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Your Money

Is Your Babysitter an Employee? It Matters to Tax Liability

By ANN CARRNS | Mar 13th 2015

Not applicable yet.

Opinion

Less Anxious? Thank Your Lucky Genes

Mar 13th 2015

 

I am not going to argue nature and nurture.  

Nature is dominant and does not change with effort.

Learning can have some limited influence on behavior.

U.S.

Utah Passes Antidiscrimination Bill Backed by Mormon Leaders

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Mar 12th 2015

no

World

For Rent: A Hungarian Village, and a Mayoral Title

By RICK LYMAN | Mar 11th 2015

dream.

U.S.

Secret Service Inquiry Follows Agents’ Crash at White House

By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT | Mar 11th 2015

Congress can only pay the bill.

Business Day

Streetcar Revival Is Wavering in Some Cities

By EUGENE L. MEYER | Mar 17th 2015

While several cities inaugurate new systems or expand older ones, the streetcar revolution, faced with fiscal and operational challenges, has stalled elsewhere.

Transit Systems; Cable Cars and Trams; Area Planning and Renewal 

They are better than buses.

Science

Why Icicles Look the Way They Do

By JAMES GORMAN | Mar 16th 2015

 

Limited time.  

Business Day

G.M. Will Face Further Discovery in Broader Class-Action Case

By BILL VLASIC | Mar 16th 2015

G.M. is responsible.

U.S.

For Blacks in the U.S., Much Work Remains

By ALBERT R. HUNT | BLOOMBERG VIEW | Mar 15th 2015

 

Yes.

U.S.

Expulsion of Two Oklahoma Students Over Video Leads to Free Speech Debate

By MANNY FERNANDEZ and ERIK ECKHOLM | Mar 11th 2015

No.  It is "black letter law".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

World

Conservationists Denounce Chinese Show Where Celebrities and Wildlife Share Stage

By SHAOJIE HUANG | Mar 13th 2015

It is Bad practice.

Science

Imperiled Foxes on California Islands May Come Off Endangered List

By JAMES GORMAN | Mar 11th 2015

The law has worked.

Business Day

Judge Refuses to Lift Injunction on Argentine Bond Payments

By ALEXANDRA STEVENSON | Mar 12th 2015

The decision is a defeat for Citigroup and Argentina in a long-running legal dispute with a group of hedge funds.

Government Bonds; Hedge Funds 

The judge has probably found properly.

The law could be unjustly written.

Science

An Unlikely Driver of Evolution: Arsenic

By CARL ZIMMER | Mar 12th 2015

A new study suggests that people who live in the Atacama Desert are more resistant to arsenic than other people, thanks to natural selection.

Arsenic; Evolution (Biology); Poisoning and Poisons; DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) 

yes.

Opinion

Failure to Thrive

By DIANA SPECHLER | Mar 12th 2015

 

Feel better.  

I do not wish to add to your pain.

Opinion

The Problem Is Bigger Than Ferguson

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | Mar 12th 2015

Housecleaning among the town’s political leadership is necessary, but bigoted practices are not limited to that troubled municipality.

Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings; Editorials; Discrimination; Blacks; Fines (Penalties) 

Yes

U.S.

Wisconsin: Unions Sue to Stop Law Halting Dues Collection

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Mar 10th 2015

The state A.F.L.-C.I.O. and two local unions filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to at least temporarily block a new law barring unions from requiring workers to pay the equivalent of dues.

Organized Labor; Suits and Litigation (Civil) 

I am for the unions.

Science

Neanderthal Jewelry: The Eagle Talon Line

By SINDYA N. BHANOO | Mar 16th 2015

The early humans may have used the talons of white-tailed eagles to make jewelry 130,000 years ago.

Neanderthal Man; Archaeology; Jewels and Jewelry; Birds 

Not a surprise.

U.S.

Alabama: Judge Won’t Stay Order on Gay Marriage

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Mar 16th 2015

A federal judge is not backing off her order to an Alabama probate judge that he must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships 

The state judge is wrong.

N.Y. / Region

New York Police Begin Using ShotSpotter System to Detect Gunshots

By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG | Mar 16th 2015

As part of a pilot program, sensors are being placed in precincts in the Bronx and in Brooklyn, a total area of 15 square miles, where there have been a high number of shootings.

Firearms; Sensors; Privacy; Police Brutality, Misconduct and Shootings 

I would use a knife or a club in preference to a gun.

Deadly force is not a good idea.

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