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Science

Fracking to Unfold Under a Historic Farm

By JON HURDLE | Mar 1, 2013

A Pennsylvania property owned by an African-American family for eight generations will be restored and preserved with drilling proceeds.

Agriculture and Farming; Historic Buildings and Sites; Hydraulic Fracturing; Natural Gas; Shale; Underground Railroad (19th Century); Water Pollution; 

Torn.

 

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U.S.

Can Democrats Turn Texas and Arizona Blue by 2016?

By MICAH COHEN | Mar 1, 2013

Does an increasingly diverse electorate mean that Democrats can turn deep red states blue? Or will it just solidify their advantage in other crucial states?

Hispanic-Americans; Polls and Public Opinion; Presidential Election of 2012; Presidential Election of 2016; 

The Democrats may get more than a little help from the Tea Party.

Economic pain does that.

 

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Opinion

Breeding Bad Bugs

Mar 1, 2013

Antibiotic overuse in Chinese pig farms poses a potential worldwide human health risk.

Antibiotics; Factory Farming; Livestock; 

Agreed.

 

4

Business Day

In California, What Price Water?

By FELICITY BARRINGER | Mar 1, 2013

A plant for making seawater drinkable in Carlsbad, Calif., will offer a peek into a future when prices for water reflect the real costs of obtaining it.

Water; Conservation of Resources; Desalination; Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates); Oceans and Seas; 

Water is the price of further building.

The powers that be will pay almost any price to continue to make money as they have done in the past.

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Opinion

More on Divergent Paths to Human Progress

By ANDREW C. REVKIN | Mar 1, 2013

A fresh exploration of ways to forge progress on a turbulent planet amid varied views on risks.

Disasters and Emergencies; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Japan); Population; Sustainable Living; 

I agree that we are facing a group of choices.

We cannot sustain population growth.  we cannot use fossil carbon.

We need to build out nuclear power.  Wind and other solar will not suffice.

It is likely that we cannot sustain population growth.

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N.Y. / Region

Liu Denounces Inquiry Into His Fund-Raising

By MICHAEL BARBARO | Mar 1, 2013

City Comptroller John C. Liu used a New York City mayoral candidates’ forum to demand an end to a multiyear federal investigation of his fund-raising practices.

Elections, Mayors; City Councils; Paid Time Off; Campaign Finance; 

This is why there are primaries.

 

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Business Day

Shocked, Shocked, Over Hospital Bills

By UWE E. REINHARDT | Mar 1, 2013

It should not be impossible to restrain hospitals from charging so much, but few attempts have been made, an economist writes.

Health Insurance and Managed Care; Hospitals; Nonprofit Organizations; Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates); 

Medicare for all is one effective approach.  Transparency is another.  Regulation is a third.  Getting everyone covered by regulated and subsidized insurance may be workable. 

What we have now is not workable.

 

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Opinion

India's Mr. Death

By HARTOSH SINGH BAL | Mar 1, 2013

More Indian prisoners have been executed in the last two months, under the newly minted president, than in well over a decade.

Capital Punishment; Crime Rates; Debates (Political); Sentences (Criminal);

Their courts and system.

We should not be killing prisoners under our present system of justice.

 

9

U.S.

Oklahoma: Curb on Texting While Driving Is Blocked

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Mar 1, 2013

A Republican-controlled House committee on Thursday derailed a bill to ban texting while driving, citing concerns that it would be hard to enforce and jeopardize personal freedoms.

Text Messaging; Roads and Traffic; Traffic Accidents and Safety; Law and Legislation; 

Just bad reasoning.  

Such a law would be near self enforcing.  

Texting drivers would be liable in crashes.  

A cite for a weaving distracted driver.

 

10

Opinion

Secrets to Success in Online College Learning

Feb 26, 2013

Responses to an editorial from William J. Bennett, the former education secretary, and his co-author, as well as the University of Phoenix.

E-Learning; Colleges and Universities; Computers and the Internet; Tuition;

Canned lectures do not do it.

