Wednesday, October 21, 2015

@20:30, 10/20/15

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1
Health

New Mammogram Recommendations: A Guide

What the American Cancer Society is now recommending to women, and why it changed its advice.

Get an ultrasound when you worry.
I can think of no reason to increase your radiation burden.

2
World

Rapid Economic Growth in China Is Chipping Away at Coastal Wetlands


3
Opinion

Treating Severe Mental Illness: The U.S. Lags Behind

A psychiatrist says thousands of mentally ill are homeless or imprisoned for nuisance crimes that were avoidable if they had not been neglected.

Allen Francis has taken an extreme position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

If we do not require treatment the mad can be retained by their need of maintenance.
Those who are a danger to themselves or to others can be retained by force.
Treatment can be offered with independence as the reward.
Reversible disabling treatment can be offered as an alternative to force.
Talk therapy will be popular.

4
Food

Asian Slaw Worthy of a Fine Dim Sum House

It had that telltale salty-savory background flavor that makes you want to take bite after bite, but it was also on the sweet side.

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017752-asian-red-cabbage-and-walnut-salad
I will play.
I need more people eating.

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Health

American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms

The group says women should start having mammograms at 45 and continue yearly until 54; it previously recommended mammograms and clinical breast exams every year, starting at 40.

The Cancer Society is making sense.

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Opinion

Justice Gone Wrong in New Orleans

The district attorney’s office should be held accountable for its culture of negligence.

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Sports

Odom Is Responsive

Lamar Odom, a former basketball player and reality television star, has regained consciousness just days after being found unresponsive at a Nevada brothel.

I am mildly relieved.

No games in the WNBA.

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Sports

To Craft Michigan’s Miserly Defense, a Coordinator Gives All


A Small Indiana Town Scarred by a Trusted Doctor


Opinion

Benefits of Meditation, Without the Hard Sell

Readers, including a psychiatrist and a practitioner, talk about the benefits.

Null program.
Sports

Texas Football Player Dies

Cam’ron Matthews, a football player in Alto, Tex., died after collapsing on the sideline during a game Friday night. No official cause of death had been determined.

There is no more yet.
N.Y. / Region

New York City Prepares to Plant One Millionth Tree, Fulfilling a Promise


Magazine

The Soft Evidence Behind the Hard Rhetoric of ‘Deterrence’


World

Ethiopia, a Nation of Farmers, Strains Under Severe Drought


Science

Serious Human In Utero Infection Is Found in Rhesus Monkeys

The first nonhuman finding of cytomegalovirus could help scientists develop a vaccine to protect against the infection.

The initial Sauk Polio vaccine was incubated in rhesus monkeys.
Business Day

The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor

Studies rebut a long-cherished belief in America, on the right and left, that welfare encourages bad behavior by the poor.

It is a propaganda victory.
U.S.

33 Years After Killing of Milwaukee Girl, a Confession Leads to Charges, Police Say

The fate of Carrie Ann Jopek, 13, gripped the city when she vanished in 1982, and again when her body was found, but then faded into a cold case.

You will tell me what you want to tell me and we will go on.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.
U.S.

San Francisco May Let Bicyclists Yield at Stop Signs

A proposed ordinance has raised long-simmering tensions between drivers and cyclists, but bicycle advocates hope it could be a breakthrough for such laws.
N.Y. / Region

Brother Who Survived Beating at New York Church to Testify Against Relative

Christopher Leonard, 17, was released from the hospital after surviving being brutally beaten at the Word of Life Christian Church in central New York this month and plans to testify against at least one of his attackers.
 
 
 
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