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In Norway, a Photographer and His Partner Are Isolating and Expecting

Espen Rasmussen documents his family’s new normal. By Gretty Garcia

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my two cents The Best Way to Worry About Money Right Now Focus on what you can control, even if it’s very little. By Charlotte Cowles

how i get it done Alexis McGill Johnson became the acting president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 2019, a time when the organization was in the middle of battling multiple state’s attempts to pass restrictive anti-abortion laws, many of which are now winding their way up to the Supreme Court. Here’s how she gets it done.

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health Do I Have Allergies or the Coronavirus? An early start to allergy season has left many of us asking the same question. By Kelly Conaboy
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coronavirus By Erica Schwiegershausen What Does a Stay-at-Home Order Mean, Exactly? Ninety-five percent of Americans have now been urged or ordered to stay home.

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science of us Close up, light therapy is complicated, baffling, impenetrable. Take a few steps back, though, and it’s about the most obvious idea on earth. In a way, light therapy has been a reminder of how often I overlook the basics, how every few days I need to force-feed myself similar reminders about how to be a human: Water is good, sleep is good. Light is good.

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