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Education
After SAT Misprint, Two Sections Won’t Be Scored
The College Board also says it will waive its fees for students who want to take the test again, after an error regarding the allotted time for a reading section on June 6.The noise makes little difference.
"We don't know anything closer than 3%."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_examination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance_examination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_examination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_on_a_curve
The SAT does not produce the desired distribution of abilities.
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N.Y. / Region
Drop in Frisking Tactic? City Hall Now Emphasizes It Started Before de Blasio
The recent reminders about the origins in the later Bloomberg years come as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration faces criticism over crime.The politics of policing continue.
Ask the courts.
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Business Day
S.E.C. Finds Itself in a Constitutional Conundrum
A judge’s decision that the agency’s administrative proceedings may be unconstitutional could have implications for other cases and other agencies.The Republicans have found a flaw. Congress will not be able to correct it.
We are depending on a hostile Supreme Court to maintain the regulation of business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appointments_Clause
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause#New_Deal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
This is a case of regulation and thus constitutional.
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Sports
Rafael Nadal Advances in Germany
Nadal, the top seed, overcame stiff resistance from Bernard Tomic to reach the semifinals of the Mercedes Cup.
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Health
Medical Use of Marijuana Doesn’t Increase Youths’ Use, Study Finds
The new analysis is the most comprehensive effort to date to answer a much-debated question: Does decriminalization of marijuana lead more adolescents to begin using it?No.
"“We showed no hint of an increase at all after the laws were passed,” Dr. Hasin said."
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N.Y. / Region
Board Hears Support for Raising Food Workers’ Minimum Wage
Fast-food workers and supporters turned out for a public hearing, before a wage board created by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to argue that they cannot support themselves on the money they now make.The board is doing its job.
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Books
‘Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead,’ by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
What it will take to fix America’s crumbling infrastructure.The engineering is mostly "solved Problems".
The problems are philosophical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Branches_of_philosophy
The world population must act with due consideration.
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Opinion
Sticker Shock in For-Profit Hospitals
Two recent reports provide evidence of the hard-to-justify high prices that many hospitals charge for common procedures."Market forces are often not powerful enough to restrain very high prices in areas where dominant hospitals and chains can pretty much charge what they please. The best remedy might be legislation, at the federal and state levels, to limit hospital prices that have no connection to the cost of delivering the services."
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Opinion
How to Grade a Teacher
There are better ways to evaluate teachers than test scores alone.Joe Nocera has put thought into his consideration of Deborah Loewenberg Ball.
The effective discussion of teacher learning could start here.
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Sports
Ana Konjuh, 17, of Croatia Wins WTA Title
Konjuh beat Monica Niculescu in the rain-delayed Nottingham Open final in England.| East | |||||||||||
| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Tampa Bay | 36 | 29 | .554 | - | 19 - 18 | 17 - 11 | 18 - 14 | 4 - 2 | 10 - 11 | 7 - 3 | W 4 |
| NY Yankees | 34 | 29 | .540 | 1 | 16 - 11 | 18 - 18 | 17 - 15 | 7 - 3 | 7 - 6 | 6 - 4 | L 1 |
| Toronto | 34 | 31 | .523 | 2 | 20 - 12 | 14 - 19 | 17 - 14 | 5 - 5 | 6 - 8 | 9 - 1 | L 1 |
| Baltimore | 32 | 31 | .508 | 3 | 21 - 13 | 11 - 18 | 20 - 18 | 4 - 2 | 6 - 7 | 8 - 2 | W 1 |
| Boston | 27 | 38 | .415 | 9 | 15 - 18 | 12 - 20 | 10 - 21 | 2 - 5 | 11 - 9 | 3 - 7 | L 7 |
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| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Kansas City | 35 | 25 | .583 | - | 19 - 11 | 16 - 14 | 2 - 4 | 19 - 12 | 8 - 5 | 5 - 5 | W 1 |
| Minnesota | 34 | 29 | .540 | 2.5 | 20 - 12 | 14 - 17 | 9 - 4 | 16 - 18 | 6 - 4 | 2 - 8 | L 1 |
| Detroit | 34 | 30 | .531 | 3 | 18 - 17 | 16 - 13 | 1 - 3 | 22 - 12 | 4 - 10 | 6 - 4 | W 2 |
| Cleveland | 29 | 33 | .468 | 7 | 12 - 18 | 17 - 15 | 3 - 4 | 13 - 20 | 9 - 7 | 4 - 6 | L 1 |
| Chi White Sox | 28 | 34 | .452 | 8 | 16 - 12 | 12 - 22 | 2 - 7 | 13 - 21 | 9 - 3 | 4 - 6 | L 4 |
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| Team | W | L | Pct | GB | Home | Road | East | Central | West | Last 10 | Streak |
| Houston | 37 | 28 | .569 | - | 22 - 14 | 15 - 14 | 8 - 6 | 4 - 9 | 20 - 12 | 3 - 7 | W 2 |
| Texas | 34 | 30 | .531 | 2.5 | 14 - 16 | 20 - 14 | 10 - 4 | 11 - 8 | 11 - 17 | 6 - 4 | W 1 |
| LA Angels | 32 | 32 | .500 | 4.5 | 18 - 15 | 14 - 17 | 8 - 11 | 4 - 3 | 17 - 12 | 4 - 6 | L 2 |
| Seattle | 29 | 35 | .453 | 7.5 | 13 - 19 | 16 - 16 | 9 - 11 | 4 - 6 | 14 - 14 | 5 - 5 | W 1 |
| Oakland | 27 | 39 | .409 | 10.5 | 11 - 18 | 16 - 21 | 6 - 8 | 6 - 10 | 14 - 21 | 4 - 6 | W 2 |
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Business Day
Factory Output Slips, Held Back by Higher Oil Prices and a Stronger Dollar
The Federal Reserve said that manufacturing output declined 0.2 percent last month, as productivity has basically been flat since January.Price limits demand.
