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Obituaries
Carmine Persico, Colombo Crime Family Boss, Is Dead at 85
Mr. Persico, nicknamed the Snake, died in prison. He was serving a combined 139-year sentence after being convicted of leading a vast and violent criminal enterprise.Organized crime is another extractive industry with low barriers to entry and high operating costs.
Conspiracy theories are easy to compose but are not remunerative. The price of being correct is high.
The mobster president is bad pulp fiction.
The Republican party points at the Democrats.
Our contemporaries are dropping dead.
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Opinion
Measles Breaks Out Among Yeshiva Students. Where to Begin?
The Health Department exists for a reason.
Plagues are not gone from the world.
Plagues are an ancient slander against the Jews.
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Style
Momo Is as Real as We’ve Made Her
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erinyes
"Baby shark" perhaps.
4
Well
How Breast Size Affects How Women Exercise
As women’s breast sizes grew, their participation in physical activity declined, particularly if that exercise was vigorous.Do what works.
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Movies
‘Captain Marvel’ Review: Brie Larson Takes a Trip to the ’90s
The newest member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe goes on a nostalgia trip in the company of Samuel L. Jackson and Annette Bening.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ditko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby
Disney is on the hot seat.
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U.S.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp Faces Investigation by House Panel
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating possible voting rights violations by Mr. Kemp, who presided over his own election in November.It is viewed as a gang war by the Republicans.
The "Old Boys" are a gang.
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World
With Streaks of Gray H air, Xi Jinping of China Breaks With Tradition
Chinese leaders have long sported unnaturally black heads of hair. Mr. Xi is going gray as he builds his image as a man of the people.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_of_China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
The succession is always important and rarely legitimate.
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Science
Watch Video of Type D Killer Whales, Rarely Seen by Humans
Scientists have collected skin samples from the unusual orcas, which could help determine whether they are a distinct cetacean species.Do the homework.
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Travel
36 Hours in St. Augustine
On northern Florida’s Atlantic coast, the past is present in this centuries-old city, where history, beachcombing and Southern treats like butter pecan milkshakes are celebrated in equal measure.It is still Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hiaasen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hiaasen#Works
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Arts
‘Leaving Neverland’: Viewers React With Shock at Disturbing Accounts of Life With Michael Jackson
The first episode of HBO’s documentary aired Sunday night, describing how he became close to two boys and presenting detailed allegations that he repeatedly had sex with them.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson#1993%E2%80%931994:_First_child_sexual_abuse_allegations_and_first_marriage
Pay attention.
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Arts
David Hockney Loves Van Gogh. This Exhibition Shows Why.
A show at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam brings together works by the contemporary British painter and the 19th century Post-Impressionist he so admired.Ok, Color has power.
Use it.
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Arts
Alex Trebek, ‘Jeopardy!’ Host, Has Pancreatic Cancer
The longtime host vowed to fight the disease, which has a low survival rate, and said he hoped to work until the end of his contract in 2022.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pancreatic-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20355421
Paliative care.
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Arts
‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life
A fitting shrine for Basquiat: A trophy art museum shows off a painter who felt he had been commodified.There is a very limited queantity of this work.
Living artists are undervalued by collecters on the assumption that there will be newer work in the future.
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Opinion
Your Dog Feels as Guilty as She Looks
Animals are no less emotional than we are.I agree.
The external cues are convincing.
Actors use the same cues in their craft.
People have some control of these cues.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=cue
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New York
Not ‘My Grandfather’s Boy Scout Troop’: It’s Now for Girls, Too
As of Feb. 1, the Boy Scouts of America began accepting girls into all its ranks for the first time in its 109-year history.Progress. The Boy Scouts were a paramilitary organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Guides
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Business
The Jobs Report Was the Weakest in Months. Here’s Why.
February’s meager gain follows other signs of economic sluggishness. But there were encouraging signs in the data as well.Paul KrugmanVerified account @paulkrugman
Well, that was unimpressive. It's probably mainly statistical noise/temporary effects of shutdown. But it fits with nowcasting estimates showing a very soft patch in the economy. Trump boom, such as it was, RIP
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Opinion
A ‘Creepy’ Assignment: Pay Attention to What Strangers Reveal in Public
An exercise I gave my students helps illustrate the risks to privacy in our everyday, offline lives.People are listening and looking. Some of them care what they hear and see.
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U.S.
Cohen Offers Documents in Bid to Show Trump Lawyers Helped With False Testimony
President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, brought drafts of a 2017 statement he made to Congress, along with emails with Mr. Trump’s lawyers about its drafting.Michael D. Cohen has placed a number of documents in evidence.
Congress now knows more about what the president knew and when he knew it.
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Technology
A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up)
At Modern Elder Academy, on the Baja coast, guests share anxieties about ageism and obsolescence.Young people anxious to join the middle class keep changing the labels on
proprietary thought.
It is easier to change the label than to have a new thought.
Digital communication like other language is stable in structure.
"Do not fail to understand the power of ignorant people in large numbers."
I heard a report from the Congo about shooting up an Ebola clinic.
Such an attack is biological warfare.
It shows ignorance of the nonselective nature of infection.
Possibly the commanders of the attack seek the genocide of Africa.
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U.S.
Melania Trump’s ‘Be Best’ Tour Shows the Power (and Limits) of Staying on Message
The first lady traveled to three states this week to promote her child-focused “Be Best” initiative. Unwelcome questions followed her along the way.The Opioid problem is the result of the D.E.A.'s attempt at prohibition.
I am told that detox can be achieved by tapering.
Whether detox cures addiction is not known.
Harry Anslinger ended opioid research in the twenties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger
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