The New York Times Magazine - USA (2022-01-23)

virions to infect millions of people — an explosion of virus that was equivalent, he said, to ‘‘having a decent-sized stadium wh ...

Source illustrations: Getty Images SARS outbreak. The lung cells of Neovison vison, scientists reported in 2006, have ACE-2 rece ...

as the novel coronavirus lurks among us, susceptible species beckon. The range of species that are biologically vulnerable to co ...

Russian belligerence has drawn the world’s attention back to the eight-year-old secessionist rebellion in the Donbas region: UKR ...

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is as wronged a place as you will fi nd in Ukraine. The village is on the front line that separates forces of the Ukrainian mili ...

‘‘Ride the bike here, ride the bike there,’’ he said. ‘‘I’m just hustling.’’ From the kitchen, his wife, Masha, 18 years his jun ...

28 1.23.22 Sofia, 24, who goes by Sofa, a soldier in the Ukrainian Army. ...

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incursion by an aggressive enemy but also a spe- cies of civil war. The rebellion of the D.P.R. and L.P.R. has lasted this long ...

culture.’’ It is a grope at plausible deniability that is implausible in at least two ways. The fi rst is that Russia very obvio ...

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Photograph by Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum, for The New York Times 33 A coal mine in Toretsk, on the front line. Donbas’s vast seams o ...

34 1.23.22 that the fi re was probably more symbolic than strategic. Aug. 24 would mark the anniversary of Ukrainian independenc ...

Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum, for The New York Times The New York Times Magazine 35 A family from downstairs was cleani ...

derived from a word for borderland, and that was true most of all in what is now the coun- try’s east. It was the steppe frontie ...

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HOW A.I. CONQUERED POKER. BY KEITH ROMER ILLUSTRATIONS BY PAT R I C I A DORIA 38 ...

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November in the cavernous Ama- zon Room of Las Vegas’s Rio casino, two dozen men dressed mostly in sweatshirts and baseball caps ...