Sunday, July 30, 2017

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Opinion

Mr. McCain and The Mooch

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jul 29th 2017
Let’s hope that Senator McCain’s words, rather than Mr. Scaramucci’s expletives, echo in Americans’ ears in the days to come.

Remember both.

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Crosswords & Games

Variety: Split Decisions

By MARTIN HERBACH | Jul 29th 2017
Fred Piscop likes forks in the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZEURntrQOg

Sooner is better.     As soon as you can is best.  

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Opinion

John McCain’s Dramatic Vote on the Republican Health Bill

Jul 28th 2017
Readers praise the senator as they decry what one calls “perhaps the most disgraceful and dishonest legislative gambit” in the Senate’s history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_song

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Well

Good News on Headphones and Hearing Loss

By RONI CARYN RABIN | Jul 27th 2017
A reassuring new study found that hearing impairment rates among teens have dropped since an alarming spike in hearing loss was reported a decade ago.

I am glad he rate is down.
Hearing is important.

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Technology

Farhad’s and Mike’s Week in Tech: The End of the iPod, Plus Uber News

By FARHAD MANJOO and MIKE ISAAC | Jul 29th 2017
In this week’s tech newsletter, Farhad and Mike discuss Uber’s C.E.O. search and their love of C-Span.

Use a broadcaster on the net.  Radio is also good if you can stand the noise.

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Style

Keeping Up, on Camera, Is No Longer Just for the Kardashians

By JENNIFER MILLER | Jul 29th 2017
A growing number of entrepreneurs are turning their lives into do-it-yourself reality shows, hiring videographers to document their every move.

I am not in search of a national reputation.

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Your Money

Riding Out the Senate Debate With a Massachusetts Medicaid Guru

By RON LIEBER | Jul 28th 2017
Nearly two-thirds of people in nursing homes rely on Medicaid to pay at least some of the bill. And many of them rely on specialists like Estelle Stasz for help.

The Eskimo tale of elders abandoned on the ice will not be accepted if it is seen as current.
Disability can be due to advanced age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1990

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Books

‘Lights On, Rats Out’

Jul 28th 2017
Cree LeFavour talks about her new memoir, and Andrew Sean Greer discusses his new novel, “Less.”

Depression is easy.
It is part of getting out of bed.

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Science

Dr. Herbert Needleman, Who Saw Lead’s Wider Harm to Children, Dies at 89

By BENEDICT CAREY | Jul 27th 2017
Dr. Needleman studied lost baby teeth to show that any level of absorbed lead can damage young brains.

He had finished his part of the work.
He earned his exit.

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Well

Overweight at 17? Your Colon Cancer Risk Rises

By RONI CARYN RABIN | Jul 27th 2017
Teens who were overweight were at significantly increased risk for developing colon cancer as adults.

Get a diagnosis.

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Opinion

Mr. McCain and The Mooch

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jul 29th 2017
Let’s hope that Senator McCain’s words, rather than Mr. Scaramucci’s expletives, echo in Americans’ ears in the days to come.

Remember both.

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Food

Your Next Lesson: Godello From Spain

By ERIC ASIMOV | Jul 27th 2017
This white grape almost disappeared from Spain in the middle of the 20th century, but a dedicated group succeeded in reviving it.

I like the stuff. 
I will not buy it.

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Crosswords & Games

Variety: Split Decisions

By MARTIN HERBACH | Jul 29th 2017
Fred Piscop likes forks in the road.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRCe5L1imxg

Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

4
Opinion

Fight Plastic Pollution

Jul 28th 2017
The Surfrider Foundation calls on legislators to solve this crisis.

There are measures against plastic polution.
Merchandisers hate them. 

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Fashion & Style

Open Thread: This Week in Style News

By VANESSA FRIEDMAN | Jul 28th 2017
An ode to shopping malls, a new luxury arms race — and
more.

The style news is, it is summer.
Go among strangers.
What is unreported is unremarked.

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Technology

A New Way for Therapists to Get Inside Heads: Virtual Reality

By CADE METZ | Jul 30th 2017
Limbix, a start-up using Google headsets, helps psychologists expose patients to their anxieties in the safety of an office.

Cheap exposure therapy.

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Magazine

The Emptiness of Trump’s Promises of Tolerance

By CHARLES HOMANS | Jul 28th 2017
The identity politics of the president’s supporters have always been deceptively complicated — but his own have been less so.

