‘Storm someone else’s capital.’
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Bank stocks have taken a hammering in recent weeks. It is all beginning to look very 2008.
A busy workspace: Dad works while toddler does online-preschool, twins adjust to home-kindergarten and mom, on a break, takes the photo.
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How does a family of five with different priorities and attention spans get work done and still have fun in the same small space?
The Big Texan restaurant, Amarillo, Texas.
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Restaurants have always been about more than feeding city residents. During the 1918 flu pandemic, they were kept open as sites of social solidarity.
President Donald Trump shakes hands with Walmart CEO Doug McMillon at a White House press conference joining government and corporate officials – but no representatives of workers.
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If government and business collaborate with workers, a scholar of labor relations writes, current economic problems could get less severe, the recovery smoother and lasting prosperity more likely.
Netflix and lockdown.
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A sector-by-sector look at who is benefiting, who is in trouble and who could go either way.
It’s critical to help the older adults in your life forgo their routines and embrace social distancing.
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Some older adults are struggling to practise social distancing during the global pandemic, even though they’re at high risk. Here’s how to help them.
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A children’s novelist chooses her favourite books to keep young people happy and absorbed while stuck at home.
An empty street in Turin, Italy.
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The lockdown has seen Italy’s urban life shift to new spaces.
Romance on the High Seas.
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Nothing passes the time like a singalong to some classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Covid-19 awareness event at a government hospital in Siliguri, Bengal on 21 February 2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic must be managed in India in a tense economic context and with a largely privatised health system.
‘Just going to check instagram’.
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Rehearse how you will respond to interruptions.
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Prisons are already a hotbed of disease, and without action COVID-19 could have catastrophic consequences behind bars.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has brought in new legislation to manage the coronavirus pandemic.
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New legislation gives the government power to clamp down on public gatherings – but the changes have a time limit.
There are 20,000 FDA approved drugs. One of them might fight COVID-19, if we can find it.
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Among the more than 20,000 drugs approved by the FDA, there may be some that can treat COVID-19. A team at the University of California, San Francisco, is identifying possible candidates.
The pandemic has made us into breaking news junkies.
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The coronavirus pandemic alters who we are, writes a psychologist. It affects how we think, how we relate to others and what we value.
Signs cover the control panel of exercise machines in a Denver YMCA, March 15, 2020.
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Schools are closed, houses of worship have suspended services, and many restaurants are down to delivery only. Must we also stop exercising? Two exercise physiologists explain what’s safe.
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Help stop the infodemic.
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The federal budget will be delayed until October 6, as the demands of dealing with the rapidly moving pandemic and the impossibility of forecasting have made the May timetable impossible.
Closed for the duration: the Royal Opera House, London.
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Will a coronavirus lockdown prompt a permanent change in the way we experience live performance?
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Although unpleasant, stopping almost everything for eight to twelve weeks might be the best way to bounce back qucikly.