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Health
Americans’ Hearing Loss Decreases Even With Ubiquitous Headphones
New research shows a drop in hearing loss, thanks to factors like fewer noisy factories, reduced use of medicines that can affect hearing, and better health in general."“The evidence suggests that 70 is the new 60,” Dr. Vaupel said, “with health and mortality of 70-year-olds today being similar to the health and mortality trends of 50-year-olds half a century ago.”"
Veterans of the second world war lost audio acuity.
2
Well
Running as the Thinking Person’s Sport
The sport seems to change how the brain works in surprising ways, according to a new report.I can take the report seriously.
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World
Mexican Report Says Investigators Botched Search for 43 Students
A review that the government refuses to release found that suspects had been arrested and moved illegally, jeopardizing any criminal case in the 2014 disappearance.There is no surprise in this report.
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U.S.
What Events Most Shaped America in Your Lifetime? A Pew Survey Tries to Answer
Barack Obama’s election, the tech revolution and the moon landing ranked highly when Americans were asked to think about the dominant historic events of their lifetimes.The Richard Nixon presidency.
The Civil War.
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The Learning Network
Should Cheerleading Be an Olympic Sport?
Are cheerleaders athletes in their own right, or just sideshow entertainment for the main athletic event?Cheerleading is a sideshow.
The Olympic event is gymnastics.
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U.S.
Mike Pence Is Invited to Dine at Pizzeria at Center of Fake News Barrage
A neighborhood group asked the vice president-elect to “help end this madness” by eating at Comet Ping Pong, which was tied to child sex slavery in a bizarre conspiracy theory.The conspiracy theory has been a useful tool.
The Republican party has no interest in ending it.
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N.Y. / Region
Operator Is at Fault for Fatal Crane Accident, City Finds
After an inquiry, officials suspended the license of Kevin Reilly, who was operating the crane that collapsed and killed a man in Manhattan in February."The Captain is always responsible."
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Opinion
U.N. Has a Responsibility in Congo
A reader writes that the international community is culpable for the violence following the postponement of presidential elections.A nonsequiteur.
The U.N. intentionally lacks the power to try to protect people from themselves.
The Congo is an attempted democracy.
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Opinion
The Dangers of Echo Chambers on Campus
We liberals hurt ourselves when we don’t hear others’ voices.The Ivory Tower has open gates.
Campuses are intentionally separate but attached to the greater world.
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N.Y. / Region
Muslim Woman Made Up Hate Crime on Subway, Police Say
The woman, 18, claimed that three men attacked her on a Manhattan subway on Dec. 1 and tried to pull off her hijab. The police said the story was false.First reports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley_rape_allegations
It could be true. Investigate.
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