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In 2023, 480,000 fans attended the four days of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. These people, drivers and team members were looked after by more than 100 staff at the medical center at Silverstone.”It effectively treats the population of a large city every day,” Peter Hutchinson, the event’s chief medical officer and a professor of neurosurgery at Cambridge University, said in an interview in June.And as in any big city, its residents get hurt. In 2023, the center treated around 1,000 people, mostly for minor injuries requiring only first aid. And while there were no accidents on the track…

As new variants of the coronavirus gain traction in the United States, summer travelers face a familiar and vexing question: How will the ever-mutating virus affect travel plans?In light of updated guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, answers may be slightly different than in previous years.Here’s what you need to know about traveling this summer if you’re worried about – or think you might have – Covid-19.What’s up with Covid?Recent CDC data shows that Covid infections are increasing or likely increasing in more than 40 states. Hospitalization rates and deaths, although low compared to peaks seen in…

Relief efforts were underway in the Caribbean community of New York on Wednesday as residents watched Hurricane Beryl’s path with anxiety and sadness.At least seven people have died in the storm in the southeastern Caribbean, with thousands without power. By Wednesday afternoon, Beryl had weakened from a Category 5 to a Category 4 hurricane as it passed south of Jamaica, battering the island with damaging winds and flooding rains.In Brooklyn’s Little Caribbean neighborhood, people with family and friends in Jamaica watched the storm unfold closely.Nadine Ducille, a cook at Caribbean Vibes Jamaican Restaurant and Bakery on Nostrand Avenue, said she…

Talk to student protesters across the country, and their anger is clear: They are galvanized by the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and will risk arrest to fight for the Palestinian cause.For most of them, the war is being waged in a country they have never set foot in, where the dead – 34,000 so far, according to local health authorities – are known to them only through what they have read or seen on the Internet. .But for many, the issues are closer to home, and at the same time, much larger and broader. In their eyes,…

In a move that will further consolidate the luxury retail market, the parent company of Saks Fifth Avenue has agreed to acquire Neiman Marcus in a $2.65 billion deal, creating the ultimate high-end department store behemoth, the companies announced Wednesday.The deal, which has been rumored since Neiman Marcus filed for bankruptcy protection during the pandemic, comes just four years after Saks bought the license to the Barneys name following that group’s bankruptcy. It also follows a wave of luxury e-tail failures, including those of FarFetch and Matches.com. Saks is owned by HBC, a retail group that bought the American chain…

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld an initial legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on non-compete agreements, which is scheduled to take effect in September.Judge Ada Brown granted an injunction sought by many plaintiffs, saying the ban cannot be enforced against them pending a final decision.But while the decision is preliminary, he said the FTC lacked “substantial rulemaking authority” over unfair competition practices and that the plaintiffs were “likely to succeed on the merits” of their challenge.Judge Brown, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, said she expects to issue a final decision by…

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells opened up a whole new class of drugs and helped save the lives of millions of women, died June 9 at his home in Houston. It was 76.Balkees Abderrahman, a researcher who worked closely with Dr. Jordan and was his caregiver for several years, said the cause was kidney cancer.Dr. Jordan was known as a meticulous, even obsessive researcher, a quality that was demonstrated in his work on tamoxifen. The drug was first synthesized in 1962, although it was discarded…

Whether they drive or fly, people traveling for the upcoming holiday weekend are expected to break records in what is already one of the busiest years for travel.The Fourth of July holiday usually marks the peak of summer travel, and this summer is already showing signs of surpassing the past two record-setting summers.With the Transportation Safety Administration reporting record numbers of passengers flying last month and AAA predicting 60 million drivers taking to the road, here’s what you need to know and how to avoid delays and traffic jams.Travel records are broken all the time.With people itching to get away…

A senior White House official plans to meet with French officials in Paris on Wednesday to discuss ways to defuse escalating border fires between Israel and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon, a conflict that Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said this week had as resulting in Israel losing. dominance in its north.The trip by the official, Amos Hochstein, the special presidential coordinator for global energy and infrastructure, was confirmed by a person close to the talks, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy.Mr. Hochstein has become President Biden’s de facto emissary in trying to resolve the border…

A conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s law school on Tuesday, arguing that its efforts to hire more women and people of color as faculty members violate federal laws that prohibit discrimination against race and gender.The complaint, which comes a little more than a year after the Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions, is expected to be among the first in a wave of new legal challenges attacking the way American universities hire and promote faculty. .The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Chicago, calls the process a “cesspool of corruption…