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Health
Pediatricians Are Asked to Join Fight Against Childhood Hunger
The American Academy of Pediatrics wants pediatricians to question parents and refer those lacking food to various resources for assistance.If hunger is the result of government policy
The policy must change.
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Magazine
A Slacker of Jakarta
What happens when your religious mother comes to stay for a while.Guilt has power.
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N.Y. / Region
Survivor of Upstate New York Church Beatings Testifies in Court
Christopher Leonard, a slight, shaggy-haired 17-year-old, was released from a hospital last weekend. His brother, Lucas Leonard, 19, died after the beating.The brothers were beaten.
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Sports
Thursday’s Matchup: Seahawks (2-4) at 49ers (2-4)
The Seahawks and the 49ers have dominated the N.F.C. West in recent years, but the teams enter this matchup tied for last place.
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Opinion
New York Leads the Way on Transgender Rights
Statewide regulations that protect transgender people from discrimination, established through an executive action by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, set an important example for the rest of the country.https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/GenderIdentityRegulation.pdf
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N.Y. / Region
In Chelsea, a Great Wealth Divide
In Chelsea and other neighborhoods like it, dizzying economic transformations because of an influx of wealth have affected the residents of less means in both obvious and insidious ways.Businesses that can price with the rents do. Those that cannot close.
Islands of regulated rent are isolated.
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U.S.
F.B.I. Chief Links Scrutiny of Police With Rise in Violent Crime
James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, said he had a “strong sense” that scrutiny of the police has made officers less aggressive and emboldened criminals.Criminals are not gratuitously violent.
James B. Comey is empire building.
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World
Video: Vatican Says Pope Does Not Have Tumor
A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, denied an Italian newspaper report that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor, saying the 78-year-old pontiff is in good health.It will do the Vatican no good to be caught in a lie.
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Opinion
Egg Donor Payments
A bioethicist writes that eliminating all guidelines on price caps may promote eugenics, harming us all.I see little harm in eugenics driven by parents.
Black mothers bearing blond babies does not frighten me.
The learning curve will be steep.
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N.Y. / Region
Remembering Guy Fawkes Day, or Pope’s Day
A look back at the rowdy anti-Catholic festival — until General George Washington suppressed it — and forward for a defunct New York Police Academy building.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Armada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
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The Upshot
The 57-Year-Old Chart That Is Dividing the Fed
If you believe in the traditional Phillips curve, as some at the Fed do, inflation should be taking off any day now.No
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=phillips+curve
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On the Neo-paleo-Keynesian Phillips Curve (Wonkish)
In a previous post I mentioned,
sort of in passing, that recent data actually look like an
old-fashioned pre-accelerationist Phillips curve — that is, unemployment
determines the inflation rate, not the rate of change of the inflation
rate.
Where did this
assertion come from? There seems to be one of these funny situations
right now where people who don’t work on such issues consider this a
wild and crazy, or maybe just silly assertion, while those actually
doing serious empirical work treat it as a matter of course.
Here’s what you see if you look at US data:
But is that just me? No. Consider two recent studies on unemployment and inflation.
First, there’s Michael Kiley
(pdf), who had the very good idea of adding power by estimating the
relationship across a number of metropolitan areas.You need to read it
carefully, but it turns out that his Phillips curve is
non-accelerationist for the past 15 years:
We estimate equation 2 over two sample periods (as in our national es- timates), 1985-2013 and 1998-2013. For the 1985-2013 sample, we proxy expected inflation with a region-specific intercept and the national measure of long-run expected inflation from the Survey of Professional forecasters used in our national regression; for the 1998-2013 sample, region fixed ef- fects are used to proxy for expected inflation (because, as in the national regressions presented earlier, the survey measure of expected inflation is es- sentially constant over the 1998-2013 period).
Then there’s the new post by Klitgaard and Peck at Liberty Street, which essentially does a similar exercise for eurozone countries. Their results look like this:
That’s a relationship
between the change in unemployment and the change in inflation,
equivalent to a relationship between the level of unemployment and the
level of inflation — i.e., an old-fashioned Phillips curve.
I’m not saying that
this is a fundamental truth. All I’m saying is that people trying to fit
recent data keep finding something that looks like the old-fashioned
relationship. You can offer various explanations — downward wage
rigidity, anchored expectations, or maybe it just isn’t worth adjusting
price-setting to match fairly small variations in expected inflation.
But anyway, that’s what the data look like.
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Sports
Giants-Cowboys Preview: Offensive Line Will Be Crucial
With the Giants in the no-huddle offense most of the time, their offensive line must perform well in order to maintain possession and ease pressure on the defense.http://nytimes.stats.com/fb/scoreboard.asp
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Opinion
My Dark California Dream
Our parents had wide open spaces all around. We still had nature within reach. Now what?California will be different.
