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China’s delivery workers and others in the gig economy have called for better working conditions – but Beijing wants to call the shots on reform.

Why does Brookline, Massachusetts, require masks outdoors, despite CDC guidance? The answer points to differing levels of comfort with risk.

Westmoreland, New Hampshire Much like the round clock faces, gears, and planets that often populate his artwork, Robert Seaman has come full circle. Mr. Seaman, who is now 88 years old, has been drawing since he was a boy, and at age 60, left a real estate career to pursue his hobby professionally. But it took the coronavirus pandemic to fully return him to his passion. “As a kid, I kept lurching between being a loner and being an extrovert,” he said. “But in my introvert phase, I would love to go up to my room where I had a drawing table kind of desk and I’d spend hours up there draw...

Naxos and Athens, Greece In her kitchen, Kyriaki Kapri has enough food to feed an army. Piles of squid for frying, lemons to be quartered, thumb-thick potato wedges to make oregano-sprinkled French fries, and seafood for the dishes famous on the Greek island of Naxos. She’s done everything she can think of to prepare for tourists at her Naxos beachside restaurant Gorgona – Greek for Mermaid – but customers are still a rare sight. Greece launched its tourism season Friday amid a competitive scramble across the Mediterranean to lure vacationers emerging from lockdowns. “We’re all vacc...

A hydropower dam in Indonesia that would help cut carbon emissions threatens a fragile ecosystem. An environmentalist explains why it’s worth it.