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Former Sen. Heidi Heitkamp sat in her second-floor office at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, preparing to appeared on a television newscast Friday afternoon when three pro-Palestinian protesters wearing masks and sunglasses stormed in and ordered her out of the building.Ms. Heitkamp, ​​the institute’s director and the only staff member left in the building, refused to go, slowing an apparent attempt to occupy the building, the latest tactic in protests over the Israel-Hamas war. position on the University of Chicago campus and across the country.”They were desperate for me to leave,” Ms. Heitkamp recalled. “I told them, ‘I’m…

Lynn Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was fired by IBM in the 1960s after telling managers she was transgender despite her major technological innovations – and who received a rare formal apology from the company 52 years later – died on 9 June in Jackson. Mich. It was 86.Her husband, Charles Rogers, said she died at a hospital of complications from two recent heart attacks.In 1968, after leaving IBM, Ms. Conway was one of the first Americans to undergo gender reassignment surgery. But she kept it a secret, living in what she called “stealth” for 31 years out of…

Ask a Grand Prix driver if Monaco deserves its place on the Formula 1 calendar and the answer will usually be yes.This is even if the Grand Prix can often be less than exciting. The track is so narrow and the cars so big that drivers can rarely pass or overtake each other. At the Formula E race there in April, drivers were able to overtake almost 200 times in their smaller cars. In last year’s Grand Prix there were 22 overtakings, which can make the race a walking one.Compared to 30 years ago, the cars are about three feet…

A new law in Florida that allows doctors to perform C-sections in outpatient birthing centers has raised serious safety concerns among medical specialists, who say the procedures carry a small but real risk of life-threatening complications and should not be performed. are performed outside hospitals.The proposed new facilities, to be called advanced birth centers, would not be able to quickly mobilize additional staff, equipment and expertise if complications suddenly arise, as a hospital would, critics noted.”A pregnant patient who is considered low-risk one moment may suddenly need life-saving care the next,” said Dr. Cole Graves, president of the Florida region…

“Making It Work” is a series about small business owners trying to weather the tough times.While many people may conjure up romantic visions of a Montana ranch—vast valleys, cold streams, snow-capped mountains—few understand what happens when the cattle leave those pastures. Most of them, it turns out, don’t live in Montana.Even here, in a state with nearly twice as many cows as people, only about 1 percent of the beef purchased by Montana households is raised and processed locally, according to estimates by consulting firm Highland Economics. As with the rest of the country, many Montanans instead eat beef as…

The Group of 7 summit that concluded on Saturday went remarkably smoothly by the standards of a gathering where the leaders of major powers come together. That was a measure of the anxiety leaders feel about worsening trends in Ukraine, the Middle East, China and their own political future.There was a row over the use of the word “abortion” in the announcement, sparked by the host, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, but this was seen as a gesture to her home constituency. On important issues of geopolitics, there was little that divided the group.President Biden may appear politically vulnerable and…

“Finding a president is a very complicated process because everyone in the university’s constituency is interested in that choice, and making the right choice is important to everyone,” said John Isaacson, president of Isaacson, Miller, a firm that has assisted in searches for many top schools. “It’s a process that takes time.”UCLA and Yale did not respond to questions about their presidential searches.Some presidential candidates are as wary as the schools. Dr. Dirks, a former UC Berkeley chancellor, said he had heard of candidate pools shrinking as presidential candidates pondered the trappings of the jobs, despite mansion-like housing on campus…

It’s 1:01 a.m. on a Sunday morning in May, and Lorne Michaels, the creator and producer of “Saturday Night Live,” has just finished the final episode of the 49th season. He spent those 90 minutes walking backstage, hands in pockets, surveying the actors, allowing himself only an occasional chuckle of satisfaction.As cast members flood the stage to celebrate another year in the books, they enthusiastically embrace each other and the evening’s host, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, and musical guest, pop phenomenon Sabrina Carpenter.But on the floor, Michaels, 79, just finished his 20th show of the year with resignation: “I only see…

Leaders at Elon Musk’s social media company X told employees this week that 65 percent of advertisers had returned to the platform since January, according to meeting tapes obtained by The New York Times, and that smaller companies now make up the majority of its revenue.Executives, including Linda Yaccarino, who was appointed to run the company a year ago, acknowledged that the company continued to face challenges as it rebuilt its beleaguered advertising business. They did not provide updated sales figures, according to three people in attendance Wednesday and Thursday, who noted that the return of advertisers does not necessarily…

The early 1920s was the era of the gentleman driver, mostly rich men with their expensive machines, using roads that were still full of horses. At the second 24 Hours of Le Mans, held in 1924, two of these men, driving a Bentley, won the race, giving rise to the term Bentley Boys.The Automobile Club de l’Ouest, the organizers, made a major change for 1924. Due to heavy rain in 1923, they moved the race forward three weeks to mid-June, when it is still held today.New rules were also introduced. The club used the race to emphasize the durability and…