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The Upshot
Real Malpractice Reform: Investing in Patient Safety
Research suggests that lawsuits can be reduced with improvements in medical practices.Yes.
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N.Y. / Region
A Mayor Raises Questions by Refusing to Take Any
Since walking out of a news conference last month, Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to be embracing a new approach of “don’t ask, don’t answer.”Mayor Bill de Blasio is trying to get things accomplished.
The condition of "interrupt driven" is also known as distracted. "Question time" must remain a small part of the week.
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N.Y. / Region
Pedro Hernandez Gets 25 Years to Life in Murder of Etan Patz
The sentencing of Mr. Hernandez, who was found guilty of the 1979 kidnapping and murder, brings to a close a case that bedeviled investigators for decades.The witch hunt has ended.
It is not over.
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Well
The Cost of Not Taking Your Medicine
Non-adherence to prescriptions causes some 125,000 deaths a year in the United States alone.Education is expensive.
Ignorance carries a death penalty.
Cheap medical practice kills.
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Travel
Which Travel Search Site Is Best? It Depends on Your Goals
I began this informal study expecting prices and options to be more or less the same from site to site. Let’s just say I was surprised by how wrong I was.Start with the philosophical question.
Is there a destination or is the trip a cruise?
A cruise is a destination that moves.
Touring is a form of crusing.
Air and highway travel are never crusing.
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Science
Climate Change Reroutes a Yukon River in a Geological Instant
Melting water from one of Canada’s largest glaciers used to flow north, to the Bering Sea. Last spring, it reversed course, a case of what scientists call “river piracy.”A search for slims river.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kluane+National+Park+and+Reserve/@60.7499005,-139.9473371,119578m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x56ad21f5cde18383:
0x1030bea3ec94844a!8m2!3d60.75!4d-139.5
A search for the Kaskawulsh Glacier.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kaskawulsh+Glacier/@60.7999703,-138.834839,62206m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x56ad29a209148889:0xf577
adfacee2b9c8!8m2!3d60.8!4d-138.5833333
The authors do not know the glaciation history of the North Eastern U.S.
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U.S.
Spicer Argues That More Public Disclosure Is Unnecessary, Even Harmful
The White House defended its less-is-more practices, saying that releasing information on wide topics would impede President Trump’s ability to govern.Trump does not govern.
He attempts to rule.
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Health
In a Dragon’s Blood, Scientists Discover a Potential Antibiotic
Blood samples from a captive Komodo dragon blood yield molecules that kill bacteria and heal wounds, biochemists find.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_%28opera%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_%28opera%29#Scene_2_2
Not a miracle . . .
Interesting chemistry.
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U.S.
Dozens of Cases Are Dismissed and Reviewed in Georgia After Officers are Fired
Two officers were fired last week after videos showed them separately kicking or hitting a black motorist during a traffic stop.The dam has broken.
Let it not be repaired.
Georgia law enforcement should not be the same as it was.
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Arts
‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 7: Keep Paige Out of This
Paige is looking more like Elizabeth lately. Whether that’s a good thing remains to be seen.An advantage of a dramatic presentation is that somewhere there is a head writer with a plot summery.
"Winter is coming" so are spring and summer.
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Life, like soap operas, goes on until it stops.
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