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Magazine
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN | Feb 3, 2013
A father wonders whether to reveal his sexual identity, and the Ethicist has second thoughts on bees.
Bees;
Ethics (Personal);
Gender;
Marriages;
I wonder if there are not more than one form of gay.
We know men who want to be with men as men. Gender makes little difference. We know of people who want to be of the sex they were not born with in appearance or in fact. None of this interferes with the formation of pair bonds. Pair bonds deserve the protection of marriage.
Marriage cannot make a pair bond immortal. When the bond dies I and much of the world feel that the marriage should die. U.S. law does not allow the support of children to die with the bond and the marriage before the child reaches official adulthood.
The question transforms to "Are you willing to deal with the potential consequences of such an act?".
The wife and children and the state cannot control you.
Only you can control yourself.
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Business Day
By ANNE EISENBERG | Feb 3, 2013
A new computer, made by a company called Knome,
is the size of a file cabinet and can filter a person’s genetic
information, possibly yielding insights into cancer or other diseases.
Genetics and Heredity;
Computers and the
Internet; DNA
(Deoxyribonucleic Acid);
Laboratories and Scientific Equipment;
New Models, Design and Products;
This is an analytic engine. Just a big fast computer.
What is interesting is that file transfers between private URLs have an expectation of privacy. It is only when they sit on a public ISP that they can be peaked at.
The privacy fight is much smaller than the news would lead one to believe.
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Sports
By JUDY BATTISTA | Feb 3, 2013
The league is looking to jump start the
development of imaging technology and encourage the creation of
materials to better protect the brain.
Football;
Concussions;
Sports Injuries;
Brain;
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy;
Traumatic Brain Injury;
This is an existential problem for the NFL.
GE has a lab and likes money.
Nokia of Finland has a billion euro grant to study graphene.
At a very few dollars a share they might be worth attention.
NOK is the ticker symbol.
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World
By FLOYD WHALEY | Feb 1, 2013
Philippine officials are examining potential
legal violations and fines against the United States after a $277
million ship ran aground in a protected coral reef.
Reefs;
Maritime Accidents and Safety;
Fish and Other Marine Life;
United States Defense and
Military Forces;
The navy is being as good as it is.
Pay the fine and remove the violation.
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Opinion
Feb 2, 2013
The associate director of Women Employed responds to a news article about the changing face of college students.
Colleges and
Universities; Work-Life
Balance; Graduation
Rates; Social Conditions
and Trends;
Colleges exist to make money.
Graduate schools exist to provide cheap labor.
Law schools are just a nuisance.
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N.Y. / Region
By MARC SANTORA | Feb 1, 2013
A report highlights the work done by New York
agencies to trace the origin of 28 outbreaks and stem further spread of
ciguatera, a type of fish poisoning.
Seafood;
Fish and Other Marine Life;
Food Contamination and Poisoning;
The FDA can test for the toxin.
Probably the best we can do this year is regulate a warning label on reef fish.
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Business Day
By TYLER COWEN | Feb 3, 2013
An economist suggests that so-called budget
sequestration — government spending cuts — could actually help the
nation’s economy, if the right kind of cuts are made.
United States Economy;
Federal Budget (US);
United States Defense and
Military Forces;
Medicare; Health
Insurance and Managed Care;
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010);
Crop Controls and Subsidies;
This is the GOP theory.
It has yet to show itself effective.
I think we have tried it enough.
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World
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE | Feb 1, 2013
Up to half of all food produced for human consumption is thrown away. What do you do about it?
Food;
Population;
Supermarkets and Grocery Stores;
Charge more and grow less.
Most of the waste is of food too cheap to sell.
At a higher price more would go to local markets.
The hungry are hungry because they have not the money to buy.
Get the hungry incomes and they will stop being hungry.
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U.S.
By ROSS RAMSEY | Feb 1, 2013
The governor’s State of the State address was
subtler than the one he gave two years ago, when he was setting up for a
presidential run, but it was still political.
Speeches and Statements;
Infrastructure (Public
Works); Economic
Conditions and Trends;
Health Insurance and Managed Care;
Taxation;
Goodhair Perry is not a nice man.
He is totally political and we must remember that at every opportunity.
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World
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Feb 2, 2013
Fighting that broke out last month between two
Arab tribes in the Jebel Amir gold mining area has displaced around
100,000 people, United Nations officials said.
