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N.Y. / Region
Feb 11th 2015
Богатство, обретенное в период хаотического капитализма
постсоветской России, представляет могущественную силу в буме люксовых
апартаментов, изменяющем современный Нью-Йорк
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Condominiums
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/nyregion/the-hidden-money-buying-up-new-york-real-estate.html
We have always had "malefactors of great wealth".
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Health
By DENISE GRADY | Feb 11th 2015
A new analysis suggests that an additional 60,000 deaths a year in the United States are linked to smoking.
Smoking and Tobacco; Deaths (Fatalities); Medicine and Health; Lung Cancer
The study is correct.
I have not smoked in 39 years. I had to do the arithmetic.
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Sports
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Feb 10th 2015
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Sports
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Feb 8th 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/ncaabasketball/index.html
Click Women's Basketball in the right hand box.
Click the extender on Women's College Basketball
>>
Click Standings at the top of the box.
Select American Athletic in the Conference pull down.
Click Connecticut in the table
Click Schedule in the roster header bar.
See 2/14/15 against Tulane at 16:00 est as their next game.
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N.Y. / Region
Feb 8th 2015
High rents make Manhattan uninhabitable.
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N.Y. / Region
By RUSS BUETTNER and EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS | Feb 12th 2015
The recent Metro-North Railroad crash cast renewed attention on
the mix of trains, cars and humans that make crossings in the region
more dangerous than elsewhere in the country.
Railroad Accidents and Safety
"Stupidity carries a death penalty."
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U.S.
AP | Feb 11th 2015
Alan Nash, a district attorney in Texas, and Tim Moore, the
defense lawyer, gave different portraits of Eddie Routh, who is accused
of killing Chris Kyle, the protagonist in the “American Sniper” film.
Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides
Uninformative.
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World
By GARDINER HARRIS | Feb 10th 2015
Early returns suggested that the Aam Aadmi Party of the
anticorruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal would win as many as 67 of the
70 seats in the Delhi Assembly.
Corruption (Institutional); Bribery and Kickbacks
India is still a democracy.
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Movies
Channon Hodge and Rachel Lee Harris | Feb 11th 2015
Mark Bridges dressed the women of “Inherent Vice” in one “sexy
number after the other” because he wanted to give life to the vivid,
psychedelic world created by the book’s author, Thomas Pynchon.
Movies; Costumes
I tried to read Gravity's Rainbow.
Maybe I could now.
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Opinion
Feb 12th 2015
Peter F. Lawrence, president of the Society for Vascular Surgery, responds to a front-page article.
Surgery and Surgeons; Medicine and Health
Malpractice is real.
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U.S.
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON | Feb 12th 2015
A possible move by a federal judge would send a signal to the
judges statewide, who are caught between a federal ruling and an order
from the state’s chief justice.
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships; Homosexuality and Bisexuality; Marriages; Supreme Courts (State)
Marriage is a civil contract.
State's Rights are limited.
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World
By AUSTIN RAMZY | Feb 12th 2015
President Ma Ying-jeou expressed regret that the six inmates who
took two officers hostage had killed themselves, and he called for
corrective measures to be put in place.
Prisons and Prisoners; Attacks on Police
Bad design.
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U.S.
By MONICA DAVEY and MITCH SMITH | Feb 9th 2015
Gov. Bruce Rauner, a Republican.
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Magazine
By EMILY BAZELON | Feb 11th 2015
The Alabama judge isn’t George Wallace.
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships; States (US); Law and Legislation
Integration is never popular though it is necessary. Sex or color are not grounds for segregation.
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Business Day
By AARON M. KESSLER | Feb 8th 2015
The report also concludes that the majority of automakers do not
have systems in place that can detect breaches or quickly respond to
them.
Automobiles; Wireless Communications; Computer Security; Cyberattacks and Hackers; Privacy
Yes.
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N.Y. / Region
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Feb 9th 2015
The livery driver who picked up a pregnant woman and her husband
on their way to the hospital was not asked to hurry, he testified in the
trial of the man accused of striking their car.
Traffic Accidents and Safety
Julio Acevedo is guilty.
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Home & Garden
By TIM McKEOUGH | Feb 11th 2015
Not necessarily. It’s typically among the smallest rooms in a
home, so you can use wallpaper and colors there that might look too bold
in other rooms.
Real Estate and Housing (Residential); Wallpaper; Interior Design and Furnishings
There is work to be done here.
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N.Y. / Region
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Feb 11th 2015
Melissa Mark-Viverito called for nonviolent, low-level offenders
to be issued a summons and cited for a violation, rather than be
arrested and charged with a crime.
State of the City Message (NYC); Crime and Criminals
The Republican party will not like the policy.
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U.S.
By ADAM LIPTAK | Feb 9th 2015
Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent was a strong signal that gay
rights advocates are likely to prevail in their quest to establish a
nationwide constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships
Justice Clarence Thomas is not "Horatio at the Bridge".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatius_Cocles
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Opinion
By CLIVE HAMILTON | Feb 12th 2015
“If this is our Hail Mary, what a scary, scary place we are in.”
Global Warming; Research; United States Politics and Government; Carbon Dioxide
Nothing will be done until Bangladesh drowns.
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