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In the 1950s, Cary Grant and othercelebrities experimented with LSD,inspiring the new Broadway musical“Flying Over Sunset.” PAGE 8

ARTS & LEISURE

Psychedelic Eisenhower YearsThe supermodel and longtime spouse ofDavid Bowie talks about their Catskillsrefuge and her new perfume. PAGE 1

SUNDAY STYLES

Iman Opens Up

A former school outside Syracuse, N.Y.,has been transformed into AmericanHigh, a production hub for makinginexpensive films aimed at streamingplatforms and teenagers. PAGE 1

SUNDAY BUSINESS

‘The Breakfast Club’ for Gen ZThe former president’s campaign ofretribution against some fellow Republi-cans threatens to throw cold water onan energized party in 2022. PAGE 23

NATIONAL 18-29

Trump as Midterm Wild CardBlamed for flooded fields and the occa-sional death, the beaver, which hasplayed a seminal role in Canadian his-tory, is no longer a point of pride. PAGE 4

INTERNATIONAL 4-17

Furry Friends? Not in Canada.

Marvin Stein, a former boxer now in his90s, has battled with his family mem-bers over his fortune. PAGE 1

METROPOLITAN

The Fight of His Life

Zeynep Tufekci PAGE 4

SUNDAY REVIEWThe city’s nightclubs are now crowdedagain, but months of lost revenue haveleft many deep in debt. PAGE 1

Party’s Back. Bills Never Left.

Forget goal-oriented five-year plans:Some newfangled career coaches areurging clients to look deep withinthemselves, and then act. PAGE 1

Career Dream Catchers

For many women who are going “child-less by choice,” there’s a moral dimen-sion to their decision. PAGE 12

No Kids? It’s a Calculation.

The number of defecting soldiers isgrowing, galvanized by the nationwideanti-coup movement. PAGE 6

Morale Crisis in Myanmar

Dark heroin cut with so muchwhite powdered fentanyl that it’sknown on the street as “gray.” Co-caine laced so frequently with fen-tanyl that club DJs stock anti-overdose medication. Fake pre-scription pain pills that are in factall fentanyl.

The synthetic opioid fentanyl, alegal prescription pain medica-tion, is now a black market com-modity blasting through the streetdrug marketplace. Cheap and upto 100 times more powerful thannaturally derived opioids, it is alsolethal.

Behind the trend is a growingbody count: In the 12-month peri-od that ended in April, more than100,000 Americans, a record num-ber, died from overdoses, accord-ing to preliminary data from theUnited States Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention. The ma-jority of the deaths were linked tosynthetic opioids like fentanyl.

In New York City, most autop-sies of overdose deaths now re-veal that fentanyl was involved,including that of Michael K.Williams, the actor found dead inhis Brooklyn apartment.

It is spliced into party drugswhere it can be consumed unwit-tingly, as it was by six peoplekilled by a single batch of laced co-caine on Long Island this summer.

While the mounting deathsshow the devastating conse-quence of fentanyl’s seep, it is less

‘This Is Poison’:Fentanyl JoltsDrug Epidemic

By SARAH MASLIN NIR

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PARIS — The wealthy socialitewas found dead in the basement ofher villa on the Côte d’Azur. Theonly door was locked from the out-side but also barricaded fromwithin. A message, scrawled in thevictim’s own blood, seemed to ac-cuse her gardener.

The brutal killing, in 1991, ofGhislaine Marchal and the subse-quent conviction of her Moroccangardener, Omar Raddad, becameone of France’s most enduringmurder mysteries, capturing thepopular imagination.

Now, three decades later, newDNA technology may lead to asecond trial that supporters hopewill exonerate Mr. Raddad, whohas always maintained his inno-cence, and reopen a case that,though seemingly settled legally,has long unsettled France.

It has done so not only becauseof the violence that was visitedupon an enclave of proud homesjust north of Cannes, or becausethe protagonists were from dia-metrically opposed backgrounds.There was also the enigma of thelocked room that was never satis-factorily unraveled. And therewas the final message — whichcontained a grammatical error.

“Omar killed me,” Ms. Marchalappeared to have written in herdying moments. Or, in the originalFrench, “Omar m’a tuer” — not“m’a tuée,” as it should have been.The mistake raised very French

Bloody Scrawl,Dead SocialiteAnd a Mystery

By NORIMITSU ONISHI

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CARMEL, Ind. — It’s gettingharder and harder to run a stop-light here, because there arefewer and fewer of them around.Every year, at intersectionsthroughout this thriving city, traf-fic lights and stop signs have dis-appeared, replaced with round-abouts.

Lots and lots of roundabouts.There is a roundabout deco-

rated with the local high schoolmascot, a greyhound, and another

with giant steel flowers. A three-mile stretch of Carmel’s MainStreet has 11 roundabouts alone.The roundabout that locals per-haps prize the most features boxhedges and a three-tier bronzefountain made in France. In 2016,it was named InternationalRoundabout of the Year by no lessthan the U.K. Roundabout Appre-ciation Society, which, accordingto the Carmel mayor, Jim Brain-ard, is largely made up of “threeguys in a pub.” (Their actual mem-bership is six. But still.)

Carmel, a city of 102,000 northof Indianapolis, has 140 round-abouts, with over a dozen still tocome. No American city has more.The main reason is safety; com-pared with regular intersections,roundabouts significantly reduceinjuries and deaths.

But there’s also a climate bene-fit.

