Monday, July 29, 2013

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Opinion

Sunday Dialogue: Our Attitudes About Debt

Readers debate the importance of reducing the nation’s debt.
United States Economy; National Debt (US); Federal Budget (US); Gross Domestic Product; Federal Taxes (US); 

I have almost nothing to add.  
Politicians find it almost impossible to pay down debt in boom times. 
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Business Day

The Hunt for Melanoma

A reader responds to “Dissent Over a Device to Help Find Melanoma” (Technophoria, July 21).
Melanomas; Research; Science and Technology; Skin Cancer; 

True.
 
3
Your Money

Getting Creative With the G.D.P.

When figuring the gross domestic product, the government is about to give more economic weight to the creation of many types of intellectual property — from books to movies to music to biotech drugs.
Gross Domestic Product; Intellectual Property; New Models, Design and Products; United States Economy; 

It is time.  
We can quibble about how to do the accounting.
Revenue that lands on the books should be counted.

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U.S.

Weeks After Deadly Fire, Town Struggles to Pick Up Pieces

In Yarnell, Ariz., where 19 firefighters died and where homes destroyed by fire sit next to those mysteriously spared, residents struggle to ascribe meaning to what happened.
Fires and Firefighters; Wildfires; Deaths (Fatalities); Emotions; 

A tear jerking story of simple faith.

The fire did not, could not, care.
 
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Opinion

Status and Stress

The poor and powerless are at greater risk of early death.
Anxiety and Stress; Income Inequality; Longevity; Medicine and Health; 

"Early-life stress and poverty aren’t a problem of only the poor. They cost everyone."
A point the GOP can't understand.
 
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Opinion

Can We See Our Hypocrisy to Animals?

Two new documentaries bring to mind the inconsistent and hypocritical treatment of animals. What will future generations say when they look back at us?
Cruelty to Animals; Factory Farming; Law and Legislation; Agriculture and Farming; Whales and Whaling; 

I am an omnivore.   I do not believe cruelty is necessary.  
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Sports

‘That’s as Bad as It Gets’

Some girls who play basketball at Carroll Academy, a school run by a juvenile court in Tennessee, find refuge from family problems of drug addiction and domestic assault.
Basketball; Private and Sectarian Schools; Child Abuse and Neglect; Education (K-12); Juvenile Delinquency; 

Almost alive.
 
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U.S.

Some Chiefs Chafing as Justice Department Keeps Closer Eye on Policing

The civil rights division of the Justice Department is looking into a wider area of local law enforcement actions, like the handling of sexual assault cases.
Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings; Civil Rights and Liberties; Racial Profiling; Police; 

The Justice Department is doing as required and will continue to do so.
 
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Business Day

A Label Mr. Dolce and Mr. Gabbana Don’t Like

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Business Day

George Mitchell, a Pioneer in Hydraulic Fracturing, Dies at 94

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Sunday Review

Fighting Back Against Wretched Wages

Low-wage workers’ pay has flatlined while median pay for chief executives at the nation’s top corporations jumped 16 percent last year.
Minimum Wage; Labor and Jobs; Wages and Salaries; Fast Food Industry; Strikes; Organized Labor; 

Unions are the only viable way.
 
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Opinion

Can Genetic Engineering Save the Orange, and Vice Versa?

An orange grower’s wise and promising search for a gene that can save citrus from a spreading scourge.
Agriculture and Farming; DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid); Genetic Engineering; Genetics and Heredity; Oranges; Pesticides; 

See the article.  
The problem is the politics.  
 
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Opinion

The Baby Formula Barometer

Why don’t consumers in China want to buy Chinese products? Let’s count up the problems.
Infant Formulas; Consumer Behavior; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Food Contamination and Poisoning; Smuggling; Frauds and Swindling; 

Aint it awful.  
 
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Business Day

European Regulator Finds Little Risk in Diabetes Drugs

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Technology

In the Beginning Was the Word; Now the Word Is on an App

18
Opinion

Mick Jagger, Birthday Boy

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Your Money

Seeking Light in the Heat of Energy Investing

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Opinion

Justice for the Mentally Disabled

A consent decree will bring New York into full compliance with federal disability law and improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable.
Group Homes; Disabilities; Mental Health and Disorders; Editorials; 

"Not in my back yard!"  These housing units need a home.

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1
Sports

‘That’s as Bad as It Gets’


Death spiral.

