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From Naked Attraction to Love Is Blind: The couples who found lasting love on wild TV dating shows
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After a half-century of dating shows, the genre has grown increasingly outlandish. Naked dating, marrying complete strangers, secret cameras – it can’t be long before singletons are blasted into space in one of Elon M...
Haunted by shame: victims of bank transfer scams tell of lasting trauma
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Mary Higgins’s life changed the moment the phone rang one afternoon in November. The caller claimed to be from the Metropolitan police fraud department and told her that her bank cards had been compromised. In an elab...
A new wave of blushers for a lasting flush
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Blush, apparently, is “back”. For me, it never went away. The healthy flush it adds never gets old. A lot, however, has changed over the years. Shades, once limited to fairer skins, now run the gamut from pale pinks t...
‘A sacrificed generation’: psychological scars of Covid on young may have lasting impact
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Covid-19 policies risk leaving psychological and socioeconomic scars on millions of young people across Europe, with far-reaching consequences for them and society, a wide-ranging Guardian project has revealed. Teenag...
Nightmare Scenario review: Trump, Covid and a lasting national trauma
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As the world wakes from its pandemic-induced coma, Bloomberg rates the US as the best place to be. More than 150 million Americans have been vaccinated; little more than 4,100 have been hospitalized or have died as a ...
‘She changed the way Americans thought about food’: the lasting legacy of Julia Child
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In my parents’ home, for as long as I can remember, the crown jewel of the kitchen decor has always been a framed, sun-bleached photograph of Julia Child. In it, she’s winding up to smack my father, the audio technici...
Lasting impressions of a boarding school education
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Although Henrietta Heald (Letters, 19 December) is correct in saying that girls by and large are not admitted to Eton, that is not to say that being female necessarily spares you from the trammels of the independent b...
The Last Slave Ship review: the Clotilda, Africatown and a lasting American injustice
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In 1903, the African American comedic team of Bert Williams and George Walker appeared at Buckingham Palace, in celebration of the ninth birthday of the grandson of King Edward VII. To acclaim, they reprised their Br...
Half of first-wave Covid cases may have lasting harm to sense of smell
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Nearly half of those who became ill with Covid in the first wave of infections may have long-term and even permanent changes to their sense of smell, according to preliminary research from Sweden. A sudden loss of sme...
‘Like sewage and rotting flesh’: Covid’s lasting impact on taste and smell
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Four months after getting sick with Covid, Anne-Héloise Dautel couldn’t eat anything at all. “I just wanted to vomit, I was gagging at everything around me,” she said. “I couldn’t even stand my own smell. I was shower...
Challenge Anneka’s lasting legacy in Leeds points way for show’s reboot
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At Leeds Mencap, the positive legacy of Challenge Anneka still reverberates powerfully. Back in 1993 the TV programme helped turn a dilapidated, burnt-out school into a nursery run by the charity for children with lea...
Filtration and forced deportation: Mariupol survivors on the lasting terrors of Russia’s assault
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On the final day of March, soldiers of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic entered the basement in Mariupol where Svitlana and Vitaly were sheltering. “You have 15 minutes to get ready and then you’re leaving,” sh...