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World

China’s High Hopes for Growing Those Rubber Tree Plants

By BECKY DAVIS | May 27th 2015

With rubber prices at a 10-year low and farmers panicked over sinking incomes, officials say they have a rare opportunity to promote ideas to make the rubber industry more economically and environmentally sustainable.

Trees and Shrubs; Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates); Rubber; Economic Conditions and Trends; Agriculture and Farming; Sustainable Living 

There is no magic cash crop.

Coca and poppy are as close as the world comes to one.

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U.S.

Illinois: Guilty Plea in Fire at Radar Facility

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 28th 2015

Brian Howard, 37, a suburban Chicago contractor, pleaded guilty to setting a fire at a radar facility before trying to commit suicide by slitting his throat.

Arson 

There is a need to understand depression.

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Technology

Video: App Smart: Science Lessons

Kit Eaton | May 27th 2015

Three apps that use videos and interactive features to help explain the principles of physics, chemistry and other scientific disciplines.

Mobile Applications; Science and Technology; Space and Astronomy; Chemistry 

Science is a way to understand the universe.  

The cute pictures and fascinating accidents are ornaments.

Engineering puts the understanding to work.

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Health

A Proposal to Modify Plants Gives G.M.O. Debate New Life

By GINA KOLATA | May 28th 2015

Some scientists are hoping techniques that give back to plants genes that had long ago been bred out of them might be more acceptable to opponents of genetically modified organisms.

Genetic Engineering; Corn; Organic Foods and Products; Grain; Labeling and Labels (Product) 

The procedures will not be acceptable to the resisting group.

The opposition is of the same kind as Jewish resistance to 

non kosher foods.

The problem is aesthetic rather than practical. 

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World

Switzerland: Scientists Find the Secret to the Holes in Swiss Cheese: Hay Dust

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 28th 2015

The mystery of Swiss cheese and its disappearing holes has been solved: The milk is too clean.

Cheese 

nucleation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleation

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N.Y. / Region

Brooklyn Bridge Park Settles Housing Lawsuit

By LISA W. FODERARO | May 27th 2015

Under the agreement, the park corporation will have to hold public hearings if it wants to change its building plans.

Affordable Housing; Real Estate and Housing (Residential)

Realestate development noise.

Put her name on the waiting list.

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Opinion

Risks to Hands-Free Driving

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD | May 28th 2015

Safety experts caution that features to help automate driving could lead people to pay less attention to the road.

Traffic Accidents and Safety; Roads and Traffic; Automobiles; Automobile Safety Features and Defects; Driver Distraction and Fatigue 

Enabling distracted driving is the reason for "hands free" features.

I do not want to share the road with these vehicles.

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Food

Tibetan Food Finds a New Home at Punda

By LIGAYA MISHAN | May 28th 2015

In Sunnyside, Queens, the soups, bread and dumplings known as momos reflect the chef Tenzing Tsering’s culinary background.

Restaurants 

Worth a visit.

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U.S.

15 Chinese Accused of Using Test-Taking Impostors for College Entrance Exams

By JESS BIDGOOD | May 28th 2015

The indictment sketches a scheme in which individuals are accused of paying impostors using fake Chinese passports to take college entrance exams at testing sites in the Pittsburgh area.

Tests and Examinations; SAT (College Admission Test); Foreign Students (in US); Cheating; Frauds and Swindling; Colleges and Universities 

There are always cheaters.

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Business Day

Cabbies in Mexico City March Against Uber Ride Service

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 25th 2015

Hundreds of taxi drivers marched through Mexico City on Monday chanting “Uber Out!” and demanding that city authorities ban the online ride service.

Car Services and Livery Cabs; Mobile Applications 

The Mexico City cabbies like their monopoly.

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Real Estate

$775,000 Homes in California, Texas and Massachusetts

By MIKE POWELL | May 27th 2015

A cabin in California, a stone and stucco house in Texas and an old church in Massachusetts

Real Estate and Housing (Residential) 

Design comes after the site and before construction.

Keep looking at solutions.  

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Food

Urban Gardening Tips

By ANNE RAVER | May 26th 2015

Basics to set up a garden using window boxes, containers and hanging baskets.

Gardens and Gardening; Urban Areas; Flowers and Plants 

Gardens are out of doors.

Houseplants are not gardens.

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Opinion

The Insecure American

By PAUL KRUGMAN | May 29th 2015

A new study on the financial well-being of U.S. households shows just how little room for error there is for many of us.

United States Economy; Recession and Depression; Polls and Public Opinion; Social Security (US); Conservatism (US Politics) 

Yes.

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Business Day

U.S. to Limit Petroleum Drilling on Habitat of Greater Sage Grouse

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS | May 28th 2015

The new plan would create buffer zones around areas where male grouses gather for breeding, many of which abut or are inside oil and gas fields.

Grouse (Bird); Environment 

We will give up oil and gas as we have known them.

We should start now.

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Business Day

China to Reduce Import Taxes to Spur Spending and Growth

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | May 25th 2015

China announced Monday that it would cut import taxes on clothing, cosmetics and some other goods by half as a new tactic to generate more consumer spending and economic growth.

International Trade and World Market; Cosmetics and Toiletries; Economic Conditions and Trends 

Nothing buys customers like a sale.

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Opinion

Ireland’s Yes to Gay Marriage

May 27th 2015

Daniel J. O’Donnell, a member of the New York Assembly, writes, “Thank you, Ireland, for voting for another step toward universal human rights for all.”

Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships 

The supreme court should bow to the inevitable.

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World

Indians Urged to Stay Indoors as Sweltering Heat Kills More Than 1,300

By NIDA NAJAR | May 27th 2015

Most of the deaths were reported in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in southern India, as temperatures surpassed 116 degrees in some places.

Weather 

The heat will break with thunder storms.

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Business Day

Madoff Accountant Avoids Prison Term

By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN | May 28th 2015

David G. Friehling, who worked for the Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard L. Madoff, was sentenced to a year of home detention and year of supervised release.

Sentences (Criminal); Ponzi and Pyramid Schemes; Accounting and Accountants 

He also lost his profession.

N.Y. / Region

Man in New Jersey Dies of Rare Viral Disease After Returning From Liberia

By SABRINA TAVERNISE | May 26th 2015 

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Business Day

Automakers Expand Recalls of Cars With Takata Airbags

By REUTERS | May 28th 2015

The recalls that the automakers, Fiat Chrysler, Honda and BMW, announced are part of an action started last week by Takata that raised the number of vehicles affected to 53 million globally.

Automobile Safety Features and Defects; Recalls and Bans of Products; Traffic Accidents and Safety 

Takata is paying the bill.

Time to work.

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