A lifetime with the Yanomami people of the Amazon

The photographer who spent 50 years fighting to protect indigenous people.

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How the Taliban takeover changed my life

From office workers to students, Afghans share how their lives have changed since August.

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The women reviving a vanishing legacy of Sufi music in Kashmir

This six-piece band has overcome a lot of opposition to be able to play Islamic devotional music.

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Profile of barbershop booking app Squire, which is on track to triple its revenue to $12M in 2021 after raising $60M at a $750M valuation in July (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

Amy Feldman / Forbes:
Profile of barbershop booking app Squire, which is on track to triple its revenue to $12M in 2021 after raising $60M at a $750M valuation in July  —  Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant left their desks behind to create booking software for the nation's 109,000 barbershops.

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For the Astros, a Struggling Core Is Complicating Things

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Choice Words

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Biden receives communion at a church in Rome, a day after the pope’s blessing.

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Xi and Putin call for broader global acceptance of Covid-19 vaccines.

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Will You Be Able to See the Northern Lights This Weekend?

By BY EDUARDO MEDINA from NYT Science https://ift.tt/3GAwuui

White House reaches a deal to roll back European steel and aluminum tariffs.

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U.S. Agrees to Roll Back European Steel and Aluminum Tariffs

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High Tidal Surges Bring Floods to the Mid-Atlantic Region

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He Ran the First N.Y.C. Marathon. Next Week, He’ll Run the 50th.

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Photos from Day 1 of the summit.

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Louise Slade, Scientist Who Studied the Molecules in Food, Dies at 74

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The COP26 Climate Talks Are Opening. Here’s What to Expect.

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A look at student activity monitoring software GoGuardian, whose usage in US schools exploded during lockdowns as some say it adds to kids' psychological strain (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A look at student activity monitoring software GoGuardian, whose usage in US schools exploded during lockdowns as some say it adds to kids' psychological strain  —  The pandemic caused schools to embrace laptops, tablets, Zoom, and an app called GoGuardian that tracks everything students (and, sometimes, parents) do online.

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How I Became a Science Experiment

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Rome confronts its own messy issues as world leaders gather.

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Gulf States Withdraw Ambassadors to Lebanon Over Criticism of Yemen War

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More New York City workers get Covid shots as deadline nears, but tensions remain.

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Trump Lawyer Blamed Pence for Violence as Rioters Stormed Capitol

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Officer Who Hired Hit Man to Kill Her Husband and Young Girl Is Sentenced

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Wall Street’s climb makes October the best month for stocks this year.

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Rose Lee Maphis, Early Star of Country Music TV, Dies at 98

By BY BILL FRISKICS-WARREN from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/3vZDRq1

Art Houses Want Audiences Back. Can a MoviePass-Style Program Help?

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I’m With Condoleezza Rice About White Guilt

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What We Did the Last Time We Broke America

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Emily Ratajkowski Is a Work in Progress

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If a Tree Doesn’t Fall in the Forest …

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How Venture Capitalists Think Crypto Will Reshape Commerce

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Why a Changing Richmond and Its Suburbs Are Key to Virginia’s Vote

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Dramatic footage shows tornado cut across Texas highway

The twister flung trees and cars into the air and affected 100 homes, officials said.

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Love Letter: Nature, Nurture and a New Brother

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When You’re Clairvoyant, It’s Easier to Solve Crimes

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Vaccination offers more protection against Covid-19 than previous infection, a C.D.C. study suggests.

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‘Narcissus’ Review: Remember Echo Too (and Don’t Forget Their Fate)

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What Is Day of the Dead, the Mexican Holiday?

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Palestinian groups branded terrorists by Israel say they are being silenced

Six human rights groups outlawed by Israel say they are being silenced and want the ban removed.

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The moment Facebook became Meta

Meta, the rebranded Facebook, made its debut at the company’s headquarters with a new sign today.

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GAO sustains a Microsoft's protest and asks NSA to reevaluate the award of a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS (Frank Konkel/Nextgov)

Frank Konkel / Nextgov:
GAO sustains a Microsoft's protest and asks NSA to reevaluate the award of a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10B to AWS  —  NSA awarded the contract to Amazon Web Services in July.  —  The Government Accountability Office Friday sustained Microsoft's protest …

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Apple's VP of Mac and iPad Product Marketing Tom Boger says Touch ID is more convenient than Face ID on a laptop since users' hands are already on the keyboard (Joanna Stern/Wall Street Journal)

Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's VP of Mac and iPad Product Marketing Tom Boger says Touch ID is more convenient than Face ID on a laptop since users' hands are already on the keyboard  —  Full-size ports, real function keys and other retro features, plus cutting-edge M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, make the new MacBook Pro models the laptops to beat

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Twitter rolls out Super Follow for select creators globally on iOS, after previously limiting the feature to US and Canada users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Twitter rolls out Super Follow for select creators globally on iOS, after previously limiting the feature to US and Canada users  —  Twitter is rolling out the ability for all iOS users globally to Super Follow select creators.  The option was previously only available to users in the U.S. and Canada.

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Una despedida esperanzada para los lectores

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8 New Books We Recommend This Week

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Meme-based coin Shiba Inu rose about 160% this week, briefly surpassing dogecoin to become the eighth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap (Reuters)

Reuters:
Meme-based coin Shiba Inu rose about 160% this week, briefly surpassing dogecoin to become the eighth biggest cryptocurrency by market cap  —  Dogecoin, watch out!  —  Meme-based cryptocurrency Shiba Inu soared more than 45% over the last 24 hours, muscling its way into the top 10 largest digital tokens by market capitalization.

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Eleonore Von Trapp Campbell, of the ‘Sound of Music’ Family, Dies at 90

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How Biden’s $2 Trillion in Tax Increases Target Companies and the Rich

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Forced Relocation Left Native Americans More Exposed to Climate Threats, Data Show

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What’s Going On in This Graph? | Nov. 3, 2021

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