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Job Market
By LINDA RABBITT | May 12, 2013
Check her rates and hire her company if it is competitive.
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U.S.
By FELICITY BARRINGER | May 11, 2013
Bureaucratic and technical obstacles have slowed
the distribution of federal aid in places where water is laced with
nitrates and other pollutants.
Water;
Federal Aid (US);
Water Pollution;
Agriculture has different water needs than residences.
Nitrates are worth money to agriculture.
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U.S.
By JOHN SCHWARTZ | May 14, 2013
In the middle of the last decade, the number of
miles driven — both over all and per capita — began to drop, notes a
report to be published on Tuesday by a nonprofit advocacy organization.
Automobiles;
Transit Systems;
Commuting;
Economic Conditions and Trends;
Youth;
Kids are crazy and ignorant but rarely stupid.
New York does not do bicycles well.
It is not a driving city.
Driving cities are clots of parking lots.
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U.S.
By JESS BIDGOOD | May 11, 2013
The problem of what to do with the body of
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing,
was solved when a small cemetery agreed to take it.
Boston Marathon Bombings
(2013); Funerals and
Memorials; Muslims and
Islam;
We are excessively kind and respectful.
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Health
By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D. | May 14, 2013
A new report argues that alcohol levels for
driving should be lowered, pointing out that a third of highway deaths
are still alcohol-related, and known effective strategies for lowering
injuries and deaths because of drunken driving remain underutilized.
Alcoholic Beverages;
Automobile Safety Features
and Defects; Drunken and
Reckless Driving; Tests
(Sobriety); Traffic
Accidents and Safety;
Establishments that sell alcohol should not have parking.
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Business Day
By GENE MARKS | May 13, 2013
Why small business are wasting money on “big”
data. How to procrastinate like a boss. The African-American start-up
gap. And do you swear at the office?
Economic Conditions and
Trends;
Entrepreneurship; Small
Business; Start-ups;
Bookmarked.
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Opinion
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | May 11, 2013
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Science
By SINDYA N. BHANOO | May 14, 2013
Researchers report that an “invisibility cloak” to make objects disappear can be made using a 3-D printer.
3-D Printers;
Radiation;
Space;
Research;
Present it to the builders of military aircraft. Radar is microwave.
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Booming
By STEVEN PETROW | May 14, 2013
A bisexual woman confronts persistent stereotypes but still wants to create more visibility.
Baby Boomers;
Homosexuality;
Workplace Environment;
Customs, Etiquette and Manners;
There is no way to be sexual at most work.
If work allows sexuality there is no wrong way to be sexual.
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N.Y. / Region
By KATE TAYLOR | May 14, 2013
Christine C. Quinn opened up about her bulimia
and the alcoholism that accompanied it, which she will discuss at a
speech at Barnard College and in a memoir to be published next month.
Alcohol Abuse;
Bulimia;
Eating Disorders;
Therapy and Rehabilitation;
Elections, Mayors;
I was going to say I was not concerned.
There is no shock in the exposure of common knowledge.
I am always interested in stories of recovery.
Recovery is not the right word. Release is more descriptive.
A return to conditions as they were or might be is not possible.
Life continues. It can be better. Love is.
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Fashion & Style
By SUNG J. WOO | May 12, 2013
If I don't go soon, leaving will be much harder.
As soon as you can is best.
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Sports
By JOHN BRANCH | May 13, 2013
The family of the National Hockey League enforcer
Derek Boogaard, who died of an overdose of painkillers in 2011, says
the league failed to monitor his prescriptions.
Chronic Traumatic
Encephalopathy;
Concussions; Suits and
Litigation (Civil);
Hockey, Ice; Deaths
(Fatalities); Sports
Injuries; Drug Abuse and
Traffic; Brain;
Occupational hazard.
Like a combat photographer, it was the life he chose.
Insurance premiums were large.
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Opinion
By ANGELINA JOLIE | May 14, 2013
Opening a conversation on women’s health.
Breast Cancer;
Mastectomy;
Surgery and Surgeons;
Medicine and Health;
Offer the testing.
Better to know.
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Your Money
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD | May 11, 2013
A new law will cause flood insurance premiums to skyrocket and require stricter, and thus more expensive, rebuilding standards.
Real Estate and Housing
(Residential); Hurricane
Sandy (2012);
Insurance; Floods;
Personal Finances;
Buy the location, buy the risk.
They can sell to the state.
I will weep no tears.
Beaches are mobile.
Structures there are temporary.
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Technology
By JAMES GLANZ | May 14, 2013
Bland New Jersey buildings are commanding rents
four times as high as Class A high-rises in Manhattan, but it isn’t the
space that attracts. It’s the electrical capacity.
