NEW THINGS: @8:40, 11/10/14

Sports

Kevin Harvick Earns Last Spot in Sprint Cup Championship With a Dominant Win

By KAREN CROUSE | Nov 9th 2014

Harvick, the eighth and final qualifier with a chance to advance to Nascar’s final four next week at Homestead-Miami Speedway, won Sunday’s race at Phoenix International Raceway.

Automobile Racing; Nascar Sprint Cup Series

Almost done.

The Upshot

Republicans Are Only Sometimes the Party of Uber

By JOSH BARRO | Nov 8th 2014

Local politics.

Opinion

Prehistory’s Brilliant Future

By MICHAEL J. NOVACEK | Nov 8th 2014

Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.

Sports

Problems With Antidoping System Cast a Shadow on Kenyan Runners

By JULIET MACUR | Nov 6th 2014

Antidoping makes competition possible.

Opinion

Pondering Dot Earth's Path After Seven Years and 2,500 Posts

By ANDREW C. REVKIN | Nov 10th 2014

Reviewing the bidding as a blog on smoothing the human journey passes its seventh year and 2,500th post.

Blogs and Blogging (Internet); Computers and the Internet; Earth; Sustainable Living

People will not give up fossil carbon willingly.

World

W.H.O. Issues New Guidelines on Safely Burying Ebola Victims

By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE | Nov 7th 2014

Victims are at their most infectious when they die, so the agency has tried to balance safety with the cultural sensitivities that surround traditional burial rites.

Ebola Virus; Epidemics

Deaths are not being reported by the governments.

Fashion & Style

With Some Dating Apps: Less Casual Sex Than Casual Text

By TEDDY WAYNE | Nov 7th 2014

More and more millennials are shying away from physical encounters and supplanting them with virtual quasi relationships.

Dating and Relationships; Sex; Online Dating; Youth

Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.

Opinion

The Big Sleep

By TIMOTHY EGAN | Nov 6th 2014

Can we treat the next two years as a fog of fractious do-nothingism that has already passed? Because two people are poised to complete some unfinished business.

Presidential Election of 2016

Yes, there will be nothing from congress.

Automobiles

Nissan Recalls 6,600 Infiniti Hybrids for Unintended Acceleration Problem

By CHRISTOPHER JENSEN | Nov 7th 2014

Yes.

Sunday Review

The Ethics of Infection

By KATE MURPHY | Nov 8th 2014

Get a flu shot.

Science

Climate Tools Seek to Bend Nature’s Path

By HENRY FOUNTAIN | Nov 9th 2014

It’s called geoengineering, and its possibilities, like reflective droplets in the sky and rocks that remove carbon dioxide, are gaining momentum.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Carbon Dioxide; Global Warming

There will be no consensus until the cities drown.

Scale is the problem.

The science and design are not done.

Such tools must be deployed and maintained.

N.Y. / Region

Four New York City Hospitals to Receive $1.6 Billion for Storm Improvements

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Nov 6th 2014

It is more likely you can get funds from the V.A.

Automobiles

An Outbreak of Fluid Leaks

By SCOTT STURGIS | Nov 7th 2014

Money gets passed around.

Health

Detergent Pods Pose Risk to Children, Study Finds

By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS | Nov 10th 2014

About 6,000 trips to the emergency room by children under age 6 were connected to the laundry packets in 2012 and 2013, the report found.

Children and Childhood; Emergency Medical Treatment; Cleansers, Detergents and Soaps; Laundry and Laundromats; Asphyxiation, Choking, and Suffocation

Attractive to people means attractive to children.

N.Y. / Region

Push to Bring Ex-Convicts and Families Together Lags

By MIREYA NAVARRO | Nov 9th 2014

More than a year after the start of a program designed to let up to 150 former prisoners move back into New York City Housing Authority buildings, only seven of them have done so.

Ex-Convicts; Public and Subsidized Housing

"Another barrier has been the Housing Authority’s permanent ban on former tenants with criminal convictions who would otherwise be eligible for the program."