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Fashion & Style

Ready in Case the Other Shoe Should Drop

By JULIA ANNE MILLER | Mar 24, 2013

In 30 years of serial monogamy, dodging in and out of serious relationships, I have always planned for the end from the beginning.

Dating and Courtship; Single Persons; Love (Emotion); Modern Love (Times Column); 

I am willing to try the experiment.

My backup plan is the studio.  I have no intention of putting a bed in the loft.  It is a possibility.  It is a studio, a day job.  Living there would be much too much like long term camping.  Knowing to leave work has been a hard lesson learned slowly.

 

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Sunday Review

Life After Oil and Gas

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL | Mar 24, 2013

Wind, water and sun could power the United States. But will they?

Wind Power; Alternative and Renewable Energy; Solar Energy; Geothermal Power; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; Natural Gas; Hydraulic Fracturing; Keystone Pipeline System; 

A very rosy view.  

My view is that we do not need the fuel yet.

Let us push ahead with alternatives as fast as possible and save the carbon and its problems.

The easiest way to better cars is more expensive motor fuel.

There is very little to be gained by engine design.  

There is much by proper pricing.

Rail profitability will improve with higher fuel prices.  A very modest hike will drive electrification.

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World

Rat Body Linked to Blackout at Atomic Site

By MARTIN FACKLER | Mar 21, 2013

The operator of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant found a rodent’s scorched body inside a switchboard and said the animal may have short-circuited it.

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Japan); Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011); Nuclear Energy; 

There is no excuse for incompetence.

There should be three layers of backup on "Can't fail systems".

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Magazine

A Tax Lawyer’s Quandary

By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN | Mar 24, 2013

Is it ethical to advise wealthy companies on how to take advantage of legal loopholes to save money?

Ethics (Personal); Ethicist, The (Times Column); Hiring and Promotion; Federal Taxes (US); 

We assume that the authors of tax law thought about what they were doing.

If they left a loophole they did it on purpose.

I believe that it would be unethical not to use the loophole.

It would be a violation of fiduciary duty.

If the authorities change their minds they will change the law.

 

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Opinion

Global Study of Monsoons Finds Ocean Variations Have Driven Recent Shifts

By ANDREW C. REVKIN | Mar 22, 2013

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Health

Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Acute Type of Leukemia

By DENISE GRADY | Mar 21, 2013

Genetically altering a patient’s immune cells has, for the first time, produced remissions in adults with a virulent blood cancer. In one patient, the disease vanished in eight days.

Leukemia; Genetic Engineering; Immune System; Cancer; 

Encouraging.   Experimental.

 

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World

The Apotheosis of the Tiger Man

By SNIGDHA POONAM | Mar 22, 2013

It is time to look at how men are portrayed in Bollywood.

Censorship; Movies; Television; Women and Girls; Youth; 

Define "Eye candy".  

Censorship is a bad idea.

Visual entertainment is the product.

Film is art of a kind.  People will prefer the real thing.

India must figure out what it is.  We have not as yet.

We do keep trying.

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World

Computer Networks in South Korea Are Paralyzed in Cyberattacks

By CHOE SANG-HUN | Mar 21, 2013

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Autos

Honda Recalling 76,000 Acura TSX Models for Stalling Problem

By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN | Mar 22, 2013

The recall covers only vehicles sold or registered in salt-belt states.

Automobile Safety Features and Defects; Automobiles; Recalls and Bans of Products; 

A trivial problem.

 

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Fashion & Style

Obsessed? You’re Not Alone

By TEDDY WAYNE | Mar 24, 2013

When and why did this verb, which once connoted a serious psychological disorder, become hijacked by the fashionable young of America?

Grammar; Youth; Language and Languages; Social Networking (Internet);

Fluff.

 

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Health

F.D.A. Seeks to Toughen Defibrillator Regulations

By SABRINA TAVERNISE | Mar 23, 2013

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Your Money

However Justices Rule, Issues Remain

By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD | Mar 23, 2013

A victory for gay rights in either of two monumental cases before the Supreme Court next week will not settle the financial and legal issues that same-sex couples face.

Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships; Federal Taxes (US); Income Tax; Defense of Marriage Act (1996); 

Whine.  

Federal law overrides state law.  

If the Court acts properly this special pleading will be moot as it should be.

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Arts

Enshrining Art With a Permanent, and Personal, Home

By ELIZABETH OLSON | Mar 21, 2013

Museums founded by moguls represent a departure from recent philanthropy directed at solving social problems, and the trend coincides with a modest rise in arts philanthropy.

Museums; Art; Philanthropy; High Net Worth Individuals; 

There are artists and there are collectors.  

Very occasionally they are the same person.

My preference is to make rather than collect. 

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Business Day

JPMorgan Board Confirms Dual Role for Dimon

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG | Mar 22, 2013

Rebuffing some investors, the 11-member board said that Mr. Dimon should continue to serve as both chief executive and chairman, as he has since 2006.

Banking and Financial Institutions; Boards of Directors; Executive Compensation; 

I will avoid J.P. Morgan Chase for several years.

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Business Day

Mixing Freedoms in a 32-Ounce Soda

By ROBERT H. FRANK | Mar 24, 2013

Proposed curbs on sugary sodas reflect a clash of ideals. Which is more important: the freedom to consume the drinks we want or the freedom of parents to raise healthy children?

Soft Drinks; Taxation; Children and Childhood; Economic Conditions and Trends; 

Let them try the experiment.

 

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Business Day

The Risks of Expanding Into Australia, Part 2

By TOM SZAKY | Mar 21, 2013

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World

Jammed in Roman Caves, Ducking Syria’s War

By C. J. CHIVERS | Mar 24, 2013

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Opinion

Report Card on Health Care Reform

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Mar 24, 2013

Political attacks ignore the considerable benefits delivered to millions of people since the law’s enactment three years ago.

Health Insurance and Managed Care; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Reform and Reorganization; Preventive Medicine; Medicare; Drugs (Pharmaceuticals); 

As promised.

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World

South Korea Says It Misidentified Source of Cyberattack

By CHOE SANG-HUN | Mar 23, 2013

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Opinion

Keep Guns Out of Criminal Hands

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Mar 23, 2013

A vote is scheduled for one of the most important measures to reduce gun violence.

Gun Control; United States Politics and Government; Polls and Public Opinion; Lobbying and Lobbyists; 

The initiative will be talked to death.

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