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Magazine
My Wife Wants to Adopt. When Do I Tell Her I Won’t?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on when going along with your spouse is a gross deception, whether a child should know the real cause of his father’s death and when paying back a debt creates a greater burden than it lifts."You must know that what you’re doing is horribly manipulative and disrespectful. It’s a fine piece of folk wisdom that nobody really knows what’s going on in someone else’s marriage, but I would be seriously worried about the prospects of a relationship centered on an unreconciled difference this deep."
I worry about the time available.
I have met a number of trust-fund children.
I had no desire to continue to know them.
Raising a child with you would please me.
Abandoning that child a second time would not please me.
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Science
One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth
Scientists have detected a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. It might someday be possible to reach.Four light years.
A sixty year one way trip.
Check the atmosphere. Look at the transmission spectra.
https://www.amazon.com/Neptunes-Brood-Charles-Stross/dp/0425256308/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472089092&sr=8-1&keywords=neptunes+brood
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Health
Zika, a Formidable Enemy, Attacks and Destroys Parts of Babies’ Brains
The virus not only causes smaller heads and brains — the signature microcephaly — but disrupts development, scans show.Fund the vaccine work.
I would not inflict such a child on any mother.
The abortion laws in the tropics must change.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Police Struggle to Generate Leads in Murder of Queens Jogger
Dead end.
The case will go cold soon if the attacker does not do it again.
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Real Estate
House Hunting in ... Buenos Aires
Last year’s presidential election created a pause in the price increases in Buenos Aires’s housing market.I am reluctant to change my language and culture.
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Science
Ötzi the Iceman’s Patchwork Ensemble
A man who lived 5,300 years ago wore a mix-and-match wardrobe, including a bear fur hat, a sheepskin loincloth and a goat coat, DNA shows.An unexpected level of sophistication.
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Sports
Speedo Drops Ryan Lochte as Rio Fallout Continues
Speedo’s decision to cut sponsorship ties with Lochte is the first sign of financial consequence for the swimmer over a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio.OK
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N.Y. / Region
Ken Thompson, Brooklyn District Attorney, to Pay $15,000 Fine in Conflict Case
Mr. Thompson had used police officers to get his meals and pay for them before being reimbursed with his office’s funds, the city’s Conflicts of Interest board said.I expect Brooklyn will replace him.
It probably should not.
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Real Estate
$1,400,000 Homes in California, Connecticut and Pennsylvania
A 19th-century farmhouse in Litchfield, Conn., a 1960 house in Los Angeles, Calif., and a Tudor in Scranton, Pa.We need to talk.
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Sports
Court Upholds Doping-Related Ban on Russia at Paralympics
The Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected an appeal by Moscow, confirming that none of the country’s athletes would participate in the Games that begin on Sept. 7.I would support the court.
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Books
Prying Loose the Long-Kept Secrets of Attica
A historian’s hunt for details about the cover-ups surrounding the bloody 1971 prison uprising at Attica Correctional Institution in New York.“No matter what we think about what people in prison have done in society,” she said, “we still have to see them as people.”
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N.Y. / Region
John Timoney, Longtime Police Leader, Is Recalled at His Funeral as ‘One of a Kind’
Commissioner William J. Bratton and others praised Mr. Timoney, who rose through the ranks of the New York Police Department and later served as commissioner in Philadelphia and chief in Miami.The man is dead.
His work may not be dead.
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World
Report Accuses Mexico’s President of Plagiarism in Law School Thesis
An investigative journalist cited findings by a group of specialists and academics who reviewed President Enrique Peña Nieto’s 1991 thesis.President Enrique Peña Nieto is a hunted man.
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U.S.
The Beat, and the Bug Spray, Go On in South Beach Despite Zika Threat
There was some worry, but not enough to dim the party atmosphere. Said one man: “Maybe it’s only a problem if there’s a big swarm. I’m pretty chill.”The word has not reached the party.
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Business Day
Trying for Less Carbon
Readers respond to “The Messy Business of Clean Power (Aug. 14).A stiff carbon tax will do the job.
There is never enough insurance when death comes early.
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Fashion & Style
Sarah Norman, Thomas Jamison
The bride, who works for Facebook, and the groom, a graduate student, met at a New Year’s Eve party in Austin, Tex.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Sports
How to Link Rio Games’ Top Stories: Just Add Water
For reasons good and bad, the city’s water played a leading role in how the Games will be remembered: as a source of heroics, scandals and mosquitoes.Ok.
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Opinion
The Bias in ‘Broken Windows’
A young black man from Brooklyn says “broken windows” policing is abusive and discriminatory.It is.
We must adjust what is acceptable behavior and what is bearable punishment.
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