Posts by Sophie Clearwater
BTS’ V Shares He’s Been Battling Hearing Loss in One Ear After Mandatory Military Service
BTS’ V is sharing insight on a previously private health battle. The K-Pop band singer (real name Kim Taehyung) shared he’s been dealing with significant hearing loss in one ear for over two years. “If my hearing on this ear is 100, the other ear can only pick up around 30,” V explained in an…
Read MoreThe Most Spectacular Photos of Europe’s Total Solar Eclipse
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On Aug. 12, the luckiest 15 million people in the world were those living in a narrow band measuring approximately 5,100 miles long and 180 miles wide, stretching from northern Russia, down through Greenland, then Iceland, then Spain, then a tiny nip of Portugal, before passing into the Mediterranean Sea. That strip represented the path…
Read MoreCan You Engineer Civic Pride? Dubai Thinks So
Do they do this out of fear of being caught and fined? Certainly, rules—and strict consequences for breaking them—are important for creating and maintaining clean spaces. Singapore, my home of two years in the early 2000s, may be the most striking example of the effectiveness of punishment. But it is too facile to ascribe cleanliness…
Read MoreBasket Case: How the Nantucket Lightship Bag Became the Ultimate Island Status Symbol
Early editions of the lightship bag can be viewed at the Nantucket Whaling Museum. William DeSousa-Mauk Summer has always been a verb for Nantucket’s seasonal residents, but this year, it’s turned into a contact sport—one splashed across national news outlets and hotly contested in Instagram comments. The source of all this debate feels both unlikely…
Read MoreArt, Death and Taxes: What Collectors Need to Know About Creating a Legacy That Lasts
From gifting to trusts to building a private own museum, art collectors can keep the collection—and the peace—intact with strategic estate planning. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on April 10, 2025.) Picture this: A dedicated collector, after decades of building a distinguished art collection, passes away, leaving behind an extraordinary…
Read MoreWith an Inherited Watch Collection, Doing Less Is the Smartest Move
Ideally, only after a collection has been thoroughly evaluated should decisions be made about what to keep and what to bring to auction. Courtesy Phillips Once upon a time, a retired New York City civil servant inherited a Rolex from an uncle he cared for during the final years of his life. Uncertain what it…
Read MoreThe Rise of Telehealth ‘Pill Mills’
—Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: irynakhabliuk via Canva) The elderly patient’s blood pressure had been dropping for weeks, and Chad Wittekind, his primary care provider, couldn’t figure out what was wrong. He had upped the dosage of one medication and added another, but couldn’t manage to regulate it. The patient hadn’t reported taking any other…
Read MoreEstrogen Therapy May Help Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Says
The women in the new study were prescribed estrogen only, and not the combination of estrogen and progesterone that is more commonly used to treat menopausal symptoms. Progesterone is prescribed to protect the uterus, but women who have had a hysterectomy, like those in the study, can safely be prescribed estrogen. This population provides a…
Read MoreWhy Nicole Kidman Was Ready to “Throw” Her Career Away for Tom Cruise Marriage
Cruise met Mimi Rogers in 1985 at a dinner party when she was dating a friend of his. They quietly tied the knot on May 9, 1987, in upstate New York. Emilio Estevez was Cruise’s best man. His mother, Mary Lee South, told People her new daughter-in-law was “top notch.” The Gung Ho actress was previously…
Read MoreThe Runway-Ready Fashion of ‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Is Coming to Christie’s
Iconic fashion from “The Devil Wears Prada 2” will be offered online during New York Fashion Week. 20TH CENTURY STUDIOS Next month, Christie’s is going all in on the fandom economy around celebrity memorabilia once again with a dedicated online sale of apparel and accessories from The Devil Wears Prada 2. The auction, which runs…
Read MoreHow Aryna Sabalenka Became the Most Compelling Player in Tennis
While critics focus on her meltdowns, fans, friends, and rivals appreciate that what you see is what you get. “At the end of the day, she’s a very authentic person,” says fellow pro Paula Badosa of Spain, Sabalenka’s closest friend on tour. “She always shows the way she is. That’s one of the things that…
Read MoreNicole Kidman Reveals How Tom Cruise, Keith Urban Divorces Compare in Rare Comments
But that doesn’t mean she isn’t processing what she feels. “At the same time I’m like, ‘OK, I didn’t expect this,’” Kidman—who also shares daughters Sunday, 18, and Faith, 15—with Urban explained. “I had a different view of what my life was going to be, but this is what it is now.’ You make all…
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