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4 Missing After Medical Helicopter Crashes in Quebec Lake
The helicopter was carrying four crew members and a patient when it crashed on Friday night, officials said.Emergency responders on Saturday were searching for four people who were missing after a medical helicopter crashed into a lake in rural Quebec on Friday night, the authorities said.Five people were on board, four crew members and one patient, said Raphaele Bourgault, a manager for Airmedic, a company that operates the medical helicopter.One person was found with injuries that were not life threatening and taken to a hospital, said Sgt. Laurie Avoine, a spokeswoman for the Quebec provincial police. It was not clear if the person was among the members of the crew.The crash happened around 10:30 p.m. in a wooded area north of Natashquan, Quebec, Sergeant Avoine said. The Canadian Armed Forces have been asked to help the provincial police, she said.Teams are searching on the ground, in the water and by air for those missing, Sergeant Avoine said.The helicopter crashed shortly after takeoff, said Nicholas Defalco, a spokesman for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada. The destination and departure sites of the flight were not immediately known.Airmedic, which has seven planes and six helicopters, said on its website that it was temporarily suspending its air operations until further notice.Natashquan, which is on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and 625 miles northeast of Quebec City, is described by Bonjour Quebec, the province’s tourism group, as “really at the edge of the world.”The village of 300 is the childhood home of the Québécois singer-songwriter and poet Gilles Vigneault.The area is part of the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, which has fewer than 100,000 people. Tourists visit the area for whale watching and to enjoy the forest. More
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The Creativity Challenge: Try Something New With One of These Hobbies
<!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–>One of the traits most closely associated with creativity is being open to new experiences. Some people don’t naturally lean that way, but as with all aspects of creativity, openness can be developed. In a sense, you’ve been practicing all week: Maybe you tried intentional daydreaming on your drive to work, or […] More
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The Creativity Challenge: Try the “10 Percent Rule” for Doing Tasks
<!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–>When I watched that scene recently, I realized that, yes, Shakespeare seems fueled by something otherworldly — but there’s a lot of hand cramping and quill stripping happening, too. Creativity is a combination of “aha” moments and hard work. We’re quick to dismiss the latter and assume that the best […] More
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The Creativity Challenge: Practice “Intentional Daydreaming”
<!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–>Sometimes, I miss my subway stop. But on the whole, daydreaming is a positive thing, a portal to more happiness and innovative thinking. We could probably be getting more out of it, though, said Madeleine Gross, a research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who studies curiosity and […] More
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The Creativity Challenge: Write Some Poetry
<!–> [–><!–>Welcome to Day 2 of the Creativity Challenge. Yesterday, we talked about how you can practice being creative, and noted that small, creative tasks are like stretches for your brain.–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–>If you think of creativity as a freewheeling and boundless activity, adding rules may seem counterintuitive. But research shows that blank […] More
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The Creativity Challenge: Start With Some Quick Doodles
<!–> [–><!–> –><!–> [–><!–>Many of us have a narrow definition of creativity. We think it’s a rare gift reserved for artists. But we’re all creative in some way, whether or not we think so. And being creative comes with big health benefits. It can energize you, sharpen your ideas and problem-solving skills and act as […] More
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Drug Overdose Deaths Plummeted in 2024, C.D.C. Reports
The progress comes as the Trump administration is proposing to cut funding for many programs believed to have contributed to the improvement.Overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 30,000 last year, the government reported on Wednesday, the strongest sign yet that the country is making progress against one of its deadliest, most intractable public health crises.The data, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the latest in a series of reports over the past year offering hints that the drug-related death toll that has gutted families and communities could be starting to ease.Public health experts had been carefully watching the monthly updates, with skepticism at first, and then with growing hope. Wednesday’s report was the most encouraging yet. Deaths declined in all major categories of drug use, stimulants as well as opioids, dropping in every state but two. Nationwide, drug fatalities plunged nearly 27 percent.“This is a decline that we’ve been waiting more than a decade for,” said Dr. Matthew Christiansen, a physician and former director of West Virginia’s drug control policy. “We’ve invested hundreds of billions of dollars into addiction.”Addiction specialists said that changes in the illicit drug supply as well as greater access to drug treatment and the use of naloxone to reverse overdoses seemed to be playing a role, but whether the country could sustain that progress was an open question.In announcing the new numbers, the C.D.C. praised President Trump, saying in a statement that since he “declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency in 2017” the government had added more resources to battle the drug problem.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
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What It Means to Be a ‘Well Woman,’ According to Amy Larocca, Author of ‘How to Be Well’
In her new book, “How to Be Well,” the writer Amy Larocca draws readers down a rabbit hole of serums, supplements and colonics. We know a lot of it doesn’t work. Why do we want it anyway?When I met the writer Amy Larocca at a cafe in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn on a recent afternoon, I could not help but notice: She had the glow. Or seemed to.The glow, as Ms. Larocca explains in her new book, “How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time,” is what happens when you purify yourself “from the inside out.” When you never miss a day of your skin care routine, regularly drain your lymphatic fluids and take your collagen supplements. But to truly glow, you must also practice mindfulness, self-care and, ideally, transcendental meditation, avoid processed junk and sleep at least eight hours every night.Such are the exacting standards of a contemporary wellness culture that has swelled to encompass nearly every facet of life. Not just the serums we slather on our faces or the Pilates classes we scurry off to but the food we eat (always whole foods), the bowel movements we pass (must be “firm and beautifully formed”) and the very thoughts we let enter our minds (intentional ones only).It sounds like a lot of work. Or one might say it sounds like a lot of work — if it were not so incumbent on a well woman to be perpetually at ease.After talking to Ms. Larocca, 49, for an hour, I learned she did not do everything a well woman should. She tries to sleep a lot. She exercises regularly. And yes, she wears an Oura ring, the latest in wearable tech for tracking one’s blood oxygen rate, body temperature and other biometrics.But she does not observe 12-step routines of any kind. She is aware of the fact that dry-brushing may be a great way to exfoliate but that it probably does not drain your lymphatic fluid.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More
