NEW THINGS: @7:38, 6/18/13

A Warning Shot on Management Buyouts

Fraud Used to Frame Farm Bill Debate

Albany May Tighten Rein on Banking Consultants

Doctor Feelbad

Bernardo Recamán's Primes in a Circle Puzzle

In Gospel Songs of Yore, Clues to the Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Home-Cooked Challenge: Addicted to Snack Food, Trying to Change

Can School Reform Hurt Communities?

The Declining Demand for Husbands

U.S. Agencies to Develop Standards for Bed Rails

Saying Less and Doing More

A Rebel Filmmaker Tilts Conservative

The Faulty Logic of the 'Math Wars'

The U.S.D.A. Inspects Its Inspectors

Death Be Not Decaffeinated: Over Cup, Groups Face Taboo

How Cyberwarfare and Drones Have Revolutionized Warfare

Release the Facts About the I.R.S. Scandal

Poking Holes in Genetic Privacy

Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

California to Expand Medicaid

A Reality Check on a Plan for a Swift Post-Fossil Path for New York

Fraud Used to Frame Farm Bill Debate

Albany May Tighten Rein on Banking Consultants

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By PETER J. HENNING | Jun 17, 2013

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s settlement with Revlon raises the question of whether the agency might start to police buyout offers from management and controlling shareholders that are rife with conflicts of interest.

Boards of Directors; Conflicts of Interest; Fines (Penalties); Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Securities and Commodities Violations; Suits and Litigation (Civil);

Warning shots usually have little effect on behavior.

Breaking billionaires requires more.

By RON NIXON | Jun 18, 2013

While Congress debates cuts in the federal food stamp program, it has been reluctant to make changes in the crop insurance program, despite several recent fraud cases.

Farm Bill (US); Food Stamps; Frauds and Swindling; Insurance; Agriculture and Farming; United States Politics and Government;

People will cheat if they can.

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS | Jun 17, 2013

Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York’s superintendent of financial services, is said to be considering invoking a state law dating back to 1892 to crack down on the industry.

Banking and Financial Institutions; Conflicts of Interest; Consultants; Foreclosures; Law and Legislation; Money Laundering; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry;

If I can understand this,

Albany is angry because the people who wrote the regulations

know the regulations.

By KATIE HAFNER | Jun 18, 2013

Dr. Danielle Ofri delves into the ways doctors’ emotions can exert a strong influence on a case, particularly when it grows complicated, frustrating or unyielding.

Doctors; Emotions; Malpractice; Books and Literature;

The physical world does not feel and cannot care that we feel.

It does as it must.

By GARY ANTONICK | Jun 17, 2013

An original puzzle from Bernardo Recamán: Place the numbers 1 to 14 around a circle so that both the sum and the (positive difference) of any two neighboring numbers is a prime.

Creativity; Mathematics; Puzzles;

3, 14, 13, 6, 1, 12, 7, -

By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN | Jun 15, 2013

By KJ DELL'ANTONIA | Jun 17, 2013

By SARAH CARR | Jun 16, 2013

Teaching in New Orleans has turned into something of a missionary pursuit.

Education (K-12); Social Conditions and Trends; Poverty; Charter Schools; Tests and Examinations;

Yes.

By NANCY FOLBRE | Jun 16, 2013

By RON NIXON | Jun 15, 2013

The move for voluntary guidelines disappointed advocates for regulation of the product, which has been linked to the deaths of elderly patients.

Beds and Bedding; Accidents and Safety; Elderly; Deaths (Fatalities);

A warning label on a bed rail is worse than useless.

The vulnerable group does not read. The attendants barely read.

Good design is my choice of solutions.

Possibly a plastic (poly carbonate) panel with a stainless cap.

By CORNELIA DEAN | Jun 18, 2013

Supporting friends in times of serious trouble, like during an illness, can be difficult.

Friendship; Medicine and Health; Breast Cancer; Books and Literature;

To do one must be present.

This all seems like good advice.

I have quit coffee about two weeks ago. The caffeine has almost left my system. I sleep less and better. Mother is sleeping more.

Our land line has no dial tone. I contacted the phone company. Testing is in progress. Repair appointment Friday afternoon.

By TOM ROSTON | Jun 16, 2013

By ALICE CRARY and W. STEPHEN WILSON | Jun 16, 2013

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jun 18, 2013

By PAULA SPAN | Jun 16, 2013

An informal group called Death Cafe meets monthly in New York to bat around philosophical thoughts on death and dying. It’s one of many such gatherings that have sprung up around the country.

Death and Dying; Organizations, Societies and Clubs; Philosophy;

"In the midst of life we are in death"

Should be inverted.

In the midst of death we are in life.

Events are for the living.

By TIM HSIA AND JARED SPERLI | Jun 17, 2013

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jun 17, 2013

By GINA KOLATA | Jun 18, 2013

People providing DNA for research have generally been assured of their privacy, but now there are signs that they can, in fact, be identified by their DNA alone, or even by the way their cells use it.

DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid); Genetics and Heredity; Research; Privacy;

There is little now. There will be less.

Assassinations will be robotic.

Jun 17, 2013

The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.

Stocks and Bonds; Tax Credits, Deductions and Exemptions; Economic Conditions and Trends; States (US);

Dow Jones 15 min delay

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15112.19

-206.04

-1.35



No winners

Top loser
Verizon Communications Inc.
	50.05	-1.50	-2.91

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3443.20

-38.98

-1.12


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Nektar Therapeutics
	10.95	+1.14	+11.62
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.
	8.51	-2.41	-22.07

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1628.93

-22.88

-1.39


Top winner and loser
Newfield Exploration Co
	24.43	+0.49	+2.05
Plum Creek Timber Co.
	45.23	-2.21	-4.66

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6348.82

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Tesco
	344.60p	+8.70	+2.59
Aggreko
	1660.00p	-92.00	-5.25

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8197.08

-32.43

-0.39


Top winner and loser
Merck KGaA
	125.30	+2.00	+1.62
Lanxess AG
	52.07	-1.89	-3.50

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jun 16, 2013

The Legislature approved a measure, part of the federal Affordable Care Act, to broaden coverage to 1.4 million low-income people in the state.

Medicaid; Health Insurance and Managed Care; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Budgets and Budgeting;

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@16:03

By ANDREW C. REVKIN | Jun 18, 2013

A journal that published an ambitious plan for New York State to go fossil free in a few decades now runs a critique.

Alternative and Renewable Energy; Economics (Theory and Philosophy); Electric Light and Power; Energy and Power; Global Warming; Hydraulic Fracturing; Natural Gas; Nuclear Energy; Solar Energy; Wind Power;

Possible but not at all probable.

By RON NIXON | Jun 18, 2013

While Congress debates cuts in the federal food stamp program, it has been reluctant to make changes in the crop insurance program, despite several recent fraud cases.

Farm Bill (US); Food Stamps; Frauds and Swindling; Insurance; Agriculture and Farming; United States Politics and Government;

Everyone hates fraud.

Prosecute every time.

BBC Global 30

By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and BEN PROTESS | Jun 17, 2013

Benjamin M. Lawsky, New York’s superintendent of financial services, is said to be considering invoking a state law dating back to 1892 to crack down on the industry.

Banking and Financial Institutions; Conflicts of Interest; Consultants; Foreclosures; Law and Legislation; Money Laundering; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry;

I don't understand.