Thursday, July 18, 2013

@23:39, 7/16/13

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1
Opinion

Family-Friendly Socialism and its Discontents

What Americans can learn from the consequences, good and bad, of France’s pro-family policies.
Birth Rates; Gender; Women and Girls; Work-Life Balance; Workplace Environment; 

Less doctrine and more numbers.
2
Business Day

The Artificial Heart Is Getting a Bovine Boost

Fifteen years in development, a new artificial heart that is fashioned in part from cow tissue is soon to be tested in human patients.
Heart, Artificial; Heart; Transplants; Medical Devices; New Models, Design and Products; 

Early days.  Several years to market.  It is still in animal trials.
3
World

Hyderabad Debates Health Insurance Model As Public Hospitals Decay

As India’s public hospitals struggle with decaying infrastructure, Andhra Pradesh debates a populist health insurance program.
Budgets and Budgeting; Health Insurance and Managed Care; Hospitals; Hygiene and Cleanliness; Rural Areas; 

A failure to tax.
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4
Business Day

When an Executive Turns Buyout Adviser, Alarm Bells Go Off

In its bid to buy Gardner Denver, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts hired the company’s former chief, Barry Pennypacker, to provide advice, raising questions of fairness.
Boards of Directors; Conflicts of Interest; Private Equity; 

It does seem like a cheat.  I think it is allowed.
5
Technology

The Pros and Cons of a Surveillance Society

As we prepare to enter a world of wearable, camera-equipped computers, do we want to live under a system that might ensure justice for all, yet privacy for none?
Civil Rights and Liberties; Privacy; Surveillance of Citizens by Government; Wearable Computing; 

Possibly making automatic records inadmissible in court would help.
 
6
World

Spain’s Slow-Moving Scandal Edges Closer to the Top

Allegations that Spain’s leadership has for years enriched itself with a secret slush fund are becoming harder to ignore, deepening the nation’s sense of distrust and disillusionment.
Corruption (Institutional); Frauds and Swindling; European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010- ); Tax Evasion;

Money has moved.  It is only scandalous if it bought the politicians.

7
Business Day

Baidu to Pay $1.9 Billion for Chinese App Store Operator

Baidu, China’s leading search engine company, said Tuesday it reached a preliminary deal to acquire 91 Wireless, a major mobile app developer and app store operator in China.
Android (Operating System); Computers and the Internet; Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures; Mobile Applications; Wireless Communications; 

The P.R.C. is worried.
8
Opinion

The E-Book Price-Fixing Conspiracy

Apple’s pact with publishers raised prices in the short term, but it also brought much-needed competition to the marketplace.
E-Books and Readers; Books and Literature; Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates); Antitrust Laws and Competition Issues; Decisions and Verdicts; 

The claim is that price-fixing ended with Apple's entry.
Prices went up.
9
Opinion

Further Protection for Antarctica

The United States and New Zealand have put forward excellent proposals to create two major marine reserves in Antarctica.
Oceans and Seas; Environment; Editorials; 

Yes, do it.
10
Science

A High-Tech Menagerie

Even before cloning and genetic tinkering, scientists have long meddled with animals, and it appears the benefits may outweigh the ethical quandaries.
Animals; Science and Technology; Research; 

The first few were research.
These are entertainment.
I have no problem with that.
11
Business Day

Why Barnes & Noble Is Good for Amazon

Having a bookstore in your neighborhood, as opposed to one that is bookmarked on your browser, is an invitation.
Books and Literature; E-Books and Readers; Shopping and Retail; Book Trade and Publishing; E-Commerce; 

I would rather support the public library.
We need all.
12
Opinion

Men on the Threshold

“The Searchers,” a 1956 western starring John Wayne, provides a poignant motif for the challenge facing unemployed men today.
Men and Boys; Movies; Recession and Depression; 

David Brooks is wrong again.  
Industry has discovered product without production.
Our liquidity trap has eliminated risk capital.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap
13
Business Day

Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
Stocks and Bonds; States (US); Banking and Financial Institutions; Auctions; 

I still can't guess.
14
Science

Can Plants Get Cancer?

Tumors in plants, unlike those in animals, do not metastasize and generally have external causes like damage or a fungus or bacterium.
Flowers and Plants; Cancer; 

ok.
15
World

Court Ruling Deals a Blow to China’s Labor-Camp System

For some legal experts, the ruling provided more evidence that the Communist Party is preparing to modify a Mao-era extralegal judicial system that has become increasingly untenable.
Forced Labor; Prisons and Prisoners; Sex Crimes;

It is public relations.  That is new.
16
N.Y. / Region

Bloomberg’s Traffic Ideas: First the World, Then, Maybe, the City

The New York City mayor has been hindered from accomplishing many of his local goals, but has been successful in improving overseas transportation safety in places like India, Egypt and Brazil.
Traffic Accidents and Safety; Philanthropy;

People like to be in businesses they understand.
17
Science

A Cholesterol Breakthrough and Sharp Sharks

Recent developments in health and science news. This week: a lizard preserved 23 million years in amber and NASA mulls another mission to Mars.
Space and Astronomy; Sharks; Paleontology; Cholesterol; Mars (Planet);

All interesting.
 
18
N.Y. / Region

In the Business of Death, but Never Living in Fear of It

Richard J. Moylan reflected on his decades spent at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, where he is the president, and on the many souls who rest there.
Cemeteries; Historic Buildings and Sites; Funerals and Memorials;

I have made no arrangements.
 
19
World

As Mystery Illness Stalks Its Young, India Intensifies Search for a Killer

A brain swelling that is infecting the country’s youth, throwing them into comas and killing seemingly healthy children, often within hours, has stumped the country’s physicians.
Encephalitis; Children and Childhood; Doctors; Epidemics;

Yes.
 
20
Booming

A Widow Airs Memories From the Dust of the Past

A father and husband who died when the children were young missed so much and is still missed so much, especially on cleaning-things-out day.
Marriages; Widows and Widowers; Parenting; Single Mothers; Love (Emotion);

There is more living to be done.
Let us begin.

A short power failure.

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