Studies show that a virus variant surging in California is more contagious. The U.S. East Coast remains a hot spot as new coronavirus cases have declined elsewhere. Around the world, new cases have declined to half their peak.
A decade after the Arab Spring, autocrats still rule the Mideast
17 Feb, 2021 04:00 AM
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Demonstrators in Cairo in 2011 celebrated upon hearing that President Hosni Mubarak had been toppled after 18 days of protests against his government. Photo / Ed Ou, The New York Times
Demonstrators in Cairo in 2011 celebrated upon hearing that President Hosni Mubarak had been toppled after 18 days of protests against his government. Photo / Ed Ou, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Ben Hubbard and David D. Kirkpatrick
The popular uprisings of 2011 mostly failed, but they gave the region a taste for democracy that continues to whet an appetite for change.
New York Was the 1st Big School District to Reopen. Hereâs What Happened.
Elementary schools have been open for months. As the city prepares to reopen middle schools, problems remain, but there is also cause for optimism.
“I feel there’s a huge night-and-day difference between what was going on last spring and what’s happened this year,” said Julie Zuckerman, bottom left, the principal of Public School 513 in Manhattan.Credit.James Estrin/The New York Times
Feb. 14, 2021
For Julie Zuckerman, an elementary school principal in Manhattan, last summer felt like one never-ending day filled with fear and confusion about New York Cityâs plan to resume in-person teaching. But in the months since classrooms opened in September, something has shifted.
Whatâs a Dance Theater Without an Audience?
A food pantry or a place to vote â or a place to make dance with different expectations: âWhat weâve taken off the table is the pressure of the result.â
On the Lower East Side, the Henry Street Playhouse, part of the Abrons Arts Center, is being used as a food pantry.Credit.Todd Heisler/The New York Times
Feb. 9, 2021
At the Henry Street Playhouse on the Lower East Side, the seats are empty but the stage is crowded. The audience is gone, banned by pandemic restrictions, yet since last summer the stage has been covered every Tuesday in hundreds of bags of groceries, lined up to be delivered by stagehands, theater staff and artists to nearby housing projects and senior homes.
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