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On Newsstands, Allure of the Film Actress Fades
Film stars are no longer the reader magnets they once were, so magazines are turning to TV actors, reality stars and musicians.
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Health
Watchdog Halts Action on Researchers
A federal agency said it would suspend action against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which it said did not adequately tell parents about risks to their premature infants enrolled in a research trial.
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Opinion
Encouraging Doctors to Admit Errors
Readers react to an Op-Ed essay in which the writer recalled a potentially fatal oversight during her medical residency.
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Technology
Wishing You (and Your Start-Up) Were Here
As a new immigration bill is debated in Congress, Canada, Australia and other countries are offering visas to lure foreign technology entrepreneurs away from Silicon Valley.
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World
In Nigeria, ‘Killing People Without Asking Who They Are’
Nigerian soldiers in a broad assault against the Boko Haram insurgency are making little effort to spare the innocent, refugees say.
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Opinion
Playing Politics With Student Debt
Tying federal student loan rates to Treasury rates would make them more stable and less arbitrary.
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Business Day
Accounts and People of Note in the Advertising Industry
Ayzenberg Group, Pasadena, Calif., is opening an office in London, its first outside the United States.
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Technology
SAP's Purchasing Power Play
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U.S.
North Carolina Repeals Law Allowing Racial Bias Claim in Death Penalty Challenges
Death row inmates in North Carolina will no longer be able to cite patterns of racial bias in seeking to have their sentences set aside.
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World
In Reversal, Tepco Say Water at Fukushima Is Contaminated
Tokyo Electric Power Company, which had previously said that there were no radioactive particles, indicated that some had been found in water flowing into the plant.
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World
A High-Risk Pregnancy Is Terminated. But Was It an Abortion?
The case of a sick woman in El Salvador who had been denied an abortion has convulsed the region, which is known for having some of the world’s most stringent abortion laws.
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Business Day
Connecticut Approves Labeling Genetically Modified Foods
The law would not take effect unless four other states, at least one of which shares a border with Connecticut, passed similar regulations.
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World
Can Job Training Trump a Degree?
While Chinese and Indian university graduates are struggling to find jobs, those coming out of vocational schools as skilled mechanics, technicians and hotel workers are having better luck.
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U.S.
Critics of Health Care Law Outspending Its Supporters on Ads
Most of the commercials opposing the Affordable Care Act have come from Republican outside groups, which have spent about $400 million on the ads.Bad Faith and Civility, Health Care Edition
Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll, who offer wonderfully helpful health policy analysis on their blog The Incidental Economist,
wish that we could just debate the issues, without getting into the
people presenting positions. I appreciate their preferences. But it
can’t be done.
The point Jonathan Cohn, Ezra Klein, and yours truly are all making here isn’t just that Avik Roy is wrong; it is that Avik Roy’s side of the debate is not arguing in good faith. Obviously fraudulent arguments get made; get knocked down; and soon pop up again, as if the original discussion never happened. This makes a gentlemanly issue-centered discussion essentially impossible.
If someone says the sky is green, you prove that it’s actually blue, and the next day he comes back once again insisting that the sky is green, and this happens repeatedly, you eventually have to acknowledge that mannerly debate about the color of the sky just isn’t enough; you have to go meta, and talk about the fact that this guy and his friends just aren’t in the business of honest discussion.
Inevitably, there are some people trying to turn the conversation meta in a different direction, and make it all about civility. But bad-faith arguments don’t deserve a civil response, and if the attempt to be civil gets in the way of exposing the bad faith, civility itself becomes part of the problem."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/krugman-the-spite-club.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
The point Jonathan Cohn, Ezra Klein, and yours truly are all making here isn’t just that Avik Roy is wrong; it is that Avik Roy’s side of the debate is not arguing in good faith. Obviously fraudulent arguments get made; get knocked down; and soon pop up again, as if the original discussion never happened. This makes a gentlemanly issue-centered discussion essentially impossible.
