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Feb 23

This is a story about peat — the brown stuff lurking in bogs and swamps and potting soil — and why it may be nature’s greatest champion against climate change. nyti.ms/3BYREk1

In grounds too soggy for dead things to decompose, plants pile up in layer after layer, forming thick, muddy peat. nyti.ms/3BYREk1

For centuries, people have wandered around these soggy stretches of mud and wondered: What on earth is a peatland good for? nyti.ms/3BYREk1

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Feb 23

When Vironika Giacchi heard reports of Russian troop movements near Ukraine a few months ago, she enrolled in a first aid class near her home in Staten Island. If Russia mounts a full-scale invasion, she plans to return to Ukraine and volunteer as a nurse.
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She is one of more than 150,000 Ukrainians in New York City, the largest such community in the U.S., with pockets in Manhattan’s East Village and Brighton Beach in Brooklyn.

As the crisis in Ukraine escalates, it is a time of anxiety for the community.
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At Streecha, a Ukrainian church canteen in the East Village, the TV plays Ukrainian news nonstop.

“We’re all checking for updates every 10, 15 minutes,” said Dmytro Kovalenko, the manager, who emigrated from Ukraine in 2014. “It’s a time of worries.”
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Feb 22

For the three decades that Clarence Thomas has sat on the Supreme Court, he and Ginni Thomas have worked in tandem to take aim at targets like Roe v. Wade and affirmative action. Her views, once seen as fringe, have come to dominate the Republican Party. nyti.ms/34ZMeZQ

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In @NYTMag, @dannyhakim and @Jo_becker report on how blurred the lines between the interests of Justice Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, became during the effort to overturn the 2020 election. nyti.ms/3LSnhQt

This article draws on hours of recordings and internal documents from groups affiliated with the Thomases; interviews with classmates, friends and colleagues, as well as more than a dozen Trump White House aides and some of Justice Thomas’s former clerks.
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Feb 20

Have you ever wondered how a book becomes a book? From vats of ink to 800-pound rolls of paper, we went behind the scenes to reveal how exactly a book is made. nyti.ms/3p2FPE2

To illustrate the journey, we followed the creation of Marlon James’s “Moon Witch, Spider King,” a fantastical epic that draws on African mythology. nyti.ms/3p2FPE2

The book jacket is printed first:

The cover for “Moon Witch, Spider King” is unusually complicated. Most covers are printed using black, cyan, magenta and yellow ink, but two additional colors were used for this one: Day-Glo green and a special blue. nyti.ms/3p2FPE2

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Feb 20

For the last month, dozens of members of the New Mexico National Guard have been deployed to classrooms throughout the state to help with crippling staff shortages that have left schools struggling to maintain in-person learning. nyti.ms/3h2v5Ru

Lt. Col. Susana Corona is one of the members who never envisioned that one of her missions would require learning the classroom phrase “1,2,3 eyes on me!” and being armed with a lesson plan. nyti.ms/3h2v5Ru

Placing uniformed officers in classrooms has drawn mixed reactions. Some critics worry about creating anxiety for student populations that have historically had hostile experiences with law enforcement. But many schools have embraced them as a critical step toward recovery.

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Feb 19

Exclusive: Who's behind QAnon?

Computer scientists say they have identified two men as its likely authors — including one of the first online commentators to call attention to the messages that shaped the viral movement. nyti.ms/36rmLJa

The studies provide the first empirical evidence about the origins of QAnon, a toxic myth and conspiracy theory that has been linked to scores of violent incidents and that the FBI has labeled a potential terrorist threat. nyti.ms/36rmLJa

The analyses built on long-established forms of forensic linguistics that can detect telltale variations.

Sophisticated software broke down the Q texts into patterns of three-character sequences and tracked the recurrence of each possible combination. nyti.ms/36rmLJa

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