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Travel
For Fall Foliage Season, Lower Prices at Hotels
From Maine to Mackinac Island, hotels and resorts are offering lower rates during leaf-peeping season (midweek stays are some of the best deals).No frost here as yet.
http://www.weather.gov/aly/
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Business Day
Your Local 1-Percenters May Not Be as Rich as You Think
In places like Lamar County, Ala., an income of $97,000 would put your family in thetop echelon of earners, a far cry from $2.2 million in Teton County, Wyo.
Think nationally.
These are federal taxes.
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N.Y. / Region
Hunt Continues for Two Men Who Found Suitcase Containing Bomb in Chelsea
Two days after releasing an image of two men who found a suitcase holding an unexploded bomb in Manhattan, the authorities said on Friday that the men’s identities and whereabouts remained unknown.I am not unhappy these two have not come forward.
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Fashion & Style
Elizabeth Su, Andrew Lee
The couple, who work for web-based businesses in San Francisco, met at Tufts.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
Ricardo Daziano, Rolf Noyer
The couple were married at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Why Industrial Farms Are Good for the Environment
Technology has helped make them more sustainable than at any time in history.Monoculture is a dangerous practice.
A single plant or animal disease can destroy a crop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
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Business Day
Every Day’s a Safety Drill as Chipotle Woos Customers Back
After a string of illnesses at Chipotle Mexican Grill, the restaurant chain is working hard to improve food safety at all stages of production.Chipoltle is trying hard to be safe.
High production farming is often not safe farming.
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The Upshot
Football Team at the Buffet: Why Obamacare Markets Are in Crisis
Insurers are raising prices and limiting choices for the same reasons a restaurant owner might replace lobster with potato salad on an all-you-can-eat menu.Rationing by cost is not effective when a third party pays the bill.
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Movies
Review: ‘1000 Rupee Note,’ a Poor Widow’s Blessing and Curse
In this film, set in the Maharashtra State of India, a villager sets off on a fraught shopping trip after receiving a few 1,000-rupee notes at a political rally.The story has been told many times.
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N.Y. / Region
Anthony Weiner Faces New Scrutiny After Report About Girl, 15
A federal subpoena seeks records pertaining to allegations that Mr. Weiner, an ex-congressman married to a Hillary Clinton aide, traded sexually explicit messages with a teenager.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog
Prosecute him if possible.
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Books
Review: It’s Jane Jacobs’s World We Live In
Robert Kanigel’s flawed book is the largest and most comprehensive biography of a heroic figure of intellectual life in the second half of the 20th century.Robert Kanigel's "Eyes on the Street" suffered an editorial failure.
Jane Jacobs deserves a thoughtful biography.
This is not that book.
Read “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” (1961) and know
she ended up living in Toronto.
The vision of the 1939 World's Fair captured Manhattan.
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Fashion & Style
Emma Kynoch, Marc Lowenstein
The couple met on Fire Island at a weekend rental house that Ms. Kynoch had organized.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Food
In California, Grenache Packs More Than Power
Though these wines are known for their assertive blockbuster style, subtler expressions of them can be compelling.Wine can be art.
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Books
In a Novel Set at Harvard, Class Divisions and a Creepy Crush
A middle-class boy becomes obsessed with a rich girl, and increasingly unstable, in Teddy Wayne’s “Loner.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy#Sociopathy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
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U.S.
Jack Garman, Whose Judgment Call Saved Moon Landing, Dies at 72
Mr. Garman was at a back-room console on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong told mission control of a possible computer systems overload. “As long as it doesn’t reoccur, it’s fine,” Mr. Garman said.Man rated computers are still a problem.
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U.S.
Yielding to Pressure, Charlotte Will Release Videos of Keith Scott Shooting
City government officials previously contended that disclosing the recordings so soon after the fatal encounter could undermine a criminal inquiry.The investigation will continue.
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N.Y. / Region
Cuomo Called for ‘Reboot’ of School Standards. Officials Propose Tweaks Instead.
After more than 130 parents and teachers reviewed the standards, education officials proposed mostly minor changes for the state’s version of the Common Core.There is no major change in the standards.
Yelling will continue.
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Books
‘The Virginity of Famous Men’ Has Characters on Edge
The stories in Christine Sneed’s “The Virginity of Famous Men” inhabit the lives of the indecisive.Life is not a traditional short story.
Christine Sneed does not write short stories.
I will make no effort to find “The Virginity of Famous Men”.
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Fashion & Style
Elyssa Feins, Michael Nadler
The couple met in 2012 through JDate.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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