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Dear Answer Angel Ellen: Can you recommend a simple makeup routine for a woman to look presentable but not like a clown?

NEW YORK — What are Americans hungry for?

It’s the best feeling to step out of our blistering hot weather and into an ice-cold, darkened movie theater. Local cinemas are offering several incentives during these steamy months to remove us from our Netflix addictions and experience the summer’s blockbusters in their crisp, dimmed playhouses.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Those of us in Florida are lucky to have access to a free amenity that makes many Americans jealous: the beach.

If you think in five-letter words — especially ones that contain s, t and e — you likely play Wordle. Soon, you’ll be able to play with friends in a whole new way.

Let’s just all agree that Pringles, with its cylindrical can, makes the best chips for road trips, by far. These chips don’t get squished in the car, they are easy to share without grubby hands reaching in and they are never greasy and messy. This new Elote flavor continues Pringles’ success as it tries to replicate the Mexican street corn flavor with roasted spice, citrus zest and a little kick.

CHICAGO — The Doomsday Clock was born in 1947 in Chicago, a Cold War baby delivered as the illustration for the first cover of a new magazine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It was set at 7 minutes to midnight, an indication of how close a team of revered scientists believed the world was to nuclear annihilation.

I have a very nice patient who comes to appointments with questions about everything except his main medical problem. These are from his last visit:

Parts of Europe are experiencing a heat wave that is causing emergency situations for millions of residents. And, in the United States, many parts of the country are grappling with temperatures that remain unseasonably high.

Dear Healthy Men: My wife and I are planning to start a family and her doctor suggested that she start taking prenatal vitamins to prepare her body for pregnancy. When I asked the doctor whether there was anything I should be doing to increase the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby, she just laughed — which I thought was really insulting. I find it hard to believe that as someone who’s going to be contributing 50% of the genes to our new baby, what I eat and do before the pregnancy is irrelevant. Am I wrong?