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Dr. Herbert Pardes, a psychiatrist and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health who led the merger of two major medical centers that became New York-Presbyterian Hospital and ran it for 11 years, died April 30 at his home in Manhattan . He was 89 years old.His son Steve said the cause was aortic stenosis.Dr. Pardes (pronounced par-diss) was named president and CEO of the hospital in late 1999, nearly two years after the merger of New York Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital. For the previous decade he had been dean of the medical school at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Presbyterian's affiliated medical school.“It was no secret that as dean of the medical school I didn't always agree with hospital administration,” he said in his thi...

Bernard Pivot, a French TV host who made and unmade writers with a weekly book chat show that attracted millions of viewers, died Monday in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris. He was 89 years old.His death, in hospital after being diagnosed with cancer, was confirmed by his daughter Cécile Pivot.From 1975 to 1990, France watched Mr. Pivot on Friday nights to decide what to read next. The country watched him cajole, cajole and flatter novelists, memoirists, politicians and actors, and the next day he went to bookstores to buy plates marked "Apostrophes," the name of Mr. Pivot's show.In a French universe where serious writers and intellectuals fight fiercely for public attention to become superstars, Mr. Pivot has never competed with his hosts. He achieved a kind of elevated chatter tha...

Apple doesn't often make mistakes and rarely apologizes, but its advertising chief said on Thursday that the company had made a mistake in making a commercial for the new iPad that showed an industrial compressor flattening tools for art, music and creativity.“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it's incredibly important for us to design products that empower creatives around the world,” said Tor Myhren, the company's vice president of marketing communications, in a statement provided to the publication AdAge . “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video and we're sorry."Mr. Myhren said Apple would no longer air the commercial on TV.The company faced a barrage o...

President Biden's warning about cutting off arms supplies has strengthened the constraint facing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is increasingly caught between international calls for a ceasefire and right-wing Israeli demands to proceed with an invasion on a large scale in Rafah, southern Gaza.Netanyahu, who has insisted over American objections on the need to invade Rafah, now finds US-Israeli relations at a moment of crisis that could affect how he conducts the next phase of the war against Hamas.On Thursday, the Israeli leader, alluding to Biden's remarks, said in a statement: “If we need to be alone, we will be alone. I said that if necessary we will fight tooth and nail. But we have much more than nails and with that same strength of spirit, with God's he...

Even as it has become increasingly clear that the avian flu outbreak on domestic farms began months earlier — and is likely much more widespread — than previously thought, federal authorities have stressed that the virus poses little risk to humans. humans.Yet there is a group of people at high risk of infection: the approximately 100,000 men and women who work on those farms. There has been no widespread testing to see how many might be infected. No one has been vaccinated against avian influenza.This leaves workers and their families vulnerable to a poorly monitored pathogen. And it poses broader public health risks. If the virus were to spread into the broader population, experts say, dairy workers would be a likely route.“We have no idea whether this virus will evolve into a pandem...

Fencing is a niche but vital Olympic sport, contested at every Summer Games since 1896. Yet despite its genteel reputation and its simple goal – to touch an opponent with the blade before being touched – the sport has been long full of drama and suspicion.Two months before the Paris Olympics, international fencing is gripped by questions about the integrity of refereeing, allegations of preferential treatment and concerns among top athletes and coaches that their sport's intricate connections could help decide who gets to compete at the Games .The federation that governs fencing in the United States, USA Fencing, recently suspended two international referees after they admitted communicating with each other during an Olympic qualifying tournament in California. He became so concerned ...

Araç alım-satım sürecinde en önemli adımlardan biri olan ekspertiz hizmeti, Güngören Oto Ekspertiz olarak bizim işimizin temelidir. Haznedar ekspertiz hizmetimiz, bölgedeki müşterilerimize güvenilir ve kapsamlı bir çözüm sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Uzman ekibimiz, yılların deneyimiyle donatılmıştır ve her müşteriye özel bir yaklaşım sergiler. Güngören Oto Ekspertiz olarak, Güngören oto ekspertiz hizmetimizle sektörde kendimize sağlam bir yer edindik. Müşterilerimize sunduğumuz uygun fiyatlar ve kaliteli hizmetlerle, ülke genelinde takdir kazandık. Müşteri memnuniyetini her şeyin önünde tutan anlayışımızla, her zaman en iyi sonucu elde etmek için çalışıyoruz. Pazar günü açık oto ekspertiz hizmetimizle, müşterilerimize daha fazla esneklik ve kolaylık sağlıyoruz. Haftanın her günü, müşteril...

Some users will scoff at befriending a chatbot. But others, especially people for whom socializing is difficult or unattractive, will invite AI into the most hidden parts of their lives.This change will be shocking. One day you will wake up and someone you know (maybe your child) will have an AI friend. It will not be a gimmick, a game or a sign of mental illness. It will feel like a real and important relationship to them, one that offers a convincing replica of empathy and understanding and that, in some cases, feels just as good as the real thing.I wanted to experience that future for myself.Building my friends and setting them freeThe first step was to create my AI friends.The apps I tested all work essentially the same way: Users sign up and receive a menu of AI companions, which ...

On the 15th night of Ramadan, in a suburb of Belize City, Majid Khan and his family of four sat down for a traditional iftar meal to quickly break up the daylight hours. There was a leg of lamb that Majid, a former Guantánamo detainee, had slaughtered himself, and some sweets brought from Saudi Arabia by a sister in Maryland.The atmosphere was a bit noisy, but not enough to disturb the sleep of little Hamza, born two weeks earlier in a hospital in the Central American city. Little was said about whether the biryani dish was too spicy and how the lamb was perfectly roasted.These are trivial matters, made more significant because Majid Khan, a former Al Qaeda courier, was celebrating with his wife Rabia and daughter Manaal in their first home together, in Belize, their new adopted homeland...

Academic conferences are usually serious affairs, but the 1973 International Symposium on Gender Identity, held in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, was an exception. All was quiet until a psychologist named John Money stood up and shouted, "Mickey Diamond, I hate your guts!"Milton Diamond, a sexologist who had been called Mickey since childhood, was sitting across the room. Dr. Money and Dr. Diamond were bitter rivals: Dr. Money, a nationally recognized researcher at Johns Hopkins University, had long argued that sexual and gender identities are neutral at birth and shaped primarily by one's environment. the child is found.Dr. Diamond, who had just begun his career at the University of Hawaii, strongly disagreed, and had said so repeatedly, including in a widely read critique of Dr. Money'...