1
Opinion
A Farming Revolution, Minus Factories
Readers take issue with an article about the virtues of industrial farms.Large scale produces more cheaply than small scale.
The costs are external.
Internalize all the costs and farming becomes a loser.
2
Well
Teaching Your Child Emotional Agility
Learning to handle negative emotions is critical for children, but parents tend to teach avoidance rather than acceptance.Fixing the problem is not avoiding the problem.
Some things cannot be fixed.
Some things can be reconstructed.
3
World
What’s Clogging Jakarta’s Waterways? You Name It
Indonesia’s capital is working to dredge its network of rivers and canals, long blocked with garbage and a central contributor to chronic flooding.Building in a wetland is not a good idea.
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Times Insider
Fall Food: School Lunches, Potlucks and Perfect, Dusky Plums
The food writers Julia Moskin and Kim Severson on school lunches, potluck dinners, plums and the joy of cooking in Julia Child’s house.I looked for prune plumbs and missed them this year.
Let them ripen and eat them.
5
Opinion
Marine Recruit Training
A former Marine infantry officer writes that more needs to be done to ensure that demanding training doesn’t “slide into abuse.”The enlisted marine is a loyal monster.
Paris Island knows how to make them.
6
Fashion & Style
Elizabeth Cody, Jeremi Roux
The couple, who met in 2013 via OkCupid, were married in Pittsfield, Vt.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
7
Real Estate
House Hunting in ... Poland
Poland’s real estate market is still developing, with prices lower than in other European countries for comparable properties.I want to avoid residence in the E.U.
8
Your Money
One of the Smartest Money Strategies Is Asking When You Don’t Know
Humility, in personal finance, is knowing how to ask for help when you don’t know something, even when you think you should know it.Yes, ask.
Ask people who know the answers and will explain them.
9
Fashion & Style
Hilary Keefe, Christopher Schuville
The couple met at Georgetown University, from which they graduated.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
10
N.Y. / Region
The City Is Plastic
Reflections on a takeout salad.Use wooden chopsticks and a banana leaf.
11
World
Pope Francis Makes Surprise Visit to Earthquake-Hit Towns in Italy
Francis vowed after the deadly tremor that he would travel to the region and pray with residents, but he had delayed the trip to avoid hindering rebuilding efforts.I can do no better than quote Pope Francis:
"“Let’s
go forward; there is always a future,” the pope said. “There are many
who have left us, many who fell here, under the rubble.”
“Let’s
always look forward. Forward, courage and helping each other,” he said.
“It’s better to walk together; alone you don’t get far.”"
12
Opinion
Italy’s Open Literary Secret
We all knew Elena Ferrante’s real identity. So why are we angry, now the world knows, too?It is now known who to kidnap and who the sales people want to talk to.
Her peace is broken along with her concentration.
She spent forty years as an apprentice.
Her mastery is earned.
13
Food
What to Cook This Week
Revel in the pleasures of cooking ahead for the week, then learn about the term “subtweet.”Beef stew is good.
A subtweet won't work.
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14
Business Day
A Maryland County Tries to Tame a Stretch of Suburban Sprawl
Rockville Pike outside Washington is being remade to emphasize greater density, a mix of land uses and pedestrian traffic.It is called urbanization.
15
Travel
How to Have a Luxury Vacation for Less
If you want a high-end but affordable getaway, use credit card points at upscale hotels and travel when the peak season has passed.To gather credit card points one must have a credit card.
16
Well
Toxins Linger in Homes Long After Smokers Quit
Small particles from burning tobacco penetrate carpets, clothes and even wallpaper and remain for months.Forty Years is a long time. I quit forty years ago.
I can't stand second hand smoke. Modern tobacco stinks.
17
Well
Men Get Osteoporosis, Too
They are more likely than women to be permanently disabled by it and twice as likely to die.I have not broken a bone.
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U.S.
U.S. Immigration Judges Look Within to Minimize Bias
More than 250 judges attended anti-bias training in August as part of a Justice Department initiative to reduce bias in deportation proceedings.Immigration proceedings are intended to default to deportation.
That some do not result in deportation is an achievement.
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Business Day
Study-Abroad Programs Address a Risk: Road Fatalities
With more American students studying overseas, particularly in parts of the world with weak traffic-safety standard, parents and educators are on guard."Stupidity has always carried a death penalty."
Colleges stopped claiming to act "In loco parentes" in the late nineteen sixties.
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N.Y. / Region
Despite National Trend, New York Police Are Slow to Adopt Body Cameras
The halting pace of the body-worn camera effort is striking for an agency that has pledged to make itself a model of technology-driven policing and a leader in improving police-community relations.The police do not like squealers. The body camera is a mechanical squealer.
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