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Paul Coker, Cartoonist at Mad for Almost Six Decades, Dies at 93
Paul Coker, a cartoonist who was best known for using monsters to parody clichés in Mad magazine over many decades…
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Kamoya Kimeu, Fossil-Hunting ‘Legend’ in East Africa, Is Dead
Kamoya Kimeu, the son of a goat herder whose preternatural gift for spotting and identifying petrified tibias, skull fragments and…
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What Are Burn Pits, and How Did They Harm U.S. Troops?
On bases established for America’s post-9/11 wars, the U.S. military’s trash was often burned in huge, open-air lots on the…
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Driverless Cars Shouldn’t Be a Race
I grind my teeth when the metaphor of “a race” is used in discussions about self-driving vehicle technology. Companies developing…
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Wildfires Rip Through France, Again, Weeks After Last Heat Wave
PARIS — France is burning. Throughout the country, and for the second time in less than a month, dozens of…
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Blinken Urges Rwanda and Congo to End Support for Warring Militias
KIGALI, Rwanda — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Thursday that he had urged the leaders of Rwanda…
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Candles that Capture a Day at the Beach, Down to the Hot Dogs
Welcome to the T List, a newsletter from the editors of T Magazine. Each week, we share things we’re eating,…
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Why Steve Jobs Chose This Designer’s Turtlenecks
Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’s favorite designer. The man behind Mr. Jobs’s personal uniform of black…
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The Cookie Jar Grows Up
Humans have a natural talent for concentration. I recently watched a kid crouching among pebbles at the beach. He spent…
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The Independent Bookstore, as Imagined by a Corporate Lobbyist
Sitting at the bar in the exclusive Delta Club at Citi Field, where his beloved Mets were in the process…