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☆ Tracking 2024 U.S. House Races: Remaining Path to 218 Seats
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A few dozen House races were uncalled as of Thursday morning, and neither party has clinched a majority. The tallies below are based on the reported vote so far, and the margin in many races will continue to change as more ballots are counted in the coming days. See the full House results ›

Then sink into this Edward Hopper painting from 1928. “It looks like the rest of the world has been raptured,” Mr. Wilkins said. “You see this solitary figure who is subsumed by this massive built environment,” Mr. Wilkins said. “It’s this great image of a city and a person in transition,” Mr. Wilkins said. In his letter, Mr. Hopper concluded: “But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.”

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The United States was sending more troops to Vietnam, and Mr. Hunter had recently found out he was one of them. During the session in her apartment, Ms. Neel outlined Mr. Hunter’s body, his hands, his legs and the chair on the five-foot-tall canvas. Mr. Als views these gestural marks outlining his legs, his jacket, his hand as a kind of memory of Mr. Hunter. But they could not locate Mr. Hunter or firmly establish his fate, only that he probably did not die in the Vietnam War. And she saved it and loved that painting as much as any.”The painting was kind of a bittersweet breakthrough for Ms. Neel, Ms. Baum said.

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Does this style look like anything you’ve seen before? That’s what’s happening in this Japanese woodblock print — only it’s Tokyo (then called Edo), the year is 1857, and we’re crossing the Sumida River. This summer scene, titled “Great Bridge: Sudden Rain at Atake,” is one in a series of at least 118 different views Hiroshige created about life in 19th-century Edo across the seasons. In fall:In winter:In spring:And of course, there’s the summer rain you spent some time with. Ms. May recently curated a show of Japanese prints at the museum.

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☆ Andrew Holmes’ hyperreal drawings of trucks look just like photographs
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Francesca Perry | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Andrew Holmes’ images of trucks on Californian highways are sun-drenched, saturated and sharp. Now, Holmes’ works have been brought together in a book — “Gas Tank City” (Circa Press) — alongside a show of the same name at London’s Architectural Association (AA). The drawings that make up the "Gas Tank City" book and exhibition celebrate every inch of the classic American truck, particularly the iconic Kenworth model. While the words “hyperreal” and “photorealistic” are used to describe his work, Holmes points out that the drawings are “completely unlike” photographic images. Together, “Gas Tank City” creates a portrait of life on the road, detached from specificities of time and place.

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This painting, called “Canopy,” is from 2020. ):With yards:And she did it with plastic buckets — the painting you just spent some time with. She spent the whole first summer just trying to get the perspective on the tops of the buckets right — searching for the right ellipse shape — working them out in drawings and on the canvas. Near the end of our conversation, we asked Ms. Murphy why she still paints this way after all these years. Why deal with the dying grass, the ever-changing light, those impossible ellipses, morning after morning after morning?

Persons: Catherine Murphy, Catherine Murphy —, Murphy, ”, Murphy’s, “, ‘, I’m Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Depot

This tapestry hangs in the Cloisters, the Upper Manhattan branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of ArtBut what are they? The Metropolitan Museum of Art“The unicorn is more of a symbol of that one person that you look for throughout your life,” she said. “All images, be they medieval tapestries or contemporary paintings or photos in the news, communicate best over duration,” Ms. Perratore said. The Metropolitan Museum of ArtUltimately, this exercise was only sort of about the unicorn or medieval art — or art at all.

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☆ Recent Voter Registration Data Offers Hint of Enthusiasm for Democrats
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ever since Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential campaign three weeks ago, polls and campaign finance data have shown how the race has changed. She has come from behind to build a small lead over former President Donald J. Trump in national polls and in several swing states, and she raised far more money than he did last month. Now, new voter registration data in two swing states adds to the evidence that Ms. Harris’s candidacy has energized potential Democratic voters.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Donald J, Harris’s Organizations: Trump, Democratic

For once, American voters are in near total agreement about politics: They (almost) all agree that President Biden was right to exit the presidential race. In the latest New York Times/Siena College poll, released on Thursday, 87 percent of registered voters approved of his decision to drop out. Only 9 percent disapproved. Still, Mr. Biden’s move has reached a stratum of consensus that little in American public life can touch. We reviewed dozens of polls from the past few years, and it was hard to find anything that more people agreed on.

Persons: Biden, Biden’s Organizations: New York Times, Siena College, Republicans

☆ Test Your Focus: Can You Spend 10 Minutes With One Painting?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-20 | by ( Francesca Paris | Larry Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

The PaintingAs you may recall, the painting you just spent time with is “Nocturne in Blue and Silver,” by the American artist James McNeill Whistler. As you look further down the painting, things start to get confusing. As you look further down the painting, things start to get confusing. She believes Whistler may have started the painting one way and then simply changed his mind, flipped the panel upside down and started over. (She recommended this Whistler painting for our exercise.)

