CLOSE If you can’t get out of the city, try camping in your own backyard. USA TODAY Americans would love to go on vacation. They’re just not sure they should actually go. Two surveys found many travelers express hesitation during the coronavirus pandemic about taking a trip. Sixty-seven percent of those responding to […]
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MARIETTA, Pa. Her epiphany came in a dark, abandoned building in nowhere Texas. She knew, s she sat alone that night, that she would become “Batwoman.” It’s been 30 years of work now for Rosemarie Curcio, one of only a handful of licensed, bat rehabilitators in the state and possibly […]
British Cycling will write to government this week to express concern at the way sport’s bailouts are being allocated, with too much attention given to ticketed sports and not enough on the grass-roots facing an “existential crisis”. Oliver Dowden, the culture secretary, has asked sports to put in their bids […]
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The coronavirus pandemic has canceled many things, but FOMO doesn’t appear to be one of them. Jennifer Wolkin, a New York-based health and neuropsychologist, describes FOMO, aka the “fear of missing out,” as “anxiety that’s elicited by the perception that others are thriving while we aren’t, or that others are overall experiencing a better […]
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Lindsey,* a pit boss at the Cosmopolitan hotel on the infamous Las Vegas Strip, gets nauseous every night she hits the casino floor to begin her shift. Some maskless patrons wander around the casino nightly—as if the threat of coronavirus doesn’t exist—while others […]
Getty/iStock As someone who flies regularly for work – and who has genuinely enjoyed a skydive and a lesson in a stunt plane – I never expected to develop a fear of flying. But there it was: a small, niggling feeling of unease after a flight in bad weather. And […]
The theories seem crazy to Ms. Perron now, but looking back, she understands how they drew her in. They were comforting, a way to get her bearings in a chaotic world that felt increasingly unequal and rigged against middle-class people like her. These stories offered agency: Evil cabals could be […]
IPOH, Nov 13 — Businesses in some parts of Ipoh, which had once hoped to bounce back after lockdown restrictions were eased two months ago, now seem ready to throw in the towel following the reimplementation of the conditional movement control order (CMCO). A recent check by Malay Mail showed […]
British retailers, bars and restaurants were furious on Saturday evening at being ordered to close in the run up to the crucial Christmas trading period. The tightening of measures will further dampen Britons’ spending confidence, many companies fear, and could put them off from going into shops even if non-essential retailers reopen before […]