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Great Homes and Destinations
Czech Bureaucracy, Friend and Foe
The renovation of an apartment building in Prague's center required five permits but some say that is just the price of protecting the historic area.
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Movies
Addicts With Cause to Fear Closeness
“Thanks for Sharing” centers on three mutually supportive men coping with sex addiction.
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U.S.
Florida Among States Undercutting Health Care Enrollment
In Florida, the governor and lawmakers have made it harder for residents to get the cheapest rates under the insurance exchange and to get help from specially trained counselors.
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Science
Why Are Lobsters Blue, and Why Does Cooking Turn Them Red?
The interactions between a protein and the red pigment astaxanthin account for the colors, experts say.
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Health
Behavior Therapy Aids Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Adding cognitive behavioral therapy may be more effective than an antipsychotic drug for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder, a new study found."“It’s important to discontinue antipsychotics if there isn’t continued benefit after four weeks,” said the lead author, Dr. Helen Blair Simpson, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia. “O.C.D. patients who still have symptoms should first be offered the addition of C.B.T., and some will achieve minimal symptoms.
“There’s a hopeful message here,” she added. “There are good treatments.”"
"Gay" is not a variety of O.C.D.
It is not treatable with C.B.T.
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U.S.
Obama Scorns G.O.P. ‘Blackmail’ on Health Law
Days before the law’s main elements take effect, President Obama mocked opponents for “crazy” arguments and accused them of trying to “blackmail a president” to stop the law.Attack of the Killer Hipsters
Jonathan Chait has an excellent survey
of the current state of the battle for health reform. Among other
things, it drives home the extent to which — despite all the glitches
likely in the first few months — this is now being fought on favorable
terrain for the reformers.
Never mind the polls showing approval of Obamacare moving one way or the other; they are all being taken in an environment where people are amazingly ignorant about the law, with a large minority believing that it has been repealed. What matters is how the thing works — and that, in turn, depends crucially on sufficient numbers of young, currently uninsured people signing up for the exchanges. Advocates will try to get those people signed up; Republicans will try to convince them not to. So how are the two sides’ chances.
Well, let’s think about who we’re talking about: Young. Currently uninsured, which generally means not very affluent, and also tends to mean nonwhite more than average.
In other words, basically the opposite of the profile of Tea Party backers. Also, by the way, more or less the opposite of midterm voters.
Chait stresses the youth aspect:
But that’s not all: there are also channels of influence the party of Fox News simply cannot reach: Spanish-language radio and TV, black churches (which played a big role in 2012), and more.
I don’t know whether anyone thought this out in advance, but the battle of the exchanges is indeed being fought on remarkably favorable ground for the reformers. And I, for one, find the thought of conservatives humiliated by an army of tweeting hipsters remarkably cheering."
Never mind the polls showing approval of Obamacare moving one way or the other; they are all being taken in an environment where people are amazingly ignorant about the law, with a large minority believing that it has been repealed. What matters is how the thing works — and that, in turn, depends crucially on sufficient numbers of young, currently uninsured people signing up for the exchanges. Advocates will try to get those people signed up; Republicans will try to convince them not to. So how are the two sides’ chances.
Well, let’s think about who we’re talking about: Young. Currently uninsured, which generally means not very affluent, and also tends to mean nonwhite more than average.
In other words, basically the opposite of the profile of Tea Party backers. Also, by the way, more or less the opposite of midterm voters.
Chait stresses the youth aspect:
Fortunately for Obama, this field of battle favors his side. To pass the law, he needed to win over skeptical senators. To defend it in court, he needed conservative jurists. But identifying and persuading young people is a battle Obama does not expect to lose to Republicans, and in place of the federal outreach funds, the administration is deploying a campaignlike array of weapons: microtargeting, including door-to-door outreach, and all forms of media. (A few weeks ago, Katy Perry tweeted out a link informing her 42 million followers that health care was available beginning October 1.)Yep, when it comes to reaching hipsters, or young people in general — I know, Katy Perry — Dems have big advantages; all that coastal cultural elite hatred suddenly turns into a big disadvantage for the right.
But that’s not all: there are also channels of influence the party of Fox News simply cannot reach: Spanish-language radio and TV, black churches (which played a big role in 2012), and more.
I don’t know whether anyone thought this out in advance, but the battle of the exchanges is indeed being fought on remarkably favorable ground for the reformers. And I, for one, find the thought of conservatives humiliated by an army of tweeting hipsters remarkably cheering."
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Science
Isolated Forests
Islands formed by the flooding of a reservoir in Thailand had a rapid drop in the number of resident mammal species.
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World
Surgery for Spain’s King Fuels Debate on Monarchy
King Juan Carlos of Spain underwent hip surgery on Tuesday, his fifth operation in 18 months.
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Opinion
New York Legislators’ Secret Income
The state anticorruption commission must press for details about outside money sources that lawmakers have kept hidden for decades.
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World
At Every Corner, From Deaf Man to Danger, Hints of a Colorful Past
Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, is a traffic-choked, graffiti-smeared city where hints of its past character can still be read in the descriptive names of street corners.
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U.S.
Don’t Help Injured Baby Raccoons? Alabama Edict Angers Those Who Love Them
The state conservation agency has told raccoon protectors in Alabama to stop rehabilitating the animals, a decision that has angered many.
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Sports
Cornell Men Punished for Hazing
Cornell canceled all fall competitions for its men’s lacrosse team for what the university described as “a team hazing incident.”
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Sports
N.W.S.L.’s First Season From the Outside Looking In
U.S. international Yael Averbuch on watching the inaugural season of the National Women’s Soccer League.
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Sports
Extended America’s Cup Leaves Some High, Dry and Homeless
With the America’s Cup’s spilling into a third week, crews, commentators, fans and journalists have scrambled to change flight itineraries and find hotel rooms after their planned stays expired.
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Health
Robert McCabe Jr., a Kidney Donation Specialist, Dies at 88
After having a donor kidney flown to Moscow in 1979 when no domestic recipients were found, Dr. McCabe used the episode to improve the transplant donor system.
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Business Day
Quandary of Hidden Disabilities: Conceal or Reveal?
Announcing a condition like epilepsy may stigmatize an employee, but keeping it secret could mean being fired.
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Business Day
Joseph E. Granville, Stock Market Predictor, Dies at 90
Mr. Granville was a famous market forecaster who made his own fortune in the less risky newsletter business.
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Opinion
Medicine's Search for Meaning
Doctors willing to heal themselves can help the medical profession recover from its own illness.
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Business Day
White House Warns Against Threats of Debt Default
The National Economic Council, advisers to the Obama administration, said in a report that Congressional tussles over raising the federal debt ceiling could harm the economy.
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