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World
Frustration by the Hour as Nigeria Tries to Cure Long Lines for Gasoline
Plummeting oil prices have set off an economic unraveling and collective anger in a country that is among the world’s top oil producers.This is an artificial supply shortage caused by central planning and corruption.
Corruption put the price high. Central planning enforces a monopoly.
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N.Y. / Region
A Shooting, the Hospital and Then, Months Later, It’s a Murder
Bruce Purdy was shot in the back in the South Bronx last year, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. He wanted revenge, but instead wound up being added to the 40th Precinct’s 2016 murder tally.Indigent.
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Health
Blacks See Gains in Life Expectancy
A decrease in death rates from suicide, homicide and cancer have contributed to the smallest gap in life spans between blacks and whites in history.The article is concerned with relative health.
Obama care has been effective.
The U.S. is doing a bit less well in general health.
Addictions seem to be the problem.
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U.S.
New Police Chief Seeks to Overturn Ferguson’s Legacy of Turmoil
Maj. Delrish Moss takes over the troubled police department in Missouri on Monday, not quite two years after an officer there killed an unarmed teenager.The Ferguson City Council seems to have surrendered.
I will be interested in developments.
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The Upshot
Why Science Can’t Help You Much in Deciding on Circumcision
Research points to both advantages and disadvantages. In the end, it’s a personal choice.Some religions require circumcision.
Others do not.
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N.Y. / Region
Together on a Park Bench
Sometimes, her partner said, you need a break from routine, even if it’s just a few moments sitting in the park.The bench need not be in a park.
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Arts
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 5: Hostages
The series is making the most of its intimate scale.Zombis resemble Republicans.
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Real Estate
Old Meets New in Sag Harbor
A house designed to blend in with nearby homes built in the 18th century is very much a 21st-century home inside.The "house" is not desired by me.
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Opinion
Crying to Please My Mother
A kayak ride, a girding for death, a poem: “I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky.”Done that.
I can visit Sag Harbor.
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N.Y. / Region
Review: Fresh Start at Orient Odyssey in Jericho
Tommy Tan, who runs two Chinese restaurants under the Orient name, reopened the newer one recently after shutting it down for six weeks to correct some early stumbles.If you wish.
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Times Insider
Times Insider Book Club: More on College Admissions Mania
The Times columnist Frank Bruni — author of “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania” — takes on more questions.The question is always what next.
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Opinion
How Safe Is Home Birth?
How safe is the wrong question.
Birth is never safe.
The question is does the mother think it preferable.
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Food
Kitchen Hacks, Fajitas and Joan Didion
Plan your meals, then go read Joan Didion’s notes from the Patty Hearst trial in 1976.I have been planing the week at the market.
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U.S.
2nd Officer’s Trial Over Freddie Gray Nears as Baltimore Tries to Move On
Officer Edward M. Nero’s case may shed light on the circumstances surrounding Mr. Gray’s arrest, but hopes for a conviction are dimming among residents.Maryland was a slave state at the end of the Civil War.
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Job Market
Testing the Bounds of Faith in Little Yemen
A Bible-school dropout faces doubts in a job teaching English as a second language to Muslim women in an immigrant enclave of Dearborn, Mich.Ford Motor Company has never admitted that labor has rights.
A lesson of the Korean War was faith will sustain people in isolation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_control
Language leads directly to social contact.
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N.Y. / Region
A Soldier From New York Sees the Sky
Looking up beside his foxhole, an Army recruit at Fort Bragg marveled at the stars he rarely saw in Manhattan.Most Americans never see the night sky.
The night sky is a reason for sailing off shore.
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Opinion
Take Back the Prisons
The Legal Aid Society writes that New York State’s prison agency needs the power to dismiss prison staff members for serious misconduct.Prison guards cannot be immune.
Prosecution is difficult to impossible.
Confirmed suspicion should be grounds for dissmissal.
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N.Y. / Region
Regular on New York’s ‘Worst Landlords’ Lists Is Charged
Steven Croman, who owns more than 140 Manhattan apartment buildings and has been accused in a lawsuit of harassing his tenants, was charged Monday with 20 felonies.The results of his trial will be interesting.
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Fashion & Style
Holland Casey, Maxwell Bent
The couple met on a flight to Nantucket in 2013, which is how the groom’s parents met three decades beforeAny ceremony you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best..
Fashion & Style
Tara Hagan and Thomas Malloy: Whole Foods, Half-Sizes and Homework
A grocery may not seem like the most romantic place, but it helped light a spark with this couple.Any ceremony you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
N.Y. / Region
A Shooting, the Hospital and Then, Months Later, It’s a Murder
Get help if you need it.
Times Insider
Times Insider Book Club: More on College Admissions Mania
Not applicable as yet.
Do a trust fund.
The Upshot
Why Science Can’t Help You Much in Deciding on Circumcision
Research points to both advantages and disadvantages. In the end, it’s a personal choice.N.Y. / Region
Stolen Jesus Statue Returned to Brooklyn Church
A young man found the damaged statue in a nearby trash can. The representation of Christ was a replacement for one stolen in 2012 and never recovered.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm
More likely it was art students.
World
In Sichuan Province, an Artisan Retreats to China’s Past
Disillusioned with China’s urban dream, a young man set off on a 15-year walk and rediscovered his family’s ethnic Miao traditions.I have followed some of my family's traditions.
Health
A Window Into the Workings of Zika
A graduate student’s offhand remark has led to widespread research that has provided findings about how the virus causes brain damage.Talk helps.
Opinion
The Conflict Zone of Motherhood
Why is the remote more valuable to a photographer than the world right around them?"But over a couple of weeks in Kenya in 2014, amid the rugged landscape and the cattle-herding families, I began to wonder: Why did I think mothers here were worthy of being documented and not the mothers in my own community? Why is the remote more valuable to a photographer than the world right around them?"
Nothing is remote to a photographer working on that thing.
Distance is valued by publishers and their editors.
My guess is the distance drops the detail from the story they tell.
"Sugar and cream it is true are supreme
But grandmothers are also good."
U.S.
What’s Happening in the Freddie Gray Trials
The trials of the six Baltimore police officers charged in Mr. Gray’s death are winding their way through the courts, with one beginning this week.I do not expect satisfaction.
World
Mexico Moves Drug Lord Known as El Chapo to Prison Near Texas
The convicted drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who twice escaped from jail, was transferred to a prison in northern Mexico near the border with Texas.Another small step.
Times Insider
The Everyday Faces of Sex Workers
What persuaded more than three dozen sex workers to pose for the camera? Allowing them to be themselves.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/should-prostitution-be-a-crime.html
I have not been able to decide.
I have not been willing to ask.
I did not like being propositioned on the street.
Sports
Tom Dumoulin Has Tight Finish as Giro Opens
Dumoulin of the Netherlands won the opening individual time trial of the Giro d’Italia by the narrowest of margins.A bicycle is transportation.
Some people pedal faster than others.
U.S.
U.S. Urges Colleges to Rethink Questions About Criminal Records
The Obama administration wants colleges and universities to lower barriers for people with past convictions.A good idea.
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