other bills to cover salaries. In Florida, a cancer center is racing to find money for chemotherapy drugs to avoid delaying critical treatments for its patients. And in Pennsylvania, a primary care doctor is slashing expenses and pooling all of her […]

Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46

Shafiqah Hudson was looking for a job in early June of 2014, toggling between Twitter and email, when she noticed an odd hashtag that was surging on the social media platform: #EndFathersDay. The posters claimed to be Black feminists, but they had dubious handles like @NayNayCan’tStop and @CisHate and @LatrineWatts. They declared they wanted to […]

Brighter Economic Mood Isn’t Translating Into Support for Biden

Economic vibes don’t necessarily predict electoral outcomes, though, and this campaign is different in many ways from those in the past. “We’re kind of in an unprecedented situation where we’re weighing two incumbents,” said Joanne Hsu, who runs the Michigan survey. Anthony Rice, a 54-year-old Democrat in eastern Indiana, and pretty much everyone he knows, […]

Juli Lynne Charlot, Creator of the Poodle Skirt, Dies at 101

What’s a nice Jewish viscountess to do when she has a title but no money, a party invitation but no clothes and a pair of scissors but no sewing skills? Invent the poodle skirt, of course. That, quite by accident, is what Juli Lynne Charlot did in late 1947, in the process creating a totem […]

More Screen Time Means Less Parent-Child Talk, Study Finds

Some Background: What interrupts household chatter? Researchers have long known that growing up in a language-rich environment is vital for early language development. More language exposure early in life is associated with social development, higher I.Q.s and even better brain function. Given the value of such exposure, researchers in Australia were eager to investigate potential […]