2
Sunday Review

Fighting Back Against Wretched Wages


Unions.

3
Opinion

Can Genetic Engineering Save the Orange, and Vice Versa?


Maybe.

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4
Opinion

The Baby Formula Barometer

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Opinion

A Closer Look at 'Nonhuman Personhood' and Animal Welfare

A closer look at the animals we rely on, and the line between ‘persons’ and other life.
Agriculture and Farming; Animals; Cruelty to Animals; Ethics (Personal); Livestock; Meat; Meat Packers and Butchers; 

OK
 
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Science

James Gordon Dies at 85; Work Paved Way for Laser

Mr. Gordon was a 25-year-old graduate student in physics when he helped develop the maser, which would lead to the building of the first laser.
Physics; Deaths (Obituaries); Laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation); Science and Technology; Inventions and Patents; 

Cancer doesn't care.
 
7
Opinion

Going for Bolingbroke

An 18th-century approach that could work for 21st-century Republicans.
Libertarianism (US Politics); Conservatism (US Politics); United States Politics and Government; 

Just confused.
 
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Opinion

Letter From Ethiopia’s Gulag

America must live up to its values and impose sanctions against Ethiopia’s reckless and undemocratic government.
Embargoes and Economic Sanctions; United States International Relations; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; Freedom of the Press; 

I am sorry.  We seem to be busy.
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Opinion

A New Defense of Voting Rights

Attorney General Holder adopts an aggressive approach to defending voting rights in Texas.
Discrimination; Voting Rights Act (1965); Law and Legislation; Redistricting and Reapportionment; 

Gov. Rick Perry is skilled at complaint.
We will use the tools we have.
 
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Magazine

My Fictional Grandparents

Could I now learn who they really were?
Families and Family Life; Genetics and Heredity; 

Much gets lost in wars without the attempt to erase history.
 
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N.Y. / Region

Boat Crash on Hudson Kills Bride-to-Be

The best man remained missing, and the driver of the vessel that struck a construction barge was charged with vehicular manslaughter and vehicular assault.
Maritime Accidents and Safety; Boats and Boating; Tappan Zee Bridge; 

Several every year.  Drunk.
 
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Opinion

Urban Apartheid in Vietnam

The Vietnamese government’s residence-registration system has created, in a country that professes classlessness, a group of second-class citizens.
Discrimination; Population; Urban Areas; 

It is their country and their law.
 
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Your Money

In Search of Romance, and Maybe a Refund

A reader tells the Haggler about her soured relationship with a matchmaking service.
Dating and Courtship; Customer Relations; Computers and the Internet; 

This is not a business.
 
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U.S.

3 Are Killed in Bus Crash in Indiana

A bus carrying teenagers home from a church camp crashed Saturday after exiting an interstate in Indianapolis.
Buses; Traffic Accidents and Safety; Deaths (Fatalities); 

Reads like an inexperienced driver.
 
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Magazine

Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?

When the Sunil Tripathi rumor went viral after the Boston Marathon bombing, it laid bare the dysfunctional codependence between new and old media.
Computers and the Internet; News and News Media; Boston Marathon Bombings (2013); Social Media; 

Not tonight.
 
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U.S.

Obama Says He’ll Evaluate Pipeline Project Depending on Pollution

President Obama said that he would evaluate construction of the Keystone XL pipeline on the basis of whether or not it would add significant amounts of carbon to the atmosphere.
Keystone Pipeline System; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; United States Economy; 

Read no.

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Opinion

Egypt’s Missed Opportunity

If reformists within the Muslim Brotherhood had charted the Islamist movement’s path after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, things might have been different in Egypt.
Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ); Muslims and Islam; Politics and Government; 

No point.
 
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U.S.

Senate Approves College Student Loan Plan Tying Rates to Markets

The plan would tie interest rates for student loans to the financial markets and brings Congress close to resolving a dispute that caused rates to double in July.
Student Loans; United States Politics and Government; Law and Legislation; Colleges and Universities; 

The Republican caucus hopes to survive.  Action was required.
 
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U.S.

Louisiana Agency Sues Dozens of Energy Companies for Damage to Wetlands

The lawsuit argues that the energy companies should be held liable for harm done to the state’s wetlands in their efforts to obtain oil and gas.
Wetlands; Suits and Litigation (Civil); Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline; Offshore Drilling and Exploration; 

Deep pockets.
 


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