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A simple no-cook tomato sauce for peak summer heat, from Meryl Feinstein

When tomatoes are at their peak — and it's too hot to turn on the oven — this simple, no-cook sauce from my cookbook "Pasta Every Day" is what I come back to time and again. It's often called pomodoro crudo and served with very thin spaghetti, though you'll find many variations, including ...

At creative reuse centers, old art supplies get a new life at a fraction of the cost

NEW YORK — Charlene Catalano was looking for a ball of green-and-white yarn to crochet this year's winter scarf. Instead of going to a big-box retail store, she found what she needed at Brooklyn Creative Reuse, along with gently used crochet kits, hooks, labels and other bits. It all cost just $6. "Nowadays, art is popping off, so things are more expensive," Catalano said. "It has the perfect amount of what I need." The Brooklyn store is one of hundreds of creative reuse centers across the U.S. and beyond which aim to keep art supplies out of landfills. They typically sell ...

At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science

With no background in coding, Faith Maeba, a psychology major, was reluctant when her mother first suggested she enroll in classes on artificial intelligence. But the senior at Virginia Commonwealth University began to see it differently as she looked into graduate psychology programs that ...