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Books
Stephen King Reviews Emma Donoghue’s Latest Novel
In 19th-century Ireland, a nurse is hired to watch a girl on a suspicious religious fast in Emma Donoghue’s “The Wonder.”"Praising with faint damns"
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N.Y. / Region
Christie Was Told of Bridge Plot During 9/11 Ceremony, Witness Testifies
David Wildstein, the mastermind behind the lane closings, said Gov. Chris Christie was informed of the lane closings at a memorial service the week they were happening.Chris Christie will dodge most of the mess.
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Opinion
The Deaf Body in Public Space
To communicate in sign language, I often have to break the norms placed on our bodies.Sign is a different language.
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Food
Review: ‘Taste of Persia’ Crosses Borders
Naomi Duguid’s latest cookbook follows a trail through Iran, Georgia, Kurdistan, Azerbaijan and Armenia.http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018317-baku-fish-kebabs
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N.Y. / Region
Brooklyn Officer Charged in Fatal Off-Duty Shooting Pleads Not Guilty
Officer Wayne Isaacs shot Delrawn Small in a traffic dispute in the Cypress Hills neighborhood on July 4, according to initial police accounts.There will be a trial.
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Science
Ringing Up a New Species of Crab
A previously unknown category of freshwater crab was found in a pet shop in a subtropical province of China and is being called Yuebeipotamon.China is large.
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Food
Review: An Indian Twist on Southern Cuisine in ‘My Two Souths’
The chef Asha Gomez brings Indian spice to the South’s greatest recipe hits in her debut cookbook.More interesting food
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Times Insider
Andrew Rosenthal: Gun Control and Gun Rights
Mr. Rosenthal, a columnist at The Times, will host a panel about the delicate balance, at a time of frequent killing sprees.Gun control is necessary. Gun rights are a failed experiment.
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Opinion
Bringing Prison Guards to Justice
Elected officials and local prosecutors need to do their part in ridding New York’s prison system of wanton brutality.Yes
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U.S.
Keith Scott Threatened Family, Wife Said in Court Papers
Rakeyia Scott sought a protective order last year against Mr. Scott, whose death at the hands of the Charlotte, N.C., police has set off protests.There will be more investigation.
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Real Estate
House Hunting in ... Costa Rica
The housing market in Costa Rica’s lake area has improved, though it still remains a buyer’s market with abundant housing inventory.I don't want to live that life.
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Food
Review: Two Books to Master Chinese Cuisines
Fuchsia Dunlop explores the cuisine of Jiangnan in “Land of Fish and Rice,” and Carolyn Phillips takes a broad approach to Chinese cooking in “All Under Heaven.”Worth a try.
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World
Woman Who Took Husband’s Intestine on Flight Wanted It Tested, Lawyer Says
The 35-year-old Moroccan, concerned about foul play by the man’s family, hoped to have the sample analyzed by European doctors, according to her representative.Unusual.
I have no objection.
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Books
Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs
Michael McCarthy’s book is both a paean to the earth’s beauty and an elegy for it."Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
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N.Y. / Region
Culprit in Bridge Scandal Says He Was ‘Surprised’ by Lane Closings’ Timing
David Wildstein, who has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his role in the scheme, said he was taken aback by the email ordering “some traffic problems” in Fort Lee, N.J.Ok
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Food
Review: The Sqirl Cookbook, ‘Everything I Want to Eat’
Jessica Koslow’s cookbook, from her Los Angeles restaurant, Sqirl, combines health food, diner food and dazzling technique.Ok
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"Yet wise writers decline to engage in debates over the right way to read their own words. T.S. Eliot was once approached with a question about a cryptic line from his poem “Ash-Wednesday”: “Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree.” What did the line mean? The poet replied: “I mean, ‘Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree.’ ” Creating a text, Eliot seems to be saying, like having a child, only means bringing something into the world. It doesn’t include the power to control its destiny."
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Books
Can You Read a Book the Wrong Way?
Adam Kirsch and Anna Holmes debate whether some methods of reading are more correct than others."Yet wise writers decline to engage in debates over the right way to read their own words. T.S. Eliot was once approached with a question about a cryptic line from his poem “Ash-Wednesday”: “Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree.” What did the line mean? The poet replied: “I mean, ‘Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree.’ ” Creating a text, Eliot seems to be saying, like having a child, only means bringing something into the world. It doesn’t include the power to control its destiny."
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U.S.
Whether Crime Is Up or Down Depends on Data Being Used
The decline in homicide has been so significant that sudden increases in just a few cities can skew the national picture, criminologists and police officials say.yes
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Travel
A Family Returns to Montana ‘Ruts’ and a Million-Dollar View
Bigfork, Mont., has seen big change but the family ties, the vistas and the colorful stones of Flathead Lake remain a draw for the Frugal Family.It reads like a good trip
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Science
An App to Help Save Emissions (and Maybe Money) When Buying a Car
The app is a result of research that looks at 125 cars and measures their mileage and the greenhouse gases generated in making and powering them.Please yourself.
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Opinion
The Deaf Body in Public Space
To communicate in sign language, I often have to break the norms placed on our bodies.Opinion
A.D.D. and Child Suicides
A pediatrician writes that the link between the two “must be understood within the context of contemporary developmental science.”http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/science/more-child-suicides-are-linked-to-add-than-depression-study-suggests.html
Child suicides are mostly properly categorized as accidental deaths.
