The Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles and the Variant Hunters: The Week in Narrated Articles

Early in “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson’s nearly eight-hour documentary about the making of the album “Let It Be,” the band forms a tight circle in the corner of a movie soundstage.

It was late afternoon on March 5, 2020, the overcast day chosen by the State of Alabama to be Mr. Woods’s last.

A few months ago, Sizakele Mathe, a community health worker in this sprawling hillside township on the edge of the city of Durban, South Africa, was notified by a clinic that a neighbor had stopped picking up her medication.

That was a threat to her own health — and, in the era of Covid-19, it might have posed a risk to everyone else’s.

The KRISP lab, as it is known, is part of a national network of virus researchers that identified both the Beta and Omicron variants, drawing on expertise developed here during the region’s decades-long fight with H.I.V.

Now, at 80, he’s coming out of retirement with another movie.

The Times’s narrated articles are made by Tally Abecassis, Parin Behrooz, Anna Diamond, Sarah Diamond, Jack D’Isidoro, Aaron Esposito, Elena Hecht, Adrienne Hurst, Elisheba Ittoop, Emma Kehlbeck, Marion Lozano, Tanya Pérez, Krish Seenivasan, Margaret H.

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