When Jane Goodall arrived at Tanzania’s Gombe National Park on this day, July 14, in 1960, she was not, strictly speaking, a scientist. The anthropologist Louis Leakey had sent her there to study the social lives of chimpanzees, largely on the strength of Goodall’s passion and curiosity about the animals. But she lacked a college degree, and she took a decidedly unscientific approach to her research. Instead of assigning numbers to the chimps she observed, she named them: Fifi, Freud and Frodo in one family; Goblin, Gremlin and Glitter in another.
Like many busy parents, shopping can simultaneously be my favorite and least favorite thing to do. When you need to escape from a screaming, fussy child, running off to the market alone can’t be beat — you feel momentarily independent again, and you come back home as a provider. “I have returned triumphant…with animal crackers!” But of all the ways you could spend your time, schlepping produce, pop, and Pampers from cart to car to cupboard is near the bottom of the list.
As a financial consultant, Umber Ahmad typically spent her days counseling people on how to expand their brands—until one particular client, Tom Colicchio, heard about her baking hobby and asked for a taste. She was nervous, to say the least. “He makes people cry on TV cooking for him,” she says. “And he wanted to try my food.” Over three days, Ahmad brought him cheesecake with a chocolate-cookie crust, dark chocolate brownies, tarts, shortbreads, and biscuits right out of the oven.
Big news in the news-about-the-news business this morning: CNN has hired New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter as permanent host of Reliable Sources, its Sunday morning media-news show. Reports of the imminent hire came out in the LA Times last night, and CNN and Stelter both confirmed the news this morning.
Stelter had been guest-hosting Reliable on and off since longtime host Howard Kurtz left earlier this year. (Kurtz now hosts the competing show on Fox News.
The third Monday of February, which many Americans know as Presidents’ Day, is supposed to be a time to remember George Washington’s Feb. 22 birthday. And few would argue that the first U.S. president doesn’t deserve to be remembered; likewise for Abraham Lincoln, whose Feb. 12 birthday is also remembered by many on the same day.
But, while Presidents’ Day may be well and good in terms of historical recognition, Washington and Lincoln hardly need a special day to stay uppermost in Americans’ memories.
Through the double glass doors of the White House, past the expressionless Negro footmen, into the ultimate social sanctum of the land, there passed one afternoon last week a slender, middle-aged invited guest wearing an afternoon dress of capri blue chiffon, a grey coat trimmed in moleskin, a small grey hat, moonlight grey hose, snakeskin slippers. She was well pleased to be there; to be greeted by the First Lady; to see Mrs.
On Thursday, Rita Ora was spotted in New York City wearing a cream-colored turtleneck with two large cutouts over her chest. The singer layered the sweater over a white midi dress with a bustier-style top and fringed hemline. She accessorized with white ankle booties and big gold hoop earrings. Ora's turtleneck calls to mind Regina George's iconic bra-revealing shirt from "Mean Girls." Rita Ora stepped out in New York City on Thursday wearing a top that only she and Regina George from "
Historical Context Buried in 79 AD by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, the ruins of the Roman town were rediscovered then excavated in the mid 18th century during the earliest days of archaeology. The town is especially famous for the picture it provides of everyday Roman life. Its luxurious courtyard villas survived with their fresco paintings and mosaic floors. Excavations continue today and a third of the town still remains uncovered.
A pre-St. Patrick’s Day celebration known as the “Blarney Blowout” spiraled into bedlam Saturday at the University of Massachusetts’ Amherst campus, where police in riot gear arrested at least 70 people at an off-campus apartment complex.
Four police officers suffered minor injuries after unruly students pelted them with beer cans, snowballs and bottles, the Associated Press reports.
A crowd of thousands of revelers had gathered at apartments to celebrate the holiday before their spring break begins this week.
It’s hard to miss what appears to be dry cleaning hanging on the wall of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s apartment in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. The apartment is a sunny, stylish, open space, filled with modern furniture, decorated with sculpture and paintings—and then, in perhaps the most conspicuous spot on the living room, is a brown felt suit with very long pants, draped over a plain wooden hanger. It looks entirely out of place—but it’s not.