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Efforts to ban books nearly doubled in 2022 over the previous year, according to a report published Thursday by the American Library Association. The organization tracked 1,269 attempts to ban books and other resources in libraries and schools, the highest number of complaints since the association began studying censorship efforts more than 20 years ago. … Read more
Since it began almost two decades ago, Ali Krieger’s soccer career has taken her more places than she can remember: dozens of countries, three World Cups and at least two operating rooms. But this year her career will come to an end, but not before a final challenge that will be a far cry from … Read more
In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report titled the “Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2011-2021,” or Y.R.B.S. According to the C.D.C., “nearly 3 in 5 (57 percent) U.S. teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 — double that of boys” and “the highest level … Read more
WESTCHESTER | 7 PARKWAY Street, LARCHMONT, N.Y. Renovated 1917 Home $2.495 million A five-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath, renovated, 3,409-square-foot home with a living room that has an original brick fireplace and a secret door to an office behind a bookshelf; a bright eat-in kitchen with custom cabinets, a wine fridge, a six-burner Thermador stove with a pot … Read more
Season 3, Episode 6: ‘The Bounty’ Geordi La Forge, through much of “Next Generation,” on some level needed rehabilitation. He was brilliantly portrayed by LeVar Burton, but he was also sometimes treated like a stereotype: a nerdy engineer who couldn’t get the girl and wasn’t given much else to do. In fact, his main love … Read more
What happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears, judging by this spurious, somewhat cranky documentary by John Scheinfeld, is that the band faced the unforeseen consequences of its own bad decisions. In 1970, Blood, Sweat & Tears, the enormously popular nine-piece jazz-rock group, undertook a tour of Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland under the aegis of the … Read more