It occurs to me I have never read a text on teaching and learning.

 

11

U.S.

In Bay Area, a Fragile Relationship Between Muslims and F.B.I.

By COLIN MOYNIHAN | Mar 1, 2013

Members of an Islamic center that was repeatedly attacked wonder if an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation could have prevented subsequent assaults.

Hate Crimes; Muslims and Islam; Threats and Threatening Messages; Arson; Freedom of Information Act; 

Missionaries always have a tough time.

 

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N.Y. / Region

Christie Says He’ll Take U.S. Money to Expand Medicaid

By KATE ZERNIKE | Feb 27, 2013

Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a strident Republican critic of President Obama’s health care law, said his decision was financial, not philosophical.

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Budgets and Budgeting; Medicaid; Health Insurance and Managed Care; Federal Aid (US); 

The Republican party is trying to kill us all.  Let them start with themselves.

13

U.S.

Ohio: Teenager Pleads Guilty in Cafeteria Killings

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Feb 27, 2013

A teenager charged with killing three students at Chardon High School last year pleaded guilty on Tuesday to three counts of aggravated murder.

Murders and Attempted Murders; Teenagers and Adolescence; School Shootings; 

I am not going to chase the details.

 

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Health

Why Failing Med Students Don't Get Failing Grades

By PAULINE W. CHEN, M.D. | Feb 28, 2013

Good doctoring is easy to recognize but difficult to quantify.

Doctors; Education (K-12); Medicine and Health; Nursing and Nurses; 

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Opinion

State Department Again Sees No Environmental Barriers to Keystone Pipeline

By ANDREW C. REVKIN | Mar 1, 2013

The State Department finds no significant environmental barriers to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Global Warming; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Keystone Pipeline System; Obama, Barack; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; Pipelines; 

It is really hard to say no to money.  

The world would be better without Keystone.

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Business Day

Balance? Don't Believe the Hype

By CLIFF OXFORD | Feb 27, 2013

Five years later, I had three Inc. 500 plaques hanging on my wall — and I was divorced.

Entrepreneurship; Small Business; Work-Life Balance; 

A good point and a great reason to have a works and a home.

A home office is destructive of home life.

 

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Science

A Snapshot of Drilling on a Park's Margins

By LESLIE MACMILLAN | Mar 1, 2013

A photographer seeks to drive home the proximity of fracking to Glacier National Park.

Glaciers; Hydraulic Fracturing; Infrastructure (Public Works); National Parks, Monuments and Seashores; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; Wells; 

I suspect the drilling is desperation.

I would like to see the financial report.

Just say no.

 

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Opinion

An Eerie Silence on Cybersecurity

Feb 27, 2013

Most companies would tell investors if thieves made off with hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. So why not discuss cyberattacks, which are often more valuable?

Cyberattacks and Hackers; Computer Security; Editorials; 

I look at slash-dot and the register regularly.  The posters and reporters are deeply involved with cybersecurity.  I have noticed no great increase in awareness and reports.  The update files at AVG are not bigger.

The timing of this editorial is puzzling.  I did see the "Chinese army hackers" fuss.  I saw no great echo in the technical press.

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U.S.

Getting In Without the SAT

By MICHAEL A. WILNER | Mar 1, 2013

The list of colleges and universities dropping the admissions requirement of standardized test scores continues to extend each year.

ACT (Examination); Admissions Standards; Colleges and Universities; SAT (College Admission Test); Tests and Examinations; 

LSAT . . .

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Style

Unreasonably 'Terrified' of a Second Labor

By KJ DELL'ANTONIA | Mar 1, 2013

Her first labor was uneventful. So why, a writer asks, “has it come to pass that I feel even more terrified by the idea of laboring with this second baby than I did with the first?”

Babies and Infants; Parenting; Pregnancy and Childbirth; 

I have not been involved in the process of birth even as an observer.

There is no automated system that can replace a mom before or after birth.

As soon as you can is best.