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World
Caste Protests Choke Delhi’s Roads and Water Supply
Though the Indian Army took back a crucial water canal, Delhi officials said that water would remain in short supply for at least a week.They will be read the riot act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act#.22Read_the_Riot_Act.22
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N.Y. / Region
College Student Missing After Plane Lands in a Long Island Harbor
After a single-engine plane made a forced landing in Setauket Harbor, the police searched for a 23-year-old City College student. The three other passengers were rescued.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Setauket+Harbor,+Brookhaven,+NY+11733/@40.9332008,-73.1193181,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89e83f90778559fd:0xaa21ac77c6154229
Drowned in cold water.
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Health
Vaccine Has Sharply Reduced HPV in Teenage Girls, Study Says
A vaccine for human papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer, has reduced its prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, the study said.Good.
"A vaccine introduced a decade ago to combat the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer has already reduced the virus’s prevalence in teenage girls by almost two-thirds, federal researchers said Monday."
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Opinion
Does Air Traffic Control Need an Overhaul?
Bill Shuster of the House Committee on Transportation and the head of JetBlue disagree with an editorial.Let the F.A.A. have the money it needs to modernize.
The Air Force knows how to do the job.
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U.S.
When a State Balks at a City’s Minimum Wage
In a particularly ferocious version of a divide playing out nationally, state lawmakers and city leaders are fighting over who should have the authority to set wage policy.The cities know what things cost in their economies.
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Science
Scientists Ponder the Prospect of Contagious Cancer
What if malignant cells, rather than dying with their host, had the ability to travel from body to body, evolving ever-deadlier skills along the way?"Nature is infinite in its surprises."
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World
E.U. Deal Clears Path for British Referendum on Membership
Prime Minister David Cameron agreed to a package of concessions that clear the way for him to call for a vote in Britain on whether to cut ties to the union.The E.U. should implement the changes to retain Great Britain.
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Science
Video: Flight of the Sea Snail
A tiny marine mollusk no bigger than a peppercorn flies through the water with the same wing motion as a fruit fly.It must eat something.
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Arts
Bill Cosby Sues to Recover Money From Andrea Constand
A civil complaint, filed in United States District Court in Philadelphia, says Ms. Constand broke the terms of a 2006 confidential agreement.Contractual obligations are mutual and binding.
Lawyers must be paid.
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N.Y. / Region
Mayor de Blasio Signs Measure Raising City Officials’ Pay
Mayor DeBlasio pays his debts.
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Business Day
For Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs, Some Welcome Clarity
Congress saved the vegan marshmallow, gluten-free doughnut tax credit.The Republican Party buys more votes.
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Opinion
Why Are White Death Rates Rising?
For less-educated white Americans, the problem may be tied to a rosy view of the past."Both studies attributed the higher death rates to increases in poisonings and chronic liver disease, which mainly reflect drug overdoses and alcohol abuse, and to suicides. In contrast, death rates fell overall for blacks and Hispanics."
Prison makes drug use more difficult.
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Your Money
Life Insurance Buyer’s Guide: What Type, How Much and Who Will Benefit
These answers to common questions about life insurance will help you sort out what you need as quickly and efficiently as possible.I have no large debts.
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U.S.
American Sleep Patterns Vary by Age, Race and Place, Study Finds
About 65 percent of Americans get at least seven hours of sleep each night, the threshold that a new survey’s authors used to define a healthy rest.The numbers do not easily yield how many workers are sleeping enough.
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Health
Proof of Zika’s Role in Birth Defects Still Months Away, W.H.O. Says
While the evidence is strong that the virus is behind Brazil’s surge of birth defects, experts are waiting for pregnant women in a clinical trial to start giving birth in June.There seems to be good evidence that Zika has no role in birth defects.
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U.S.
States Make New Push to Curb Child Marriage
Culture wars.
I favor preventing child marriages.
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Times Insider
Palau Gets Tough on Sea Crime: Reporter’s Notebook
Ian Urbina shares some of the backstory behind his reporting on efforts to police waters around the island nation of Palau.The world is out of fish.
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Health
Zika May Increase Risk of Mental Illness, Researchers Say
Even if infants appear normal at birth, they could later have problems like autism, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, experts fear, based on similar infections."Busted flush"
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