Saturday, April 15, 2017

@19:00, 4/15/17

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1
Health

The Trump Resistance Found Early Success. Can It Also Find Momentum?

Opposition groups, fresh off a health care victory, are now looking ahead to other issues, the midterms, and a long road ahead.

This coalition will not stand an election.

2
Opinion

Can the G.O.P. Turn Back the Tide of Town Hall Anger?

Members of Congress facing furious crowds could learn a lesson from social science and start treating protesters as individuals.

Politicians must listen to their constituents.

3
Climate

An Ice Scientist’s Worst Nightmare

A storage freezer in the Canadian Ice Core Archive failed this month, resulting in the loss of millennia-old samples gathered from around the Canadian Arctic.

Refrigeration design is important.  Hire a skilled contractor.

4
Well

Heart Risks in Midlife Tied to Brain Plaques of Alzheimer’s

Being obese, smoking or having high cholesterol, hypertension or diabetes in midlife is associated with brain changes of Alzheimer’s years later.

Do the necessary work to know.

5
Style

John Dean, Who Worked for Nixon, Sizes Up Trump

Mr. Dean, an expert on the abuses of presidential power, pays a visit to the Trump Grill.

"Trump is not an original thinker."

6
U.S.

The Latest Test for the White House? Pulling Off Its Easter Egg Roll

With key staff positions unfilled and no on-site first lady, the White House is trying to organize the most elaborate and heavily scrutinized public event of the year.

Let the domestic staff handle the event.

7
Science

Saber-Toothed Cats Paid a Stiff Price for Lunch

Researchers analyzed tens of thousands of bones retrieved from the La Brea Tar Pits to get a picture of the costs of being a Pleistocene predator.

Nothing new.  A little more is known.

8
Business Day

‘I Screwed Up’: Sean Spicer Apologizes for Holocaust Comments

Facing an outcry that included calls for his resignation, Mr. Spicer said his remarks, in which he favorably compared Hitler to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, were “inexcusable.”

Thoughtlessness is always a mistake.

9
Food

At Atla, One Chip Big Enough for the Whole Bowl

The corn tostadas at the chef Enrique Olvera’s Atla suggest the tlayudas of Oaxaca.

If you wish.

10
Magazine

Dan Rather Thinks We Need Patriotism, Not Nationalism

The former news anchor on new media, quality journalism and “Friday Night Lights.”

Faith of any kind is not enough.
The president and congress will not get things right.
Take what action one can.
Voting intelligently is a start.
Checking the facts is another part. 


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