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Science

SpaceX Plans to Send 2 Tourists Around Moon in 2018

By KENNETH CHANG | Feb 27th 2017

If the mission proceeds as planned, the private space travelers would be the first humans to venture that far into space in more than 40 years.

People do risky things.
Their life insurance should be suspended for the duration of the trip.

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World

Sweden’s Defense and National Security Adviser? ‘We Don’t Know This Guy’

By LIAM STACK and CHRISTINA ANDERSON | Feb 27th 2017

The man, identified as Nils Bildt, appeared on Fox News to claim that immigrants are the cause of a crime wave in Sweden. But officials say he has no ties to the country’s security establishment.

Fox News is in the fiction business.

3

Food

Savory Purim Treats From Breads Bakery

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Feb 27th 2017

The Manhattan bakery will offer hamantaschen made with beets or potatoes for the month of March.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim

The whole megillah.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/megillah

I can make hamantaschen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artaxerxes_I_of_Persia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artaxerxes_I_of_Persia#Portrayal_in_the_Book_of_Ezra_and_Nehemiah

Assassination by decapitation has a low approval rating.

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Movies

Jimmy Kimmel Makes Fun of Names and the Criticism Is Immediate

By DANIEL VICTOR | Feb 27th 2017

The Oscar host tried to find humor in the name of the best supporting actor winner, Mahershala Ali, as well as the tourists he brought into the ceremony.

Jimmy Kimmel is insensitive.
That was a given.

5

Well

Vitamins Gone Gummy

By ABBY ELLIN | Feb 28th 2017

Vitamin makers have discovered that consumers have a sweet tooth for gummy candy versions of their products.

Take a pill.
Vitamin supliments are superfluous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivitamin#Research

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Food

A Croque-Madame Dressed Up With Crab

By DAVID TANIS | Feb 24th 2017

Add fresh crab meat to this French cafe classic, a hot ham and cheese sandwich adorned with an egg.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018595-crab-croque-madame
I can do that.

7

Technology

A Facebook-Style Shift in How Science Is Shared

By MARK SCOTT | Feb 28th 2017

ResearchGate, a Berlin-based social network growing in influence and funding, links scientists worldwide, providing real-time feedback on research.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scientific+publishing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=open+access+journals&*

Grey literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv
https://arxiv.org/


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U.S.

DeVos Is Criticized for Calling Historically Black Colleges ‘Pioneers’ in School Choice

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR | Feb 28th 2017

Hundreds of Twitter users seized on a statement from the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, accusing her of ignoring the fact that many historically black schools were founded because of segregation.

Words are a bad diet.

9

Opinion

The Fight for Obamacare Has Turned

By DAVID LEONHARDT | Feb 28th 2017

Republicans are running up against a surge of activism as well as the impossibility of achieving a better and cheaper plan that covers everyone.

Encouragement.

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Science

‘Ring of Fire’ Eclipse Travels Across South America and Africa

By LIAM STACK | Feb 26th 2017

Skywatchers in South America and Africa tweeted their experiences on Sunday, though some complained that overcast weather dampened their views.

An event.

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Opinion

Trump, Archenemy of Truth

By CHARLES M. BLOW | Feb 27th 2017

Yes

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N.Y. / Region

A Dozen Years, 3 Cold-Case Killings and an Arrest in Brooklyn

By ALAN FEUER | Feb 26th 2017

How charges in one decade-old murder helped lead to the arrest of a man believed to have killed two teens in 2004 and 2005.

It is worth the effort to reexamine the physical evidence.

3

Crosswords & Games

Darling of Literature

By MARTIN HERBACH | Feb 24th 2017

Andrew Zhou ponders Xena.

I find crossword puzzles impossible.
The problem is my spelling.

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The Upshot

If Obamacare Exits, Some May Need to Rethink Early Retirement

By AUSTIN FRAKT | Feb 27th 2017

Any unemployment would be a problem.

5

Well

Diabetes Testing at the Dentist’s Office

By RONI CARYN RABIN | Feb 23rd 2017

Gum disease can be an early warning sign of Type 2 diabetes, which can be screened for with a simple finger prick.

I know of no reason not to test.

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Business Day

In Trump-CNN Battle, 2 Presidents Who Love a Spectacle

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Feb 26th 2017

Such battles draw attention.

