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Why a Sculptor Was Drawn to Sewer Alligators

A Swedish artist’s creation, to be unveiled today, shows a creature that has mythic status in New York City.

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Follow This Music to Joy

Music is universal among humans, typically used for immediate benefits: aesthetic pleasure, accompaniment to ritual, dance or work or even…

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Manitoba Elects a First Nations Member as Premier, a Canadian First

Wab Kinew, an Anishinaabe politician who leads the New Democratic Party, will replace the conservative Heather Stefanson as Manitoba’s leader.

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Health

Extreme Eye Contact and Other Ways of Dating

Forget dinner and a movie: Let’s see if we can gaze into each other’s eyes for three minutes instead.

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Health

Extreme Eye Contact and Other Ways of Dating

Forget dinner and a movie: Let’s see if we can gaze into each other’s eyes for three minutes instead.

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Arts

‘Celebrate Jaap!’ the Philharmonic Says as a Maestro Departs

The final season of Jaap van Zweden’s brief tenure as music director in New York began with a new suite…

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Business

William H. Dilday Jr., First Black TV Station Manager in U.S., Dies at 85

Hired to run a troubled Mississippi affiliate of NBC, he turned it into a respected and highly profitable operation, with…

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Sports

5 Players to Watch at the Evian Championship

Any one of these talented women could win the golf tournament in France.

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World

First Hispanic Police Commissioner Has Deep Roots in the N.Y.P.D.

Edward Caban, an officer of Puerto Rican descent who joined the department in 1991, has been named its 47th commissioner.…

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Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89

“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a…

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