Wednesday, February 19, 2020

@14:02, , 2/19/20

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Opinion

Have Zombies Eaten Bloomberg’s and Buttigieg’s Brains?

Beware the Democrats of the living dead.

These two should not be president.
Bloomberg should be in the Democratic cabinet.
He would run the intelligence agencies well.


U.S.

Michael Bloomberg Surges in Polls and Qualifies for 2 Democratic Debates

After garnering 19 percent support in a national poll, the billionaire will be on the debate stage, where he is certain to be a target of onstage criticism.

Bloomberg wants to repair the world.
He would do well at repairs.

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Health

She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway.

Medical schools and students are grappling with an unsettling practice: Performing pelvic exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients.

The standard solution is money.
Put out a casting call for study subjects.

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New York

Need a New Driver’s License to Fly? Prepare for a Real Wait.

D.M.V. lines are longer than ever as states struggle to issue the new licenses, which will be required for domestic flights starting Oct. 1.

The Trump administration needs to cause useless pain.
 Remember where the pain started.  
It may be only a bit over a month.

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World

Mudlarks Scour the Thames to Uncover 2,000 Years of Secrets

From ribald tokens from London’s Roman past to hints of the Mayflower’s fate, mudlarks discover the story of a constantly changing London — but only at low tide.

It is dumpster diving until it is fitted into the historical narrative.

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New York

The Debutante Ball in the Age of Instagram

A ritual of the 1 percent endures in Manhattan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell

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U.S.

Past Remarks Are Challenging for Bloomberg, and Fair Game for Rivals

For two months, Michael Bloomberg’s campaign has been preparing for a moment it knew would come: when decades of impolitic and insensitive remarks would face renewed scrutiny.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s_de_scandale

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World

China’s Doctors, Fighting the Coronavirus, Beg for Masks

Confronting a viral epidemic with a scant supply of protective equipment, more than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have already been infected, and six have died.

The air force is skilled at touch and go deliveries.
The central committee will have to ask.

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U.S.

Boy Scouts Seek Bankruptcy to Survive a Deluge of Sex-Abuse Claims

The nonprofit group, which counts more than two million youth participants, follows Catholic dioceses and U.S.A. Gymnastics in seeking bankruptcy protection amid sex-abuse cases.

I did not like the scouts.
Their objective was soldiers.

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New York

Is This New York City’s Nicest Public Bathroom?

A curbside kiosk in Midtown Manhattan has rotating toilet seat covers, classical music and an attendant.

Hotels do better.

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