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N.Y. / Region
In Latest Metro-North Accident, Worker Is Fatally Struck by Train in East Harlem
The man was working on the tracks at 106th Street and Park Avenue early Monday morning, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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Automobiles
Wheelies: The V8 Hotel Edition
A car-themed hotel in Germany offers beds made out of classic cars; N.T.S.B. head steps down to lead safety advocacy non-profit.Registration of top selling plug-in electric vehicles by model in Norway between 2008 and 2013[1][6][8][22][27][46] |
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| Model | Total registrations(1) |
Market share(2) |
2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
| Nissan Leaf | 9,080 | 44.3% | 6,212 | 2,487 | 381 | |||
| Mitsubishi i-MiEV | 2,176 | 10.6% | 455 | 671 | 1,050 | |||
| Tesla Model S | 1,991 | 9.7% | 1,991 | |||||
| Th!nk City | 1,121 | 5.5% | 12 | 22 | 133 | 331 | 93 | 183 |
| Peugeot iOn | 1,084 | 5.3% | 425 | 442 | 217 | |||
| Kewet/Buddy | 1,013 | 4.9% | 15 | 24 | 125 | 233 | 161 | 209 |
| Citroën C-Zero | 981 | 4.8% | 214 | 557 | 210 | |||
| Volkswagen e-Up! | 580 | 2.8% | 580 | |||||
| Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid | 355 | 1.7% | 184 | 171 | ||||
| REVAi | 299 | 1.5% | NA | NA | NA | |||
| Opel Ampera | 235 | 1.1% | 94 | 141 | ||||
| Ford Transit Connect Electric | 158 | 0.8% | 86 | 31 | 41 | |||
| Ford Focus Electric | 113 | 0.6% | 113 | |||||
| Tesla Roadster | 104 | 0.5% | 3 | 38 | 34 | NA | ||
| Renault Kangoo Z.E. | 97 | 0.5% | 97 | |||||
| Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid | 94 | 0.5% | 94 | |||||
| Renault Twizy | 61 | 0.3% | 61 | |||||
| Tazzari Zero | 58 | 0.3% | 5 | 10 | 34 | |||
| BMW i3 | 51 | 0.2% | 51 | |||||
| Mia electric | 20 | 0.1% | 7 | 13 | ||||
| Renault Fluence | 13 | 0.06% | 13 | |||||
| Smart electric drive | 12 | 0.06% | 12 | |||||
| Volvo C30 Electric | 10 | 0.05% | 10 | |||||
| Fisker Karma | 5 | 0.02% | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Renault Zoe | 4 | 0.02% | 4 | |||||
| Chevrolet Volt | 1 | 0.005% | 1 | |||||
| Total registered[1] (as of December 2013) |
20,486 | 96.8% | 10,769 | 4,700 | 2,243 | 733 | 454 | 567 |
| Notes: (1) Total registrations include new car sales and used imports from neighboring countries. (2) Market share as percentage of the 20,486 plug-in electric vehicles registered in Norway as of December 30, 2013, including including new plug-in electric car sales, used imports, plug-in hybrids, quadricycles and utility vans. | ||||||||
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th!nk_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf
It would take you to Boston
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U.S.
In-Depth Report Details Economics of Sex Trade
The study, commissioned by the Justice Department, focused on the business side, rather than on consumers, of the underground sex business.
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N.Y. / Region
Judge Hears Arguments on Subpoenas to Christie Associates
Two former aides to Gov. Chris Christie have refused to turn over documents related to the lane closings scandal, saying it would violate their right against self-incrimination.
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Books
The Drug-Fueled Uphill Ride and Headlong Crash of a Secular Saint
In “Cycle of Lies,” Juliet Macur offers a scrupulously reported portrait of Lance Armstrong as not just an incorrigible liar but also a profane bully.
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Fashion & Style
Celebrities Behaving Well
The days of our unqualifiedly celebrating the rowdy, libidinous, self-destructive artist may be drawing to a close.
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U.S.
