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Why do men get so many more sizing options than women, especially when it comes to pants? They get a large variety of lengths, but women just get petite, regular and long, even though there are as many different sizes of women as men. Please explain. — Amy, Hunterdon County, N.J.The question of men’s and women’s sizing is a much more complicated question than it may appear, in part because the whole concept of sizing is not standardized. It is, in fact, so fungible that it would send Hamlet around the bend.If we take the Gap as a sample subject,…

Toyota Motor, Honda Motor and other top Japanese automakers said on Monday that internal investigations found they had mishandled vehicle testing on dozens of models over the past decade.Toyota said it failed to gather proper data when doing pedestrian and occupant safety tests for three models, including its popular Yaris Cross sports-utility vehicle. Honda and Mazda Motor said they had identified problems related to the testing of several models, too.The automakers, which had been told by the Japanese government to open the investigations, said the testing failures would not affect the performance or safety of their vehicles and that customers…

The 1980s: when the hair was crimped, the pants were parachute and the movie stars were as fresh-faced as could be. The decade produced a surprising volume of hit coming-of-age movies, featuring actors often in their late teens and early twenties. Some of these charismatic stars would come to be known as the Brat Pack, a term coined by the writer David Blum in a 1985 New York magazine article about the youth movie phenomenon.At the time, the stars who were considered a part of the Brat Pack were offended by the term, one that seemed dismissive of their work…

The National Pest Management Association, a trade group, defends backyard spraying, citing the importance of controlling diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks.“Trained pest control professionals understand the specific challenges of each property and have the required expertise to create a targeted plan that effectively reduces mosquito and tick populations while minimizing impact on nontarget insects and the environment,” the association wrote in a statement. For example, technicians can avoid treating areas around flowering plants, which attract pollinators.Beyond spraying, there are devices like bug zappers, which lure flying bugs to their death. But research shows they overwhelmingly kill the wrong ones.There…

The billionaire owner of the yogurt company Chobani said on Friday that he had acquired Anchor Brewing Company, the San Francisco brewer that went out of business last year after 127 years.Hamdi Ulukaya, who is also Chobani’s chief executive, said in a video posted on social media that he looked forward to bringing Anchor Brewing “back to life.” The price Mr. Ulukaya paid to acquire the brewing company’s assets from a liquidator was not disclosed.Anchor, said to be America’s oldest craft brewer, announced it was shutting down in July 2023, citing the effects of the pandemic, inflation and a highly…

The other camp faces bigger hurdles. You might not have even heard of the original, and so the productions can’t rely upon the audience’s memories. These shows also take for granted that fans who do know the underlying story are ready to encounter it in a new way. “The Notebook,” based on a weepie classic that fans rewatch endlessly, opted to reimagine its material, leaving the basic plot and emotional core intact while significantly mixing up how it’s presented. The result works powerfully, even if you’ve never seen the movie; if you have, it’s like a fresh lens, a cover…

Russian forces struck several of Ukraine’s energy facilities with drones and missiles early Saturday, in a major air assault that targeted cities across the country, including some near the borders with NATO members.The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia had fired 53 missiles at its territory, that it had shot down two-thirds, and that some had been heading toward the western Zakarpattia and Lviv regions, which border Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, countries that are part of NATO. The Polish Army said its fighter jets and those of other allies had been scrambled to protect their borders in case a Russian…

Ese mismo año se casó con su segunda esposa, Anna Maria Torv, entonces periodista en uno de sus periódicos australianos. Esa unión duró 32 años, y tuvieron tres hijos: Elisabeth, Lachlan y James. Todos han trabajado para el imperio mundial de su padre; el año pasado, Lachlan Murdoch fue nombrado único sucesor de Murdoch, convirtiéndose en responsable de dirigir la empresa de medios que su padre empezó a construir a partir de un pequeño periódico local en su Australia natal hace 70 años. Murdoch mantiene un papel emérito.En 1999, cuando Murdoch y Torv se divorciaron, él y su tercera esposa,…

Liberal TV viewers have a new mantra: T.G.I.M.!Monday nights have suddenly broken out in the Nielsen ratings — and in national relevance — thanks to a rare confluence: two TV superstars of the political left who have limited their regularly scheduled broadcasts to that one evening.Jon Stewart, the “Daily Show” host and guiding light of Bush- and Obama-era Democrats who made a surprise comeback in February, now hosts his old show on Mondays at 11 p.m. Rachel Maddow, who stepped back from her nightly MSNBC duties in 2022, retained a dedicated hour every Monday at 9.In a frazzled media age,…

Movies like “Dune: Part Two” and “Challengers” arrived in theaters later than expected because of last year’s actors’ strike, and Hollywood experienced significant production setbacks during the coronavirus pandemic.But “The Primevals,” about a group of researchers who discover gigantic yetis and other prehistoric creatures, made those movie delays look minuscule when it was released in theaters in March.It was filmed in 1994.The live-action movie, which was delayed because of funding woes and then the death of its director, David Allen, incorporates a stop-motion animation technique in which puppets are painstakingly photographed and brought to life through a series of frames,…