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The first time I went to the Hirshhorn Museum's "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" exhibition, I went as a reviewer, and had the place to myself. That's a great way to encounter art and engage with the exhibition's theme and argument, but it's not the experience most people have. So last week, I decided to go

The name of the dish immediately catches my eye at Kungfu Kitchen: pan-fried Peking duck buns. Rarely have five words okay, three nouns and a hyphenated adjective elicited such anticipation. Theyre the menu version of that tension you feel as you climb, slowly, via a rickety chain lift, the main drop on the

As a child in war-torn Lebanon, Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram witnessed first-hand the devastating effect that inequality in surgical care could have. Today, five billion people across the globe still lack access to safe surgery. More people die from this than from HIV, malaria and TB combined. In response, shes created a technology that allows surgeons

Bob Welch, one of the first professional athletes to admit to alcoholism, and who had one of baseballs most magical pitching seasons in 1990, when he won 27 games for the American League champion Oakland Athletics, died June 9 at his home in Seal Beach, Calif. He was 57.

Houses in the U.S. are built of wood frame and plywood and sheetrock because other houses in the U.S. are built of wood frame and plywood and sheetrock. Economics of scale results in cheaper houses for everyone, or at least cheaper than they would be otherwise. It was made of concrete blocks with a wood-framed