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| Welcome back to Grapevine, our weekly look at the most colorful, thought-provoking and original feature stories from The Wall Street Journal. We're curating the best stories from across the WSJ about the world beyond business and emailing them to you once a week. So take some time and enjoy the read. — Lisa Bannon, Wall Street Journal |
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 | | The women toasting on the dock at Ginny Hollis’s cottage at one of their early reunions in 2003. PHOTO: KARIN STAHL |
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Reconnected After Years, College Friends Find Strength in Each Other |
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| Their bond faded while they were raising children and starting careers. A jolt of bad news reunited them, writes Clare Ansberry. “This group kind of holds us all together,” says one of the friends in the group. READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | Bikes hang on the wall at the ElliptiGO store in Solana Beach, Calif. PHOTO: ARIANA DREHSLER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. |
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Shops Ordered Lots of Bikes in 2020. Peddling Them Is an Uphill Climb. |
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| Many retailers that had too little to offer during the early stages of the pandemic now have too much of everything—from bikes and furniture to clothing and barbecue grills, writes Alex Harring. They amassed the extra inventory because they expected sustained demand and supply-chain problems. What they didn’t expect is that customers would shift their spending to concerts, restaurants and travel, or that rising inflation would eat away at household budgets. READ FULL STORY >> |
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 | | After getting a degree in petroleum engineering, Roxanne Marino pushed for a job in the oil field. She currently works in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. PHOTO: BENNY CONTRERAS |
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Data Show Gender Pay Gap Opens Early |
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| Broad new data on wages earned by college graduates who received federal student aid showed a pay gap emerging between men and women soon after they joined the workforce, even among those receiving the same degree from the same school, write Melissa Korn, Lauren Weber and Andrea Fuller. READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | An artists’ rendering shows one end of the structure that would be located on the Gulf of Aqaba. |
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 | | A depiction of the Mirror Line, which will bisect a mountain range. |
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 | | The Mirror Line plans a sports stadium up to 1,000 feet above the ground. |
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6 Mountain Destinations to Beat the Heat |
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| From Italy’s Dolomites to Breckenridge, Colo., these mountain refuges offer unrivaled views—but that’s hardly the only perk, writes Andrew Nelson. SEE FULL STORY>> |
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 | | A colorized electron microscope image showing SARS-CoV-2, indicated in yellow, the virus that causes Covid-19, emerging from the surface of cells, indicated in blue and pink. NIAD-RML/ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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Covid-19 Variants Keep Getting More Contagious. Here’s Why. |
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| Scientists say new virus variants are evolving to be better at evading our immune systems’ existing defenses, write Brianna Abbott and Josh Ulick. READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: BOB CERVAS FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL |
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How the Covid Pandemic Will Follow Today’s Kids Into Adulthood |
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| Scientists and economists look at what learning loss and disruption could bring for a generation of students—and what can be done about it, writes Douglas Belkin. READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | A view of the ocean from the Motel 6 Santa Barbara Beach, the first motel in the large chain. MICHELLE GROSKOPF FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL |
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What’s It Like at the Most Expensive Motel 6? Actually, Pretty Nice |
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| The first Motel 6 charged $6 a night when it opened in Santa Barbara 60 years ago, writes Dawn Gilbertson. That same place is charging more than 70 times that this summer. READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | The redesign of this Nashville front yard replaced turf with cascading decks and wild-life-supporting greenery. DIANA KING FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL |
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What’s Next in Front Yard Gardens: 7 Curb Appeal Strategies |
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| Want the latest take on street-view style? Home and landscape designer John Gidding, host of HGTV’s ‘Curb Appeal’ franchise for seven years, has big ideas, writes Catherine Romano. READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | ‘Better Call Saul’ is presenting its final scenes as the series wraps up after six seasons. GREG LEWIS/AMC/SONY PICTURES TELEVISION |
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How ‘Better Call Saul’ Refined the Art of Television |
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| “Better Call Saul” often looks more like art than television, writes John Jurgensen. Its painterly color palettes and camera angles are among the reasons why the series will go down as one of the era’s most visually inventive. After six seasons, the show is nearing its finale Aug. 15 on AMC and streaming service AMC+. “ READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | Lena Dunham is the writer, director, producer and star of the new movie ‘Sharp Stick.’ PHOTO: COURTESY OF SHARP STICK |
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Lena Dunham Is Enjoying Her Privacy |
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| The writer, director and actor talks to Lane Florsheim about releasing her new movie, ‘Sharp Stick,’ after stepping largely out of the spotlight. READ FULL STORY>> |
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 | | Aidan Turner PHOTO: LUX VIDE/CW |
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‘Leonardo’ Review: Deciphering Da Vinci |
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| Aidan Turner stars in this surprisingly smart television drama that builds on the basics of the Italian Renaissance polymath’s life and art to construct a murder mystery. Read John Anderson's review. READ FULL STORY>> |
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