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Feb 4

A record spike in coronavirus cases in the U.S. wasn’t enough to derail the job market recovery at the beginning of the year.

The economy added 467,000 jobs in January. Here's what else we learned from the jobs report. nyti.ms/3Hsavpi

Despite the growth in employment, there are still nearly three million fewer jobs now than before the pandemic. If you take population growth into account, an expert said, the shortfall is 4.5 million. nyti.ms/3Hsavpi

One of the sectors where employment is higher than it was before the pandemic is business services, with 511,000 more jobs than in February 2020.

In January, leisure and hospitality led the job growth. nyti.ms/3Hsavpi

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In @NYTMag, @draperrobert reports on how Michael Flynn tried to persuade Donald Trump to use the military to overturn the 2020 election. A year later, he and his followers are fighting the same battle by other means. nyti.ms/3L2YicS

Around Thanksgiving in 2020, Flynn flew to South Carolina on the private jet of the former Overstock chief executive Patrick Byrne, to a former plantation owned by Lin Wood, where he threw himself into the project of reversing the election results. nyti.ms/34i331M

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Patrick Byrne told @draperrobert that he had rented several rooms at the Trump Hotel for a few months — paying about $800,000 — which he, Flynn, Sidney Powell and other Trump loyalists working to reverse the election results would move in and out of. nyti.ms/34i331M

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Feb 3

A storm bringing heavy snow and ice from the Midwest and the South to the Northeast has already caused travel disruptions in the U.S.

Highways in Missouri are blocked, and a crash on Interstate 70 in Columbia halted traffic for a time. nyti.ms/32SdkAX

Forecasters said that ice could make travel impossible in the Missouri Bootheel. Snow was expected to continue into Thursday for the St. Louis area, with temperatures dropping to 18 degrees overnight.
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The storm closed courtrooms in New Mexico, and Amtrak paused train service across the Midwest and the South. nyti.ms/35KGTFQ

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Feb 2

Two years into the pandemic, the coronavirus is killing Americans at far higher rates than people in other wealthy nations.

The ballooning death toll has defied the hopes that the less severe Omicron variant would spare the U.S. the pain of past waves. nyti.ms/3gAsi21

“Death rates are so high in the States — eye-wateringly high,” a global public health expert said.

Despite having one of the world’s most powerful arsenals of vaccines, the U.S. has failed to inoculate as much of its population as other wealthy nations. nyti.ms/3gAsi21

The U.S. faces other steep disadvantages, ones that experts worry could cause additional problems. For example, many Americans have health problems like obesity and diabetes that increase the risk of severe Covid. nyti.ms/3gAsi21

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Feb 2

The Winter Olympics are a carnival of danger. The athletes who perform these daring feats are not crazy or reckless. But they do have one thing in common that might surprise those of us who watch.

Fear. Every one of them is scared by what they do. nyti.ms/35CLwS9

Ask athletes what scares them, and the answers cover a broad spectrum — the fear of missing the Olympics, of regret, of disappointing family and friends, of losing control.

But the No. 1 answer is the fear of getting hurt. nyti.ms/35CLwS9

To reach the Olympics means not only having talent but also being more daring. Fear, the athletes said, is a balance. Too much can be debilitating. Too little can be worse.

“Fear,” the snowboarder André Höflich said, “is what keeps us alive in the end.” nyti.ms/35CLwS9

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As Japan rapidly ages, the country is turning to electronic surveillance to confront an epidemic of dementia and monitor the vulnerable.

The move has given peace of mind to some and raised concerns for others. nyti.ms/3IR5s1Y

Dementia is the leading cause of missing-person cases in Japan. More than 17,000 people with dementia went missing in 2020.

In his early 70s, Koji Uchida began to vanish. The first time, he was found in front of a vending machine 17 miles from home. nyti.ms/35wrbxN

Uchida began to go missing regularly, once wandering for two days before turning up in front of a stranger’s apartment, hungry and barely able to remember his name. Desperate, his family asked the local government to put him under digital surveillance. nyti.ms/35wrbxN

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