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Carol Downer, a leader in the feminist women’s health movement who drew national fame for her role in a case known as the Great Yogurt Conspiracy — so named because she was charged with practicing medicine without a license for dispensing yogurt to treat a yeast infection — died on Jan. 13 in Glendale, Calif. She was 91.Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter Angela Booth, who said she had suffered a heart attack a few weeks earlier.Ms. Downer was a self-described housewife and the mother of six in the late 1960s when she joined the women’s…

Here’s a small sense of how revered Hermès is by other fashion designers: A few hours after the Hermès fashion show on Saturday, just après-midi, I visited the showroom of the Japanese brand A.Presse. There, the designer, Kazuma Shigematsu, told me, unprompted, that he collected pieces from the Hermès back catalog.“I love French vintage,” Mr. Shigematsu said. To be transparent, that didn’t just include Hermès: Mr. Shigematsu also name-checked Charvet, the purveyor of regal dress shirts.But, it was the Hermès name drop that made Mr. Shigematsu’s four-year-old brand click for me. The showroom was a carousel of lambskin leather jackets…

For more than six years, Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing company, provided technical support to deliver TikTok videos to tens of millions of Americans.But over the weekend, Amazon faced a dilemma. A new law was taking effect banning TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, in the United States. Tech companies were barred from distributing and updating it or they would face financial penalties. At the same time, President-elect Donald J. Trump was telling tech companies he planned to pause enforcement of the law with an executive order.Just hours before the ban took effect, Amazon appeared to…

Oh, the drama of it all.At the Dior men’s wear show on Friday afternoon, models trooped down a celestial flight of stairs, trotted around the perimeter and then descended another flight of stairs, disappearing out of view. They arrived from heaven and departed into, if not the netherworld, at least the great unknown.Was this some grand metaphor about the realities of being a fashion designer in today’s age? Especially one at LVMH, the world’s largest luxury group, which owns Dior?Perhaps it was.For context: The future of Kim Jones, the Dior Men’s artistic director, has been the subject of endless (and…

The Baltimore Ravens took to Instagram on Thursday to break his silence after multiple fourth-quarter blunders — a fumble, fumble, and a two-point conversion in the team’s 27-25 AFC divisional loss. To tie the game, to beat the game. Sunday.”It is impossible to adequately express how I feel. I am absolutely bound by what happened on Sunday,” Andrews wrote. “I’m devastated for my teammates, coaches and Ravens fans. I put every ounce of my life into competing at the highest level because I love my team and the game of football. That’s why I’m gathering my thoughts until now and…

Derek Humphry, a British-born journalist whose experience helping his terminally-ill wife end her life led him to become a crusading pioneer in the right-to-die movement and publish “Final Exit,” a best-selling guide to suicide, died on Jan. 2 in Eugene, Ore. He was 94.His death, at a hospice facility, was announced by his family.With a populist flair and a knack for speaking matter-of-factly about death, Mr. Humphry almost single-handedly galvanized a national conversation about physician-assisted suicide in the early 1980s, a period when the idea had been little more than an esoteric theory batted around by medical ethicists.“He was the…

Mark Zuckerberg spent all of 2024 telling investors that artificial intelligence would be key to the future of his company, Meta. In 2025, he plans to put his money where his mouth is.On Friday, Mr. Zuckerberg said the company expected its capital expenditures in 2025 to come in at an estimated $60 to $65 billion, a big increase compared with the roughly $38 to $40 billion Meta spent in 2024.Much of that amount will go building and expanding data centers, the warehouse-size buildings that provide the computing power that fuels Meta’s A.I. products and algorithms across its apps, which include…

Sarah Jornsay-Silverberg, who lives in Lisbon and owns a graphic design business, said writing parody songs is a longtime passion of hers, and she often pens tunes to honor friends and family for big life events. Among her greatest hits is “My Dad Lee” to the tune of “Let It Be,” which she performed for Father’s Day, complete with ukulele accompaniment.To be sure, they are not the only set of sisters to use the “Hamilton” song at a real life wedding. On YouTube, you’ll find several other women who have performed their own renditions about their beloved brides. (There’s a…

Mikayla Blakes timed her jump perfectly, grabbed the rebound in front of the rim and drained the ball in with 0.8 seconds left. Not long after, she was celebrating Vanderbilt’s first win over rival Tennessee since 2019.Then something interesting happened.”After the handshake was over, I was like, ‘Who is this bald guy on the court? I swear I’ve seen this reaction before,'” she said of an ardent Vanderbilt fan who stormed the court. “I was like, ‘Who is this? I know him.”Then I got closer and thought, ‘Wow. My dad just came to court. Where did he come from?Monroe Blakes,…

Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose family fled Vietnam when he was a teenager and whose sleek restaurant helped change America’s perception of Asian food by replacing menus of inexpensive noodle dishes and spring rolls with ones that married the best local ingredients with the food he grew up on, died on Monday in San Francisco. He was 62.His death, in a hospital, where he was taken last week after experiencing cardiac arrest during a tennis game, was confirmed by Anh Duong, the publicist for his restaurant group.Mr. Phan became something of a food world star. He published two cookbooks,…