Mines and Mining;
Refugees and Displaced
Persons; International
Relations;
The Arabs in the Sudan are the decedents of slave traders.
These desert thieves have no inherent rights in any of this territory.
I would not shoot them out of hand but I see no reason to support either side.
Perhaps the best scheme is to give some support to the loosing side so as to extend the fight.
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Science
By JON HURDLE | Jan 31, 2013
The agency plans to ban 12 d-Con products that could expose children to the poison.
Consumer Protection;
Hazardous and Toxic
Substances; Mice;
Poisoning and Poisons;
Rats;
Regulation and Deregulation of Industry;
YES.
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Fashion & Style
By ANITA FELICELLI | Feb 3, 2013
We’d been friends a long time, but it was entirely possible that we’d just guessed what the other person wanted to hear.
Computers and the
Internet; Friendship;
Dating and Courtship;
Love (Emotion);
Faced with the necessity of communicating in writing, I write.
It is not my choice of media but others are not available to me.
I feel clumsy even with the spoken word.
There is such art available and so little time to polish in conversation.
I will welcome contact with you.
I hope to make it last and only grow.
You must lead. I am not allowed to push further.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Feb 2, 2013
The Obama administration’s latest proposal again
protects both religious liberties and women’s right to affordable birth
control.
Birth Control and Family
Planning; Health
Insurance and Managed Care;
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010);
Women's Rights;
Freedom of Religion;
As long as contraception in all its forms is freely available to women
and men I care little about what other pocket covers the costs.
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U.S.
By MARK OPPENHEIMER | Feb 2, 2013
For the religious, evolution continues to divide more than 150 years after “On the Origin of Species.”
Evolution;
Christians and Christianity;
"Evolution by natural selection"
is true by observation and by Occam's Razor.
It is a theory because there is no way to prove a negative.
The faithful do not learn.
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Opinion
Jan 31, 2013
Cats don’t just prey on noxious rodents. They kill more wild creatures in the United States than any other human-linked cause.
Cats;
Editorials;
Birds;
Animals;
A ball bearing mouse trap is a biological control.
Like most biological controls, they are not so selective as we wish.
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Fashion & Style
By ELAINE SCIOLINO | Feb 3, 2013
Polls show wide support for legalizing gay marriage in France, but there is plenty of ambivalence, too.
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil
Unions and Domestic Partnerships;
Homosexuality;
Discrimination;
Marriages; Women's
Rights;
The relations between France and the Roman Church have always been close and uncomfortable.
I have no idea how this debate will be resolved.
Eventually there will be marriage available for all pair bonds.
Eventually may not be now or soon.
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Opinion
By CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS | Feb 2, 2013
Boys are being left behind in educational advancement. We need to address the reasons.
Discrimination;
Education (K-12);
Gender;
Men and Boys;
Tests and Examinations;
"(T)he proper corrective to chauvinism is not to reverse it and practice
it against males, but rather basic fairness. And fairness today requires
us to address the serious educational deficits of boys and young men.
The rise of women, however long overdue, does not require the fall of
men."
If you think on the history you should know, how and why are obvious.
The search for cheap labor by modern industry is part of the problem.
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Opinion
By LOUISE ARONSON | Feb 3, 2013
How can we measure the quality of life, for our beloved pets or for older, infirm people?
Dogs;
Elderly;
Hospice Care;
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide;
When I no longer care it will be time for hospice. This may be because of
no mind left or it may be when there is no hope for another end of pain.
I will tell you when it is time, I hope. I also hope you will tell me when it is time for you. The durable healthcare proxy is an under-appreciated feature of marriage.
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Technology
By NATASHA SINGER | Feb 3, 2013
The United States and Europe are struggling to
bridge a divide in the way their citizens are shielded against the use
of their personal data.
Privacy;
Data-Mining and Database Marketing;
United States Politics and
Government; Regulation
and Deregulation of Industry;
Consumer Protection;
Google sees all information as their stock in trade. I try hard not to tell them anything.
I notice that I get almost no unsolicited email that is not caught in my AOL spam filter. When you are off line the filter catches fall to near zero.
I will have to put together an essay on file transfer protocols
with private URLs. They are subjects I have not been considering.
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N.Y. / Region
By CARA BUCKLEY | Jan 31, 2013
Residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood, badly
damaged by Hurricane Sandy, said the new flood maps could have given
them a warning.
