This weekend, listen to a collection of reported articles from across The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters who wrote them.
Maybe you’ve heard the jingle or know him as the “Corn Kid”.
“It’s corn!” With just two words about his favorite food, Tariq has attracted millions of people.
“For me, I really like corn,” he said in a video that is now going viral, which has been viewed more than five million times on YouTube. Tariq describes the corn as “a lump the size of knobs,” noting that “It has juice” and “I can’t imagine anything nicer.”
Offline, Tariq has just started second grade, where his slightly too young TikTok classmates have no idea he’s spent the last few weeks of summer becoming an internet hit.
He likes to take breaks and study math. (He rationalizes the latter with the uncomplicated wisdom that comes with being 7: “Because, I’m good at math,” he explains.) He has three sisters. His favorite color is “all colors”. His ideal adventure would be a visit to a noisy water park. And he’s not a fan of flying insects, like those buzzing around beehives in Domino Park on the Brooklyn waterfront.
The State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany, NY, which simulates, studies future and perhaps averted horrors is part of a vast infrastructure for tragedy. Since 2017, tens of millions of people have been spent by the federal government on training mass shooter athletes, and states have spent even more.
And while some efforts are aimed at prevention, most occur only after an attack has begun. So across the country, schools teach children how to run, hide and fight, and hospitals prepare all classes for admission. But as children return to school this month, the memories of the previous bloody year make it clear that such efforts alone cannot stem the tide of violence.
The 1,100-acre facility, valued at more than $50 million, simulates a range of terrifying scenarios, from terrorist attacks to flash floods. Its peak glory is Cityscape, a hangar converted into a small town, complete with bars, schools and shopping malls – all built to be bombed. and shoot up.
The 18 essays in “Make a Scene” by Constance Wu, star of “Fresh off the Boat” and “Crazy Rich Asians,” are stories that she says “have shaped who I am and defined my direction.” of my life.”
There is a story about her love for her pet rabbit, Lida Rose; another about a college summer at a Buddhist monastery in Taiwan, where Ms. Wu attended a week-long quiet meditation retreat. She describes tender childhood memories, various loves, even her hobby of baking bread. The book is a portrait of the life of a young woman and of a young artist, struggling to find her way.
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Written and narrated by Jonathan Abrams
Adam Jones’s day starts early. The alarms in his Cincinnati-area home rang for the cubs of six children at 6 a.m. weekdays. And Jones, who is called Pacman, and his wife, Tishana, alternately shuttle them to school and daycare.
The fact that Adam Jones, once one of the NFL’s poster athletes for multiple fouls, is the head of Brady Bunch today would shock most casual fans of the game. But by shepherding the soon-to-be-booming household, Jones hopes he can help them all avoid some of his mistakes, even as he tries to stay on the right track.
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Written and narrated by Corey Kilgannon
Chickie Donohue, 81, has been telling pub stories since he was a teenager, but there’s one story he no longer has to tell. It was about his non-ideal trip to Vietnam in 1967 to bring his soldier friends a beer and a supportive hug from their hometown of Inwood in Upper Manhattan.
The soldiers, all stationed with different units, were hunted when they saw their neighbor in the old bunkers and a checked shirt suddenly appeared in the foxholes. and the barracks, give them the kettles from his duffel bag.
Over the decades, this story has become a well-known and widely discredited one in Inwood salons and among Donohue’s colleagues, the urban miners who dug railroad tunnels and water deep in the foundation of the city.
But now, Donohue is as amazed as anyone to see his story go from the iron bars and muddy tunnels of New York to the big screen: “The Greatest Beer Run Ever,” an adventure comedy directed by Peter Farrelly and played by Zac Efron as Donohue.
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The Times reporting by Tally Abecassis, Parin Behrooz, Anna Diamond, Sarah Diamond, Jack D’Isidoro, Aaron Esposito, Dan Farrell, Elena Hecht, Adrienne Hurst, Elisheba Ittoop, Emma Kehlbeck, Marion Lozano, Tanya Pérez, Krish Seenivasan, Margaret H. Willison, Kate Winslett, John Woo and Tiana Young. Special thanks to Sam Dolnick, Ryan Wegner, Julia Simon and Desiree Ibekwe.