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Health

Gorsuch Staunchly Opposes ‘Aid in Dying.’ Does It Matter?

By PAULA SPAN | Feb 24th 2017

Judge Neil M. Gorsuch’s book leaves no doubt regarding his feelings. But advocates say the real battle is in state courts, not the Supreme Court.

He has stated his position on abortion.
He will oppose it.

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Opinion

The Immigration Facts Donald Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Feb 25th 2017

Oust millions of people from the economy and just watch the G.D.P. drop.

Trump's supporters are not rational.

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Automobiles

Self-Driving Cars Might Need Standards, but Whose?

By JOHN R. QUAIN | Feb 23rd 2017

Some say autonomous vehicles should have common technology before they hit the road, but there is also a strong case for independent approaches.

Self driving cars should not be on the roads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmUmrIoMi8

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Technology

Daily Report: Of Rotting Fish and Uber’s Culture Problem

By JIM KERSTETTER | Feb 23rd 2017

A blog post written by a former engineer described harassment and managerial indifference to employees. These problems usually start at the top.

Uber is exploitative.


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World

Flooding Leaves Millions Without Water in Santiago, Chile

By PASCALE BONNEFOY | Feb 27th 2017

Rains and destructive mudslides over the weekend left at least three dead and 19 missing, and contaminated one of Santiago’s main sources of drinking water.

It has been known to be bad practice to draw drinking water from developed areas for two hundred years in the U.S.
Reservoirs and aqueducts are expensive.

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U.S.

Trump Order Will Aim to Roll Back a Clean Water Rule

By CORAL DAVENPORT | Feb 28th 2017

The executive order, expected Tuesday, will direct the Environmental Protection Agency to begin dismantling President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy.

The Trump administration will have to change the underlying law to change the rule.
There is no right to make a profit.
The rule in question is necessary to public and environmental health.

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U.S.

Trump’s Budget Is Aspirational. Reality in Congress Will Change It.

By CARL HULSE | Feb 28th 2017

The president’s budget proposal is simply a starting point, and will look quite different once lawmakers have their say.

Federal Spending has been cut to the legal limit.
Further cuts are not possible without difficult changes in the law.

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Opinion

Trump is Wrong to Skip the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

By DAVID LITT | Feb 28th 2017

Yes, the star-filled event is gross, but it’s also a tribute to the values that make America great.

The Correspondents will be plotting against Trump.
They should.

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Well

Colon and Rectal Cancers Rising in Young People

By RONI CARYN RABIN | Feb 28th 2017

Scientists are reporting a sharp rise in colorectal cancers in adults as young as their 20s and 30s, though the reasons are unclear.

About half the people born between 1890 and 1950 are dead.
The dead do not develop cancer.

OK. 
The colorectal cancer rate is rising among the young.
The obesity rate is also rising.
The two are probably linked.

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U.S.

Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water

By CORAL DAVENPORT | Feb 28th 2017

The order to start the yearslong unwinding of a 2015 rule would have little immediate effect. A similar move to ease greenhouse-gas limits is expected soon.

Clean water is a good thing.
It also makes profiting by land ownership more difficult.
Ruined business models are a small price to pay for health.

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U.S.

What to Watch: Trump to Speak to a Joint Session of Congress

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER and ERIC LICHTBLAU | Feb 28th 2017

The address will begin shortly after 9 p.m., and Republicans will be looking for Mr. Trump to steady himself after a turbulent start to his presidency.

Others can watch Trump try to excuse himself.
There are many who will try to tell me what he said and what he should have said.
I have little interest in what others think he meant.

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U.S.

Leaders of House Panel Are Sharply Split on Russia Inquiry

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT | Feb 28th 2017

The top Republican on the Intelligence Committee said there was no evidence of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. His Democratic counterpart disagreed.

The investigation is needed.
It should be intense and wide ranging.

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The Upshot

If Obamacare Exits, Some May Need to Rethink Early Retirement

By AUSTIN FRAKT | Feb 27th 2017

The concept is called “job lock,” the need to maintain employment, not for income, but for health insurance.

Unemployment is the problem.
Health insurance would become another tool to enforce continued employment.

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World

Fox News and Swedish Guest Spar Over ‘National Security Adviser’ Title

By LIAM STACK and CHRISTINA ANDERSON | Feb 27th 2017

The O’Reilly Factor guest, Nils Bildt, says the network gave him a false title for a segment on immigrant crime in his country. Fox denies this.

