Sunday, July 3, 2016

@6:30, 7/2/16

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Times Insider

Mass Shootings: Notes From the Beat

Julie Turkewitz has covered the aftermath of four massacres across the country in the past 12 months, talking to people whose lives have been violently altered.

I try not to be a voyeur..

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N.Y. / Region

Fewer New York Students Will Attend Summer School, Continuing a Trend

Nearly 6 percent of all third through eighth graders must attend the classes, down from 6.3 percent last year, the city’s Education Department said.

We can expect some noise.

3/63 =  4.76% varriation
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Food

A Speedy Approach to Cooking With Cherries

Cook pork chops with the stone fruit for a pan sauce that contrasts with the meat.

Ok

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018200-pork-chops-with-brandied-cherries

4
Fashion & Style

Instagram Remembers Bill Cunningham

The fashion world is paying tribute, creatively, to the legendary style photographer.

Too soon.

5
Food

Fresh Mango, Multiple Ways in a Single Dessert

A summer dish at Indian Accent in Midtown pays tribute to a fruit that is central to Indian tradition.

Ok

6
Books

In Terry McMillan’s New Novel, a Middle-Aged Optometrist Decides to Give Her Life a Makeover

A middle-aged optometrist decides to remake her life.

Life conspires against people's intentions.

7
Opinion

There Are Conservative Professors. Just Not in These States.

New England colleges skew extremely liberal, Rocky Mountain ones less so.

"I cannot say for certain why New England is so far to the left. But what I can say, based on the evidence, is that if you are looking for an ideologically balanced education, don’t put New England at the top of your list."

Ideologically balanced education is not possible. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education

Samuel J. Abrams fails to think.

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Books

New England Lit

New novels by Ramona Ausubel, Ann Leary and Elizabeth Kelly.

The outside looking in.

9
Science

Scientists Devise New Way to Find an Elusive Element: Helium

Researchers prospecting in a volcanic region in Tanzania have found a significant reservoir of the gas, which is crucial for equipment like M.R.I. machines.

I continue to find geology fascinating.

10
Travel

Badlands National Park: Bison Bison Bison

The writer Cheryl Strayed remembers a very up-close encounter with wild beast.

People are not the masters of these lands.

https://www.nps.gov/badl/planyourvisit/maps.htm

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Badlands+National+Park/@43.7026881,-102.5935355,11z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x877e870c18052023:0x69685e31dae677f0!8m2!3d43.8553804!4d-102.3396912

South Dakota 

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Health

What Doctors Know About How Bad It Is, and Won’t Say

A prognosis, predicting the likely course of an illness, often makes physicians uneasy, fearful that delivering bad news will dash patients’ hopes.

People die.

When and how are matters for discussion.

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U.S.

Reeking, Oozing Algae Closes South Florida Beaches

At play are forces that define modern Florida: competing environmental, residential and agricultural interests, and a failure to manage the demands of growth.

There is no right to profit.

Ending sugar cane culture in Florida is probably necessary.
Ending sugar cane culture world wide would help with climate change.

13
Books

Ian Frazier Is a Master of the Essay. Here Are Some of His Best.

Frazier approaches the world with curiosity and enthusiasm.

Carlo Rotella likes the work of Ian Frazier.
I recognize the topics of the cited essays.

14
N.Y. / Region

An Owner of a Well-Known Brooklyn Pizzeria Is Fatally Shot Outside His Home

Louis Barbati, 61, was shot in the torso outside his home on 12th Avenue in the Dyker Heights section, the police said.

We are told only the bare facts.
I see the shooting was intentional and not unexpected.

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U.S.

New Documents Question Timeline in Orlando Nightclub Massacre

City officials were asked why it may have taken nearly three hours after the shooting stopped to take down the gunman who killed 49 and injured more than 50.

The police in Orlando appear to have behaved themselves.

16
Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties are on the Upper West Side, in Lenox Hill and in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

I don't want to live there.  

17
U.S.

California Today: How Badly Do You Want That New Rail Line?

We’re trying something new: California Today, a morning update for our California readers. Tell us what you’d like to see: CAtoday@nytimes.com

Kill the sales tax.
Hike the gas tax.

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Real Estate

Tamron Hall, of the ‘Today’ Show, Feathers Her Nest

Tamron Hall, a host of the “Today” show, an MSNBC news show and “Deadline: Crime With Tamron Hall,” lives in downtown Manhattan.

Always on stage.

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U.S.

The Right-Wing Supreme Court That Wasn’t

This should have been a good year for conservatives hoping for legal gains in the nation’s highest court, but it wasn’t to be.

I refuse to second guess the Supreme Court of the U.S.

It is far from the left on the political spectrum.

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Opinion

The Deadly Mix of Guns and Domestic Violence

More than half of all women murdered by guns are killed by partners or family members. Congress was right to ban domestic abusers from having guns.

The Second Amendment was an experiment in national defense that failed more than two hundred years ago.

It should be retired.

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