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Well
Toxins Linger in Homes Long After Smokers Quit
Small particles from burning tobacco penetrate carpets, clothes and even wallpaper and remain for months.An electrostatic percipitrator will help.
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Opinion
A Disabled Life Is a Life Worth Living
For people like me, simply enduring can feel like a tremendous victory.Yes, it can be.
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Health
The Gray Gender Gap: Older Women Are Likelier to Go It Alone
Older men are far more likely to be married than their female counterparts, and singlehood can take a toll on health and finances.I have the shadow of a plan.
It needs polish.
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Books
H. W. Brands: By the Book
The historian and author, most recently, of “The General vs. the President” has a thing for Gore Vidal as an essayist, but “his historical novels set my teeth on edge.”Things to read. The Guns of August
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August
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Books
In Her Shoes
The best-selling novelist Jennifer Weiner is branching out — in more than one direction.Not now unless you insist.
6
Food
Carla Hall’s Southern Kitchen Likes It Hot, but Not Hellish
Nashville-style hot chicken is the draw at a TV chef’s Brooklyn restaurant.We could try it.
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Real Estate
$1 Million Homes in North Carolina, Virginia and Washington State
A log cabin in Lake Toxaway, N.C., a farmhouse in Unison, Va., and a water view in Poulsbo, Wash.no
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Real Estate
Richard Peck: Embraced by an Apartment
Mr. Peck, the author of many children’s books, including “The Best Man,” lives on the Upper East Side.More than inertia and less than love.
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Opinion
Little Safety in Honduras
A reader suggests a possible solution to the dangerous situation for dissenters in the country.Death comes quickly.
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Books
A Woman Puts Her Horse Before Her Marriage
A marriage frays when a wife’s attentions drift to a thoroughbred in Margot Livesey’s latest novel, “Mercury.”I would have to sample it to know.
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Fashion & Style
Why the Word ‘Fiancé’ Is Falling Out of Fashion
Increasingly, the newly engaged are rejecting a label that invites questions, speculation and that makes them feel like, well, jerks.POSSLQ never was more than a joke.
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N.Y. / Region
Ex-Ally of Christie Links Cuomo to Cover-Up of Lane Closings
The former official, David Wildstein, said in court Tuesday that the governors of New Jersey and New York agreed to issue a report falsely citing a traffic study as the reason for shutting lanes leading to the George Washington Bridge."A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo issued a statement sternly denying that the governor and Mr. Christie had discussed a false story and denouncing Mr. Wildstein’s motivations."
Allegiances continue in spite of prosecutions.
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Real Estate
The Lower East Side, Minus Three Roommates
After living in a five-bedroom duplex with three other roommates, Garrett Aries and Olivia Jung went on the hunt for a less unwieldy place.Housemates rather than a domestic partnership.
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World
After Hurricane Matthew, Devastation in Southern Haiti
The hurricane destroyed houses and left villages under several feet of water.There are more dead under the rubble.
I have found no way to fix Haiti.
The U.S. can send food.
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Well
Our Sleep Training Nightmare
We are the family your pediatricians warn you about.At the end of life one is alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immurement
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N.Y. / Region
Witness Says Christie Aide Asked Her to Delete Email About Lane Closings
The email documented a call from the mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., to a young staff member in Gov. Chris Christie’s office, in which the mayor complained about public safety hazards from the shutdowns.New Jersey politics continue. There will be more discoveries.
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Food
The Magic of Crepe Cake
The street snack becomes something ethereal when it’s layered with cream for a cake.http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018338-chocolate-hazelnut-crepe-cake
I could make this cake. I would want to eat it.
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Food
That’s Amaro: One Man’s Love Affair With Bitter Liqueurs
A new book from Brad Thomas Parsons, the cocktail world’s Mr. Bitters.Ethanol also known as neutral spirits.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan
This week’s properties are in Harlem, on the Upper West Side and in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn.I can build anything but location.
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U.S.
Practical Tips for Surviving a Hurricane, Learned the Hard Way
If they tell you to get out — get out. Water rises swiftly and is more powerful than most people could imagine. And put valuables in the refrigerator.A front loading washing machine.
Camp on the beach.
Live on high ground.
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Books
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading by book critics and editors at The New York Times.I read what is recommended of the Times.
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U.S.