Hurricane Sandy (2012);
Maps;
Floods;
Most people are ignorant of the past and of geography.
Areas and individuals are known to demand removal from the flood zone.
Flood zones were viewed as political benefits for insurance companies.
Reading a contour map is a rare skill.
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Business Day
By GENE MARKS | Feb 3, 2013
G.D.P. slips. Optimism rises. And the intrigue continues at Downton Arby's. Will immigration reform help your business?
Entrepreneurship;
Immigration and Emigration;
Small Business;
Start-ups;
United States Economy;
My social skills are limited.
"He just sits there licking his eyebrows."
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Fashion & Style
By ELAINE SCIOLINO | Feb 3, 2013
Polls show wide support for legalizing gay marriage in France, but there is plenty of ambivalence, too.
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil
Unions and Domestic Partnerships;
Homosexuality;
Discrimination;
Marriages; Women's
Rights;
It will happen.
It may not be now.
It may not even be soon.
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Opinion
By CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS | Feb 2, 2013
Boys are being left behind in educational advancement. We need to address the reasons.
Discrimination;
Education (K-12);
Gender;
Men and Boys;
Tests and Examinations;
Fairness is all that is required.
Getting to fair is very hard.
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Opinion
By LOUISE ARONSON | Feb 3, 2013
How can we measure the quality of life, for our beloved pets or for older, infirm people?
Dogs;
Elderly;
Hospice Care;
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide;
Hospice when hope is gone.
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Technology
By NATASHA SINGER | Feb 3, 2013
The United States and Europe are struggling to
bridge a divide in the way their citizens are shielded against the use
of their personal data.
Privacy;
Data-Mining and Database Marketing;
United States Politics and
Government; Regulation
and Deregulation of Industry;
Consumer Protection;
There will be one rule. There is no certain winner.
Private is preferable. Let there be an end to pay walls.
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N.Y. / Region
By CARA BUCKLEY | Jan 31, 2013
Residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood, badly
damaged by Hurricane Sandy, said the new flood maps could have given
them a warning.
Hurricane Sandy (2012);
Maps;
Floods;
Attitudes may have changed some.
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Opinion
Feb 3, 2013
As President Obama pointed out, football must change because of the long-term damage from concussions.
Concussions;
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy;
Football;
Dementia;
The concerns will continue as long as the money is seen as worth the players lives by the players and the advertisers.
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U.S.
By ALAN SCHWARZ | Feb 3, 2013
A young man’s suicide highlights issues in the
diagnosis and treatment of A.D.H.D., as growing numbers of youths fake
symptoms to obtain steady prescriptions for stimulants that can be
dangerous.
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals);
Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder;
Adderall (Drug);
Education (K-12); Youth;
Addiction (Psychology);
Psychiatry and
Psychiatrists; Doctors;
Mental Health and
Disorders;
Doctors like money too. "Speed Kills"
I use more coffee than I should but I do not do drugs.
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N.Y. / Region
By KATE ZERNIKE | Jan 31, 2013
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said volunteers would read annual financial reports and notify authorities of any improprieties.
Frauds and Swindling;
Volunteers and Community
Service; Elderly;
Disabilities;
We have not felt that she needs a guardian. I try to do it but do not want the official responsibility. So far it has worked out.
Auditing is necessary for such people. The old are very vulnerable.
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World
By ADAM NOSSITER and NICHOLAS KULISH | Feb 3, 2013
Heavily armed fighters who seized a desert
complex on Jan. 16 sought to turn the forest of pipes and tubes into a
bomb. What none of them knew was how, in the vast maze of metal, to do
it.
Defense and Military
Forces; Hostages;
Explosions;
Deaths (Fatalities);
Natural Gas;
Factories and Manufacturing;
It is so very easy in the movies. It even happens by accident.
It is very clear: The faithful do not learn.
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Real Estate
By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM | Feb 3, 2013
Ron Shiffman has long advocated for buildings that are both resilient and sustainable.
Sustainable Living;
Area Planning and Renewal;
Real Estate and Housing
(Residential);
I do not know Ron Shiffman. He has been a feature at Pratt for many years.
These things are the low hanging fruit of the environmental problem.
All of them should be done. The sum of them is insignificant in the scheme of things.