Real Estate
(Commercial); Data
Centers; Electric Light
and Power;
The point of these operations is high frequency trading.
The trading operations speak of market efficiency.
It looks to me like insider trading.
The system depends on positive feedback, an inherently unstable condition.
After the next market gyration there will be a move to regulate.
Regulation will terminate the business.
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Travel
By EMILY BRENNAN | May 12, 2013
From message boards to Web searches, a food writer offers her tools and tips for finding local food away from home.
Local Food;
Travel and Vacations;
Sustainable Living;
I am still learning how to do it.
Cook for yourself if possible.
Farm stands in season.
A variety of food and a short menu.
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World
By NICHOLAS KULISH | May 14, 2013
The suspect was the bookkeeper for a group that
hijacked the German tanker the Marida Marguerite and its crew three
years ago, the authorities said.
Piracy at Sea;
Accounting and Accountants;
Kidnapping;
Hijacking;
Piracy is not trivial. It is vigorously suppressed.
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Technology
By NICK WINGFIELD | May 14, 2013
Microsoft is shedding the Windows Blue code name
for the next installment of its operating system. The official name of
the software will be Windows 8.1, a company executive said on Tuesday.
That name is one of the many giveaways that the new operating system
isn’t a radical overhaul of Windows 8, which only came out last fall.
Software;
Windows (Operating System);
Still self destructive . . .
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Opinion
By MANAN AHMED ASIF | May 11, 2013
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Health
By RONI CARYN RABIN | May 13, 2013
New reporting laws show how widespread gifts and
payments, sometimes running into hundreds of thousands of dollars, from
drug and device firms are to physicians.
Advertising and
Marketing; Conflicts of
Interest; Doctors;
Drugs (Pharmaceuticals);
Medical Devices;
It is a lucrative practice and would lean toward the abusive.
It looks to suffer from positive feedback.
Salespeople should not practice medicine.
Kick backs should be forbidden.
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U.S.
By FELICITY BARRINGER | May 11, 2013
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U.S.
By JOHN SCHWARTZ | May 14, 2013
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U.S.
By JESS BIDGOOD | May 11, 2013
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Health
By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D. | May 14, 2013
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Opinion
By ROSS DOUTHAT | May 14, 2013
Why the latest wave of scandals poses a particular challenge to Obama-ism.
Medicaid;
Middle East and North Africa Unrest
(2010- ); Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010);
Presidential Election of 2012;
I am going to try to ignore Ross Douthat.
He has earned a reputation as a Republican Ideologue.
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Science
By SINDYA N. BHANOO | May 14, 2013
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Booming
By STEVEN PETROW | May 14, 2013
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N.Y. / Region
By KATE TAYLOR | May 14, 2013
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Opinion
By ANGELINA JOLIE | May 14, 2013
10
Sports
By JOHN BRANCH | May 13, 2013
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Your Money
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD | May 11, 2013
12
Technology
By JAMES GLANZ | May 14, 2013
13
Travel
By EMILY BRENNAN | May 12, 2013
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World
By NICHOLAS KULISH | May 14, 2013
15
Health
By RONI CARYN RABIN | May 13, 2013
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Health
By PERRI KLASS, M.D. | May 13, 2013
Programs reducing childhood poverty are actively suppressed.
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Business Day
By PETER J. HENNING | May 13, 2013
Philip Falcone and his hedge fund are not
acknowledging wrongdoing as part of a settlement with the S.E.C., and
the agency is not even asking for an injunction against Mr. Falcone, the
author writes.
Fines (Penalties);
Hedge Funds;
Securities and Commodities Violations;
Operations are wound down.
"The captain goes down with his ship."
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Business Day
May 13, 2013
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
Government Bonds;
States (US);
Tax Credits, Deductions and Exemptions;
I have no way to prefer one over another.
Do due diligence.
Look at the stability of the issuers who will make the payments.
Bonds are and will continue to be a poor deal for years to come.
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U.S.
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ | May 14, 2013
The evidence in the Seminole County case of Clemente Javier Aguirre points to a family member of the victims, lawyers say.
Murders and Attempted
Murders; Forensic
Science; DNA
(Deoxyribonucleic Acid);
Prisons and Prisoners;
A new trial to the same result would not surprise me.
Get the daughter to explain the blood. There must have been a wound.
There may be a scar.
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Technology
By SOMINI SENGUPTA | May 11, 2013
Elon Musk of Tesla and David Sacks of Yammer have
left Mark Zuckerberg’s Fwd.us, which faces criticism from
environmentalists over its lobbying tactics.
Immigration and
Emigration; Online
Advertising; United
States Politics and Government;
Lobbying and Lobbyists;
Law and Legislation;
Just noise.
Enough for tonight.
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