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World
Giant Sinkhole Swallows Dozens of Cars in Florence
A water pipe was said to have compromised a road not far from the city’s historic center; no injuries were reported.A water main break under a parking area.
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Fashion & Style
Rima Rana, Nitesh Patel
The bride and groom, both doctors, began dating when she was 14 and he was 13.The rite does not matter to me.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
Embrace a philosophy of pessimism. Every human will disappoint you, and you’ll do the same to them.Yes.
You are still my choice.
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Travel
At Soul Food Restaurants, Activism Was on the Menu
In his new book ‘The People’s Place,’ Dave Hoekstra visits restaurants that played a vital role in the civil rights movement.Kitchen tables for a people without kitchens.
The lord of the manor does not invade the kitchen.
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U.S.
Pleading for Peace in Chicago: ‘We Could Be Looking at a Blood Bath’
Dreading the arrival of summer, historically the city’s most dangerous season, residents and leaders called for an end to the surging gun violence.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian_Angels
There are no arbiters or other umpires in war.
The Chicago police have been allowed to become irrelevant to the multi sided battles of the kid gangs of the periphery.
Some extralegal group must form to deal directly with the gang leaderships.
Keeping such a group tolerable to the civil government will be a problem.
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Fashion & Style
Bo Li, Michael Lao
When the bride decided to sell her medical textbooks, she found that the groom was very interested.American Baptist was mother's mother's church.
Any rite you can get is good.
We must talk to arrange details.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Food
‘Julia Reed’s South’: Entertaining, in Luxurious Down-Home Style
The author Julia Reed’s latest cookbook embraces a timeless Southern adage: serve food that tastes good.I can do that. I don't want to eat much of it.
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018147-chess-pie-squares
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Opinion
Addicted to a Treatment for Addiction
In Appalachia, a drug is saving lives. But it’s also fueling a dangerous black market.Addicts remain addicts.
Some are "in recovery".
Failures of recovery are more common than not.
You have known this.
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N.Y. / Region
Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters
Michelle Obama is to deliver a commencement address at ‘the poor man’s Harvard,’ where critics say a funding crisis is threatening its mission.Deferred maintenance is a future problem.
There is no good way to put a donor's name on new pipes or a new roof.
Government wants more for support than the City University of New York provides.
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Opinion
To Save Our Justice System, End Racial Bias in Jury Selection
Limit the number of “gut feeling” jury strikes to just one or two per side.Limiting the strikes will not correct the distribution in the jury pool.
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Opinion
Obama’s Pointless Cancer ‘Moonshot’
It’s a Catch-22: The longer we live, the more people will get the disease.Not at all.
Cancer is a research rather than an engineering problem.
This billion will go to research.
A billion is chunk change in relation to the present funding of cancer research.
Practical measures are as well funded as our congress allows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece_Award
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U.S.
Island Rattlesnake Colony Gives Small-Town Massachusetts Jitters
Proposing an uninhabited island as a place to protect the timber rattlesnake from humans, scientists set off an outcry from humans who fear snakes.Though many will not believe it, Massachusetts is not part of Ireland.
The rattlesnake has a place in the ecology of the state.
The causeways could be opened if that would help.
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U.S.
States Sue Administration Over Transgender Bathroom Policy
Officials in 11 states, led by Texas, accused the federal government of trying to make schools and offices “laboratories for a massive social experiment.”"Which end of a soft egg should be opened?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_and_Blefuscu
"The novel further describes an intra-Lilliputian quarrel over the practice of breaking eggs. Traditionally, Lilliputians broke boiled eggs on the larger end; a few generations ago, an Emperor of Lilliput, the Present Emperor's great-grandfather, had decreed that all eggs be broken on the smaller end after his son cut himself breaking the egg on the larger end. The differences between Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians had given rise to "six rebellions... wherein one Emperor lost his life, and another his crown". The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. The Big-Endians gained favour in Blefuscu."
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Opinion
Transgender People, Restrooms and Civil Rights
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provide insight.I agree.
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Fashion & Style
Komal Patel and Ravi Shah: A Memorable First Meeting, for One Person
They locked eyes on the dance floor, but she didn’t remember him a little while later.I do not read minds.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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U.S.
Florida Man Is Arrested in 2014 Murder of Law Professor
The Tallahassee police said Sigfredo Garcia was being held in connection with the killing of Dan Markel, a professor at Florida State University College of Law.I cannot as yet know.
I suspect Dan Markel may have been a addict.
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Opinion
Inside Student Radicalism
A clash of experiences at Oberlin College demonstrates the difficulty of reconciling identity politics with a meritocracy.I do not think David Brooks' meritocracy is the meritocracy I understand.
Merit includes understanding.
It is more than training.
Universities are trying to teach the process of thinking.
The process and the teaching of the process are not trivial.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Police Illegally Profiling Homeless People, Complaint Says
Advocates for the homeless, who complained to New York’s Civil Rights Commission, said the police were harassing people simply for living on the streets.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_%28people%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_%28people%29#Vagrancy_laws
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_%28people%29#United_States
Fix the law.
The situation is often beyond repair.
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N.Y. / Region
New York City Can Enforce Salt Warnings on Menus, Court Says
Thousands of restaurants must place a saltshaker icon next to menu items with more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium or face a fine, a court ruled.OK
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Magazine
Why Amnesty International Is Calling for Decriminalizing Sex Work
The human rights group takes a new position on prostitution and explains why arresting men for buying sex harms women.People have tried to suppress prostitution for millennia.
I know of no successes.
The best I can do is apply the marketplace.
A willing buyer and a willing seller are required for fair trade.
We could insist on licensing both sides of the trade.
The license must be displayed and kept current with health exams and drug tests..
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