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Opinion
It’s Our Land. Let’s Keep It That Way.
Federal parks, forests, wildlife refuges and rangelands are owned by the public. We should resist the Republicans who want to sell or give them away.The Mormons of Utah have not been happy with their limited sovereignty.
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U.S.
An Alt-Right Makeover Shrouds the Swastikas
A movement of many factions is trying to change its image now that its profile has risen, but its message — one of racial separation and supremacy — is unchanged.Fratricide is bitter.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fratricide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions
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Real Estate
How Can a Co-op Shoo Away a Pigeon Complaint?
A co-op has problems with a grocery store that attracts pigeons and rats.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
Hardware cloth stops pigeons.
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World
Cuba Puts Fidel Castro to Rest: ‘A Man So Large in a Box So Small’
Bringing a national mourning period to an end, the interment of Mr. Castro’s ashes at a private service made for a subdued end to a week of tributes.Cuba had a revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution
The refugees must accept the fact.
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Science
That Thing With Feathers Trapped in Amber? It Was a Dinosaur Tail
A Chinese paleontologist’s discovery in an amber market is offering new insights into the evolution of feathers.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_feather
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N.Y. / Region
No People in Sight Yet, but South Bronx Gets Ready for Development
New York City goes ahead with a $194 million plan to fix up infrastructure on the Bronx side of the Harlem River in anticipation of people and businesses coming with future development.More poor people made homeless.
The wholesale markets will move again and become less accessible to small business.
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U.S.
Pat McCrory, North Carolina Governor, Concedes After Acrimonious Race
The move cleared the way for the ascension of his Democratic challenger, Roy Cooper, and gave the national Democratic Party a rare cause for celebration.Zombi politics.
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Fashion & Style
The ‘H-Bomb’ Fizzles: The Harvard Brand Takes a Hit
A formerly contrived embarrassment may be ceding to sincere shame and a reassessment of the merits of four years in Cambridge.The Crimson brand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvard_Lampoon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reds_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_(journalist)
Reed has a window at the Lampoon.
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Technology
Supreme Court Gives Samsung a Reprieve in Apple Patent Case
A unanimous court ruled on Tuesday that Samsung may not have to pay $399 million in damages for copying parts of the iPhone’s distinctive look.A design patent is near worthless in a less political environment.
https://www.google.com/search?q=samsung+phones&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilyan31OvQAhXIMyYKHRCwCygQ_AUICigD&biw=1024&bih=639
https://www.google.com/search?q=iphone&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0jrq51evQAhWIRiYKHUi6DG8Q_AUICigD&biw=1024&bih=639
The lawyers will be well paid.
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U.S.
Justices Wrestle With Role of Race in Redistricting
The Supreme Court is trying to solve a constitutional puzzle: how to disentangle race from partisanship when drawing legislative maps.
"“If it’s politics, it’s fine,” Justice Elena Kagan said, summarizing the basic distinction. “If it’s race, it’s not.”
The problem, she said, is that “race and politics correlate.”"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
"The perception that the Republican Party had served as the "vehicle of white supremacy in the South," particularly during the Goldwater campaign
and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, made it difficult for
the Republican Party to win the support of black voters in the South in
later years.[4] In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote.[13][14]"
For the Republican Party, politics is race.
For the Republican Party, politics is race.
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Health
Colombia Reports Major Rise in Birth Defect Amid Zika Crisis
Four times as many babies were born with microcephaly this year as in 2015 in Colombia, home to the second-largest Zika epidemic after Brazil.If late term abortions are responsible for the unexpected low number of microcephalic
births there should be a sharp dip in the birthrate in Colombia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/health/colombia-zika-microcephaly.html
The numbers are not published yet by Colombia.
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Opinion
Is Donald Trump’s Cabinet Anti-Woman?
His campaign was marked by misogyny. His appointments aren’t much better.Misogyny and racism dominate.
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Opinion
A Year of Big Ideas in Social Change
New strides in how to make doing the right thing easy were one recurring theme of the Fixes column during the year just ending.Do what works.
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U.S.
Confronting Racist Objects
Millions of racist objects sit in the homes of everyday Americans. Here are some of your stories about reconciling, reclaiming and reinterpreting them.I try not to make more.
They are barbs intended to inflict pain.
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Business Day
Coca-Cola Chief to Step Down in 2017
Coca-Cola’s chief executive, Muhtar Kent, will leave that role next year and be succeeded by James Quincey, the chief operating officer.Years pass.
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Technology
Amazon Moves to Cut Checkout Line, Promoting a Grab-and-Go Experience
At an experimental store on the ground floor of a new Amazon office building in Seattle, shoppers will be able to pluck what they want off the shelves and leave without waiting to pay.Amazon will know more about its customers than I want to tell them.
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U.S.
On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces’
Republican students feel estranged from colleges where the institutional bias leans left, and university officials fear tensions will increase after the inauguration.Trump may have won but the writing is on the wall for liberal democracy.
"Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die."
http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/15-32.htm
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Arts
‘Ferrante Fever’ Continues to Spread
The latest figures from Elena Ferrante’s publisher show that her Neapolitan novels have now sold some 5.5 million copies worldwide.She is a skilled writer of fiction.
She is applauded with income.
She finds it enough.
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Business Day
Calls Aren’t Allowed on Planes, but Regulators Consider a Warning Anyway
The Transportation Department has proposed that passengers be warned if an airline allows voice calls over in-flight Wi-Fi, which most carriers now forbid.Another irritant. Text.
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Opinion
The Flag at Hampshire College
A former board chairman at the college defends its temporary removal and replacement.The treatment of the American flag is protected speech.
The flag should be flown inverted this month.
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