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Food

Lawmakers Aim to Protect Farm Animals in U.S. Research

By MICHAEL MOSS | Feb 5th 2015

A new bill responds to accounts of mistreatment of farm animals used in federal experiments to help the meat industry.

Animal Abuse, Rights and Welfare; Livestock; Law and Legislation; Agriculture and Farming; Meat 

Pushing meat production has a price.

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Business Day

Auto Sales Stayed Strong in January, Bucking Trend for Month

By AARON M. KESSLER | Feb 3rd 2015

The broad gains — which included double-digit increases by several automakers — came in a month that is traditionally slow for American dealerships.

Automobiles; Sports Utility Vehicles and Light Trucks; Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates) 

The dealerships are full of cars.  

The construction laborers are buying light trucks as they find the means.

Construction is still speculative.

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Opinion

The Problem With Middle-Class Populism

By THOMAS B. EDSALL | Feb 4th 2015

Big donors are not essential to the Democrats.

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Sports

Overruns Are Focus at Public Meeting on Boston Olympic Bid

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE | Feb 5th 2015

In response to skeptical questions, Mayor Martin J. Walsh pledged that Boston taxpayers would not pay a dime in cost overruns if the city ended up hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Olympic Games (2024); Olympic Games 

There is always an opposition.

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N.Y. / Region

New York State Attorney General Reaches Deal to Reduce Price of Heroin Antidote

By J. DAVID GOODMAN | Feb 4th 2015

Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman had previously criticized Amphastar Pharmaceuticals for doubling the price of naloxone, which is used by many government agencies to reverse overdoses.

Naloxone (Drug); Heroin; Drug Abuse and Traffic; Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates); Pain-Relieving Drugs; Emergency Medical Treatment 

"What the traffic will bear" is the rule of business.

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Health

A Failed Trial in Africa Raises Questions About How to Test H.I.V. Drugs

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. | Feb 4th 2015

Scientists are arguing about the extent to which it is ethical to pay participants, and whether results of trials that do so can be trusted.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Tests (Medical); Clinical Trials; Women and Girls 

It looks like a cultural problem to me.

Put advertising to work.

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The Upshot

Coming to Your Facebook Feed: More Political Videos

By DEREK WILLIS | Feb 4th 2015

Avoid "Social Media".

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U.S.

E.P.A. Says Pipeline Could Spur Emissions

By CORAL DAVENPORT | Feb 3rd 2015 

The Keystone XL pipeline will not be built.

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Science

Video: Out There | Raining Fire

Jason Drakeford, Jonathan Corum and Dennis Overbye | Feb 4th 2015

Though it is sedate in comparison with other stars, our sun is a volatile neighbor, a thermonuclear furnace fueling spectacular storms that send high-energy particles and radiation far out into space.

Sun; Space and Astronomy; Earth 

Yes.

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Your Money

Subprime Borrowers Often Lured by High-Fee Credit Cards

By ANN CARRNS | Feb 5th 2015

The actions of a provider of fee harvester cards, recently ordered to pay a civil penalty, highlights the big fees faced by those with low credit scores.

Credit Cards; Personal Finances; Consumer Protection; Banking and Financial Institutions; Fines (Penalties) 

I have a "plain vanilla" card in process.

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Technology

Traveling With an iPhone

By J. D. BIERSDORFER | Feb 4th 2015

Using your phone as a GPS unit is handy, but can run the battery down. Always pack a mobile phone charger.

Smartphones; Mobile Applications; Global Positioning System 

Just follow the signs.

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U.S.

Massachusetts: Bid to Move Bombing Trial Is Rejected

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Feb 6th 2015

A federal judge on Friday rejected a third request from lawyers for the man charged in the Boston Marathon bombings to move his trial outside Massachusetts.

Boston Marathon Bombings (2013); Jury System 

Getting a fair trial will be nearly impossible.

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Business Day

Sales of Sovaldi, New Gilead Hepatitis C Drug, Soar to $10.3 Billion

By ANDREW POLLACK | Feb 3rd 2015

Global sales of Sovaldi brought it close to being the best-selling drug in the world in only its first year on the market.

Sovaldi (Drug); Hepatitis; Company Reports; Harvoni (Drug) 

"What the traffic will bear".

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Home & Garden

Even Your Dreams May Be About Nature

By JULIE LASKY | Feb 4th 2015

Coyuchi’s spring 2015 collection aspires to wrap the consumer in unadulterated nature.

Beds and Bedding; Organic Foods and Products; Textiles; Sustainable Living; Interior Design and Furnishings 

Color became much cheaper with the advent of organic chemistry in the late nineteenth  century.

Organic chemistry is not the Organic of "Back to Nature".

We can be as pure as you will afford.

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

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U.S.

Defense Nominee Says He Would Consider More U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine

By HELENE COOPER | Feb 4th 2015

"A slippery slope".

Russia is trying Pan-Slavism again.

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Magazine

Can We Reverse-Engineer the Environment?

By DONOVAN HOHN | Feb 6th 2015

Trying to undo the damage of our hubris.

Engineering and Engineers; Canals; Invasive Species 

We have some local success.

The more general answer is no.  

Some changes are not reversible.

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U.S.

California: Water Use Down, but Emergency Persists

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Feb 3rd 2015 

Yes

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World

Malawi: Estimate of Floods’ Toll Rises

By REUTERS | Feb 5th 2015

More than 300,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Malawi, almost twice as many as previously estimated, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Thursday.

Floods 

There is not much we can do about rain.

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Travel

Smart Travel Options for Mexican Adventures

By FREDA MOON | Feb 4th 2015

I have no Spanish.  I like the idea of a trip into Mexico.

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N.Y. / Region

New Challenges to Secrecy That Protects Police Files

By J. DAVID GOODMAN and AL BAKER | Feb 4th 2015

"Throwing the baby out with the bath water".

A record in the police files is not a conviction.

My connection is intermittent. Repair is scheduled for Monday.

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