Persons: James McNeill Whistler, Lauren O'Neil, Whistler, Kate Smith, Smith, ”, Gloria Mark, you’re, Roberts, “, Roberts’s, Mark Organizations: New York Times, Harvard Art, The New York Times, Harvard Art Museums, University of California, Harvard Locations: American, London, brushy, Irvine

The Youngest Pandemic Children Are Now in School, and StrugglingThe pandemic’s babies, toddlers and preschoolers are now school-age, and the impact on them is becoming increasingly clear: Many are showing signs of being academically and developmentally behind. But the impact on the youngest children is in some ways surprising: They were not in formal school when the pandemic began, and at an age when children spend a lot of time at home anyway. Researchers said several aspects of the pandemic affected young children — parental stress, less exposure to people, lower preschool attendance, more time on screens and less time playing. The youngest students’ performance is “in stark contrast” to older elementary school children, who have caught up much more, the researchers said. Sarrah Hovis, a preschool teacher in Roseville, Mich., has seen plenty of the pandemic’s impact in her classroom.

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We Counted 22,252 Cars to See How Much Congestion Pricing Might Have Made This MorningToday would have been the first Monday of New York City’s congestion pricing plan. We sent 27 people to count vehicles manually at four bridges, four tunnels and nine streets where cars entered the business district. In total, we counted 22,252 cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Monday. But it does give you a rough sense of scale: It’s a lot of cars, and a lot of money. had planned to use the congestion pricing revenue estimates to secure $15 billion in financing for subway upgrades.

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☆ Renting or Buying Is Often Personal, but It’s Also Helpful to Look at the Numbers
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Francesca Paris | More About Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Upshot last week updated one of its earliest and most popular projects: the Rent or Buy calculator. The new calculator takes into account the 2017 tax law that affected the mortgage-interest deduction and limited SALT deductions. Because our math takes into account the full cycle of owning — buying, annual costs and then selling — home price appreciation can vastly change your results. The same house might look like a great financial decision at 8 percent housing value growth, and a bad one at 4 percent. Give the calculator a whirl here, and take note that you can now save and share your results.

☆ A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Emily Badger | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Indeed, according to new research from economists at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, this lock-in effect is responsible for about 1.3 million fewer home sales in America during the run-up in rates from the spring of 2022 through the end of 2023. That’s a startling number in a nation where around five million homes sell annually in more normal times — most of those to people who already own. These locked-in households haven’t relocated for better jobs or higher pay, and haven’t been able to downsize or acquire more space. They also haven’t opened up homes for first-time buyers. And that’s driven up prices and gummed up the market.

Persons: That’s, haven’t Organizations: Federal Housing Finance Agency Locations: America

☆ Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Sarah Mervosh | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

Increase in chronic absenteeism, 2019–23 By local child poverty rates By length of school closures By school district size By district racial makeup Source: Upshot analysis of data from Nat Malkus, American Enterprise Institute. Sara Miller, a counselor at South Anchorage High School for 20 years, now sees more absences from students across the socioeconomic spectrum. But after a visit from her school district, and starting therapy herself, she has settled into a new routine. Nationally, about 26 percent of students were considered chronically absent last school year, up from 15 percent before the pandemic. Kaylee Greenlee for The New York TimesThe Ypsilanti school district has tried a bit of everything, said the superintendent, Alena Zachery-Ross.

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☆ A Crisis of School Absences
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-29 | by ( Sarah Mervosh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A few years ago, a troubling phenomenon began to spread in U.S. education: Students were not showing up to school. Schools had shut down in the spring of 2020, at the start of the pandemic, and some did not fully reopen until fall 2021. Before the pandemic, about 15 percent of U.S. students were chronically absent, which typically means missing 18 days of the school year, for any reason. By the 2021-22 school year, that number had skyrocketed to 28 percent of students. Last school year, the most recent for which national estimates are available, it held stubbornly at 26 percent.

Persons: Quarantines, Francesca Paris Organizations: Schools

☆ Force of Ship Collision Was on the Scale of a Rocket Launch
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Aatish Bhatia | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Erin Schaff/The New York TimesForce of Ship Collision Was on the Scale of a Rocket LaunchThe container ship Dali appeared to move sluggishly before striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday. Experts disagreed on whether it was reasonable for any bridge pier to withstand a direct collision with a massive container ship. F = ma force mass acceleration F = ma force mass accelerationOur first task, and a major source of uncertainty, was finding those numbers. F= (100,000 to 195,000 metric tons) × (7.8 mph - 2.5 mph) / 38 seconds mass acceleration F= (100,000 to 195,000 metric tons) × (7.8 mph - 2.5 mph) / 38 seconds mass acceleration For the actual calculation, we used metric units. We tried one more method: using a formula to calculate the ship collision force published by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the industry organization that publishes bridge safety standards.