A null set.

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Crosswords & Games

By Design

By MARTIN HERBACH | Jul 29th 2017
Isaac Mizrahi and David J. Kahn fashion a puzzle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyQeFOTnFn4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjv4ESS2LqY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD80eJmB1Dk

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N.Y. / Region

In Boy Scouts Speech, Trump Hails and Puts Down Creator of Levittown

By LISA W. FODERARO | Jul 28th 2017
President Trump held up the developer William Levitt as a symbol of lost momentum, a mention that struck relatives and residents as hypocritical.

William Levitt and Robert Moses beat Fred Trump at the sprawl game.

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Podcasts

Introducing ‘The New Washington’

By MICHAEL BARBARO | Jul 30th 2017
We’ll be interviewing the person in Washington you want to hear from each week for our new podcast series.

I doubt that.

Sooner is better.       As soon as you can is best,

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1
Opinion

We Asked People to Say Something Nice About Trump. Here’s What We Heard.

By MICHAEL KINSLEY | Jul 29th 2017
The faintest of praise.

A flood of poisoned pills.

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Technology

How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food

By FARHAD MANJOO | Jul 27th 2017
Those overhead food videos that you watch and watch? BuzzFeed’s Tasty has mastered the format to become one of the world’s most popular content producers.

Phone and on line with a short attention span.

3
Travel

Video: 36 Hours: Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

By BRITTANY GREESON, JEAN YVES CHAINON and JOSHUA THOMAS | Jul 27th 2017
For the adventurous and casual traveler alike, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula delivers the promise of unfettered tranquility.

Coveys of tourists are not my goal.

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Arts

Rocky, Nell, Witch Hazel and More: A Sampling of June Foray

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK | Jul 27th 2017
Ms. Foray’s voices could be heard over decades of animated films and television shows.

An important part of Saturday morning will not work again.

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Business Day

Scaramucci’s Vulgar Rant Spurs Newsroom Debate: Asterisks or No Asterisks?

By SYDNEY EMBER | Jul 29th 2017
Some news organizations avoided the White House communications director’s profane rant entirely. But many others considered it newsworthy, obscenities and all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/us/politics/scaramucci-priebus-leaks.html

A tempest in a chamber pot.

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Opinion

From Voyeur to Friend

By VALERIE MONROE and SYDNEY STERN | Jul 29th 2017
I used to watch her walking around in her underwear. And then we finally met.

 New York works things out.

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Opinion

Empathy Gadgets

By SANDEEP JAUHAR | Jul 29th 2017
New tools can help doctors understand their patients.

"A sad incongruity of caregiving is that patients often have a greater capacity for empathy than those of us going through our lives largely unencumbered by illness. I remember one evening when I was helping my mother up the stairs to her bedroom. She was walking slowly; after several recent spills, she was terrified of falling again. But even as she struggled, her hands turning white as she gripped the banister, she turned to me and said, “This must be so hard for you.”"

She remembered being able and understood the burden of her disability on the able.

The gadgets teach patience which is not the same as empathy.

The different skin is a remembered condition.

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Arts

Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics

By JON CARAMANICA | Jul 27th 2017
The Oregon musician arrives with an amiable, joyously off-kilter debut album, “Good for You.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8lFeVfYw_s

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U.S.

How Schumer Held Democrats Together Through a Health Care Maelstrom

By JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Jul 29th 2017
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has nurtured the unity of a disparate party coalition, even as he has promised to try to work with Republicans.

Do what works.

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Opinion

President Trump’s Really Weak Week

By MAUREEN DOWD | Jul 29th 2017
What Trump learned from George Steinbrenner: Bullies rule, so pick on your top guys in public until they’re in tatters, and then fire them.

I do not want president Pence.

A disempowered Trump is a better prospect

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Saturday, July 29, 2017

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U.S.

Video: Reince Priebus Is Forced Out as Trump’s Chief of Staff

By ROBIN LINDSAY, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and A.J. CHAVAR | Jul 29th 2017
Reince Priebus, who has served as President Trump’s chief of staff for six months, has been pushed out of the White House. Michael D. Shear, a reporter for The New York Times, explains what this shake-up means.