We need to fix the world to come.
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N.Y. / Region
Nurse Held by New Jersey Over Ebola Exposure Sues Christie
Kaci Hickox, who was forced into quarantine last year after she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa, said that Gov. Chris Christie and state health officials had held her against her will illegally.Chris Christi panicked.
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Business Day
N.H.T.S.A. Administrator Criticizes Proposal to Amend Safety Rules
A provision in a wide-ranging draft bill would delay the announcement of a vehicle-related recall and could have deadly consequences, Mark Rosekind said.The Republican congress is consistently wrong.
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Opinion
The Law School Debt Crisis
American law schools are increasingly charging outrageously high tuition and sticking taxpayers with the tab for loan defaults when students fail to become lawyers.Pay the public sector lawyers enough to starve the private practices of graduates.
The public sector pays their loans and the corporate types get rich more slowly.
The schools must finance their students without government backing.
The "for profit" schools must see to their product or go broke.
No one has a guaranteed profit.
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Opinion
The Choices Over Breast-Feeding
Doctors, mothers and a city health official variously suggest the health benefits of breast-feeding and the importance of a mother’s own decision.Where there is no viable choice moms must nurse their babies.
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Your Money
Learning the Unfamiliar Language of Home Care
While it is far preferable for retirees to remain at home as they age, the choices and costs can be daunting.The once and future problem.
"So far so good."
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Sports
College Football Games to Watch on Saturday
No. 3 Utah finds itself an underdog to unranked Southern California, while Stanford’s irresistible offense will face Washington’s immovable defense.http://www.theguardian.com/uk/sport
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U.S.
Virginia: Judge Rules for G.O.P. In a Gerrymandering Case
A panel of federal judges has rejected a lawsuit claiming Republicans illegally gerrymandered boundaries for seats in Virginia’s House of Delegates to pack black voters into fewer districts.Reconstruction is expensive.
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World
Papua New Guinea to Resettle Refugees From Australian Detention Center
The resettlement offers would be limited to people who have fled war or persecution, an Australian official said.Syrians create deserts.
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Sports
Johnny Manziel’s Job Appears Safe Despite Inquiry Into Domestic Incident
As the N.F.L. investigates whether he violated its personal conduct policy, he is expected to remain Cleveland’s backup quarterback.Football culture.
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World
Australia’s Migrant Rules Criticized Over Abyan, a Somali Asylum Seeker
The case of Abyan, a Somali refugee said to have been raped on Nauru, highlights allegations of abuse at island detention centers, rights activists say.Australia has found an exit.
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Real Estate
When a Fence Becomes a Bike Rack
This week’s questions concern a stranger’s bicycle locked to a homeowner’s fence; a contract with a difficult contingency; and a a former tenant’s left-behind belongings.Most of the surviving fences are cast iron.
they provide little security.
We need to discuss tactics.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
My Dark California Dream
The forest will recover and rain will fall.
We will give up fossil carbon.
The future is never as bad as it looks.
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Sports
Flyers Outlast Rangers, Winning in Shootout
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist made 46 saves, but Sam Gagner and Claude Giroux scored against him in the shootout to lift Philadelphia.Hockey is still played.
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Sports
Sorry Jose, This Joe Batt Came First
Centuries ago, a sailor and shoe thief was Joe Batt before Jose Bautista. He got a town named after him, but could he hit the curve ball?Out port Newfoundland is still desperate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shipping_News
We are out of fish.
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U.S.
Indictment Ties Lawyer to Fraud in BP Spill
Mikal C. Watts claimed to have signed up more than 40,000 clients seeking compensation for economic damages, one of the most extensive client lists of any lawyer or firm.We will see if the mud sticks.
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Books
Stacy Schiff: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “The Witches” sat behind Hilary Mantel at a performance of “Wolf Hall”: “The titles of her backlist tumbled out half intelligibly, one on top of the other. . . . She seemed to take me for a lunatic.”She has read more than I.
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Magazine
Letter of Recommendation: Bamba
A new mother finds a snack for her baby by reading The New England Journal of Medicine.We do the best we can and try to enjoy the result.
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N.Y. / Region
Wiretaps Offer New Details in Corruption Case Against State Senator Skelos and His Son
Prosecutors in the corruption case against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, want to play wiretaps that they say show the son sought to leverage his father’s influence to his own benefit.Local government goes off easily.
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World
3 Thought to Be Right-Wing Extremists Are Arrested in Germany
Word of the detentions came as German authorities warned against a rise in attacks on shelters for some of the thousands of refugees who have been entering the country.I worry about kangaroo courts.
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