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Libraries across the United States closed because of the coronavirus, moving as many activities and services online as they could.Credit.Lyndon French for The New York Times
To the Editor:
In “Infrastructure Isn’t Really About Roads. It’s About the Society We Want” (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, April 26), Eric Klinenberg argues that strong public infrastructure places where communities can gather, learn from one another and grow after over a year of isolation is the key to our resurgence and renewal, just as it was during the New Deal.
We strongly agree, and cite public libraries as the ultimate example: trusted, welcoming community and civic spaces offering education and opportunity for all. These beloved neighborhood institutions and their free and irreplaceable services, classes and programs will be central to our recovery.
How Long Can We Live?
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How Long Can We Live?
New research is intensifying the debate with profound implications for the future of the planet.
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In 1990, not long after Jean-Marie Robine and Michel Allard began conducting a nationwide study of French centenarians, one of their software programs spat out an error message. An individual in the study was marked as 115 years old, a number outside the program’s range of acceptable age values. They called their collaborators in Arles, where the subject lived, and asked them to double-check the information they had provided, recalls Allard, who was then the director of the IPSEN Foundation, a nonprofit rese
Both snarled traffic and a morning without a home health aide can make you late for work.
By Bryce Covert
Ms. Covert, a contributing opinion writer, is an independent journalist who focuses on the economy, with an emphasis on policies that affect workers and families.
April 26, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
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Ask any of the parents who have spent the last year at home with their children, while trying to participate in Zoom meetings, whether child care enables them to show up to work and perform at their best. The direct conflict between childrenâs need to be cared for during the day and working parentsâ need to devote their attention to their jobs exploded into full view during the pandemic, not just for families but for their employers and co-workers. Suddenly it was everyoneâs problem.
Hester Ford, Oldest American, Dies
She was believed to be either 115 or 116. She experienced two pandemics and two world wars and lived under 21 presidents.
Hester Ford in 2016 celebrating her 111th birthday. “She was a reminder of how far we have come as people on this earth,” her great-granddaughter said.Credit.Diedra Laird/The Charlotte Observer, via Associated Press
April 26, 2021, 4:39 p.m. ET
Hester Ford, who was believed to have been the oldest American, living long enough to have experienced two pandemics, both world wars, Jim Crow discrimination, civil rights movements and the elections of 21 presidents, died on Saturday at her home in Charlotte, N.C.