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Sports
Tony Parker Achieves European Milestone
Parker became the leading scorer in European championship history as he led France, the defending champion, to a 69-66 victory over Poland.http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/ncaabasketball/index.html
Women's College Basketball
No games scheduled for
Sep 7, 2015
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Opinion
The Pointless Banishment of Sex Offenders
Blanket residency-restriction laws disregard the reality that not all people who have been convicted of sex offenses pose a risk to children.Blanket residency-restriction laws are probably unconstitutional.
Residency restrictions look like Bills of Attainder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attainder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
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Science
Flies Want Your Blood, Too
Biting flies may differ from mosquitoes in appearance in habits, but they are all members of the group known as true flies.Yes.
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Sports
Rodríguez Wins Vuelta Stage
Joaquim Rodríguez powered up the final ascent of the mountainous 15th stage of the Vuelta a España, reducing Fabio Aru’s overall lead to just one second.It is a race.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/bicycles_and_bicycling/index.html
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Opinion
Teachers Aren’t Dumb
But a lot of the training they get in school is. We can do better.I agree that dumb teachers are not the problem.
Professor Willingham suffers from a priori theory.
A place to start is empirical observation of children.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical_evidence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_priori_and_a_posteriori
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaget's_theory_of_cognitive_development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_stage_theories
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Opinion
How Reliable Are Psychology Studies?
Readers discuss what the inability to replicate more than half of 100 psychology studies means for the profession.I would quote the computer science adage: GIGO; garbage in implies garbage out.
There are aspects the human mind that are hardwired.
Sociability is one.
Birth order seems to be another.
Sexuality is one.
Homosexuality is another.
Gender seems to be hardwired.
Justice is basic and probably hard wired.
Addiction; some is, some is not.
Language is a bit different.
The hardwired features probably do not belong to psychology though they frame it.
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Opinion
Drugs and Crime
Synthetic drugs, which are cheap and widely available in high-poverty neighborhoods, are believed to cause some users to become irrationally violent.Drug use does not respect social class.
If novel drugs were causal I would expect to see a jump in violence across class boundaries.
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Health
West African Child Is Paralyzed by Vaccine-Derived Polio
The patient’s parents traveled from Guinea to Mali seeking medical care. An emergency vaccination drive is being organized to forestall an outbreak.Polio does that.
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U.S.
A Los Angeles Plan to Reshape the Streetscape Sets Off Fears of Gridlock
The City Council has approved a far-reaching transportation program that is part of a larger push to get people out of their cars and onto sidewalks.The Plan is doing what the planners intended.
Inevitably Los Angeles will depend less on the automobile.
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U.S.
Alabama: Flight Attendant Complains of Religious Bias
A flight attendant for ExpressJet says she was wrongly suspended from her job last month because she refused to serve alcohol, citing her Muslim beliefs.Her Muslim beliefs are incompatible with her job.
One or the other must go.
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N.Y. / Region
Rail Biking Arrives in Adirondacks, but Future of Track Is in Doubt
A new company called Rail Explorers has attracted thousands of visitors to ride a six-mile stretch of abandoned railroad track, but the state has targeted the railroad for demolition.The state of New York has little imagination. Keep the rails. Put a plank parallel to them for road bikes and hikers.
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Science
A Western Showdown With Mussels
Several states in the Rocky Mountains are checking boats hauled on highways to try to keep mussels from invading waterways.There is a bacterium that attacks these muscles. It was found in the Hudson.
There appears to have been a seventeenth century infection in Lake Ontario that did not survive.
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N.Y. / Region
A Door-to-Door Push to Get Parents Involved at Struggling Schools
New York City thinks that the key to transforming low-performing schools is to get parents to show up more, by turning the buildings into one-stop community centers.That will help some.
A living minimum wage would help more.
The Schools' big problem is parental extreme poverty.
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Business Day
Nonunion Employees Turn to Work Site Committees for Protection
As unions have weakened, work site committees offer an alternative that is easier to form and can guard workers’ rights and improve job conditions.A union without the name.
Collective bargaining works.
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U.S.
Illinois: Town Pays Respects to Slain Officer
Several hundred police officers from around the country attended a funeral Monday for a lieutenant killed last week, and residents of the area turned out by the thousands to watch the hearse go by.I expect the trio have left the area.
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The Upshot
Why There’s Disagreement Over Screening Every Child for Autism
Pediatricians tend to favor universal screening, but a national task force says a specific study is lacking.1.5% is prevalent enough.
Screening for autism spectrum disorder fails the other tests.
Early intervention will aid some obvious cases.
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Opinion
Calls for Stronger Regulation of E-Cigarettes
The American Academy of Pediatrics and a professor of public health discuss the harms of e-cigarettes.Nicotine is an addictive drug.
It must be regulated.
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Health
Oysters May Serve as Link in Transmission of Norovirus
The shellfish appear to be an important link in the transmission of norovirus among humans, according to research from China.The easy way to detect Norovirus is to eat the oyster.
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World
Experts Reject Official Account of How 43 Mexican Students Were Killed
An international panel said there was no evidence to support the government’s conclusion that the college students who disappeared last fall were executed by a drug gang.Lies do not help.
This cover story has failed.
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Sports
Young Stays Upbeat as Sneakers Vanish Along With Open Hopes
Donald Young, whose sneakers were mistakenly taken out of his locker Sunday, lost to Stan Wawrinka on Monday and was then eliminated in doubles as well.
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