Monday, March 13, 2017

@ 16:45, 3/12/17

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1
Food

What to Cook This Week

Gear up for days of good cooking, from aligot and roast chicken, to Irish tacos for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

I would do something like that if I had a group.

2
U.S.

Time to Break Out Snow Shovels in Northeast and Middle Atlantic

Just when many thought they had avoided a harsh winter, the National Weather Service forecast snow and blizzard conditions from Washington to Boston.

http://www.weather.gov/
I had planned to be on the road Monday through Wednesday.
I will look again in the morning.

3
U.S.

Trump Lets Key Offices Gather Dust Amid ‘Slowest Transition in Decades’

The president is months behind where experts in both parties, even some inside his administration, say he should be in filling senior government positions.

Austerity has a logic all its own.

4
Real Estate

Homes That Sold for Around $1 Million

Recent residential sales in New York City and the region.

Except on the water houses are selling at a discount.

5
Business Day

Trump Wants Faster Growth. The Fed Isn’t So Sure.

The president has called for speeding up growth, but the central bank estimates that the economy is already growing at something like the maximum sustainable pace.

Most of the open markets committee is afraid of inflation.
A deflationary spiral is the frightening prospect.


World

Landslide at Ethiopian Garbage Dump Kills at Least 35

Most of the dead were women and children, and several dozen people were missing at the landfill, where many of them lived.

Governments hate to spend money on trash.

7
Times Insider

Reporting on Zika Families — and Their Resilience

Two Times journalists reflect on their coverage of Brazilian families who are coping with the effects of the Zika epidemic.

Zika is still a spectacle.
The threat of zika to the continental U.S. is not yet in the reporting.

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World

Russian Espionage Piggybacks on a Cybercriminal’s Hacking

Leaning on the work of a hacker, it appears that Russian authorities grafted an intelligence operation onto a far-reaching cybercriminal scheme.

Why not? 
The world must fix the Microsoft operating system.
That has happened.

9
Crosswords & Games

Taking the Fifth

Alan Arbesfeld has something to add.

A bumble bee.

a,b,c,d,e . . .

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U.S.

Is ICE’s Help-Wanted Sign a Welcome Mat for Rogue Applicants, Too?

An aggressive plan to hire 10,000 immigration and customs officers has raised fears that corrupt applicants will slip through, as they have in the past

Of course it is.

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