Because modern roundaboutsdon’t have red lights where carssit and idle, they don’t burn asmuch gasoline. While there are

With 140 roundabouts, Carmel, Ind., has eased intersection traffic and decreased emissions.AJ MAST FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Midwestern City Where Rounder Is GreenerBy CARA BUCKLEY

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WASHINGTON — On aWednesday night in September,while President Biden back-slapped in the Republican dugoutduring the annual congressionalbaseball game, Speaker NancyPelosi sat nearby, sober-faced andwagging her finger while speak-ing into her cellphone, toiling tosalvage her party’s top legislativepriority as it teetered on the brinkof collapse.

On the other end of the line wasSenator Joe Manchin III, Demo-crat of West Virginia, a crucialswing vote on Mr. Biden’s sweep-ing social policy bill, and Ms.Pelosi, seated in the V.I.P. sectionbehind the dugout at NationalsPark, was trying to persuade himto embrace $2.1 trillion in spend-ing and climate change provisionsshe considered essential for thelegislation.

In a moment captured by C-SPAN cameras that went viral,Ms. Pelosi appeared to grow agi-tated as Mr. Manchin, accordingto sources apprised of the call, toldher that he could not accept morethan $1.5 trillion — and was pre-pared to provide a documentclearly laying out his parametersfor the package, benchmarks thatHouse Democrats had been clam-oring to see.

The call reflected how Ms. Pelo-si’s pivotal role in shepherding Mr.Biden’s agenda on Capitol Hill hasreached far beyond the Housethat is her primary responsibilityand into the Senate, where she hasengaged in quiet and little-noticedtalks with key lawmakers whohave the power to kill the packageor propel it into law.

HOW PELOSI GOTHER DEMOCRATSOVER FINISH LINE

PIVOTAL ROLE ON AGENDA

In Background, CajolingManchin and Sinema

to Get on Board

By CARL HULSE

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KISANFU, Democratic Repub-lic of Congo — Just up a red dirtroad, across an expanse of tall,dew-soaked weeds, bulldozers arehollowing out a yawning new can-yon that is central to the world’surgent race against global warm-ing.

For more than a decade, thevast expanse of untouched landwas controlled by an Americancompany. Now a Chinese miningconglomerate has bought it, and is

racing to retrieve its buried treas-ure: millions of tons of cobalt.

At 73, Kyahile Mangi has livedhere long enough to predict thepath ahead. Once the blastingstarts, the walls of mud-brickhomes will crack. Chemicals willseep into the river where womendo laundry and dishes while wor-rying about hippo attacks. Soon amanager from the mine will an-nounce that everyone needs to berelocated.

“We know our ground is rich,”said Mr. Mangi, a village chief whoalso knows residents will share lit-tle of the mine’s wealth.

This wooded stretch of south-east Democratic Republic ofCongo, called Kisanfu, holds oneof the largest and purest untappedreserves of cobalt in the world.

The gray metal, typically ex-tracted from copper deposits, hashistorically been of secondary in-terest to miners. But demand isset to explode worldwide becauseit is used in electric-car batteries,helping them run longer without a

charge.Outsiders discovering — and

exploiting — the natural re-sources of this impoverished Cen-tral African country are followinga tired colonial-era pattern. TheUnited States turned to Congo foruranium to help build the bombsdropped on Hiroshima and Naga-saki and then spent decades, andbillions of dollars, seeking to pro-tect its mining interests here.

Now, with more than two-thirdsof the world’s cobalt productioncoming from Congo, the country is

A mining site owned by a Chinese company in Kisanfu, Democratic Republic of Congo. The land contains a vast reserve of cobalt, vital to making electric car batteries.ASHLEY GILBERTSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy RevolutionThis article is by Dionne Searcey,

Michael Forsythe and Eric Lipton.

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RACE TO THE FUTURE

A Mining Frenzy in Congo

Four days before Kyle Ritten-house was acquitted of murder,the judge in his case tossed out acharge: illegal possession of themilitary-style semiautomatic

rifle he used to killtwo people.

The withdrawalof the misdemean-

or charge, which carried a maxi-mum sentence of less than ayear, was a footnote in a muchbigger drama. Yet it was a tellingreminder that the Rittenhousecase, in addition to examiningthe polarizing issues of race andthe right to self-defense in thecountry, highlighted the growingproliferation of guns on Ameri-ca’s streets and the failure ofefforts to enact even modest newgun restrictions.

While the government remainsmired in stalemate on gun con-trol, weapons purchases are atrecord levels: The run on ammu-nition has become so frenziedthat gun shop owners have hadto turn away hunters heading outfor the winter big-game season.A spike in the firearm-relatedhomicide rate during the pan-demic has overwhelmed localpolice departments, and theproliferation of homemade fire-arms, “ghost guns,” has reachedepidemic proportions in Califor-nia.

Gun control advocates thoughtthey would make some headwayunder President Biden but havefaced a backlash.

For the advocates, there havebeen some gains, including apending ban on the online sale ofkit guns and $5 billion in newviolence prevention funding thatwas included in the social spend-ing passed by the House hoursbefore the verdict was an-nounced. But congressionalRepublicans have blocked effortsto expand federal backgroundchecks on gun purchasers andrestrict the sale of semiautomaticguns, or even to confirm a per-manent director for the Bureauof Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearmsand Explosives.

All of that has limited theWhite House to adopting a seriesof executive actions, including

Kenosha TrialShows NationSplit by Guns

By GLENN THRUSH

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NEWS ANALYSIS

Three clips of the Chinese tennis starPeng Shuai on Twitter don’t make itclear if she is safe. PAGE 33

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