If someone says the sky is green, you prove that it’s actually blue, and the next day he comes back once again insisting that the sky is green, and this happens repeatedly, you eventually have to acknowledge that mannerly debate about the color of the sky just isn’t enough; you have to go meta, and talk about the fact that this guy and his friends just aren’t in the business of honest discussion.
Inevitably, there are some people trying to turn the conversation meta in a different direction, and make it all about civility. But bad-faith arguments don’t deserve a civil response, and if the attempt to be civil gets in the way of exposing the bad faith, civility itself becomes part of the problem."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/opinion/krugman-the-spite-club.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
"House Republicans have voted 37 times to repeal ObamaRomneyCare
— the Affordable Care Act, which creates a national health insurance
system similar to the one Massachusetts has had since 2006. Nonetheless,
almost all of the act will go fully into effect at the beginning of
next year.There is, however, one form of obstruction still available to the G.O.P.
Last year’s Supreme Court decision upholding the law’s
constitutionality also gave states the right to opt out of one piece of
the plan, a federally financed expansion of Medicaid. Sure enough, a
number of Republican-dominated states seem set to reject Medicaid
expansion, at least at first.
And why would they do this? They won’t save money. On the contrary, they
will hurt their own budgets and damage their own economies. Nor will
Medicaid rejectionism serve any clear political purpose. As I’ll explain
later, it will probably hurt Republicans for years to come.
No, the only way to understand the refusal to expand Medicaid is as an
act of sheer spite. And the cost of that spite won’t just come in the
form of lost dollars; it will also come in the form of gratuitous
hardship for some of our most vulnerable citizens.
Some background: Obamacare rests on three pillars. First, insurers must
offer the same coverage to everyone regardless of medical history.
Second, everyone must purchase coverage — the famous “mandate” — so that
the young and healthy don’t opt out until they get older and/or sicker.
Third, premiums will be subsidized, so as to make insurance affordable
for everyone. And this system is going into effect next year, whether
Republicans like it or not.
Under this system, by the way, a few people — basically young, healthy individuals
who don’t already get insurance from their employers, and whose incomes
are high enough that they won’t benefit from subsidies — will end up
paying more for insurance than they do now. Right-wingers are hyping
this observation as if it were some kind of shocking surprise, when it
was, in fact, well-known to everyone from the beginning of the debate.
And, as far as anyone can tell, we’re talking about a small number of
people who are, by definition, relatively well off.
Back to the Medicaid expansion. Obamacare, as I’ve just explained,
relies on subsidies to make insurance affordable for lower-income
Americans. But we already have a program, Medicaid, providing health
coverage to very-low-income Americans, at a cost private insurers can’t
match. So the Affordable Care Act, sensibly, relies on an expansion of
Medicaid rather than the mandate-plus-subsidy arrangement to guarantee
care to the poor and near-poor.
But Medicaid is a joint federal-state program, and the Supreme Court
made it possible for states to opt out of the expansion. And it appears
that a number of states will take advantage of that “opportunity.” What
will that mean?
A new study
from the RAND Corporation, a nonpartisan research institution, examines
the consequences if 14 states whose governors have declared their
opposition to Medicaid expansion do, in fact, reject the expansion. The
result, the study concluded, would be a huge financial hit: the
rejectionist states would lose more than $8 billion a year in federal
aid, and would also find themselves on the hook for roughly $1 billion
more to cover the losses hospitals incur when treating the uninsured.
Meanwhile, Medicaid rejectionism will deny health coverage to roughly
3.6 million Americans, with essentially all of the victims living near
or below the poverty line. And since past experience shows that Medicaid
expansion is associated with significant declines in mortality, this
would mean a lot of avoidable deaths: about 19,000 a year, the study
estimated.
Just think about this for a minute. It’s one thing when politicians
refuse to spend money helping the poor and vulnerable; that’s just
business as usual. But here we have a case in which politicians are, in
effect, spending large sums, in the form of rejected aid, not to help
the poor but to hurt them.
