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Opinion

Rules to Run By

By GAIL COLLINS | Jul 11th 2014

Good news, people! There have already been many insightful and helpful hints gleaned from this election year that we can now share with 2014 hopefuls.

United States Politics and Government; Midterm Elections (2014) 

I read this with pleasure.

I am not laughing.

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Automobiles

Wheelies: The Classic Gas Prices Edition

By BENJAMIN PRESTON | Jul 11th 2014

A page of promotions.

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Business Day

Agencies Set Sights on Marketing for a Cause

By STUART ELLIOTT | Jul 10th 2014

Several advertising agencies are trying to capitalize on a boom in cause-related marketing, also known as pro-social marketing and purpose marketing.

Advertising and Marketing; Political Advertising; Online Advertising; Public Relations and Publicity; Sustainable Living 

Yes, advertising is art.

I am not appreciative of the ruthless exploitation of human interactions required by its aesthetics.

Here the charitable impulse is used to direct required purchases to specific retail chains.  Deception would invert the desired effect.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ruthless

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ruth#English

Naming a girl Ruth . . .

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Fashion & Style

Turning ‘Likes’ Into a Career

By SHEILA MARIKAR | Jul 11th 2014

There’s a star-making machinery behind the emerging generation of Instagram, Vine, Twitter and Pinterest celebrities.

Social Media; Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming; Computers and the Internet; Advertising and Marketing

My attention does not split.

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Business Day

Buick Sheds Its Old Fogy Image and Lifts G.M.

By JAMES B. STEWART | Jul 11th 2014 

The kids don't know.  The Chinese don't care.
 

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Fashion & Style

Unraveling a Dark Family Secret

By NOMI EVE | Jul 10th 2014 

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Sports

Sterling Spars With Wife’s Lawyer at Trial That Will Determine Clippers Sale

By BILLY WITZ | Jul 8th 2014

His money.

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U.S.

Campaign Atmosphere Amid Detroit Vote on Debt Plan

By MONICA DAVEY and STEVEN YACCINO | Jul 9th 2014

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/magazine/the-post-post-apocalyptic-detroit.html?ref=magazine

"Economists fret that Detroit, in the absence of the manufacturing economy that built it, no longer has any reason to be. And indeed, large chunks of the sprawling, 139-square-mile city have literally vanished: Of Detroit’s 380,000 properties, some 114,000 have been razed, with 80,000 more considered blighted and most likely in need of demolition."

Half the titled properties in the city are not salvagable.
Most who can move have left.
 

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Fashion & Style

Tangled Web of Memories Lingers After a Breakup

By NICK BILTON | Jul 9th 2014

You must do it if it is to be done.

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Opinion

Morning Views

By JAKE FLANAGIN | Jul 8th 2014 

No prospect of peace.
 

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Automobiles

Weekend Auto Calendar: Vintage Motorcycles in the Garden State

By BENJAMIN PRESTON | Jul 11th 2014

Best on television.

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Arts

In the Language of Romance, Romeo Santos Is a True Superstar

By LARRY ROHTER | Jul 10th 2014

Motor racing is best on television.

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Business Day

Fed, Confident in Economy, Details End of Bond-Buying Program

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM | Jul 9th 2014

Bond buying did not work.

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World

More Charges to Come Against Libyan Over Benghazi

By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT | Jul 8th 2014

The Justice Department said Tuesday that it intended to file additional charges against Ahmed Abu Khattala, the man being held in the 2012 attacks that killed the United States ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, and three others.

Benghazi Attack (2012); Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates; International Relations

It was not a crime in Libya.
 

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Business Day

A Provocateur’s Book on Hillary Clinton Overtakes Her Memoir in Sales

By AMY CHOZICK and ALEXANDRA ALTER | Jul 10th 2014

Scandal and slander have an audience.

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Business Day

In Small Trials, 2 Drugs Go Far in Soothing Symptoms of Eczema and Psoriasis

By ANDREW POLLACK | Jul 9th 2014

An experimental drug for eczema relieved severity of symptoms in 85 percent of those who took it. A drug for psoriasis cut severity of symptoms in as many as 82 percent of those who took it.

Enbrel (Drug); Skin; Drugs (Pharmaceuticals); Psoriasis; Eczema; Clinical Trials

We keep learning.
 

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Magazine

David Brat’s Hand-of-God Economics

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM | Jul 8th 2014

The congressional candidate is only the latest proponent of the tricky relationship between religion and the free market.

Tea Party Movement; Economics (Theory and Philosophy); Regulation and Deregulation of Industry; Banking and Financial Institutions; United States Politics and Government; Protestant Churches; Capitalism (Theory and Philosophy)

Still wrong.
 

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Business Day

Blueprints for Taming the Climate Crisis

By EDUARDO PORTER | Jul 8th 2014

A report explores the technological paths available for the 15 main economies to maintain growth and cut carbon emissions enough to prevent climatic havoc.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Carbon Dioxide; Carbon Capture and Sequestration; Global Warming; Environment

Sadly there is no new energy technology. 
Carbon capture and storage takes more energy than it produces.

I like the panicked undertone.  It is deserved.

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Sports

I.O.C. President Praises Rio

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Jul 10th 2014

Brazilian Olympic organizers are showing “great dynamism” to overcome the delays that have plagued the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, said Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee.

Olympic Games; Olympic Games (2016)

The party may not be ready but the Olympics will happen.
 

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Arts

Tough Times for Old Masters in Today’s Art Market

By SCOTT REYBURN | Jul 11th 2014

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Auctions; Art; Collectors and Collections

New buyers and new scholarship.