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N.Y. / Region
One Dead in Crash of Small Plane on Long Island
Debris from the accident scattered across the tracks of the Long Island Rail Road, disrupting commuter service, the authorities said.There will be a technical report by the F.A.A.
This news report reads as a casual pilot agreed to carry a passenger and did not check the state of his fuel tanks.
The pilot could have been drunker than he should have been.
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Travel
Tuesday’s Travel News: Cool Cars for Guests and More About Hotels
What you need to know if you’re on a trip or planning one soon, including a golf package in Marrakesh and new guesthouses in the Rhone Valley.I will not travel for door prizes.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/door_prize
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U.S.
Losing Water, California Tries to Stay Atop Economic Wave
Despite the drought, communities are pushing ahead with plans for new housing, with advocates saying there will be enough water to meet the demand.The answer for more new houses in California must generally be no.
Any new construction should be required to prove how it reduce or not increase water consumption.
Conversion of land and water rights from agriculture to housing should not be allowed.
Water rights should cease to be deeded. When properties transfer the seniority of water rights ends.
Fossil carbon use should be similarly limited.
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N.Y. / Region
Three Killed and Eight Injured in Crash on Taconic State Parkway
A sport utility vehicle careered over an embankment separating the northbound and southbound lanes and went into oncoming traffic, the police said.http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2015/08/16/police-identify-victims-taconic-crash/31817199/
There is nothing to be learned.
A desperate and inexperienced driver lost control of an overpowered top heavy vehicle in traffic.
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Sports
Cyclist Dies During Race in Colorado
Scott Ellis, 55, of Johnstown, Colo., died Saturday while participating in the grueling Leadville 100 race in Colorado’s mountains. A coroner attributed his death to natural causes.Some competitors do not know when to stop.
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The Upshot
Readers’ Turn: How to Reduce the Prison Population
Commenters offered their ideas for tackling mass incarceration.We must repair as many as we can as quickly as we can.
The repairs must be effective and demonstrable.
There are many we do not know how to repair.
The repairs must not be experimental.
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Opinion
Is California Really Winning the Drought?: Reader Q. & A.
The author of a Sunday Review essay about water conservation responds to readers’ questions.No.
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Opinion
A Tax on Some Employer Health Plans
Readers discuss an excise tax that will go into effect for plans with generous benefits.Employer health plans have been an untaxed benefit for employees.
With Obamacare in place these plans have become surplus and competitors.
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Travel
How One Airline Ticket Can Equal Two Seats
There’s often an empty seat on each flight, and with a little planning and a little bit of luck, that seat should not be next to yours.Where to this time?
I am busy at Pratt and will not escape to the woods for several weeks if at all.
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Science
Methane Leaks in Natural-Gas Supply Chain Far Exceed Estimates, Study Says
Gathering and processing sites lose about 100 billion cubic feet of natural gas a year, a study says, far more than estimates used by federal regulators.Methane was free at the well head.
"A spokesman for one of the gas industry companies that participated in the study said that the research would be helpful. “This ultimately helps us perform better,” said John Christiansen, a spokesman for Anadarko Petroleum. The research would help the company “get that methane back in the sales line,” he added, “which is ultimately in our best interest — and everybody’s best interest.”"
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Business Day
Looking for a Breakthrough? Study Says to Make Time for Tedium
The research focused on Kickstarter activity during college breaks, but its findings may have relevance for companies considering “slack time.”Capital management is only interested in the "gritty parts" of what it calls innovation.
Research is an expense. "Other people" do that.
Business buys the successful results.
Development is still a loss but less of a risk than research.
Turnaround is the winning "innovation".
Buy cheap, sell dear.
Other people take the losses.
Scavengers do that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger
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Opinion
Cultural Isolation
An infant’s death prompts a New York City official to write about the need to reach out to immigrants about available social services.Exploiting the Greenhorns and Rubes is traditional, like slavery.
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Sports
Tiger Woods Misses Cut at P.G.A. Championship, His Season Fizzling
Woods finished a weather-delayed second round at four-over 148 for the tournament, missing the chance to play two more rounds for the third major in a row.Tiger Woods lost his self confidence and his concentration.
His condition is getting old.
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U.S.
Locked in Solitary at 14: Adult Jails Isolate Youths Despite Risk
A Mississippi 16-year-old is emblematic of juveniles across the nation, charged as adults, who endure protective isolation that experts say can lead to depression and other mental health problems.A mob would lynch him.
Mississippi is run by a racist mob.
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U.S.
After Protests for Racial Justice, Activists Ask: What Next?
Following the first anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson., Mo., and the nationwide movement that death spurred, protesters and others are now calculating what comes next.Demonstrators intend to be noticed.
The desired next is cultural change.
More agitation is always next as long as the original problem persists.
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Sports
An Ex-Player at the Center of the N.F.L. Concussion Settlement Dispute
The name of Shawn Wooden, a former Dolphin and an important advocate of the deal, will most likely be invoked again Monday, when a dozen objections are expected to be filed in court.The former players have a solid case.
The court fight continues.
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Opinion
Europe’s Civil War of Words
Two competing stories about Germany and Greece threaten to split the eurozone in half.Jochen Bittner is a generous German.
Greece will leave the the Euro.
The Banks did not do their due diligence when they made the loans to the Greek state.
Individuals can and do go bankrupt.
States cannot go bankrupt. They default and the lenders take the losses.
In Europe the lender is the European Central Bank, a creature of Germany.
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Opinion
Louisiana’s Post-Katrina Rebuilding
Efforts to manipulate nature aren’t the answer, a Tulane law professor writes.Batonrouge is not about to admit defeat and accept the loss of all that money.
Sunk costs are a difficult relationship.
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U.S.
A Culture Clash Over Guns Infiltrates the Backcountry
A fight is playing out in national forests from North Carolina to the Pacific Northwest between backpackers seeking solitude and gun owners out for target shooting.For about a third of the U.S. population realestate that does not pay them is wasteland.
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U.S.
Virginia: Ex-Police Officer Charged With Murder in Shooting
The officer who shot and killed an unarmed man as he stood inside his front door has been indicted on a second-degree murder charge, the authorities said."Talk Radio" has spread a dangerous attitude to its listeners.
The police do not do justice.
The police must not become an army of occupation.
The shrub used the army reserves as one in Iraq.
We are paying the price for that.
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