Another attempt at top down command.
The national economy is not better though the coastal cities are roaring as they did in the twenties.

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U.S.

Tracking the Roller Coaster Relationship of Reince Priebus and Donald Trump

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and MIKAYLA BOUCHARD | Jul 29th 2017
The now-former White House chief of staff was one of the first Republican officials to take Trump seriously, but his relationship with the president had been rocky.

"Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary who was close to Mr. Priebus, resigned the day that the president announced he had hired Mr. Scaramucci to run the communications office.
The president became convinced that Mr. Priebus was not strong enough to run the White House operation, and told him two weeks ago that he wanted to make a change, according to White House officials. Intrigued at the idea of putting a general in charge, Mr. Trump offered the job to Mr. Kelly."

The staff keep trying to grow the government. 

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Podcasts

‘Dear Sugars’: How to Reclaim Vacation From Entitled Relatives

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Jul 29th 2017
The Sugars tackle several questions, including what to do when your best friend’s husband asks you to lie and why we sometimes recoil at very public displays of grief.

This browser will not play the audio.

WBUR is a public radio station near Boston. 
Xp will play wbur audio.
open an XP firefox brouser and google search wbur. 
The dear sugars podcast will show.
Under archives it will run.

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Food

A Quick, Satisfying Fix for Weeknight Chicken

By MELISSA CLARK | Jul 28th 2017
When pounded thin and marinated, chicken breasts stay juicy and tender.

I should do that.

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Health

Whooping Cough Cases Double in Indiana in One Year

By MAGGIE ASTOR | Jul 27th 2017
There were 136 confirmed cases of whooping cough in the state in the first half of 2017, compared with 66 in the first half of 2016, but an expert was not alarmed.

Yes.
Vaccines and vaccination rates deserve more attention
The return on investment will be positive.

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Opinion

The Senate’s ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ Health Debate

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Jul 26th 2017
It has come to this: Republicans are looking for any kind of a health care bill that they can pass and claim as a victory.

Any Republican victory would have quickly destroyed Obama-care.
Obama-care may be "nibbled to death by ducks" though that is not likely.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/nibbled-to-death-by-ducks
NPR is worried.

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Style

Alisyn Camerota, Formerly of Fox News, Has a Story to Tell

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Jul 29th 2017
The hair. The leg bronzer. Now at CNN, a journalist who accused Roger Ailes of harassment sets her first novel at a right-leaning cable network.

I hope she finds her novel profitable.

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Style

A Trendy Way to Protect Your Hair From Heat Damage

By NANA AGYEMANG and EMMA ORME | Jul 27th 2017
Nneka Ibeabuchi, the creative director of the “Beads and Braids” photo series, demonstrates how to create a summer hairstyle that she discovered in Ghana.

The model is lovely.
You would itch.

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U.S.

Former Obama Aides Lead Opposition to Health Care Repeal

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and ROBERT PEAR | Jul 27th 2017
As Republicans seek to repeal the Affordable Care Act, scores of former Obama aides who helped create the law are fighting to save it.

Lead on.

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The Upshot

Switching Careers Is Hard. It Doesn’t Have to Be.

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and QUOCTRUNG BUI | Jul 27th 2017
Many of the skills needed in fading jobs are more applicable to growing jobs than it might first appear.

What employers want is cheap and skilled.
Skilled labor is not cheap.

Skills require time and attention.
Investments need a positive return.


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U.S.

Scaramucci Tweets on Leak That Wasn’t Lays Bare White House Divisions

By PETER BAKER | Jul 27th 2017
Anthony Scaramucci, the new communications director, challenged Reince Priebus, the chief of staff, to “explain that he’s not a leaker.”

Scaramucci is being transparent.

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U.S.

Video: Trump on Sessions: Everything but ‘You’re Fired’

By SARAH STEIN KERR | Jul 26th 2017
President Trump made a career of firing people on TV. Now, he is expressing his disappointment with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but has not uttered two key words.

Nixon's southern strategy has been vital.

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U.S.

Right and Left React to ‘Skinny Repeal’ Defeat and Scaramucci’s Interview

By ANNA DUBENKO | Jul 28th 2017
Read about how the other side thinks about the health care debate and the new White House communications director’s profanity-laced tirade.

Suicide is a recursive firing.
People can and have fired themselves.

