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The Learning Network
What Did This Summer Teach You?
What did you learn about yourself, other people and the world while you were away from school?Madness can be a quiet thing.
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Business Day
Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio Learns the Hard Way. His Book Shows How.
The 68-year-old chairman’s deeply personal “Principles: Life & Work” explores a workplace culture that he has embraced as “radical transparency.”Plato's philosopher king is the utopian ideal.
It is and was always a fantasy.
I wish Ray Dalio the best of luck.
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Food
Patisserie Chanson’s Dessert Bar Opens in Flatiron District
The latest from Ravi DeRossi, dim-sum-style Italian in the West Village, and other restaurant news.Food should be good and plentiful.
I do not need to follow fashion in food.
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N.Y. / Region
The Dastardly Double U
A rumination in rhyme about a certain subway line.https://www.poemhunter.com/ogden-nash/
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Books
Life in a Police State, Through the Searing Story of a Refugee’s Disappearance
In “A Disappearance in Damascus,” the journalist Deborah Campbell searches for her guide, an Iraqi refugee.Avoid puritans.
I do not know how to fix them.
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Sports
Tornado Black, Tennis Prodigy, Sidelined by an Operation’s High Cost
A once-promising star is giving tennis lessons instead of playing professionally because she can’t afford a hip operation.rowd funding would probably work in her case.
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Books
Salman Rushdie’s Prose Joins the Circus in ‘The Golden House’
Rushdie’s 13th novel is exhausting, but it’s a treat when focused on a villain who resembles Donald Trump."Speaking truth to power" is not safe.
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Health
Backyard Chickens Carry a Hidden Risk: Salmonella
More than 900 people have contracted it from backyard poultry this year — the highest number ever — and the trend is expected to continue.Life is risky.
Life kills everyone.
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U.S.
On DACA, President Trump Has No Easy Path
Delaying a decision on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would buy the president some breathing room but displease nearly everyone else.The easy path on DACA is not available to Trump and Republicans.
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Arts
Allison and Katie Crutchfield, D.I.Y. Punk’s Twin Elders
The sisters, who both have new music out this year, talk about male condescension they faced on their way up.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/05/arts/music/25-women-making-best-rock-music-today.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpYuZNaP7nE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBpMXuzHR3I
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