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Opinion
21,587 Reasons to Fix Forensic Science
A yearslong scandal involving a tainted crime lab shows how far prosecutors will go to win.Jeff Sessions is a disaster.
Bad law, ambitious prosecutors and false evidence combine to demand change.
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Food
The Single Most Important Ingredient
Salt has a greater impact on flavor than anything else. Learn to use it well, and your food will be good.I am getting braver with salt.
I cut it down to nothing a few years back.
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Food
Bread’s Second Life
Turn an old loaf into a hearty soup, or let Samin Nosrat lead you on a path to no-recipe cooking.Yes
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U.S.
California Today: Pondering Life in California 130,000 Years Ago
Thursday: A new claim about the earliest Americans, a magazine profile of the “C.E.O. of H.I.V.,” and readers’ thoughts on the Ann Coulter kerfuffle.Human beings were on the American continents before the Clovis people.
The details are not resolved.
Speech is free.
Attention has a high cost.
Extracurricular speech attendance is voluntary.
The partisans and opponents both must understand the voluntary nature of the events.
Speaking
to an empty hall
is no fun at all.
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N.Y. / Region
Invisible ‘Bird Killer’ Lurks in Revitalized New Jersey Meadowlands
Once a wasteland for garbage dumping, a stretch of Bergen County has become a natural treasure. But the methane flare that burns there is incinerating birds.Natural gas has a value.
Sell it rather than flare it off.
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N.Y. / Region
Dennis Edwards, Judge Who Presided Over Trial of Lennon’s Killer, Dies at 95
Judge Edwards was serving as an acting Supreme Court justice in New York when he sentenced Mark David Chapman in the 1980 murder of John Lennon.People get old.
The oldest are not older than one hundred and twenty.
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Climate
What Is the Antiquities Act and Why Does President Trump Want to Change It?
The 1906 law, enacted under Theodore Roosevelt, has been used by presidents to protect vast tracts of public land from development and exploitation.Donald Trump appears to want to be king.
Kings are not allowed under the Constitution.
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Opinion
Why Abortion Is the Most Progressive Economic Issue
You can’t ignore reproductive rights and focus on income inequality.I do not need to relearn the lesson on Abortion.
9
Business Day
United Airlines Passenger Was Violent in Removal, Police Report Claims
Newly released documents say Dr. David Dao flailed his arms and fought with an officer, a claim his lawyer called “utter nonsense.”If the true facts were obvious
there would be no need for trials.
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U.S.
Hard-Line Republican Caucus Backs Revised Bill to Repeal Obamacare
The support of the House Freedom Caucus breathed new life into efforts to replace the Affordable Care Act, but it was not clear whether it enough.Another failure for the Republicans.
Cutting out the mandates and subsidies will kill the insurers
And leave millions without coverage.
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N.Y. / Region
Cuomo Hires Maria Comella, a Christie Consultant, as Chief of Staff
Ms. Comella, who has served several Republicans as part of presidential campaigns, said she accepted the position in part out of a desire to remain involved in the democratic process.She is good at the job.
2
Heart Attack Survivors Often Fail to Take Statins
Most patients in a large study either took less of the lifesaving medicines than needed or stopped taking the drugs entirely within two years.yes
4
Opinion
21,587 Reasons to Fix Forensic Science
Fix the Prosecutors.
The object of the prosecutor should be justice.
The true facts matter.
5
Climate
As Rising Seas Erode Shorelines, Tasmania Shows What Can Be Lost
Port Arthur, the famous prison that housed the British Empire’s toughest convicts in the 19th century, is facing an onslaught from the sea.This monument to the past will be a small loss.
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Well
Diet Sodas Tied to Dementia and Stroke
People who drank one to six artificially sweetened drinks a week had a higher risk of stroke or dementia.The artificially sweetened drinks may not be the cause of the
brain difficulties.
Diet soda is most often consumed by those who consider themselves fat.
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Business Day
Fox News Faces New Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
Eleven current and ex-employees filed a class-action suit accusing the network of “abhorrent, intolerable, unlawful and hostile racial discrimination.”Piling on is to be expected.
Awards will tell the tale.
8
World
Video: Genocide’s Legacy: A Museum in a Khmer Rouge Prison
At least 1.7 million people died during the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Take a 360 tour of a former prison that has been transformed into a museum to preserve the history of the Cambodian genocide.The display will get old.
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U.S.
Milwaukee Inmate Died After Being Deprived of Water for 7 Days
A weeklong hearing is being held as officials consider charges against jail workers in the dehydration death of Terrill Thomas, 38, in April 2016.The prosecution has a problem.
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World
Video: Genocide’s Legacy: Preserving Auschwitz
Nazi Germany’s largest death camp is under construction in order to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.It might help preserve the memory.
Memory dies with the minds that were present.
The records of the past survive.
Production of the records is the best we can do.
There will be no production of new scent memories of the extermination camps.
Show the films of the liberations. Show the raw footage.
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