And as I said, it doesn’t even make sense as cynical politics. If
Obamacare works (which it will), millions of middle-income voters — the
kind of people who might support either party in future elections — will
see major benefits, even in rejectionist states. So rejectionism won’t
discredit health reform. What it might do, however, is drive home to
lower-income voters — many of them nonwhite — just how little the G.O.P.
cares about their well-being, and reinforce the already strong
Democratic advantage among Latinos, in particular.
Rationally, in other words, Republicans should accept defeat on health
care, at least for now, and move on. Instead, however, their
spitefulness appears to override all other considerations. And millions
of Americans will pay the price."
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Home & Garden
Now What’s Her Line?
Paula Greif, the former art director of Mademoiselle, on the newest chapter in her storied life in art and design.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Parks Rank No. 2 in a Survey of 50 U.S. Cities
The Trust for Public Land looked at factors including park access, size, services and public investment.
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Movies
Darling of Cannes Turns Slutty Impostor
“Blue Is the Warmest Color,” lauded for its lesbian sex scenes, is now being criticized for those very scenes.
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Booming
Tips on Archiving Family History, Part 2
Readers had lots of questions about saving old film and photos. Bertram Lyons, an archivist, had some answers.
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Business Day
F.B.I. Nominee Could Offer Peek Into the World of Ray Dalio
James B. Comey, President Obama’s reported choice for F.B.I. director, may be able to offer insight into the culture at Bridgewater Associates.
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U.S.
Illinois: Pension Woes Cause Downgrade to Credit
Fitch Ratings said Monday that it would downgrade Illinois state government credit from A to A- because lawmakers failed to enact a solution to the state’s public-employee pension crisis.
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N.Y. / Region
Kicked Off Their Flight, Students Turn to Internet
Students from a Brooklyn high school were ordered off the plane at La Guardia Airport after, flight attendants said, some of them refused to sit down and shut off their cellphones.
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N.Y. / Region
Hailing a Taxi on a Rainy Night
Metropolitan Diary: A 92-year-old man trying to hail a taxi got a gift from a young couple a block away.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Parks Rank No. 2 in a Survey of 50 U.S. Cities
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F.B.I. Pick Could Offer Look Into World of Ray Dalio
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Ask Your Questions About Debt Collection
Two federal agencies are hosting Web seminars on Thursday to answer consumers’ queries.
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Kicked Off Their Flight, Students Turn to Internet
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N.Y. / Region
Hailing a Taxi on a Rainy Night
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Business Day
Despite Tax Rules, Companies Stick With U.S.
Two new papers help explain why nearly all new companies with headquarters in the United states choose to incorporate and pay tax here.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Parks Rank No. 2 in a Survey of 50 U.S. Cities
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F.B.I. Pick Could Offer Look Into World of Ray Dalio
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N.Y. / Region
Man Named in Student’s ’98 Killing Settles Lawsuit Against Yale and Police
James Van de Velde was never charged in the death of the student, Suzanne Jovin, which remains unsolved.
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Science
The Sex Life of Birds, and Why It’s Important
Penis size and structure in birds varies widely, and research into how and why that happens — the subject of recent criticism — is providing valuable insights.
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Business Day
Ask Your Questions About Debt Collection
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N.Y. / Region
Kicked Off Their Flight, Students Turn to Internet
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Business Day
F.D.A. Scientists Find No Serious Misconduct in Avandia Drug Tests
As an F.D.A. advisory panel revisits the debate around the diabetes drug Avandia, a report by staff scientists has found no fraud in its clinical trial.
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Hailing a Taxi on a Rainy Night
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World
For International Students, College Checklists for June
College counselors in the United States offer monthly advice for juniors and seniors who want to stay on track during the admissions process.
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Business Day
Despite Tax Rules, Companies Stick With U.S.
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F.B.I. Pick Could Offer Look Into World of Ray Dalio
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