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Four years ago this month, schools nationwide began to shut down, igniting one of the most polarizing and partisan debates of the pandemic. Some schools, often in Republican-led states and rural areas, reopened by fall 2020. Others, typically in large cities and states led by Democrats, would not fully reopen for another year. A variety of data — about children’s academic outcomes and about the spread of Covid-19 — has accumulated in the time since. Today, there is broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts that extended school closures did not significantly stop the spread of Covid, while the academic harms for children have been large and long-lasting.

Organizations: Republican, Democrats Locations: Covid

☆ Is Taylor Swift Actually Increasing N.F.L. Ratings?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Ben Blatt | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ever since Taylor Swift started dating the Kansas City Chiefs’ Travis Kelce, she has elevated him into a new tier of celebrity. The league said that regular-season viewership was up 7 percent from last season, according to Nielsen data. Two of the four highest-rated “Sunday Night Football” games this season were attended by Swift. Just because we could, we did a little digging (OK, maybe too much digging) into just how real the “Swift effect” is. We found that the answer, like dating as a celebrity, is complicated.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Kansas City Chiefs ’ Travis Kelce, Swift Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, Nielsen, Football

☆ She arranged a date with a guy she met on a plane. When he didn’t show, she unexpectedly met her future husband
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Francesca Street | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

“I loved London,” Cristina tells CNN Travel today. Matt’s family was staying at Claridge’s, the historic, swanky five star hotel in Mayfair. Matt’s parents knew he was going on a spontaneous date. “And then they would never forward the mail.”Cristina’s idea of writing to Matt’s parents’ address was a good one. After years of working and living in Italy, Matt’s fluent in Italian.

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Pandemic school closures upended U.S. education. Many students lost significant ground, and the federal government invested billions to help them recover. Students Are Making a ‘Surprising’ Rebound From Pandemic Closures. The students most at risk are those in poor districts, whose test scores fell further during the pandemic. The analysis did not include Asian students, who represent 5 percent of public school students.

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☆ Judge Judy says the biggest mistake in her career was turning down a role in 'Legally Blonde'
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Read previewJudge Judy says she turned down the opportunity to make a cameo in "Legally Blonde." Judy Sheindlin, the TV judge in the series "Judy Justice," told E! This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The role of the judge in "Legally Blonde" eventually went to actor Francesca P. Roberts. Advertisement"We're friends, and she gets me, and I know she does," Sheindlin told E!

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☆ The Rise of the N.F.L.’s 2-Point Conversion: A Guide to Strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Ben Blatt | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

playoffs, which begin Saturday afternoon, will probably bring high-stakes moments around a simple decision: After a touchdown, should your team kick for one point, or go for two? The 2-point try — where teams get to run one play to score from the 2-yard line — was initially a hit with coaches when it was introduced to the N.F.L. in 1994, but its popularity soon faded. In recent seasons that trend has reversed, with 2-point attempts becoming more common thanks to rule changes and to the growing role of analytics.

She left her job at Walmart because it was too physical, but her current job is mentally taxing. Nearly every Republican in the poll rated the economy unfavorably, and 59 percent of Democrats did. Steven Cabrera, 35, who works for the military in Phoenix, was among the 57 percent of voters who said economic issues were a bigger priority than societal ones. He wanted to know: Is that the reason our economy is “slowing down?” He wasn’t sure, but he thought it might be. He plans to vote for “the Republican, any Republican,” he said.

Persons: Suzanne Haberkorn, won’t, “, Steven Cabrera, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, ” Organizations: Walmart, Research, Republican Locations: Waukesha, Wis, Phoenix, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York, Ukraine

☆ Can’t Think, Can’t Remember: More Americans Say They’re in a Cognitive Fog
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Because the census relies entirely on self-reporting, experts say the data could also be capturing a shift in how people perceive their cognition, even absent changes to their health. People with disabilities might have taken note of rising disability acceptance and become more likely to answer the census questions honestly, researchers say. Some young people may have been influenced by what disability researchers describe as increased awareness and acceptance of neurodiversity during the pandemic, as videos about mental illness and developmental disorders proliferated online, often encouraging people to self-diagnose. Most of the increase is probably capturing real changes in people’s health, she said. “We need to understand who these people are, how they’re being impacted and what we can do about it.”

Persons: Sibley, ‘ I’m, ”, Monika Mitra Organizations: Lurie Institute for Disability, Brandeis University

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