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Sunday Review

Is Suburban Sprawl on Its Way Back?

By SHAILA DEWAN | Sep 15, 2013

Does the return of the housing market mean the return of suburban sprawl?

Suburbs; Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Infrastructure (Public Works); 

The price of gas, parking and the time spent on the road.

No.

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Technology

Machines Made to Know You, by Touch, Voice, Even by Heart

By SOMINI SENGUPTA | Sep 10, 2013

How can Web sites, along with smartphones, refrigerators and television sets, verify your identity? Researchers and entrepreneurs are proposing new tools to leave passwords in the dustbin of history.

Computer Security; Computers and the Internet; Identification Devices; 

I like being anonymous.

 

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World

Proposal to Protect Antarctic Waters Is Scaled Back

By DAVID JOLLY | Sep 11, 2013

A proposal by the United States and New Zealand to create a huge ocean reserve in Antarctic waters has been sharply reduced after opposition from Russia and other nations with large fishing industries.

Oceans and Seas; Fishing, Commercial; Conservation of Resources; 

"Happy Feet"  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Feet

 

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Opinion

What Our Telescopes Couldn't See

By PIPPA GOLDSCHMIDT | Sep 11, 2013

As an astronomer, maybe I found distant galaxies easier to understand than the people around me.

Black Holes (Space); Space and Astronomy; Stars and Galaxies; 

She found connection to people more important than understanding the universe.

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World

China Detains a Billionaire for Activism

By EDWARD WONG | Sep 14, 2013

Wang Gongquan, a venture capitalist who has been outspoken in his liberal views, was detained by more than 20 officers from the Beijing police.

Political Prisoners; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; 

The Chinese power structure is worried.  They should be worried.

 

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Opinion

Things Fall Apart

By PHILIP KITCHER | Sep 8, 2013

Thinkers loyal to the Newtonian picture of science want unified theories to explain phenomena like human consciousness. Life isn’t like that.

Evolution (Biology); Genetics and Heredity; Philosophy; 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/the-core-of-mind-and-cosmos/

The sport of argument.

Both these men have found different ways to be wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

I question the existence of an intersection of ethics and nature.

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U.S.

GTT ★

By MICHAEL HOINSKI | Sep 13, 2013

Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around the state this week.

Art; Rap and Hip-Hop; Horses; Conventions, Fairs and Trade Shows; Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations; Music; 

Horses.

 

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U.S.

Maybe This Is Why Warhol Stuck to Soup Cans

By FRANCESCA MARI | Sep 15, 2013

Prada Marfa is an art installation, not a retail store, but the Texas Department of Transportation has declared it an “illegal outdoor advertising sign.”

Art; Trademarks and Trade Names; Traffic Signals and Signs; 

More of the sport of argument.

 

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Opinion

Tips and Poverty

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Sep 15, 2013

The minimum wage for tipped workers has not been raised since 1991.

Wages and Salaries; Waiters and Waitresses; Tips and Tipping; Minimum Wage; United States Politics and Government; Poverty; 

Pay the waitstaff.  

A minimum wage and a poverty level are the same thing.

 

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N.Y. / Region

Building Blocs, Not Lofts

By GINIA BELLAFANTE | Sep 15, 2013

It was evident in two City Council districts in Brooklyn that New York’s immigrant communities helped shape the results of the primary elections.

Voting and Voters; Gentrification; Hispanic-Americans; 

Old fashion politics beats advertising.

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Home & Garden

A Passion and Then a Solace

By ANNE RAVER | Sep 12, 2013

A garden planted with an amateur’s enthusiasm now comforts its creator with variety and extravagance.

Gardens and Gardening; 

Not my kind of garden or gardening.

 

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N.Y. / Region

Havens Found Off the Treadmill

By AMY KLEIN | Sep 13, 2013

The New York Access PassBook provides 600 passes to more than 165 health and fitness clubs in the five boroughs.

Exercise; Health Clubs; 

Busy doing nothing.

 

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U.S.

Michigan: Governor to Be Questioned

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Sep 11, 2013

Gov. Rick Snyder has agreed to be questioned by union lawyers about his decision to let Detroit file for bankruptcy protection, state lawyers said.

Bankruptcies; Organized Labor; 

The Republican governor of Michigan wants to shed the pension liabilities

of the city of Detroit.

 

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Opinion

How We Learned Not to Guzzle

By RALPH CAVANAGH | Sep 13, 2013

Over the past 40 years, we have found so many innovative ways to save energy that we more than doubled the economic productivity of our oil, natural gas and electricity.

Energy Efficiency; Natural Gas; Electric Light and Power; 

Using constantly less fossil carbon must be our goal.

 

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World

German Magazine Said to Glorify Nazis Will End

By JACK EWING | Sep 14, 2013

Der Landser said it was just offering tales of ordinary soldiers in World War II but was the subject of complaints by an American Jewish group.

Holocaust and the Nazi Era; War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity; World War II (1939-45); 

Germany should remember all of the second world war.

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World

U.S. and Russia Reach Deal to Destroy Syria’s Chemical Arms

By MICHAEL R. GORDON | Sep 15, 2013

The announcement by Secretary of State John Kerry and the Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, set the stage for one of the most challenging undertakings in the history of arms control.

Arms Control and Limitation and Disarmament; United States International Relations; Biological and Chemical Warfare; United States Defense and Military Forces; United States Politics and Government; Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ); 

A better way.

 

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U.S.

Girl’s Suicide Points to Rise in Apps Used by Cyberbullies

By LIZETTE ALVAREZ | Sep 14, 2013

Rebecca Ann Sedwick, 12, leaped to her death from a platform at an abandoned cement plant near her home in Florida, in a case that highlights the growing use of cellphone apps for cyberbullying.

Bullies; Suicides and Suicide Attempts; Computers and the Internet; Text Messaging; Children and Childhood; Cellular Telephones; Social Media; 

Our world has become much smaller.

There is no "away".

 

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Real Estate

Living Apart Together

By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM | Sep 15, 2013

Some couples, both married and in longtime relationships, swear by separate homes.

Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Families and Family Life; Marriages; 

I think a fully separate studio space is a necessity for me.

 

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Technology

The Payday at Twitter Many Were Waiting For

By NICK BILTON and VINDU GOEL | Sep 14, 2013

Twitter’s public offering will not be nearly as large as Facebook’s $16 billion offering, but it will still create dozens of multimillionaires.

Initial Public Offerings; 

Good luck to them.

 

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Opinion

Overpopulation Is Not the Problem

By ERLE C. ELLIS | Sep 14, 2013

There really is no such thing as a human carrying capacity on the earth.

Science and Technology; Agriculture and Farming; Earth; Biology and Biochemistry; 

"One child per family"

The Chinese have decided to crash their population.

"Global warming"

We are committed to a ten meter rise in sea level if we stop using fossil carbon now.

There are necessary catch limits on fish.

There are no cod left on the grand banks.

Monocropping.

Feedlots.

 Overpopulation is a problem.

The faithful do not learn.

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