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World
A Quest to Save Baby Kangaroos on a Lonely Australian Highway
Kangaroos can end up as roadkill, but sometimes a joey will live when its mother dies. We check out an orphanage that takes in about 100 baby roos a year.Eagle food.
The problem is the highway.
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Business Day
Yoplait Learns to Manufacture Authenticity to Go With Its Yogurt
As Greek yogurt’s popularity soared, Yoplait struggled to market its own version. Then it decided to develop something else: a compelling story.Fiction wins again.
Early trains were slow. Canal boats are slower.
Dairy farms are far from cities.
Milk that sits warm is yogurt.
The name is from India by way of the Turks.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yogurt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogurt
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Business Day
3 CNN Journalists Resign After Retracted Story on Trump Ally
It was the latest in a series of embarrassing episodes at CNN, which has a contentious relationship with President Trump.Well played.
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Smarter Living
Work less. You’ll get so much more done.
Welcome to the Smarter Living newsletter.Life interferes with work.
That is not news.
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Well
Why You Don’t Want to Have a Baby in a Car
It’s for all the reasons you think — the pain, the mess, the worry. But it’s also the paperwork to prove we weren’t frauds.The records only know what is placed there.
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Opinion
A Vote of Conscience and Courage
Senators entered politics with high ideals. The health care vote presents them with a career-defining decision.Most Republicans appear to be without conscience and courage.
https://twitter.com/paulkrugman
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Books
Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals First Book Acquisition, and Her A.L.A. Book Club Pick
Her first acquisition, by the debut novelist Fatima Farheen Mirza, follows an Indian-American family.I know her as the lead of Sex In The City.
She played the part well.
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Opinion
The G.O.P. Rejects Conservatism
Republicans are so bankrupt that they refuse to use quality health care policy ideas put forward by conservative intellectuals, opting instead for tax cuts for the rich.Yes.
I know that.
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World
Australia, Land of Diversity and Undomesticated Men
Conversation starters and context, drawn from the day’s news in Australia.I like the Austrailians I have met.
Digital security:
"What would that mean for us? “Two
things,” said Nate Cardozo, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, which advocates digital rights. “Firstly, it will
mean an unprecedented ability for Australia and the other Five Eyes
countries to see into the personal lives of their average, law-abiding
citizens.”
“The
second thing it means, is no change at all in the ability of those
countries to fight sophisticated criminals, terrorists, pedophiles or
other wrongdoers.”"
Window dressing.
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Magazine
How Donald Trump Misunderstood the F.B.I.
Since Watergate, the agency has come to view itself as an essential, and essentially independent, check on the president.Donald Trump will try to shutter the F.B.I.
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