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Health
Donors and Drug Makers Offer $500 Million to Control Global Epidemics
Japan, Norway and two foundations have pledged money to devise a strategy to speed up the international response to viral threats.It is a start.
Epidemics are a world problem.
They should be a domain of a world government.
Such a government does not exist.
World government will be resisted by all functioning national governments.
The surrender of sovereignty would be intolerable.
The U.S. has not dealt with the sovereignty problems of the several states.
The Civil War continues.
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Opinion
Why We Need a Project to Document Hate Crimes
Did hate crimes increase nationwide after Donald Trump’s election? A new project aims to find out."Speech" and thought are constitutionally protected.
Hate Crime law should be struck down.
Other means must be sought to control objectionable behavior.
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World
Marine Le Pen Extols Far Right During Speech in Germany
The triumph of anti-Europeans in Britain and Donald J. Trump in the United States has galvanized the Continent’s far-right parties, who are wooing disillusioned voters.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
As far as I know humans inhabit only one world.
All humans are dependent on the world.
If one nation or a combination of nations "breaks" the one world
there is nothing that will quickly repair the damage.
The world must not be damaged for any smaller interest.
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Food
Grass-Fed Beef, Sold One Cow at a Time
New start-ups are buying meat from small farms and dividing it into manageable cuts.This is a permissible way for people other than glaziers to eat beef.
People should eat food grown as sustainably as is possible.
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Science
Most Primate Species Threatened With Extinction, Scientists Find
Yes.
Our great aunts and uncles deserve support.
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Business Day
Tesla’s Self-Driving System Cleared in Deadly Crash
The highway agency found that while Tesla’s Autopilot feature didn’t prevent a crash in Florida, the system performed as it was intended.Yes.
Cleared is the wrong word. The system is not roadworthy.
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N.Y. / Region
Nicky Scarfo, Mob Boss Who Plundered Atlantic City in the ’80s, Dies at 87
Mr. Scarfo purged two dozen fellow mobsters during his reign in Philadelphia and South Jersey and milked casino profits in Atlantic City.Donald Trump must have known him.
Trump did not turn him in.
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Opinion
A Diplomat’s Advice for the Trump Administration
The Obama administration’s top diplomat for Latin America reflects on her career, relations with Mexico and the limits of a wall.The Trump administration would be well advised to heed her advice.
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World
In China, an Ancient People Watch Their Floating Life Dissolve
Members of the Tanka group in southern China have survived on coastal waterways, and on the margins of society. As cities spread, their way of life is disappearing.If the Chinese economy implodes, as seems likely, the children will return.
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U.S.
Ticks, Thriving in Warm Weather, Take a Ghastly Toll on New England Moose
Researchers say droves of winter ticks, which flourish when fall is warm and the winter comes late, are killing moose calves. They have “wasted away.”Both the ticks and the moose like the change in climate.
The moose population will fall until the tick population collapses.
Let natural selection take its course.
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World
Venezuela Issues New Bank Notes Because of Hyperinflation
The move, which has been surrounded by chaos for over a month, is meant to lighten the load for Venezuelans who must carry around bags of cash.New banknotes will not fix the problem.
New taxes and public employment will fix the problem.
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Well
Taking Picky Eating to the Extreme
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder can lead to physical, social and psychological impairments.Anorexia nervosa is a cruel way to die.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_nervosa
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Arts
A Trump Inauguration Casualty: The Silent, Smiling Rockettes
Current and former Rockettes find themselves in a new spotlight as they take sides over the inauguration, breaking with the solidarity that defines the troupe.The troupe continues.
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Opinion
Diversity in Clinical Trials
Officials of the Food and Drug Administration discuss steps the agency is taking to increase diversity in drug trials.The officials are trying to do the right thing.
Fighting racism and misogyny is difficult.
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World
In Its Third Month, India’s Cash Shortage Begins to Bite
The data is murky, but the poor are clearly going without fruit, vegetables and milk as unemployment becomes more widespread.The B.J.P. government will fall if the economy is not restarted.
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Opinion
Injecting Drugs, Under a Watchful Eye
Giving users a supervised place and clean needles increases use of treatment and saves lives.Injection centers will not be used if they serve as bait for the narcotics police.
If the narcotics police are not there the dealers will use them as sales rooms.
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World
With French Socialists in Crisis, Manuel Valls and Benoît Hamon Head to Runoff
The governing party is deeply unpopular and given little chance in the coming presidential election, as European voters abandon the left.The laboring class has forgotten what it is to starve.
It will be reminded.
The costs must be seen to attach to the right.
In the meantime the damage must remain local.
The French must be seen to be starving the French and so fourth.
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Arts
Streams Keep the Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ at No. 1 Despite Low Sales
With 13,000 copies sold and 57.2 million streams, the Canadian singer holds on to the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart.The medium of music has changed again.
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Business Day
Qualcomm Accused of Anticompetitive Practices by F.T.C.
The trade commission said Qualcomm used its dominant position as a supplier of phone chips to impose “onerous” supply and licensing terms.Intellectual property has come to mean "onerous" terms.
It is a causal relationship.
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Business Day
Author Who Turns Classics Into Children’s Books Is Sued
Two publishers and the estates of Arthur C. Clarke, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote and Ernest Hemingway accused Fredrik Colting of copyright infringement.He is guilty.
He must attempt to pay.
The rules of copyright must be changed.
That will not help Fredrik Colting.
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