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A Visual Time Capsule

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Shuttered restaurants. Empty streets. Abandoned storefronts. Most of us remember the shutdown scenes from the first few months of the pandemic. A new book from teNeues preserves the early 2020 phenomenon into a visual time capsule.

Cities of Silence: Extraordinary View of a Shutdown World” features photos from 60 cities throughout the world, eerily bare and shrouded in silence. From an empty Parisian cafe to a deserted Brooklyn Bridge, the book gives a glimpse into a rare moment of history when the world’s doors closed and residents were stuck at home.

Passport to Convenience

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You may soon be able to renew your passport online, thanks to an executive order issued by President Joe Biden in December. Currently, passports are renewed in person at a passport agency or via mail, with an average processing time of eight to 11 weeks.

The order could also improve the screening experience at airports: It instructs the Secretary of Homeland Security to test new technologies to reduce passenger wait times at security checkpoints. (Yay!) No timetable has been set for the orders.

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