1
Sports
Patriots Owner Robert Kraft Charged in Florida Prostitution Investigation
Robert K. Kraft, the owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, was charged with two counts of soliciting sex.Robert Kraft is a misogynist.
2
Travel
How to Stay Fresh on Long Trips
Just because you have a 12-hour flight doesn’t mean you have to leave the plane smelling like it. Whether it’s a flight, train ride or bus trip, these tips will keep you smelling fresh on those long, strenuous travel days.OK
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New York
L.I.R.R. Collision: 3 Killed as 2 Trains Crash Into Car in Westbury
A railroad crossing in Nassau County turned into a chaotic disaster scene after a car swerved around gates and onto the tracks, where it was hit by the trains.Children are born ignorant.
Those who survive have usually learned a few things.
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World
After India’s Strike on Pakistan, Both Sides Leave Room for De-escalation
Amid the escalation of hostilities over an attack in Kashmir, the leadership of each country seemed to give itself a way out of pushing the conflict into war."The only way to win is not to play."
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Sports
Zion Williamson’s Injury Has Some Saying He Should Quit Duke
Williamson, the star freshman basketball player, could be jeopardizing his career for the glory of a university, Duke, and a company, Nike, that are profiting from his free labor.Zion Williamson is not a slave.
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Arts
Peter Frampton Says He Has Degenerative Muscle Disease and Announces Farewell Tour
The musician said in media interviews that he did not know how much longer he would be able to play, and that he wanted to “go out screaming.”It is his choice.
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Travel
Rediscovering the World of ‘Blue Highways’
A 1982 memoir of an American road-trip remains relevant in a GPS world.Staying lost is a problem.
8
Health
Trump Administration Blocks Funds for Planned Parenthood and Others Over Abortion Referrals
The new rule would steer federal family planning funds under Title X to anti-abortion and faith based groups.The Conservatives include the Trump administration.
The conservatives split into several large factions.
Several of these factions take Revealed Truths as the
axioms for living.
These "Truths" do not and cannot fit evolving civilization.
Living is negotiated.
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Science
How Israel’s Moon Lander Got to the Launchpad
With $100 million and a lot of volunteer labor, SpaceIL’s Beresheet spacecraft could be the first privately built vessel to reach the lunar surface.The Beresheet spacecraft is art.
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New York
Video With ‘Racist, Homophobic’ Language Surfaces at Elite Private School
The Ethical Culture Fieldston School said several seniors had been involved with a video that contained “racist, homophobic and misogynistic language.”The school has failed to successfully indoctrinate some students.
It ought to return its tuition charges.
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Science
DNA Gets a New — and Bigger — Genetic Alphabet
DNA is spelled out with four letters, or bases. Researchers have now built a system with eight. It may hold clues to the potential for life elsewhere in the universe and could also expand our capacity to store digital data on EarthKnow that digital systems operate on ones and zeroes.
More values to a bit does not improve the efficiency of an arbitrary code.
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Movies
What ‘Green Book’ Says About the Academy. Our Critics on the Oscars.
Manohla Dargis, A.O. Scott and Wesley Morris all note that the night was impressively inclusive, but on the best picture winner, they aren’t in agreement.Win.
The judges decision is final.
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New York
Manhattan Pier Is Deemed Unsafe, Forcing Cancellation of an Art Show
The Armory Show will relocate to Pier 90, forcing the shutdown of Volta, a companion show that was set to be held there.The piers on the waterfront are wooden.
Anything permanent would damage docking ships.
True, an art show is not a ship but it requires a cheap central location.
Pier sheds are cheap because they are temporary and have lost their economic reason for being.
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Books
What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
A new collection of the writer’s prose and poems, “On Drinking,” makes clear how evasive he was even in his most seemingly honest work. Can Bukowski’s view of addiction survive a new era?Being well lubricated will get one jammed.
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Obituaries
Stanley Donen, ‘Master of the Musical’ Who Directed ‘Singin’ in the Rain,’ Dies at 94
He worked on the musical with Gene Kelly, with whom who he also co-directed another famous production, “On the Town.”Time passes for everyone.
His sense of aesthetics does not appeal to current producers.
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Sunday Review
Can Peer Pressure Defeat Trump?
In 2020, Democrats need millennials to turn out. Vote shaming apps can help.A good reason to vote.
Thought can make voting comfortable.
17
Movies
Oscars 2019: Your Guide to All the Best Picture Controversies
How to navigate a fractious, scandal-plagued year at the movies.I don't get a vote at the Oscars.
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Business
Jussie Smollett Won’t Be on Final Episodes of ‘Empire’ Season
The producers of the Fox drama announced that the actor, who was arrested on Thursday, would be removed from the final two episodes of the fifth season."Stupidity carries a death penalty."
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Arts
11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
The rise of the WeWorking class. Nigella Lawson looks back. Karl Lagerfeld is dead. Gay priests speak. And more.The Karl Lagerfeld article was informative.
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New York
15-Year-Old Shot to Death in Front of His Sister by a Hooded Gunman
A Haitian immigrant was shot to death in Brooklyn on Friday, the latest killing in an increasingly violent year in New York.Somebody knows all the details.
Recruit more blacks to the police department.
Recruit from the poor areas.
There is no substitute for connections.
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