Tuesday, February 20, 2018

@15:55, 2/20/18

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Admin

Video: Robert Reich: The Shrinking Middle Class

Berkeley professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, speaking at The New York Times’s 2018 New Work Summit, said the current path of innovation will widen the economic gap and leave middle-class workers with few well-paying options.

Get education rather than training.

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Style

Don’t Be Flaky

Now’s the time to step up your shower game. Dandruff shampoos have gone chic.

The supermarket house brand is good.

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Food

Not Your Everyday Pantry Staples

Blackbarn is a new line of packaged foods, including beer preserves and matcha hot chocolate.

Do what works.

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Style

Dry Winter Hair Is the Worst

Pros like the Paris stylist David Mallett share some super-practical tips for salvaging your parched strands.

Ok

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Food

42nd Street Has a New Kind of Flaky Star

Borekas, long, stuffed Middle Eastern pastries, are now available at Green Fig on 10th Avenue.


As convenient.

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N.Y. / Region

Little Italy Is Very Little, and Not Very Italian

A fire at the oldest Italian restaurant in the neighborhood further erodes the authenticity of an area that’s now better known for its souvenir shops.

not again.

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Books

Who Owns the Elgin Marbles?

In “The Real Life of the Parthenon,” Patricia Vigderman visits classic sites of the ancient world, exploring their complex, contested heritage.

The British Museum owns the stones.
Greece owns the heritage and the shame of conquest.

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Sports

Short-Track Speedskaters Are Lopsided

They spend hours torqued to the left as they speed around a tight oval. As a result, their bodies are asymmetrical, with much of their right sides bulkier.

Yes.  Muscle mass is volume.

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Opinion

China Dropped Its One-Child Policy. So Why Aren’t Chinese Women Having More Babies?

The government’s latest demographic program has unmistakably eugenic undertones.

University women 25 and 26 years old look like a tiny splinter of the Han Chinese population. Many of the migrant workers will remain childless.

I would like to do a better workup without the emotional loading.

Leftover women are old maids by another name.

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Books

New & Noteworthy

A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.

I would try them if they were on my pile.

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