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Well
Will Simone Manuel Inspire More Black Children to Swim?
Most young blacks can’t swim with proficiency. Now the popularity of the Olympic gold medalist Ms. Manuel may inspire a new generation of children to learn.We can hope.
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U.S.
Racial Violence in Milwaukee Was Decades in the Making, Residents Say
The city now joins other places where police killings highlighted simmering anger over the systemic problems that have so many black people feeling hopeless.People came to earn.
The industry left in search of cheaper labor.
People were left with obligations and no income.
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Opinion
From California, a Better Way to Retire
Passage of state legislation would provide a national model for promoting retirement savings.A reasonable plan.
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Sports
Video: Simone Biles Is the World’s Best Gymnast
“At this point in time, nobody can beat Simone Biles,” Nastia Liukin, 2008 Olympic gold medalist, said.She will be back for the gold.
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Science
Scientists Just Say No to ‘Chemtrails’ Conspiracy Theory
To counter “chemtrails” believers and keep others from joining them, researchers try a peer-reviewed study.Urban legends are hard to fight.
The tinfoil hat group is always certain.
Large scale projects always leak.
The NSA tried to hide their recording efforts without success.
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NYT Now
‘What Is Best About America’
Our top 10 comments of the week: Readers debate standouts at the Olympics, the “sad” national anthem and Hillary Clinton’s relationship with money.Lowering taxes is not a way to national economic success.
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N.Y. / Region
Affordable Housing Rules Apply to Bronx Complex, but Not One in Manhattan
The projects, approved by the City Planning Commission, serve as important tests for the de Blasio administration’s efforts to blunt gentrification.The City Planning Commission likes to smell good.
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U.S.
Delays Persist in Shuttering D.C. Homeless Shelter That Few Consider Livable
City officials proposed a plan six months ago to close the center, but objections to the cost and to possible replacement sites are threatening to derail it.Knock D.C. General down and build hi-rise shelters on the site.
The neighbors are used to the population.
The population shift becomes temporary.
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Sports
Officials Spent Big on Olympics, but Rio Natives Are Paying the Price
Rio de Janeiro residents have criticized Brazilian officials for spending money on the Olympics rather than tending to the country’s problems.The funds would not have been borrowed for projects other than the Olympics.
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Opinion
The Shadow of Crime in City Parks
Despite recent reports, crime has fallen steeply and continues to fall in New York City."The “surge” in crime in the parks is more about fear than facts."
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Food
What to Cook This Week
Middle Eastern chicken, corn salad and some ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa.’I will stagger on.
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N.Y. / Region
Taking Summer School to Get Ahead, Not Catch Up
High-achieving students are enrolling to turbocharge grade-point averages or load up on advanced courses, but critics say the practice only adds to the inequities of the college admissions process."And at Horace Mann, Ms. Bartels said she believed many students were better off getting a break from school. She said she told many of them: “If there is anything else you can do this summer, do it.”"
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N.Y. / Region
Waiting 8 Days in the Heat for a Chance at a Middle-Class Job
A line formed more than a week early in the West Village for 250 applications for apprenticeships at the New York City District Council of Carpenters.Carpenters work. They get union scale.
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Real Estate
Homes That Sold for $700,000 to $899,000
Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.Homes are selling slowly and below list price.
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Fashion & Style
What a Nice Vacation You’re Having
The tyranny of others’ fabulous vacation photos on social media.All sunsets are kitsch.
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Magazine
Flint’s Water Crisis and the ‘Troublemaker’ Scientist
Marc Edwards took up the cause of water activists in Flint — and earned their trust. Now he’s fighting to keep it."“This is what a ‘dark age’ looks like,” he wrote me in an email the morning after our conversation. “When science is no longer a source of enlightenment, people still need to believe in something.” The people of Flint had been betrayed, and the betrayal had pushed some of them “into the anti-science camp.” He continued: “We lost our authority and the public trust with good reason. After Flint kids were protected, I took off my activist suit and put on my lab coat. Some people assumed my motives could be changed just as easily. Not so, but arguing about it is not productive. Our energies have to be focused on not betraying the public in the first place.”"
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Opinion
Brazil’s Uplifting Olympics
Why is it the developed world has to find fault in a developing country that organizes a major sporting event?Yes. Go Brazil.
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Fashion & Style
Amy Lewis and Douglas Sweetman: Finding Love on a Dairy Farm
She was looking for old farm equipment to use in a sculpture. She ended up with much more.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
Sports
Olympian’s Mother Leaves a Suitcase at Check-In, and It Is Destroyed
Cindy Lloyd, the mother of the American volleyball player Carli Lloyd, left her bag at a Rio cruise ship terminal and then learned that the authorities had blown it up.Another excuse to shop.
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