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Opinion

John McCain’s Dramatic Vote on the Republican Health Bill

Jul 28th 2017
Readers praise the senator as they decry what one calls “perhaps the most disgraceful and dishonest legislative gambit” in the Senate’s history.

August recess.

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Health

In US First, Scientists Edit Genes of Human Embryos

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 27th 2017
For the first time in the United States, scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited diseases.

Analytic genetics does not yet exist.
Eugenics was a fantasy that became a horror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics
Genetic research should continue.
There is nothing special about human beings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_Criticism

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69379/an-essay-on-criticism

"A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep or touch not the Pryian spring."

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Opinion

Mr. Anthony Scaramucci Esq.’s Guide to Workplace Etiquette

By TEDDY WAYNE | Jul 28th 2017
Some helpful hints on proper office comportment.

Humor . . .

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Opinion

John McCain Gets Best Care, Then Votes to Deprive Others

Jul 26th 2017
A reader condemns the senator’s dramatic vote; another praises two G.O.P. senators for voting “no” and suggests that they leave the party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_song

Seniority is important.

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U.S.

Trump Attacks Sessions Again, This Time Over the Acting F.B.I. Director

By EILEEN SULLIVAN | Jul 26th 2017
The president’s third straight day of publicly complaining about Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, came during speculation that Mr. Trump could fire Mr. Sessions.

Trump is reluctant to abandon the "Solid South".

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Opinion

Sessions, Kushner and the Russia Investigation

Jul 26th 2017
Readers discuss President Trump’s attacks on his attorney general and Jared Kushner’s defense before Senate investigators.

"No comments from the peanut gallery."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery
U.S.

Video: Scaramucci and Trump Bring Trash Talk to West Wing

By CHRIS CIRILLO and SARAH STEIN KERR | Jul 27th 2017
The blunt lingo of President Trump and his new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, can sometimes sound like a cross between “Goodfellas” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

The Trump administration displays its taste and erudition.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/erudition

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Opinion

John McCain’s Dramatic Vote on the Republican Health Bill

Jul 28th 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_song

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U.S.

Right and Left React to ‘Skinny Repeal’ Defeat and Scaramucci’s Interview

By ANNA DUBENKO | Jul 28th 2017

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Crosswords & Games

One Lighting Up the Dance Floor

By MARTIN HERBACH | Jul 29th 2017
Erik Agard gives us some fuzzy food.

Sunset Boulevard:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043014/

4
Well

How Tattoos Might Affect Your Workout

By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS | Jul 26th 2017
The amount and saltiness of sweat changed in skin areas that had been dyed.

I have no "skin art".

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U.S.

Scaramucci Tweets on Leak That Wasn’t Lays Bare White House Divisions

By PETER BAKER | Jul 27th 2017
Anthony Scaramucci, the new communications director, challenged Reince Priebus, the chief of staff, to “explain that he’s not a leaker.”

Gushing.

6
Technology

Relocating an iTunes Library

By J. D. BIERSDORFER | Jul 28th 2017
If your media collection has taken over your computer’s hard drive, you can move your iTunes files to another location.

It reads like it should work.
Follow the instructions in detail.

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Food

What to Cook This Weekend

By SAM SIFTON | Jul 28th 2017
In the middle of summer, there’s nothing finer than an outdoor meal: grilled corn, ash-roasted potatoes or rib-eye steaks.

I will do waffles with creme fraiche  and blackberry jam.

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Books

Literary World Reacts to Michiko Kakutani’s Departure

By FAHIMA HAQUE | Jul 28th 2017
Did Michiko Kakutani — who stepped down after 38 years as The Times’s chief book critic — influence your literary tastes? We’d like to hear about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/books/38-years-on-books-the-essential-michiko-kakutani-reader.html

I have ignored her.

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Style

A Doctor Gives Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop a Pelvic Exam

By KATHERINE ROSMAN | Jul 29th 2017
Dr. Jen Gunter was already skeptical of “snake oil” products meant to improve women’s sex lives. Now she is a detractor of the movie star’s website.

Goop might be a hint about content.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goop
Dr. Jen Gunter is not wrong.

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Magazine

Judge John Hodgman on Keeping Locks of Hair

By JOHN HODGMAN | Jul 28th 2017
Should we be nailing our friends’ body parts to our walls?

I have learned more.






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