Theranos and the Logic of Start-Up Bets
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood-testing …
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NASA Mission Could Blast an Asteroid That Once Menaced Earth
First it punched an asteroid. Now, a NASA spacecraft’s rampage may continue and it could blast a hole in another space rock. The OSIRIS-REX …
France Refused to Repatriate a Sick Woman Who Joined the Islamic State. She Died.
PARIS — A Frenchwoman who joined the Islamic State and had been held in a detention camp in Syria since 2019 died of health complications on …
‘Vivian Maier Developed,’ an Intimate Biography of a Very Private Photographer
If a picture were still worth a thousand words, we’d know more than enough by now about Vivian Maier, the so-called photographer nanny whose vast …
Want to Get Your Favorite Gardener a Truly Useful Gift?
I may be a home gardener, not an arborist or full-time landscaper, but I still want tools with the professional-quality performance that …
House Hunting on Mauritius: Indoor-Outdoor Flow in the Indian Ocean
A Modern Five-Bedroom Villa on Mauritius $6 MILLION This modern five-bedroom villa overlooks the southwestern coast of Mauritius, the island …
Murray Hill, Manhattan: Flush With History, Now ‘Seeing a Transformation’
When Jon Harari first moved to Murray Hill in 2006, the lively bar scene on Third Avenue suggested to him that “all the residents of the …
$600,000 Homes in Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
What You Get for $600,000 24 Photos View Slide Show › Constance Gauthier PhotographyAlexandria, Va. | $600,000 A stone cottage built in 1949 …
Vaccine Opponents in Germany Investigated Over Plot to Kill State Governor
BERLIN — The authorities in the eastern German city of Dresden said Wednesday that they had searched the homes and seized weapons belonging to …
With ‘Gunfight,’ an Insider Takes on a Community That Was Once His Own
Guns have been a constant in Ryan Busse’s life story. His father taught him to shoot as a boy growing up on a ranch in the high plains of Kansas …