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2 weeks ago | science.org | Jeffrey Brainard |David Malakoff |Monica Hersher

1.0x 00:00 00:02:35 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback It is almost certainly the most consequential 100 days that scientists in the United States have experienced since the end of World War II.

May 8, 2023 | nytimes.com | Stefanos Chen |Monica Hersher

A yak-hide championship belt hangs in Yamuna Shrestha’s restaurant in Jackson Heights, Queens, where her momos — pillowy meat-filled dumplings from Nepal — have four times been voted the best in the borough. But the business, Bhanchha Ghar, which opened in a modest storefront beneath the 7 train shortly before the pandemic began, owes more than $150,000 in back rent. Covid restrictions closed the store for months in 2020, and business was slow to recover.