Tuesday, June 6, 2017

@2:00, 6/5/17

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1
Food

What to Cook This Weekend

Prepare with recipes for the grill, the stovetop and the oven.

The possibilities are endless.
Cooking gets in the way of other projects.

2
The Learning Network

Word + Quiz: belligerent

This word has appeared 95 times on nytimes.com in the past year.

The latin root is belli: wars.  The singular is bellum.
Aggressive is a reasonable modern meaning.
Warlike behavior might be better.

3
Opinion

Popular People Live Longer

New research suggests that feeling isolated and disconnected can actually make us sick.

yes.

Some relationships are better than others.

4
World

Filipinos Flee Duterte’s Violent Drug Crackdown

Hiding, moving and climbing trees are survival strategies adopted by those on the run from President Duterte’s deadly antidrug campaign in the Philippines.

There is nothing else to be done.

5
U.S.

Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students

A new teacher’s efforts to educate teenagers in Ohio coal country ran up against a cultural resistance to evidence of the human role in global warming.

The evidence is convincing.
The promise of employment is even more powerful.

The Trump administration cannot deliver on their promise.

6
Arts

Jimmy Kimmel Explains Trump’s Backdrop for Leaving Paris Accord

President Trump knows it’s important to use the Rose Garden “while we still have roses and gardens,” Mr. Kimmel says.

http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2017/06/04

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Real Estate

Getting Rid of Tree Roots From Next Door

When the roots from a neighbor’s tree destroy your driveway, who is responsible for fixing it?

City trees can be a problem.
The property owner is responsible for the condition of the property.
the tree is allowed to live.

8
Times Insider

‘We All Have to Be Prepared to Stand Up’

Our Top 10 Comments of the Week: Readers debate the attack on a Portland train, leaving the Paris climate accord, and the meaning of “covfefe.”

Yes.

9
Opinion

The Senate Health Bill

A social worker writes that former foster care youths will be victimized by the bill.

The government is responsible for foster children.
That responsibility ends with adoption, majority or death.

10
Real Estate

Homes for Sale in BroNiceoklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties are on Sutton Place, in Chelsea, and in Prospect Park South, Brooklyn.

Nice furniture.

I can't really see the spaces.

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