 Fox News cannot win this argument.

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Opinion

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Trappist

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Feb 24th 2017

Is there anybody or anything out there?

Interstellar travel is fantasy.
I waste little time considering possible methods.

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U.S.

100 Headstones Toppled at a Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI | Feb 27th 2017

The episode drew almost immediate comparison to a similar discovery last Monday in University City, Mo., where more than 150 headstones were toppled.

Such things should not happen anywhere.

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N.Y. / Region

Mayor de Blasio Will Meet With Federal Prosecutors on Friday

By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM | Feb 24th 2017

An inquiry is focused on whether Mr. de Blasio or others in his administration traded beneficial city action for donations to his 2013 campaign or his now-defunct nonprofit group.

Staten Island is solidly Republican.
A pleasing political assault has the opposition fighting itself.

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Opinion

Trump, Archenemy of Truth

By CHARLES M. BLOW | Feb 27th 2017

The press is the light that makes the roaches scatter.

Trump is a demagogue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue

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Opinion

Missing: Donald Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Plan

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Feb 27th 2017

If he had a proposal to rebuild the nation, it would be a slam dunk. If!

Stimulus would cause inflation if the economy was as the Republicans say it is.
The infrastructure plan is not.

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Opinion

Mental Illness, Untreated Behind Bars

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Feb 27th 2017

Society and the prison system would both benefit from effective treatment of those who need it.

Effective treatment is not available anywhere.
We have chemical and physical restraints.

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Opinion

As Trump Said in the Campaign, Leave Pot to the States

By ETHAN NADELMANN | Feb 27th 2017

The new attorney general wants to crackdown on marijuana use. The president and Congress should stop him.

The Trump administration will try to force the genie back into the bottle.
These Republicans choose punishment every time.

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World

VX Nerve Agent: A Deadly Weapon, Rarely Seen

By GERRY DOYLE | Feb 24th 2017

The substance, classified as a chemical weapon and kept for decades in the arsenals of many militaries, has never been used in combat.

There is not much information in the Times. 
The Wikipedia does better. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)

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Business Day

In Trump-CNN Battle, 2 Presidents Who Love a Spectacle

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Feb 26th 2017

Jeffrey A. Zucker, the president of CNN, who once had a close rapport with President Trump, is shrugging off the White House’s vitriol toward his network.

I would care if CNN surrendered.

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Opinion

Big Tent or Circus Tent? A Conservative Identity Crisis in the Trump Era

By ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON | Feb 24th 2017

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, fringe elements were once shown the door. Now they occupy the White House, and are getting a “group hug.”

"The inmates are incharge of the asylum"

There are no adults left on the extreme right.


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Real Estate

Homes That Sold for $450,000 and Under

Compiled by C.J. HUGHES | Feb 26th 2017

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

It is hard to buy in a falling market.
I don't want to live with downstairs neighbors.

2

Food

What to Cook This Week

By SAM SIFTON | Feb 26th 2017

When was the last time you roasted a full and proper chicken?

I cook.  
I don't spend much time thinking about food just now.

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Business Day

Coal Industry Casts Itself as a Clean Energy Player

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Feb 26th 2017

Companies are joining with environmental groups to lobby for expanded subsidies to encourage technologies to reduce carbon emissions from coal plants.

Coal should not continue.
Practical carbon capture and sequestration must be installed to continue coal mining.
The coal companies should pay for it.
I expect coal is uneconomic.

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U.S.

Trump to Ask for Sharp Increases in Military Spending, Officials Say

By GLENN THRUSH and KATE KELLY | Feb 26th 2017

President Trump will instruct federal agencies on Monday to assemble a budget that would also make major cuts to agencies like the E.P.A. but not reduce funding for the largest entitlement programs.

The preliminary budget should be rejected.

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U.S.

At CPAC, Conservatives Settle Into Their New Role

By GABRIELLA DEMCZUK and JEREMY W. PETERS | Feb 25th 2017

As activists gathered this week for the Conservative Political Action Conference they were still processing what life in the majority means.

The conservatives are not a majority.
They are not even a plurality.

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U.S.

Trump’s Soft Spot for Dreamers Alienates Immigration Hard-Liners

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Feb 26th 2017

Mr. Trump’s sympathetic remarks about young immigrants and inaction on the program that shields them have caused rifts in the White House and angered his Republican base.

