Author: KnowledgeHippo
The back windows of Tourists, a renovated 46-room motor inn that opened in North Adams, Mass., in 2018, overlook 80 acres of woodland in the Berkshires. Now, a footpath runs through these woods, connecting the hotel to two neighboring houses in the city’s historic Blackinton area, a former mill community. Both properties – one sleeps up to 11 people, the other six – were renovated for Tourists Homes, a new offshoot that allows larger groups to book individual homes. “We jokingly call them mullets — business in the front, party in the back — why [we preserved the] 1860s fronts,…
A crater that left a roadside bomb targeting an Israeli military jeep in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.Credit…Mohammad Mansour/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAn Israeli soldier was killed and another seriously wounded overnight during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the army said on Thursday. It was the latest in a series of violent Israeli raids on the city.The soldier who was killed, a sniper team commander, “fell during operational activity,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a brief statement, which gave few details. Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, reported that one…
As police arrested student protesters at Dartmouth College, a 65-year-old professor ended up on the ground.Two student journalists reporting that night ended up being arrested themselves.And a bystander, visiting his father who lives near Dartmouth College, was found with a fractured shoulder.That was some of the collateral damage after Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock took unusually swift action and authorized police action on May 1 to clear a camp set up by students just two hours earlier on the college green. .Dr. Beilock, a cognitive scientist who studies why people choke under stress, has been facing a campus upheaval…
Boeing faced fresh criticism from a federal regulator on Thursday over revelations about the ongoing investigation into a harrowing January flight in which one of the company’s 737 Max planes lost a panel, exposing passengers to howling winds at about 16,000 feet. .Speaking to reporters at the company’s factory in Renton, Washington, Boeing executive Elizabeth Lund gave new details Tuesday about how the plane involved in the incident left the factory apparently without four critical bolts that secure the panel, known as door plug, in place.Boeing said the information was not for release until Thursday morning, under a mutual agreement…
Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer now living in exile in suburban Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping. China’s response lately has been severe, with crude and ominous personal attacks on the Internet.A covert propaganda network linked to the country’s security services has blocked not only Mr. Deng but also his teenage daughter with sexually suggestive and threatening posts on popular social media platforms, according to researchers at both Clemson University and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.The content, posted by users with fake identities, appeared in replies to Mr Deng’s posts on X, the…
Kiyomi Lowe regularly hears people mispronounce her name, or sometimes forget it altogether. “I get Naomi, Kaiomi, sometimes Kimmy,” she said. It doesn’t bother her: “I’ll answer anything.”She is less forgiving when friends and acquaintances forget the name of her dog, a Shar-Pei. “I understand Bruno a lot,” he said. To which she replies: “No, it’s Brutus! The dog doesn’t care. But I care about the dog.”Ms. Lowe is a stylist at Al’s Barber Shop, a popular six-chair salon in Boulder near the University of Colorado campus. On a recent morning, she got into a heated discussion with her fellow…
A top general and allied members of the military tried to storm the presidential palace in Bolivia on Wednesday afternoon before quickly retreating in an apparently failed coup attempt.Hours later, the general was taken into custody on live television.Video on Bolivian television showed security forces in riot gear occupying the central square of the administrative capital La Paz, a camouflaged military vehicle banging on the palace door and soldiers trying to enter the palace.Then, just as quickly as they appeared, General Juan José Zúñiga disappeared and his backers in the armed forces withdrew and were replaced by police who supported…
For the past three years, US schools have been in an unusual position: they’ve had a lot of money to spend.The federal government has invested $190 billion in pandemic aid for schools. the largest chunk, $122 billion, came in 2021 to help students recover. Overall, it was the largest single federal investment in American education, but it came with a major question: Would it work?Two separate studies, released Wednesday, show the money helped, but not as much as it could have.”Money did contribute to the recovery,” said Thomas J. Kane, an economist at Harvard University who helped lead one of…
Curious about electric vehicles but not ready to buy one? Renting one can help you see what it’s like — and some rental car companies offer discounts.But a smooth electric vehicle experience, especially if you rent for vacation, requires a fair amount of planning because fast-charging stations, while more available than they were four years ago, are still not as ubiquitous as gas stations.For now, an electric car might work better for a long weekend or a trip where you plan to stay in one place and take day trips, rather than an epic coast-to-coast trip.”A road trip across the…
The Supreme Court handed the Biden administration a major practical victory on Wednesday, rejecting a Republican challenge that sought to prevent the administration from communicating with social media platforms to combat disinformation.The court ruled that the states and users who had challenged those interactions had not suffered the kind of direct injury that allowed them to sue.The 6-3 ruling left open for another day fundamental questions about the limits the First Amendment places on the government’s power to influence the technology companies that are the primary gatekeepers of information in the Internet age.The case arose out of a barrage of…