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Arts
30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes
The baritone Christian Gerhaher and the pianist Gerold Huber have become bywords for sensitivity, cerebral depth and seeming perfection in lieder.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUawrG06sZk&list=RDEMrr2E6nmHdzqGW43s6oaqyw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WLQY17S7LQ&list=PLfa8roKzZiEhejDIgie5u90F_iqj75AjE&index=6
Enjoy
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Food
Brownies for Those Who Live to Lick the Bowl
Olive oil and a touch of sea salt make this recipe both gooey and slightly savory.I can make them but will try not to eat them.
I am excluding fructose.
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Business
G.M. to Idle Plants and Cut Thousands of Jobs as Sales Slow
The automaker said the moves would affect five factories in the United States and Canada. Some could resume output depending on union negotiations.The car companies are expecting recession.
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Health
Social Security Runs Short of Money and Ideas Fly on How to Repair It
As Social Security dips into its trust fund, policymakers propose changes to fix the program’s finances and strengthen its benefits, especially for women.Social Security will have to draw on the trustfund.
If that runs empty, the treasury will have to sell more bonds
Social Security is backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government.
The old keep dying.
The system needs no other repair.
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Science
This Is the Way the Paper Crumples
In a ball of paper, scientists discover a landscape of surprising mathematical order.There is a confusion in the model that backs this story.
Objects and persons exist only in the now.
They are the integration of their histories
Their histories matter only as they have shaped the present object.
Nature does everything it can all the time.
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Sports
What We Learned in N.F.L. Week 12
Cleveland secured its first winning streak since 2014, Denver ended Pittsburgh’s winning streak and the Colts, behind Andrew Luck’s streak of eight games with three or more touchdowns, won their fifth in a row.Not much.
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U.S.
Pelosi Faces Another Internal Threat to Her Leadership, This Time Over Partisan Gridlock
Nine Democrats say they will not support from Nancy Pelosi as speaker unless she fundamentally alters procedures of the House in ways they say would alleviate gridlock.Treachery is always a threat.
These nine will suffer in the caucus.
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U.S.
California Today: Sexual Misconduct Claims Roil the State’s Democratic Party
Monday: Allegations of abuse against the leader of California Democratic Party, the Camp Fire is contained at last, and a clash at the border.Dissension is a weapon of the opposition.
Investigation will reveal any actual misbehavior.
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Business
Theresa May Shouldn’t Bank on a TARP Moment for Brexit
In 2008, Congress backed a bank bailout program at the second time of asking. Hopes of a replay in Britain over a Brexit deal seem optimistic.The E.U. has spoken. There will be no mercy.
The Bank of England is the lender of last resort for Great Britain. Bank runs can be controlled.
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Opinion
Corporate Giants, Hurting the Economy
And a question for climate skeptics: Which planet will your grandkids be living on?The monopolies need to be broken again.
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Opinion
Knowledge, Ignorance and Climate Change
Philosophers have been talking about skepticism for a long time. Some of those insights can shed light on our public discourse regarding climate change.Teaching the doubts is counterproductive.
Consider the probabilities instead.
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New York
N.Y. Today: Protests for Amazon on Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is a big day for online retailers, particularly Amazon, which just announced it was building a headquarters in Queens. Critics are mobilizing.Amazon is not a good neighbor. Rents will rise.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/nyregion/gay-trump-supporters.html
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Books
The Morning After: One Man’s Quest for a Hangover Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s “Hungover” is filled with boozy factoids, eccentric remedies and tales of alcoholic adventures on several continents.I wish something worked as well as not drinking.
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Travel
How to Get the Most Out of a Women’s Ski Camp
Three days of concentrated instruction at Alta, near Salt Lake City, provided lessons in skiing the steeps, and a glimpse into why so many women seem to be flocking to these camps.Down-hill is not a skill I have.
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Well
Living where traffic is light is most effective.
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Helping Teenagers to Be Safer Drivers
New drivers are more likely to get into trouble because they lack experience, but the best way to reduce the risk of a crash is to become an experienced driver.Living where traffic is light is most effective.
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Science
NASA’s Mars InSight Landing: Back to the Red Planet Once Again
The NASA spacecraft will arrive at the red planet today and attempt to reach its surface in one piece.Why?
The probe will tell what it is designed to tell.
Low earth orbit is prohibitively expensive.
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Well
Family Birthday Rituals, Distinctly Ours
All three children requested the same dish of pasta and ribs for each and every birthday. I stopped cooking it on other occasions, to keep it special.Most of my family rituals seem to have died with the people.
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Lens
Examining Arnold Newman's Environmental Portraits
When taking portraits, Arnold Newman was less interested in the details of his subject’s surroundings than with the symbols he could create with them.It works.
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Obituaries
Bernardo Bertolucci, Director of ‘Last Tango in Paris,’ Dies at 77
Mr. Bertolucci’s early work reflected the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s and ’70s, in particular the shifting social and sexual mores of the times.People get old.
Some faster than others.
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World
Matthew Hedges, British Student Accused of Spying, Is Pardoned by U.A.E.
The conviction of Mr. Hedges, and his sentence of life in prison, had been met with outrage in Britain.Spies try to do their work quietly.
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