Tuesday, May 17, 2016

@18:00, 5/16/16

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1
N.Y. / Region

Messy Yard Pits a Montauk Mechanic Against a Town on the Rise

Tom Ferreira, whose family has lived there for decades, has sued the Town of East Hampton over the forcible clearance of his cluttered yard.

I am aware.

2
Science

Eske Willerslev Is Rewriting History With DNA

The director of the Center for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen is discovering through ancient bones new things about our development.

Good.
Keep up the work.

3
Fashion & Style

Jan Benzel, Bruce Weber

The bride is the editor of the Metropolitan section of The New York Times, where the groom is an obituary reporter.

It is your event.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

4
The Upshot

Why Single-Payer Health Care Would Probably Still Be Expensive

To match the costs in other countries would require paying doctors and nurses far less and using fewer new and high-tech treatments.

It will only take a spread sheet to know.
A certainty is we will not be paying insurance company profits.

5
N.Y. / Region

With Susannah Mushatt Jones’s Death, World Has a New Oldest Person

Ms. Jones, whose lifetime straddled three centuries, died on Thursday in Brooklyn at 116.

116 is about the limit for people.

6
U.S.

Former Exeter Official Charged With Sexual Assault From 1970s

Arthur Peekel, 74, was an admissions officer from 1967 to 1974. The Exeter police said that he assaulted a prospective student at the school in 1973.

These things should not happen.

7
T Magazine

Where the Swedes Go to Be (Really) Alone

In the brief Scandinavian spring, one writer escapes to the deserted island of Gotland seeking solitude.

Early season everywhere.
The stones don't mind the weather.

8
Fashion & Style

Katherine Michelis, Chad Priest

The couple met at a party at the Georgetown law center.

Let us get it done.

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



Bed.  I have to catch a train tomorrow.

9
World

The Vaquita, the World’s Smallest Porpoise, Slips Closer to Extinction

Scientists say only about 60 are left in the Gulf of California, threatened by nets that fishermen illegally use to catch totoaba, a source of a Chinese delicacy.

Sadly yes.

12
N.Y. / Region

Review: A Chef’s Heritage, Served Up at Aztlan Mexican Grill in Lambertville

After 15 years of cooking in other people’s kitchens, Edgar Castro is executing a Mexico City-inspired menu of his own in Lambertville, N.J.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lambertville,+NJ+08530/@40.3705342,-74.9587664,10z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c3faa9dcb934f1:0x40778b202572a401!8m2!3d40.3659394!4d-74.9429448

A place to stop for a meal.

13
Health

Puerto Rico Reports First Microcephaly Case Linked to Zika

The case involved a woman who miscarried in the second trimester of pregnancy and a doctor who suspected Zika-related brain damage.

On schedule.

14
N.Y. / Region

New York Police Criticized for Using Restraining Bag in Arrest

A video that showed a man being arrested and strapped into a full-body bag has drawn attention for what was called a “dehumanizing” tactic.

The bag does not kill.

15
Business Day

Shell Says Thousands of Gallons of Oil Have Leaked Into Gulf of Mexico

The Coast Guard said the leak had been secured, and officials were investigating the cause.

There should be more information.
There is a reason the pipe broke.
There is a reason it was not detected sooner.
There is a reason it was detected.
All are important.
There are many pipes in the gulf. 

14
NYT Now

‘As Blacks, We Were Born as We Are’: Our Top 10 Comments

Readers react to the Obama administration’s directive on transgender students and bathrooms, Donald Trump’s candidacy, and allegations of Russian doping during the Olympics.

It seems sexual identity is about as voluntary as dark skin.
It often does not show as dramatically.

15
Opinion

Don’t Blame the Video

The F.B.I. chief appears to believe that recording incidents of police violence is the real problem.

Unfortunate.

16
U.S.

U.S. Directs Public Schools to Allow Transgender Access to Restrooms

The letter to school districts does not have the force of law. But it contains an implicit threat of possible lawsuits or a loss of federal aid.

Sexual identity does not determine humanity.

17
Fashion & Style

Katherine Kolins, Paul Yun


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U.S.

Dogs Test Drug Aimed at Humans’ Biggest Killer: Age

A drug that lengthened the lives of laboratory mice is being tested on dogs as scientists look for alternatives to treating one disease at a time.

Why not.

19
Your Money

Making Big Donations to Change the World

Some philanthropists are gambling that the larger the charitable contributions, the stronger the social impact on society.

I can't work directly.
I have not the cash and don't want to know those who do.
I can write books on the management of tropical environments.
I can manufacture kilns or write about them.
I can think and write.

20
U.S.

No Criminal Charges in Death of 3-Year-Old Who Shot Himself

Officials in Georgia have decided not to file charges after a 3-year-old boy pulled a gun from his father’s backpack and fatally shot himself.

The White adults of Georgia must be frightened.

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