Sunday, March 30, 2014

@9:30, 3/29/14

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Magazine

How Do You Know When to Go Naked in Germany?

Mixed messages from inside the Liquidrom.
Nudism and Nudity; Saunas and Sweat Lodges; Swimming 

If one is not part of the local culture knowledge is denied us.

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N.Y. / Region

Downtown Food Goes North

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World

Video: Humans’ First Appearance in the Americas

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Automobiles

Battle of the Dash: Tech Companies Try to Get Their Apps in a Row

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Fashion & Style

Etsy, the Makeup Counterculture

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Business Day

With Start-Ups, Greeks Make Recovery Their Own Business

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U.S.

Using Flags to Focus on Veteran Suicides

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U.S.

No Easy Way to Restrict Construction in Risky Areas

The government has broad authority to regulate safety in decisions about where and how to build, but it can count on trouble when it tries to restrict the right to build.
Disasters and Emergencies; Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Building (Construction); Landslides and Mudslides; Hurricane Sandy (2012); Hurricane Katrina (2005) 

Yet such construction is often restricted.  Sometimes it is forbidden.

The tools exist.  The will is often temporary.
 
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Opinion

In Africa, All Conservation Is Local


All effective tools must be applied.

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Yes.

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World

German Man to Return Nazi-Looted Art

Cornelius Gurlitt, the octogenarian hoarder of art plundered by the Nazis, will return the paintings to their original Jewish owners or those owners’ descendants.
Arts and Antiquities Looting; Holocaust and the Nazi Era; Jews and Judaism; World War II (1939-45); Art 

In cases owners or heirs will not be found.
He and his estate will be taken to court.
 
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World

Rising Seas


There will be many refugees.
Most will die.

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Yes.
The use of Hart Island as "potters field" should continue.
 
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Opinion

What I’d Say to My Fat Son

My weight was a target: My belly was socked, my boy breasts punched and twisted by older, stronger fingers, and torrents of daily verbal abuse were hurled at me.
Obesity; Parenting; Bulimia; Social Conditions and Trends; Diet and Nutrition; Weight 

ok.

Just cut out sugar.  Life is better without it.
 
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Sports

Jockey Club Wants U.S. Anti-Doping Agency in Charge

The Jockey Club, one of horse racing’s most influential groups, said efforts at reform from within have moved too slowly and “enough was enough.”
Horse Racing; Doping (Sports); Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare 

It will change the sport. 
That will not be a bad thing.
 
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Science

Bird’s Extinction Is Tied to the Arrival of Humans

Scientists have long assumed that humans played a role in the moa’s obliteration. Now there’s inescapable proof.
Endangered and Extinct Species; Birds 

Moa in Maori means delicious.
 
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U.S.

A Tax Notion That Conceals a Math Problem

The idea of eliminating property taxes can remain popular in Texas as long as it doesn’t encounter the reality of a huge increase in sales taxes.
Property Taxes; Tea Party Movement; Sales and Excise Taxes 

Local government needs revenue to pay for services.  It has few sources to draw on.  All of them are regressive.  The property tax is the least regressive source available to local authority.
I see no problem in mathematics.

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There is no story here.

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World

Qaeda Militants Seek Syria Base, U.S. Officials Say


Send in the drones if this base can be found.
It would still be a "war crime".

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