Ohio Looks at Whether Fracking Led to 2 Quakes
Ohio officials said that an oil and gas well near the site of two small earthquakes was undergoing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, when the quakes occurred.
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Style
No Questions About I.V.F. in Israel
I had grown so used to the need to justify my choices about fertility treatments in the United States. In Israel, so many things were just assumed. Of course you want children. Of course!
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N.Y. / Region
Queens Councilwoman Confronts Library Leader
At a hearing Tuesday, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley lit into Thomas W. Galante, the head of the Queens Library, who is under investigation for the possible misuse of public funds.
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N.Y. / Region
U.S. Sought Port Authority Records Tied to Chairman
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Friday issued a subpoena for information relating to David Samson, then withdrew it — apparently to clear the way for a federal inquiry in New Jersey.
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Magazine
Tortillas, Almost From Scratch
The shortcut: Masa harina.Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups masa harina
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, lard or butter
- About 1 cup hot water, or more as needed
- Flour for kneading
Preparation
- 1.
- Combine the masa and salt in a bowl; stir in the oil. Slowly stream in the water while mixing with your hand or a wooden spoon until the dough comes together into a ball.
- 2.
- Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface, and knead until it is smooth and elastic — just a minute or two. Wrap in plastic, and let it rest at room temperature for at least 30 minutes or up to a few hours.
- 3.
- Break off pieces of the dough (you’re shooting for 12 to 16 tortillas total), and lightly flour them. Put them between 2 sheets of plastic wrap, and press them in a tortilla press, or roll them out or press them with your hands to a diameter of 4 to 6 inches. Begin to cook the tortillas as you finish pressing or rolling them.
- 4.
- Put a large skillet, preferably cast iron, over medium-high heat for 4 to 5 minutes. Cook the tortillas, 1 or 2 at a time, until brown spots appear on the bottom, about a minute. Flip, and do the same on the other side. Wrap the cooked tortillas in a towel to keep them warm; serve immediately, or cool and store tightly wrapped in the fridge for a few days.
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Business Day
The Red Faces of the Solar Skeptics
Solar energy is becoming more economically viable, with happy consequences for consumers but not for the fossil fuel industry, an economist writes.
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World
In France, a Quest to Convert a Sea Snail Plague Into a Culinary Pleasure
The community of Cancale now finds itself torn between disgust and relief at an entrepreneur’s project to fish and sell the sea snails for consumption.
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U.S.
Military Board, in a First, Says Yemeni Should Stay Detained
The military board said that Abdel Malik al-Rahabi should remain at Guantánamo to “protect against a continuing significant threat.”
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Business Day
Q&A: The Fed Will Manage a Soft Landing
An interview with John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, about recent economic trends and the Fed’s response.Wages of Fear (Somewhat Wonkish)
Conventional
wisdom can be a terrible thing. In 2009-10 all the serious people
started telling each other that public debt was the number one threat
facing advanced economies, and that austerity policies were needed
immediately. We know how that turned out. Well, over the past few months
I’ve been watching a new conventional wisdom take hold – among a
narrower and more technical set of people, but still. According to this
view, economic slack is vanishing fast; even though we still have huge
unemployment, we’re actually running out of employable workers, and a
dangerous acceleration in the pace of wage increases is already
underway. Time to raise interest rates!
The trouble is that this emerging consensus is all wrong. In fact, it’s wrongheaded in at least four ways.
First, the widespread impression, after the
latest job report, that we’re seeing a surge in wages is probably a snow
job. Literally. The team at Goldman Sachs (no link) points out that
average hourly wages normally spike after a spell of cold weather. Why?
It’s a compositional effect: the workers idled by bad weather tend to be
hourly workers, who are paid less than salaried workers. So the average
worker in a snow-ridden month is better-educated and better-paid than
in a normal month, because the lower-paid workers aren’t working. The
blip in measured wages is a statistical artifact, not a sign of tight
labor markets.
