Monday, January 23, 2017

@9:45, 1/23/17

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Business Day

Ex-Chief of VW Holds Firm During Grilling on Emissions Deception

Martin Winterkorn, appearing in public for the first time since his resignation, told German lawmakers that he had not heard the term “defeat device” before the scandal broke.

Clemency is his and his former company's only viable exit.

2
Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties are in Kips Bay, Greenwich Village and Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

I don't want to live in the city.

3
N.Y. / Region

Suspect in Theft of Bucket of Gold Flakes Is Caught in Ecuador

Julio Nivelo was arrested in his native country, the New York police said. The fate of the scraps, stolen in Manhattan and valued at $1.6 million, was unknown.

The gold did not travel with him.

4
Business Day

Tesla’s Self-Driving System Cleared in Deadly Crash


Cleared is the wrong word.
The system is not ready for the roads.

5
Travel

Stunning Vistas and Wildlife Along Australia’s Great Ocean Road


6
Real Estate

The Beginning of a Buyer’s Market in Manhattan?

The median price for the borough’s resale properties dropped 6.3 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2015.

Possibly.

7
U.S.

San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?

San Francisco has the lowest share of children of the country’s largest cities, a longstanding trend reinforced by a tech industry that skews young and single.

San Francisco has been suffering a "gold rush".

8
U.S.

Dennis Hastert Wants Accuser to Return $1.7 Million

The former speaker of the House wants back money he paid to cover up his past sexual abuse of a teenager, according to court documents.

The lawyers are getting paid.
There will be court costs.

9
Well

Think You Have Asthma? You Might Not

Using laboratory tests, researchers found that a third of adults given a diagnosis of asthma did not actually have the disorder.

Getting the diagnosis right matters.

I am not medicated.

10
N.Y. / Region

U.S. Prosecutors Offer Glimpse of Case Against Mexican Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’

A detention memo contends that Joaquín Guzmán Loera transformed the narcotics trade, deploying savagery and the corrupting force of unchecked profits.

His lawyers will grow wealthy.



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