He has made the better the enemy of the best.
We must give up fossil carbon.
12
U.S.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Feb 3, 2013
A charter bus was carrying high school students
from Pennsylvania when it crashed as it tried to pass under a bridge in
Boston, trapping some of the passengers for hours.
Traffic Accidents and
Safety; Buses;
Education (K-12);
Education;
Cheap labor, low bid.
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Fashion & Style
By BEE-SHYUAN CHANG | Jan 31, 2013
Celebrities and yoga are on the menu at a fund-raiser for a nonprofit organization that brings the practice to public schools.
Yoga;
Parties (Social);
Fashion and Apparel;
Exercise helps. Get more. Let the kids run.
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Business Day
By CATHERINE RAMPELL | Feb 3, 2013
Americans in their 50s and early 60s lost the
most earning power of any group, researchers say, and those who lost
their jobs have had the hardest time finding new ones.
Layoffs and Job
Reductions; Labor and
Jobs; Unemployment;
Age, Chronological;
Pensions and Retirement Plans;
United States Economy;
Discrimination;
Careers and Professions;
Baby Boomers;
A very different picture from that on the business pages.
This is much closer to what I see.
15
Technology
By KIT EATON | Jan 31, 2013
Keeping track of your expenses can be time-consuming, but there are several tools to make the job easier.
Mobile Applications;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Personal Finances;
Smartphones;
I am not straining at the pennies. There is plenty of money. Little of the income is mine.
I do not have to prove my accounts I just have to keep the spending as low as possible.
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Job Market
By CAROL COLOMBO | Feb 3, 2013
A chief executive learned as a girl that no job was beneath her — and that no job was above her, either.
Executives and
Management (Theory);
Careers and Professions;
Amber Alert; Global
Positioning System;
Product without production.
Self reliance and good luck.
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Opinion
By C. KAY LARSON | Feb 2, 2013
The Civil War was in many ways an equine war.
Civil War (US)
(1861-65); Horses;
West Point may still have a required course in horsemanship.
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N.Y. / Region
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN | Feb 1, 2013
The failure to send dozens of samples to a state
database has led to the discipline of two officials and was discovered
during a review stemming from other errors in the lab.
Forensic Science;
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid);
Getting these things right is the reason crime labs exist.
Things would not be better without them.
19
Science
By MICHAEL BECKER | Jan 31, 2013
What does it feel like to drop through 10 feet of
ice cover into deep, blue stillness to meet one of Earth's earliest
forms of life?
Diving and Divers;
Ice;
Microbiology;
Thoroughly dry air would solve the regulator icing problem.
Stromatolites are perhaps not as unique in the world as he thinks.
These are quibbles in a good report.
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World
By EDWARD WONG | Jan 31, 2013
The measures include shutting down more than 100
factories and ordering one-third of government vehicles off the streets,
official news reports said.
Air Pollution;
Environment;
Factories and Manufacturing;
These measures will not be enough.
Britain was coal fired and gave it up after the killer fogs of the fifties.
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Business Day
By GENE MARKS | Feb 3, 2013
G.D.P. slips. Optimism rises. And the intrigue continues at Downton Arby's. Will immigration reform help your business?
Entrepreneurship;
Immigration and Emigration;
Small Business;
Start-ups;
United States Economy;
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Opinion
By LOUISE ARONSON | Feb 3, 2013
How can we measure the quality of life, for our beloved pets or for older, infirm people?
Dogs;
Elderly;
Hospice Care;
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide;
Hospice for the end of hope.
3
Technology
By NATASHA SINGER | Feb 3, 2013
The United States and Europe are struggling to
bridge a divide in the way their citizens are shielded against the use
of their personal data.
Privacy;
Data-Mining and Database Marketing;
United States Politics and
Government; Regulation
and Deregulation of Industry;
Consumer Protection;
4
N.Y. / Region
By CARA BUCKLEY | Jan 31, 2013
Residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood, badly
damaged by Hurricane Sandy, said the new flood maps could have given
them a warning.
Hurricane Sandy (2012);
Maps;
Floods;
5
Opinion
Feb 3, 2013
As President Obama pointed out, football must change because of the long-term damage from concussions.
Concussions;
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy;
Football;
Dementia;
6
U.S.
