Wednesday, October 29, 2014

@21:00, 10/27/14

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Science

Teenagers on Little Sleep, Preemies and Steroids, Autism and the Dentist

Letters to the editor and online comments.
Teenagers and Adolescence; Sleep; Premature Babies; Steroids; Autism; Teeth and Dentistry 

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World

Sectarian Wedge Pushes From Syria Into Lebanon

Outbreaks of fighting in Lebanon have heightened fears that the civil war in Syria is spilling over the border, threatening the country’s fragile stability.
Refugees and Displaced Persons; Sunni Muslims; Shiite Muslims

Sectarian war is contagious.

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Automobiles

Complaints About In-Car Electronic Systems on Rise, Consumer Reports Says

The magazine’s latest auto reliability report, which covered 1.1 million new vehicles, found that dashboard electronic systems caused many problems.
Automobiles

The current crop of small trucks are design failures.
Think Ford Edsel.

“We reanalyzed how these cars would do if we ignored those systems,” Mr. Fisher said. “What we found is that for the vast majority, the unreliable cars stay unreliable. It’s not a case of ‘these cars are fine and it’s just this system that’s the problem.' ”


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World

Death Penalty Is Sought for Captain in Sinking of South Korean Ferry

In their final argument, prosecutors said Lee Jun-seok, captain of the ferry Sewol, “did nothing to help rescue his passengers,” 304 of whom died in the accident.
Maritime Accidents and Safety; Ferries; Capital Punishment

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Opinion

The Last Train

Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian environmentalists may have the best model for Middle East peace.
Palestinians; Water
Crosswords/Games

Ignited by Martin Gardner, Ian Stewart Continues to Illuminate

Celebrate Martin Gardner, the famous puzzler, with best-selling author Ian Stewart and artist Lucian McLellan.
Mathematics; Puzzles; Writing and Writers
Science

A Chronicler of Warnings Denied

A historian of science imagines what future generations will make of our current handling of climate change.
Global Warming; Books and Literature; Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Arts

Understanding Wasn’t Mutual

“Nation to Nation,” focusing on treaties, indicates a new, more historically serious direction for exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Art; Native Americans; Treaties
Science

Fruit Flies Pass Mating Test With Flying Colors

Bright colors appear on the wings of male fruit flies when held against a dark background, a characteristic that female fruit flies use to decide whom to mate with, researchers say.
Fruit Flies; Reproduction (Biological)
Opinion

Why Kobani Must Be Saved

A setback in Kobani, Syria, would show the fragility of the American operation and hand the Islamic State an important victory.
Editorials; Kurds; Defense and Military Forces

Steering t

“We reanalyzed how these cars would do if we ignored those systems,” Mr. Fisher said. “What we found is that for the vast majority, the unreliable cars stay unreliable. It’s not a case of ‘these cars are fine and it’s just this system that’s the problem.' ”

he Climate Change Coverage

Adam Bryant recently became editor of The Times’s expanded team covering the environment. We asked him how he is approaching the position.
Air Pollution; Alternative and Renewable Energy; Fuel Efficiency; Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Solar Energy; Wind Power
Business Day

Serving Up Fries, for a Living Wage in Denmark

Some economists point to Denmark, where fast-food workers make more than twice what they would in the United States, in discussions about American wages.
Fast Food Industry; Collective Bargaining; Wages and Salaries; Franchises
Education

An American School Immerses Itself in All Things Chinese

At Yinghua Academy in Minneapolis, most classes are taught in Mandarin, and students are near fluency by eighth grade.
Chinese Language; Education (K-12); Bilingual Education
Opinion

In Georgia, a Democrat Appeals to the Distant Hope of Compromise

In a tight Senate race, Michelle Nunn might be on to something.
Editorials; Midterm Elections (2014); United States Politics and Government; Elections, Senate
Opinion

Afghanistan’s Unending Addiction

The opium production problem seems to be getting worse. What went wrong with the multiyear, multibillion-dollar narcotics program?
Opium; Drug Abuse and Traffic; Editorials; Afghanistan War (2001- ); Poppies; United States International Relations
N.Y. / Region

3 New York Colleges to Drop Crime Queries for Applicants

Under an agreement with the attorney general’s office, St. John’s and two smaller colleges will no longer ask potential students if they have ever been arrested or convicted of a felony.
Admissions Standards; Colleges and Universities; Discrimination; Crime and Criminals; Race and Ethnicity
U.S.

Oklahoma: Challenge to Abortion Law Denied

A state judge declined Friday to block a law requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles.
Abortion; Birth Control and Family Planning
N.Y. / Region

Outer Space Visitors to Brooklyn

Metropolitan Diary: In Brooklyn Heights, the yellow and red street markings are for laying gas pipes — or do they mark landing sites for spacecraft?
Diaries; Poetry and Poets; Space and Astronomy; Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO)
World

Myanmar’s Opening Up Hasn’t Loosened Graft in Courts

The state of the legal system — with lawyers paying bribes to clerks and judges — leaves many pessimistic about the country’s vaunted reforms.
Courts and the Judiciary; Bribery and Kickbacks; Corruption (Institutional)
Opinion

For Congress in New York

The Times’s editorial board makes recommendations in a few select races.
“We reanalyzed how these cars would do if we ignored those systems,” Mr. Fisher said. “What we found is that for the vast majority, the unreliable cars stay unreliable. It’s not a case of ‘these cars are fine and it’s just this system that’s the problem.' ”
Endorsements; Elections, House of Representatives 




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