Ask the Eye: Questions and Answers on Hurricane Matthew
John Schwartz, a New York Times reporter who covers climate change and the environment, is answering reader questions about the storm.https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/hurricane-matthew-pounds-southeast-with-record-storm-surge-massive-fl
A disaster for the Atlantic coastal South.
The storm will go out to sea next.
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Opinion
Little Safety in Honduras
A reader suggests a possible solution to the dangerous situation for dissenters in the country.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Honduras/@14.717715,-90.741736,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8f6a751a73b731cf:0x7ed1de82b6fb8264!8m2!3d15.199999!4d-86.241905
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/opinion/end-us-support-for-the-thugs-of-honduras.html?ref=nyt-es&_r=1
?https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/
I doubt the U.N. is to blame.
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Science
A Milestone for Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
Carbon dioxide will continue to rise unless there are major changes.
"One danger of alarmism, Dr. Keeling said, is that it can make people feel hopeless and throw up their hands. “The first step is just to stop the increase,” he said, no matter how high the numbers rise in the meantime. “There’s no punting on global warming.”"
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U.S.
Millions Flee or Brace as Hurricane Matthew Barrels Toward Florida
People fled inland or barricaded themselves in their homes on Thursday to escape what could be dangerous flooding, blackouts and 140-mile-per-hour winds.Cleanup and recovery are in progress.
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Science
Copper Doorknobs as Germ Assassins
Copper surfaces are valuable, but not infallible, in killing disease-causing microbes left on them.Save money by washing all hands every time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper#Antimicrobial_applications
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N.Y. / Region
Man Charged With Stealing Rare Books Worth $20,000 From Manhattan Dealer
Gabriel Hundiashvili, a former fashion photographer, admitted to detectives that he had stolen the two texts, the police said.Theft is not a good idea.
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Science
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Company, Passes an In-Flight Escape Test
The company, which is working toward carrying tourists into space, separated a crew capsule from the booster of its New Shepard rocket.It is not my trip.
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N.Y. / Region
New York City Sells Landlords’ Debts, but Buildings Fall Into Limbo, Critics Say
A growing number of housing advocates and officials are urging the city to rethink its practice of selling the debt of apartment buildings in severe disrepair.If the buildings produced a positive cash flow they would not be in arrears.
The rent on those spaces will be much higher.
Rent that produces a positive cash flow is not individually affordable.
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N.Y. / Region
A Raw Deal for Chickens, as Jews Atone for Sins
Though the practice has its critics, Hasidic Jews will sacrifice about 50,000 chickens this week as part of a penitential ritual.How could a chicken be sinful?
Only the consumption of chickens beyond need can be sinful.
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Fashion & Style
Why the Word ‘Fiancé’ Is Falling Out of Fashion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engagement
"Long engagements were once common in formal arranged marriages, and it was not uncommon for parents betrothing children to arrange marriages many years before the engaged couple were old enough."
Any contract is not between us.
13
Food
6 Recipes for Midweek
Take on Wednesday with a modern twist on the chicken potpie and a no-recipe kielbasa dinner.My appetite is reduced.
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N.Y. / Region
Ex-Ally of Christie Links Cuomo to Cover-Up of Lane Closings
New Jersey politics continues.
There was a command to "Fall on his sword"and do the state a last service.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Archdiocese Offers Compensation Program for Sexual Abuse Victims
The independent commission will allow victims of abuse by clergy to apply for monetary compensation from the church, even for claims that are decades old, church leaders said Thursday."Any victim who agrees to compensation from the fund must sign a release forgoing the right to sue the archdiocese over sexual abuse allegations. That provision drew sharp criticism on Thursday from some victims and their advocates."
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N.Y. / Region
For Transgender Youths in New York, It Would Be a Health Care Milestone
The state wants its Medicaid program to allow minors being treated for gender dysphoria to receive coverage for hormone therapy.Do it.
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Opinion
2 Years After Mexican Students Vanished
Mexico promised to diligently investigate the disappearance of 43 students, but it has become clear officials are more interested in damage control than the truth.If Mexico could settle the matter without social collapse they would have done so.
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Well
Our Sleep Training Nightmare
We are the family your pediatricians warn you about.My father introduced his children to asymptotic progressions at an early age.
"In bed with the lights off by the count of three: 1, 2, 2 1/2, 2 2/3, 2 3/4, 2 4/5, 2 5/6, . . .
The count never went very far.
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