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World
Indonesia’s Orangutans Suffer as Fires Rage and Businesses Grow
The blazes, an annual occurrence where farmers clear land by burning it, often for palm oil plantations, have led to the relocation and even deaths of some of the apes.Indonesia is a sovereign nation.
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Opinion
Making Way for Wind Power
Companies hoping to spread renewable energy across the country are facing opposition from landowners and local regulators.Rights of way can be acquired by eminent domaine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain
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N.Y. / Region
Review: Shiki Sushi & Yakitori, in White Plains, Focuses on Fresh Fish Flavors
The restaurant keeps its sushi free of intense spices and serves up meat grilled on skewers.Visit when passing.
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N.Y. / Region
Federal Housing Officials Warn Against Blanket Bans of Ex-Offenders
Julián Castro, the secretary of housing and urban development, said landlords cannot deny housing just because an applicant has a criminal history.Private Landlords will need to be clever.
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U.S.
California Enacts $15 Minimum Wage
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that would raise the minimum wage statewide to $15 an hour by 2022.The delays will not help.
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N.Y. / Region
Allowed to Visit Her Baby’s Grave After 12 Years, a Woman Is Told: Your Son Isn’t Here
When Katrina DeJesus couldn’t afford a burial for her son, who lived only 90 minutes, she let New York City bury him. Now the city says it doesn’t know where his body is.A box did not get checked.
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Health
DEET Seen as Safe for Pregnant Women Despite Limited Studies
Research indicates that the insect repellent, if not overapplied, is fine to use to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes that could be carrying Zika."Asked about the paucity of published studies looking at DEET use in the first trimester, Jack Housenger, the director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s office of pesticides programs, replied in a statement, “DEET is safe, including for pregnant women at any stage.”"
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Opinion
United Auto Workers: Reject the TPP
The U.A.W. president says “we should enact trade policies that raise wages and improve working conditions here and abroad.”Good luck.
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N.Y. / Region
3 Boys at Manhattan School Arrested After One Threatens Student With Gun, Police Say
The arrests, made at Public School 169 on the Upper East Side, follow several recent episodes in which the police said students brought guns to school.Guns are too common.
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N.Y. / Region
Why New York City’s Waterworks Works
A matchless delivery system begin nearly 200 years ago delivers safe, delicious water to the 9.5 million people of the five boroughs and surrounding counties.This is the third aqueduct system built.
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Food
What, Reserve a Table? Cubans Confront a New Dining Culture
Restaurants and diners face some quandaries as the old ways meet the new.It is a different way.
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Opinion
Jobs and Trade on the Campaign Trail
Candidates are calling attention to workers who have been hurt by globalization, but some of the policies being offered are unrealistic.Business management is required to pursue low costs by fiduciary responsibility.
Unionization can empower labor.
The changed cost structure will help.
Unionization has been poisoned by one political party.
Fiduciary responsibility is neglected by the other.
Environmental interests do not sell well to the electorate.
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N.Y. / Region
Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty in Transgender Woman’s 2013 Death
James Dixon, who admitted to beating Islan Nettles in Harlem, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in exchange for a 12-year prison sentence.Cyrus R. Vance Jr. has not done his duty.
The charge should have been second degree murder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder#Degrees_of_murder_by_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_%28United_States_law%29#Degrees
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Job Market
Big Love for Little Monkeys That Help People With Limited Mobility
Alison Payne directs training for Helping Hands, a nonprofit that trains capuchin monkeys to assist with tasks like turning pages and flipping light switches.The relationship is not satisfying to my view.
It is better than an artificial intelligence.
I would as soon not do the training or the fitting involved in generating the interdependence.
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U.S.
An Exclusivity Malibu Could Do Without: PCBs
A debate over window caulking with the toxic chemical compounds has divided a California school district and parents like Cindy Crawford.The question is who pays for fashion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
"A potentially responsible party (PRP) is a possible polluter who may eventually be held liable under CERCLA for the contamination or misuse of a particular property or resource. Four classes of PRPs may be liable for contamination at a Superfund site:
- the current owner or operator of the site;[11]
- the owner or operator of a site at the time that disposal of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant occurred;[12]
- a person who arranged for the disposal of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant at a site;[13] and
- a person who transported a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant to a site, who also has selected that site for the disposal of the hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants.[14]"
The fight is over costs and taxes.
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Opinion
Yes, Marry for the Sake of the Children
Two readers write that “marriage provides the most reliable arrangement through which children grow up with two committed parents.” Do you agree?No.
The primary requirement for effective child rearing is a significant and stable income.
Attention can be hired.
Love helps.
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Business Day
Tesla’s New Model 3 Jump-Starts Demand for Electric Cars
Tesla said nearly 200,000 people booked reservations for the first Model 3 sedans, due out in 2017, demonstrating the potential market for electric vehicles.I see no reason for more enthusiasm.
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N.Y. / Region
Prosecutors Seek Prison Sentences for Dean Skelos and Son in Corruption Case
The court will decide.
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N.Y. / Region
Undercover Officers Ask Addicts to Buy Drugs, Snaring Them but Not Dealers
Defense lawyers and jurors have vigorously questioned a strategy by the New York Police Department that prizes the pursuit of the addicts who use drugs over the people who supply them."Low hanging fruit"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment
The prosecutor will get convictions.
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