Second, almost all the talk about rising
wages is driven by just one labor market indicator, the average wage of
nonsupervisory workers. Other wage indicators, like the average of all
employees and the Employment Cost Index, are telling a different story.
Here are three measures; you do get an impression of rising wages:
But take out the nonsupervisory workers, and that impression mostly though not entirely vanishes:
Goldman Sachs has a composite indicator,
which is the first principal component of several measures; it shows at
best a slight hint of acceleration:
Third, what’s so bad about rising wages? Wage
increases are running far below their pre-crisis levels, and everything
we’ve learned in this crisis – basically about the dangers of the two zeroes
– says that pre-crisis wage increases, and inflation in general, was
too low. And to get wage gains up to where they should be, we need a
period of overfull employment.
Fourth, there’s good reason to believe that
everyone is working with the wrong paradigm here. Ever since the 1970s,
textbook macroeconomics – reflecting the experience of the 1970s — has
assumed an “accelerationist” framework, in which low unemployment leads
not just to rising wages but to an ever-rising rate of wage increase.
But the actual data haven’t looked like that for a long time. Since the
mid-1990s, in fact, they have looked much more like an old-fashioned
Phillips curve, with a relationship between the unemployment rate and
the level of wage increase, not the rate of change of wage increase.
Here’s annual data since 1995 comparing unemployment with the percentage
rise in nonsupervisory wages over the next year:
Why might an old-fashioned Phillips curve
have reappeared? Partly, perhaps, thanks to anchored inflation
expectations; partly because at low inflation rates downward nominal
wage rigidity comes into play. The point, in any case, is that
tightening because wage increases have gone up a bit may end up
condemning the economy to permanently higher unemployment than it could
have had if the Fed were willing to let wages rise.
Could I be wrong about all this, and the
conventional wisdom right? Yes, such things have happened. But consider
the relative risks. If the Fed stays calm about rising wages and lets
the economy grow, the worst that could happen would be a modest rise in
inflation by the time it becomes clear that the natural rate really is 6
percent or higher – and remember, a modest rise in inflation would
arguably be a good thing. On the other hand, if the Fed tightens
prematurely, it could end up trapping us in lowflation; essentially, it
would have completed the Japanification of the US economy, putting us
into a trap that’s very hard to exit.
So let’s not panic over rising wages, OK? The only thing we have to fear is fear of full employment itself."
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N.Y. / Region
Explosions ‘Ripped the Stomach Right Out of You’
The building collapse in Harlem instantaneously trapped people in rubble and just as quickly sent resident into the street to help.
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Business Day
Stanley Fischer, Fed Nominee, Has Long History of Policy Leadership
Mr. Fischer, the nominee for vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, has been an influential academic as well as head of the Bank of Israel.
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Business Day
Senators Draft Housing Finance Overhaul
The plan, from the Democratic chairman and top Republican on the Banking Committee, will seek to make future taxpayer bailouts less likely.
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Business Day
Brutal Winter, and Painful Rises in Heat Costs
The Energy Department detailed how much more it expects consumers to spend this unusually bitter winter.
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Science
Hunein Maassab, Developer of Nasal-Spray Flu Vaccine, Dies at 87
Dr. Maassab’s FluMist spray used a live version of the influenza virus that had been attenuated, or weakened, so as not to cause the flu.
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World
Two Maharashtra Parties Compete for National Party's Affections
Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena and Raj Thackeray, leader of a rival party, are engaged in a power struggle that has far-reaching implications for one of the oldest political alliances in the state’s history.
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Business Day
Q&A: The Fed Will Manage a Soft Landing
An interview with John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, about recent economic trends and the Fed’s response.
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U.S.
New Democratic Strategy Goes After Koch Brothers
Democrats are embarking on a broad effort that aims to unmask Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers who are perhaps the best-known patrons of conservative Republican politics.
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Business Day
Recall at G.M. Is Early Trial for New Chief
Facing the recall of 1.6 million cars weeks into her tenure as chief executive, Mary T. Barra has taken the lead role in handling the crisis, starting an internal inquiry and ordering a rare public apology.
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