The New York Times - USA (2020-11-15)

THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2020 N 3

The Bidens’ German shepherd

Major, 2, will be the first shelter dog

to take up residence in the White

House.

Paw Prints, Once Again, on the Road

To the White HouseSUNDAY STYLES, PAGE 4

• The keyboard mechanism of a grand
  piano is a complex system of
  interconnected parts, with three
  dozen adjustable components for
  each key mechanism, and 88 total
  keys.
  Who Juggles Pianos? Pianists, of Course
  ARTS & LEISURE, PAGE 4


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  The language Rotwelsch is a mix of
  Yiddish, Hebrew and repurposed
  German that developed in the High
  Middle Ages and spread across
  Europe among members of the
  itinerant underground.
  Code of SilenceBOOK REVIEW, PAGE 14

  
  

The term “Windrush generation,”

referring to the largely Caribbean

immigrants who came to Britain after

World War II, comes from Empire

Windrush, a ship that brought an

early group from the Caribbean to

Britain in 1948.

‘I Needed to Understand Myself’

ARTS & LEISURE, PAGE 8

Alcohol robs the body of crucial

REM sleep and can trigger a

“rebound effect,” waking you up in

the wee hours after its sedative

effects have worn off.

Break the Cycle of InsomniaAT HOME, PAGE 11

• The Postal Service failed to deliver
  more than 150,000 ballots across the
  country in time for them to be
  counted on Election Day, including
  thousands in swing states, according
  to the agency’s data.
  Machinery of the People
  THE MAGAZINE, PAGE 14


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  Roughly 20 measurements are
  standard in a first fitting of a Savile
  Row suit, made from scratch, which
  starts at about $8,000 and can reach
  as high as $40,000.
  The Unraveling of Savile Row
  SUNDAY BUSINESS, PAGE 1

  
  

Of Interest

NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

CHANEL MILLER

Presidential Election Results

The week’s most popular page was The Times’s tally of re-

sults in the race for the presidency. Auditors began recount-

ing nearly 5 million Georgia ballots by hand on Friday. Given

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s more than 14,000-vote

lead in the state, The Times reported that election observers

did not believe the count would change the outcome.

President-Elect Proclaims ‘Time to Heal’ in Speech

The Times’s live blog on the day the election was called for

Mr. Biden included coverage of the president-elect’s accept-

ance speech, which emphasized a need to rise above partisan

acrimony in pursuit of unity.

Covid in the U.S.

The United States averaged more than 130,000 new coronavi-

rus cases a day last week, fueling warnings about full hospi-

tals, exhausted health care workers and potential lockdowns.

Pfizer’s Early Data Shows Vaccine

Is More Than 90% Effective

If the early effectiveness results hold up, that level of protec-

tion would put Pfizer’s vaccine on par with highly effective

childhood vaccines for diseases like measles.

The Conversation

FOUR OF THE MOST READ, SHARED AND DISCUSSED POSTS

FROM ACROSS NYTIMES.COM LAST WEEK

ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES

“This is going to be a

phenomenal logistical

feat, to vaccinate

everybody in the

country. We absolutely

have zero margin for

failure. We really have

to get this right.”

DR. THOMAS E. DOBBS III,the state

health officer of Mississippi.

Quote of the Day

STATES AREN’T READY TO

DISTRIBUTE SHOTS PAGE 1

The Genius Dog Contest pits six of

the world’s smartest canines, found

by word of mouth and social media,

in a challenge to learn new words.

Led by scientists studying the na-

ture of genius, the experiment/

competition ends Dec. 16. Though

there can be only one top dog, belly

rubs are expected all around.

Sketchbook

INTELLIGENCE UNLEASHED

CLO'E FLOIRAT

Misinformation comes in many forms, but

one big culprit to look out for these days is

the meme, which is typically a photo or

screenshot with text superimposed.

Memes are dangerous because it takes

only a few seconds for someone to create

one and share it on social media. And it’s

easy for images to be doctored and for

quotes to be ripped out of context.

So think twice before you re-share a

meme — and when in doubt, check the

source. A quick way to do that is by look-

ing at the origins of an image by using the

reverse image search tool on Google.

Here’s how: On Google.com, click Im-

ages in the right hand corner of the page

and upload the photo or paste the web

address of the photo into the search bar.

That will show where else the image has

appeared on the web. This can help you

verify whether the one you have seen has

been manipulated.

Beyond that, keep these three questions

in mind when you’re scrolling through

news articles and social media posts:

• Who is behind the information?


• What is the evidence?


• What do other sources say?

Mindfulness is one of our best weapons

against the spread of misinformation.

“The No. 1 rule is to slow down, pause

and ask yourself, ‘Am I sure enough about

this that I should share it?’ ” Peter Adams,

a senior vice president at the News Litera-

cy Project, a media education nonprofit,

told me. “If everybody did that, we’d see a

dramatic reduction of misinformation

online.” BRIAN X. CHEN

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Here to Help

TECH TIP: BEWARE OF THE FAKE MEME

STUART BRADFORD

In The Times’s Parenting newsletter, readers are invited to

submit a Tiny Victory, the celebration of those small moments

of triumph in the long days of parenting. For instance, the

ingenious way a parent headed off a toddler meltdown on a

long car ride or persuaded a youngster to take a bite of some-

thing foreign. Find a Tiny Victory one reader submitted below.

When my 10-month-old is

taking her morning nap,

we often set up

FaceTime for my

3-and-a-half-year-old with

his grandparents, who live

far away, and they have

“Papa Preschool.” My

parents get to help, and I get

a break!

GRETCHEN NORDSTROM, WASHINGTON, D.C.

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