EditorialA technician loads a sonde, a tube of instruments about the size of a model rocket, into a chute for ejection from the aircraft during a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data-gathering flight that departed from Honolulu, Hawaii on Jan. 12, 2023. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialPaint is wrinkled and stretched from a neglected water leak in Lindsey Riordan’s living room at Sol Y Luna in Tucson, Ariz., Sept. 22, 2021. (Rebecca Noble/The New York Times)
EditorialGuests at a nine-story, double-chute tower slide designed by Carsten Holler at the Aventura Mall in Aventura, Fla., Jan. 10, 2020. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)
EditorialGuests at a nine-story, double-chute tower slide designed by Carsten Holler at the Aventura Mall in Aventura, Fla., Jan. 10, 2020. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)