Books
Can You Read a Book the Wrong Way?
Adam Kirsch and Anna Holmes debate whether some methods of reading are more correct than others.No, books cannot be read the wrong way.
The reading is the perceiver's responsibility.
The writer's responsibility ends with publication.
The Upshot
It’s Easy for Obamacare Critics to Overlook the Merits of Medicaid Expansion
In most ways, Medicaid offers an excellent return on investment, but 19 states have refused to participate in the expansion."I have been poor. I have been rich. Rich is better."
Opinion
A Virtual Visit to a Relative in Jail
I wasn’t allowed to see my sister in person. We could “meet” only via video.Monopolies have no reason to provide satisfaction.
N.Y. / Region
2 Men Who Found Unexploded Bomb in Travel Bag in Chelsea Are Identified
The two men were tourists from Egypt who have since returned to their home country, a law enforcement official said.Islam is large.
Real Estate
A Dog-Friendly Co-op in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Michael Beattie and Marissa Tarallo found the search for an apartment trying, but worth it in the end.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sunset+Park,+Brooklyn,+NY/@40.6453282,-74.0308502,13z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25ab3e466657d:0x83eb32ea80df632!8m2!3d40.645532!4d-74.0123851
Health
High Blood Pressure May Limit Children’s Cognitive Skills, Study Suggests
While not conclusive, the research added to a growing body of evidence indicating that hypertension may reduce children’s ability to remember, pay attention and organize facts.Obesity is important.
The cure seems to be the elimination of sucrose from the diet.
High Fructose corn syrup is a bit worse.
The culprit is the fructose component of sucrose.
Salt and sugar combine to hide each other.
Salt is behind high blood pressure.
Well
When a Spouse Dies, Resilience Can Be Uneven
Even those who seem fine often experience significant declines in specific aspects of physical and emotional health.Emotional dependencies do not go away.
A clean break is nonexistent.
Talk to me.
Sooner is better.
Business Day
U.S. to Bar Arbitration Clauses in Nursing Home Contracts
The decision, by the Department of Health and Human Services, would restore the right to legal action to 1.5 million nursing home residents.It is a declaration of independence.
Well
After Just 10 Days of Rest, Brain Benefits of Exercise Diminish
A provocative new study finds that some of the benefits of exercise for brain health may evaporate if we take to the couch, even just for a week or so.The study is incomplete.
Try again with follow ups after the resumption of exercise.
Travel
A Family Returns to Montana ‘Ruts’ and a Million-Dollar View
Home remains home even if built over.
Travel
A 7-Night, $250 Cruise? Yes, and You Might Also Do Some Good
Taking the Fathom “social impact” cruise, in which travelers do volunteer work in exchange for low rates to the Dominican Republic.The idea is not a good one.
The changes are not those that can be effected by short term semiskilled labor.
Books
Anthony Doerr Reviews a New Book on Time Travel
James Gleick’s “Time Travel: A History” is a fascinating mash-up of philosophy, literary criticism, physics and cultural observation."It’s also in the science. Gleick is a polymathic thinker who can quote from David Foster Wallace’s undergraduate thesis as readily as from Kurt Gödel or Lord Kelvin, and like many of the storytellers he thumbnails, he employs time travel to initiate engrossing discussions of causation, fatalism, predestination and even consciousness itself. He includes a humorously derisive chapter on people who bury time capsules (“If time capsulists are enacting reverse archaeology, they are also engaging in reverse nostalgia”), he tackles cyberspace (“Every hyperlink is a time gate”), and throughout the book he displays an acute and playful sensitivity to how quickly language gets slippery when we talk about time. Why, for example, do English speakers say the future lies ahead and the past lies behind, while Mandarin speakers say future events are below and earlier events are above?"
"Gleick’s epigraph to his penultimate chapter comes from Ursula Le Guin: “Story is our only boat for sailing on the river of time,” and she’s right, of course. The shelves of every library in the world brim with time machines. Step into one, and off you go."
Opinion
Bringing Prison Guards to Justice
Elected officials and local prosecutors need to do their part in ridding New York’s prison system of wanton brutality.Let it be done.
N.Y. / Region
For Tenants Facing Eviction, New York May Guarantee a Lawyer
A bill backed by a majority on the City Council would aid low-income residents who are outmatched in Housing Court.Some landlords cheat.
A public defender is a good idea.
N.Y. / Region
Brooklyn Officer Charged With Murder and Manslaughter in Off-Duty Shooting
Wayne Isaacs, who shot another driver after a road-rage episode in July, is the first police officer to be prosecuted by the New York attorney general.The action is proper.
The Upshot
Calls to 911 From Black Neighborhoods Fell After a Case of Police Violence
A new study points to a possible link between mistrust of police officers and a community’s reluctance to report crimes.The police earn mistrust.
U.S.
Appeals Court Hears Challenge to Obama’s Climate Change Rules
Federal judges hear oral arguments in a lawsuit filed by 28 states and hundreds of companies and industry groups opposed to the Clean Power Plan.An appeal is a right.
The appeals should fail.
