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Think deeply Katherine Jesser Morton’s insightful look into modern family life. Illustration: Hannah Bachman new york Subscribers received an exclusive early view of this story. Think deeply Newsletter. Register here It will arrive in your inbox. The school year is over, along with practice schedules and playoffs, but most sports can still play year-round if they so choose. And now summer leagues, clinics and development camps begin. We’re all familiar with the criticisms of the exponential growth of youth sports over the past few decades. Critics argue that investing so much time and money in increasingly competitive and overheated recreational…

One of the best beauty tips I ever read came from Mindy Kaling. In her 2015 memoir Why Not Me?, the television producer offers a list of beauty rituals she adopted as her celebrity status rose, including one that initially surprised me. “Two or three times a year, I get a spray tan,” Kaling writes. As an Indian American woman, she recognizes the irony of enjoying a service primarily designed for paler white people and which would be seemingly useless to those already with dark skin. (“It turns out I’m white after all!” she jokes.) However, she makes a revelatory distinction…

Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Carnival Firenze’s interior rooms are $160 less per person than rooms with balconies, so we recommend paying a bit more for your private outdoor space. Brittany Chan/Business Insider Carnival’s new cruise ship, Carnival Firenze, set sail in late April.The inside rooms are $160 per person cheaper than the rooms with balconies.Rooms with narrow balconies are worth the extra cost. It turns out that my parents were actually always right. Unfortunately, it took me some time in a windowless cabin on a Carnival cruise to learn my lesson.In mid-May, I…

Pakistan considers measures to protect Chinese workers as visiting official expresses concerns ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday held a meeting to review security measures for foreigners in Pakistan, especially Chinese labourers who have been the target of several militant attacks in recent times. The March 26 suicide bomb attack on a Chinese convoy in northwestern Pakistan, killing five Chinese nationals, has drawn attention to the safety of Chinese workers, many of whom are employed on road, infrastructure and development projects in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a flagship project of the Belt and Road Initiative. China’s top cabinet minister,…

Kyiv CNN — Katerina Serdyan said the only way to survive Ukraine’s near-daily schedule of power outages is to “always have a Plan B.” The 35-year-old has had to adapt to life in a high-rise apartment in Kiev with her active three-year-old daughter, Varya. On days like that, when she has to carry her now 17kg child up 15 flights of stairs to go play, she jokes, she often picks up a ball instead of her bike. Without electricity there is no water, so parents have to adjust their children’s bath times to accommodate power outages, but sometimes their children…

this week, News Laundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Shardool Katyayan, along with senior journalists Andrew Whitehead and Nirupama Subramanian.When asked why UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak decided to call an early election, Andrew said: “Even some of my Conservative colleagues are questioning it, because the opinion polls were so strong against him.” Nirupama says India-UK relations will change depending on the outcome of the polls. “If Labour is re-elected with a landslide majority and Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not get an equal majority, India’s negotiating strength in trade talks will be affected.”On the NEET controversy, Abhinandan said he had…

Former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey gave a speech introducing the Forward Party on Thursday. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald) At last, a party that makes no claims whatsoever was born: the Seinfeld of politics. The Forward Party, led by a former politician, launched in Massachusetts this week, vowing to become the number one party for voters in the state within just a few years. There’s just one small problem: the party hasn’t taken a position on these issues, only promising to be a moderate between Democrats and Republicans. On its website, Forward describes itself as a “centre” party and says it is…

An analysis of more than seven million speeches by lawmakers suggests that politicians use simpler language on warmer days, which researchers say could indicate a potential impact of warmer temperatures on cognitive function.The study, published in the journal iScience, looked at 7.4 million speeches delivered by more than 28,500 politicians across eight countries to see whether extreme temperatures affect cognitive performance, even indoors. Extreme heat and cold are expected to become more frequent and intense as climate change progresses, and extreme temperatures have been linked to a range of health problems.The researchers analysed the text of speeches delivered between 1950…

NEW DELHI: Facing criticism from opposition parties over allegations that exit polls were being used to manipulate stock prices, Axis My India president Pradeep Gupta said he was open to any kind of investigation and would be better able to do business if the government came up with specific regulations for polling firms.Stock markets soared after exit polls showed the BJP had a landslide majority, but then plummeted when actual results showed the ruling party did not have a majority on its own. Opposition parties and several civil society groups have been calling for a thorough investigation by capital markets…

China’s advances in space exploration are outpacing those of the United States, attracting European and Asian partners.A satellite jointly developed by France and China has been launched to search for the most powerful explosions in space, a striking example of cooperation between Western countries and Asian powers. The 930-kilogram satellite, carrying four instruments – two made in France and two made in China – was launched on Saturday aboard China’s Long March 2C rocket from a base in Xichang, southwest China’s Sichuan province, at around 3pm (7am GMT), state television (CCTV) reported. The Space Variable Object Monitor (SVOM), developed by…