By ALAN SCHWARZ | Feb 3, 2013
A young man’s suicide highlights issues in the
diagnosis and treatment of A.D.H.D., as growing numbers of youths fake
symptoms to obtain steady prescriptions for stimulants that can be
dangerous.
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals);
Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder;
Adderall (Drug);
Education (K-12); Youth;
Addiction (Psychology);
Psychiatry and
Psychiatrists; Doctors;
Mental Health and
Disorders;
7
N.Y. / Region
By KATE ZERNIKE | Jan 31, 2013
Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said volunteers would read annual financial reports and notify authorities of any improprieties.
Frauds and Swindling;
Volunteers and Community
Service; Elderly;
Disabilities;
8
World
By ADAM NOSSITER and NICHOLAS KULISH | Feb 3, 2013
Heavily armed fighters who seized a desert
complex on Jan. 16 sought to turn the forest of pipes and tubes into a
bomb. What none of them knew was how, in the vast maze of metal, to do
it.
Defense and Military
Forces; Hostages;
Explosions;
Deaths (Fatalities);
Natural Gas;
Factories and Manufacturing;
9
Real Estate
By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM | Feb 3, 2013
Ron Shiffman has long advocated for buildings that are both resilient and sustainable.
Sustainable Living;
Area Planning and Renewal;
Real Estate and Housing
(Residential);
10
U.S.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Feb 3, 2013
A charter bus was carrying high school students
from Pennsylvania when it crashed as it tried to pass under a bridge in
Boston, trapping some of the passengers for hours.
Traffic Accidents and
Safety; Buses;
Education (K-12);
Education;
11
Fashion & Style
By BEE-SHYUAN CHANG | Jan 31, 2013
Celebrities and yoga are on the menu at a fund-raiser for a nonprofit organization that brings the practice to public schools.
Yoga;
Parties (Social);
Fashion and Apparel;
12
Business Day
By CATHERINE RAMPELL | Feb 3, 2013
Americans in their 50s and early 60s lost the
most earning power of any group, researchers say, and those who lost
their jobs have had the hardest time finding new ones.
Layoffs and Job
Reductions; Labor and
Jobs; Unemployment;
Age, Chronological;
Pensions and Retirement Plans;
United States Economy;
Discrimination;
Careers and Professions;
Baby Boomers;
13
Technology
By KIT EATON | Jan 31, 2013
Keeping track of your expenses can be time-consuming, but there are several tools to make the job easier.
Mobile Applications;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Personal Finances;
Smartphones;
14
Job Market
By CAROL COLOMBO | Feb 3, 2013
A chief executive learned as a girl that no job was beneath her — and that no job was above her, either.
Executives and
Management (Theory);
Careers and Professions;
Amber Alert; Global
Positioning System;
15
N.Y. / Region
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN | Feb 1, 2013
The failure to send dozens of samples to a state
database has led to the discipline of two officials and was discovered
during a review stemming from other errors in the lab.
Forensic Science;
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid);
16
Opinion
By C. KAY LARSON | Feb 2, 2013
The Civil War was in many ways an equine war.
Civil War (US)
(1861-65); Horses;
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Science
By MICHAEL BECKER | Jan 31, 2013
What does it feel like to drop through 10 feet of
ice cover into deep, blue stillness to meet one of Earth's earliest
forms of life?
Diving and Divers;
Ice;
Microbiology;
18
World
By EDWARD WONG | Jan 31, 2013
The measures include shutting down more than 100
factories and ordering one-third of government vehicles off the streets,
official news reports said.
Air Pollution;
Environment;
Factories and Manufacturing;
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Sunday Review
By CATHERINE RAMPELL | Feb 3, 2013
Robots have once again gripped the nation’s
imagination, stoking fears of displaced jobs and perhaps even a
displaced human race.
Labor and Jobs;
Layoffs and Job Reductions;
Productivity;
Robots and Robotics;
Factories and Manufacturing;
There is always room to create. The machines do not do that.
This is about fear baiting money.
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Arts
By PATRICIA COHEN | Jan 31, 2013
The German newspaper Der Spiegel describes "a moral disaster that began in the 1950s and continues to the present day."
Holocaust and the Nazi
Era; Museums;
Reparations and Restitution;
World War II (1939-45);
These things were looted because they were valued.
Giving them up was not and will not be easy.
Some of them were looted again by the allies.
Much of Napoleon's loot was never returned.
Bismark did his own looting.
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