Trump finds himself in Procrustes bed.
He will lose a part of his coalition. 

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Health

The Adults a Medicaid Work Requirement Would Leave Behind

By ABBY GOODNOUGH | Feb 25th 2017

Republican governors want to reverse what they consider an incentive not to work, but critics say putting employment before health care is backward.

Trump loses another part of his coalition.

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U.S.

With Voters Riled Up, Both Parties Aim to Channel the Fury

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER and THOMAS KAPLAN | Feb 26th 2017

Democrats hope to turn the surging grass-roots energy into political results locally and nationally, while Republicans try to figure out how to respond to voters’ anger.

The Democrats know their situation.
The Republicans cannot deliver on their promises.

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U.S.

Father of Commando Killed in Yemen Refused to Meet Trump

By ERIC SCHMITT | Feb 26th 2017

The father of Chief Petty Officer William Owens criticized the White House over the mission that killed his son and called for an investigation.

Every vote counts.

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World

Trump Embraces ‘Enemy of the People,’ a Phrase With a Fraught History

By ANDREW HIGGINS | Feb 26th 2017

It is unclear if the president is aware of the historic resonance of the label, but his use of it has left some historians scratching their heads.

Autocracy is Trump's goal.


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U.S.

Stephen K. Bannon’s CPAC Comments, Annotated and Explained

By MAX FISHER | Feb 25th 2017

What does the president’s chief strategist mean by “economic nationalism” or “deconstruction of the administrative state”?

Economic nationalism: mercantilism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

Deconstruction of the administrative state: Only Republican policies are permitted

Our sovereignty: Nationalism  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty

“They’re corporatist, globalist media that are adamantly opposed to an economic nationalist agenda like Donald Trump has.”: Internationalist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalism_(politics)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

“The center core of what we believe, that we’re a nation with an economy. Not an economy just in some global marketplace with open borders, but we are a nation with a culture and a reason for being.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism

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Business Day

Trump Plans to Skip White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Feb 25th 2017

The president said on Twitter that he would not attend the April 29 event, which has become a staple of the Washington social calendar.

The real Donald Trump will tell us what we think.
If I believed that I would vote the Republican line.

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U.S.

A Secret Service Agent’s Path From Recruitment to Bias Lawsuit

By ADEEL HASSAN | Feb 25th 2017

A career agent rose to assignment to the presidential protection detail, but ended his career as the lead plaintiff in a racial discrimination suit.

The path became inevitable.
There is hope the suit will not need to be repeated.

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Food

A Vegetable Tart, but Nothing Too Dainty

By MELISSA CLARK | Feb 24th 2017

This roasted mushroom and butternut squash tart, loaded with cheese on a whole-grain crust, is more rustic than refined, and better for it.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018589-roasted-mushroom-and-butternut-squash-tart

 I can make that.

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Health

The Adults a Medicaid Work Requirement Would Leave Behind

By ABBY GOODNOUGH | Feb 25th 2017

Republican governors want to reverse what they consider an incentive not to work, but critics say putting employment before health care is backward.

Medicaid pays the hospitals.  Hospital workers pay taxes.

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Opinion

Liberals and Trump

Feb 25th 2017

There are perils in treating Donald Trump voters with contempt.

Liberals and reactionaries are engaged in psychological warfare.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48612/48612-h/48612-h.htm

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Opinion

Why So Few Women in State Politics?

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Feb 25th 2017

Female politicians in the United States lag far behind their counterparts in other Western democracies.

Local Politics has been an old boys club.
Women have been relegated to secretarial work.
Women must organize support.

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Opinion

Under Mr. Trump, Private Prisons Thrive Again

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Feb 25th 2017

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Opinion

A Time for Immodest Proposals

By ROSS DOUTHAT | Feb 25th 2017

Starting with a way to fight the social crisis.

Employ people.
Private industry will not until there is a demand for the products.
Government must do the employment.
The rest of these problems are those of the unemployed.

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U.S.

Did Someone Say ‘Tax Code Rewrite’? Lobbyists Scramble

By ALAN RAPPEPORT | Feb 24th 2017

The Washington “swamp” President Trump likes to denounce is still teeming with life — and it is converging on lawmakers drafting tax legislation.

Taxes will remain as they are. 


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