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Science
A New Climate Danger: Carbon Released by Burning Bogs
Warming temperatures can dry out northern peatlands, increasing the risk of fires that release thousands of years of stored carbon into the atmosphere.Oil operations seem to be causal.
So far the damage is minor in the north.
I is sequestered carbon and deserves protection and encouragement.
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Opinion
Safety at the Panama Canal
A contractor for the canal expansion defends the design and construction quality of the project.Union fights make dramatic headlines.
The electric mules are the cheaper solution.
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Fashion & Style
Julia Kiefer, Patrick Corrigan
The couple were married by the groom’s father, an Episcopal priest, in Northampton, Mass.Sooner is better. as soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Against ‘Sustainability’
The truth is we “sustain” nature to preserve the resources needed for our own consumption.Human beings are active in their relation to the world.
Our actions have consequences.
Often an external cost amounts to a taking from others
The world will be as we make it. All of us.
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Fashion & Style
The Spouse in the Next Room
In the rapidly transforming work-from-home economy, it can be tricky for couples who mix business and cohabitation.Some things are continuously negotiated.
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N.Y. / Region
Review: At Pax Romana in White Plains, Eating as the Romans (Mostly) Do
The operators pay homage to the traditions of the Eternal City with a modern twist, serving up dishes that are hardly parochial.I am not enthusiastic.
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Fashion & Style
Brian Mosteller, Joseph Mahshie
The couple were married Aug. 1 by Vice President Joe Biden in his official residence in Washington.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Health
A Brain Surgeon’s Legacy Through a Grandson’s Eyes
In a new book, Luke Dittrich looks at the relationship between Dr. William Scoville and a patient and finds a dark history of mental health experimentation.We should not learn these things again.
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Job Market
Help for a Colleague Who Has Talent, and Isn’t Afraid to Scream It
Blunt truth may be the most effective way to help keep a talented, though difficult-to-work-with, former colleague from sabotaging his own potential.Sometimes the best that can be done is nothing.
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Fashion & Style
Tanea Cooper, Christopher Manning
The couple met as children at the same Maryland church where they were married.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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U.S.
Donald Trump, Hoping to Change Subject, Heads to Detroit to Talk Economics
Mr. Trump, joined by Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, will speak at the Detroit Economic Club lunch, where he is expected to lay out plans for how he would revitalize America’s economy.Trump has had another disaster.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polls-arent-skewed-trump-really-is-losing-badly/
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
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Business Day
A Surreal Life on the Precipice in Puerto Rico
Swimming pools pop up in slums, horses graze in schoolhouses, and public housing tenants pay negative rent on an island whose government has effectively gone broke.Puerto Rico is a creation of the U.S. congress.
The Republican Party did it.
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Fashion & Style
Margaret Chadbourn, David Clarke
The bride works at ABC News, and the groom is an editor at The Washington Post.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
The Safety of Freight Rail
The Association of American Railroads writes about the industry’s “strong record of moving hazardous but essential materials safely.”Yes.
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Fashion & Style
Lindsey Kremer, William Ruben
The bride and groom, who work for Facebook, met in high school and began dating seven years later.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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N.Y. / Region
Brooklyn Bridge, the ‘Times Square in the Sky,’ May Get an Expansion
New York City has commissioned a $370,000 engineering study of the bridge’s walking and biking promenade to address crowding.There must be a study.
I do not expect much change.
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Fashion & Style
Wendy De La Rosa Felipe, Jonathan Jean-Pierre
The couple met at the University of Pennsylvania, from which they both graduated.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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U.S.
Chicago Releases Videos From Police Officers’ Killing of 18-Year-Old
Footage from dashboard and body cameras shows a police altercation with an unarmed man, but does not show the fatal shooting.The Chicago police are in trouble.
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N.Y. / Region
Brooklyn Church, Over a Century Old, Likely to Make Way for Affordable Housing
After a series of clashes with preservationists, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn filed an application to demolish a church built in 1908 by Italian immigrants."Use it or lose it."
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Fashion & Style
Dana Feinstein, Eduardo Gouvêa
The couple met in 2012 while studying in Lyon, France.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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