Новости за 05.01.2018

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but humans can judge whether another person is sick by looking at a photo for just a few seconds.

HGTV’s popular renovation show “Home Town,” whisked with buttermilk-smooth “y’all” declarations, launches season two in January with Mississippi hosts Ben and Erin Napier.

Start the new year with a wellness retreat at Red Mountain Resort in southern Utah. A five-day program that includes a personal health assessment and goal-setting, as well as unlimited classes and daily hikes, costs $1,900 per person.

Mexico has had highs and lows as a tourist destination in the past decade. Still, it won the popularity contest in an end-of-year cruise trends report by CruiseCompete.com.

Identifying small, exclusive, out-of-the-way resorts is the specialty of Andrew Harper’s Hideaway Report. Now the magazine has selected a plush resort in southern France as its “hideaway” of the year, along with 20 favorite hotels around the world, in its year-end awards.

No automaker in history has made better cars than Honda. The Japanese giant deserves its reputation for delivering decent, dependable cars at a fair price.

For his new house in Orange County, a young man is building a fully stocked bar in the garage next to his collection of sports cars.

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Jan. 5, and here’s what’s happening across California:

The nucleus of the neighborhood we now know as Carthay was developed beginning in 1922 by J. Harvey McCarthy, a real estate man of somewhat dubious moral character who purchased a former airfield south of Wilshire on which to build one of L.A.’s first planned communities.

President Trump directed his White House counsel to tell Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions to not recuse himself from the Justice Department's investigation into potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter.

To the editor: To cheat undocumented workers of their rightfully earned wages and threaten reporting them to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is unjust and immoral. (“More workers say their bosses are threatening to have them deported,” Jan. 2)

Family Flicks Pedro González-Rubio’s 2009 semi-documentary Alamar chronicles the blissful and bittersweet two weeks a father and his 5-year-old son spend on the idyllic Mexican atoll, Banco Chinchorro, in the Caribbean, before the boy goes to live in Rome with his Italian-born mother. In Spanish...

To the editor: I applaud The Times Editorial Board for pointing out how critical birth control coverage is to women and people of all genders. (“Allowing employers a ‘moral exemption’ from offering birth control coverage is immoral,” editorial, Jan. 2)

To the editor: Jonah Goldberg’s latest column comes off as an attempt to normalize President Trump, who he writes personifies the trends that have been in place for some time among voters. (“Don't blame it on the Orb: American institutional failure is the source of our weirdness,” Jan. 2)

Here’s a look at what roughly $2 million buys right now in the Santa Barbara communities of San Roque, Riviera and Cielito.

For the steady stream of customers waiting to see a “budtender” Thursday at a Santa Ana pot store, U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions’ broadside against recreational pot was more a bummer than a buzzkill.

It’s not exactly rare for Steven Spielberg and Ridley Scott, two of the most respected and industrious directors in Hollywood, to have new movies in theaters simultaneously. (It happened before in 2015 with “Bridge of Spies” and “The Martian.”) Still, there was nothing ordinary about the circumstances...

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The newly resurgent field of gene therapy, which recently produced treatments for blood cancers and blindness, has taken a step toward fighting a scourge that is on the rise worldwide: diabetes.

To the editor: David Rothkopf loses all credibility by making the statement, “Trump is without a doubt the worst foreign policy president in American history.” (“Trump keeps making bad American foreign policy worse,” Opinion, Jan. 3).

To the editor: I smoked my first joint in 1965, on the night I went to a theater in Orange County shortly after the release of the film “The Pawnbroker.” (“For marijuana users, it's high times as California makes recreational use legal,” Jan. 2)

The Justice Department puts a cloud of uncertainty over the marijuana business, and states such as California are preparing to fight back.

Seth Meyers spent the holiday break visiting his in-laws in Albuquerque, playing with his 21-month-old son Ashe (“One of the great things about him is he barely ever brings up the Trump administration,” Meyers says, “because, for him, it’s almost entirely trucks”) and celebrating his 44th birthday...

The current wave of female rage started with the Women’s March on Washington: millions of women coming together and rising up around the country, even around the world.