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Sports
Plea Deal for Chuck Blazer Is Unsealed
Blazer, a former American soccer official, secretly cooperated with a federal investigation of FIFA for nearly two years before pleading guilty.The prosecutors went hunting.
Blazer probably tripped on his taxes.
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N.Y. / Region
Kennedy Airport, Amid Runway Project, Prepares for Wind Delays of Summer
The busy, delay-plagued airport in New York City hopes to operate at almost-full speed while one of its four runways is being rebuilt.The Airport may succeed.
The threat is inherent in the project.
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Travel
Tuesday’s Travel News and Tips
What you need to know if you’re on a trip or planning one soon, including a small hotel on Lake Como in Italy and a new speakers’ lineup on the Seabourn cruise line.I do not plan to get further than the Adirondack plateau this summer.
I would like to visit Big Otter Lake with a boat.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Big+Otter+Lake,+New+York/@43.7282059,-75.1106673,2190m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89d8b7d375e05fef:0x7d140b6ee5ff134
The state may not have fixed the access road from the west.
The trail is a CCC truck road, long gated off. Bicycles were forbidden.
Alternatively:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Salmon+Lake,+Webb,+NY+13367/@43.9457916,-74.9394333,2182m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89df54eb9a3e26f3:0xe4e6ca7e481ebb6a
Or:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Henderson+Lake,+Newcomb,+NY/@44.0918844,-74.066748,4353m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4ccad8da66c61f3b:0x55b021ce7f4474de
I can change my plans if asked.
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Opinion
A Diet to Prevent Diabetes
A dietitian at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine discusses her work with young people.Fructose is toxic avoid as much of it as possible.
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U.S.
Men at Kansas City Release Center Worry as Prison Plans to Move In
A looming question is what will happen to the 135 people housed in the Kansas City Community Release Center, which officials hope to have converted to a minimum-security prison.This population is unemployable in the present economy.
Get them paying work.
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Travel
New Nature Trail and Interactive Museum in the Adirondacks
When the Wild Walk opens on July 4, visitors to the Adirondacks will get to see the region’s lush landscape and diverse wildlife from a new perspective.They have done a good job on a packaged tour.
The village of Tupper Lake is struggling.
It was a logging town that clear cut its forest.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Comptroller, Taking Aim at ‘Three-Quarter’ Homes, Urges City Agencies to End Referrals
The office of Scott M. Stringer says it wants to independently review addresses of boardinghouses where city agencies send people, and weed out unscrupulous operators.Close the flop houses and rooming houses. Get "three-quarter houses".
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N.Y. / Region
In Absence of Sightings, Theories Abound on Escapees’ Whereabouts
With few leads, residents near the maximum-security prison in Dannemora, N.Y., imagine all kinds of places where the killers might be hiding.No news today.
The proper questions are being asked.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/06/16/us/ap-us-escaped-prisoners-the-latest.html
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Business Day
California Has to Repay $331 Million to Homeowners Fund, Court Rules
Governor Jerry Brown wrongly diverted money dedicated to helping troubled borrowers by instead using it to pay down the state’s debt, a judge found.Happily the state is now good for the debt.
Michigan is not good for its debts.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Comptroller, Taking Aim at ‘Three-Quarter’ Homes, Urges City Agencies to End Referrals
Killing the bottom is not a good thing.
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Science
A Jellyfish That Quickly Puts Itself Back Together
When a juvenile moon jellyfish loses tentacles, it rapidly reorganizes its remaining limbs in order to maintain symmetry, a new study reports.Another small fact in the literature.
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Business Day
S.E.C. Finds Itself in a Constitutional Conundrum
The case will fail. The argument is bad.
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N.Y. / Region
Expired Rent Regulation Rules Would Cause More Anxiety Than Chaos, Officials Say
Tenant advocates and officials note that the regulations for New York City have lapsed before, with no dire consequences.Rents are going up again.
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U.S.
Justices Uphold Denial of Visa to Afghan Husband of American Woman
The Supreme Court, voting 5 to 4, ruled that the denial did not interfere with her fundamental right to marriage.The war party wins a case.
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U.S.
A Thirsty Colorado Battles Over the Destiny of Its Raindrops
The debate over collecting rain in barrels, which is illegal in the state, is a microcosm of fights across the region over who should get to keep using water and who should have to cut back.The situation looks silly.
It is serious.
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U.S.
Justices’ Words Combed for Clues on Major Pending Decisions
Talks, hearings and earlier opinions are scoured for hints about how the Supreme Court will rule this month on same-sex marriage and the health care law.We are running out of month.
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N.Y. / Region
Kennedy Airport, Amid Runway Project, Prepares for Wind Delays of Summer
"Dig, we must, for a better New York."
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World
France: Police at Airport Detain Girl, 6, for 3 Days
The airport police in Paris held a 6-year-old French girl for three days on suspicion that she had a fake passport — until a judge ordered her released into her mother’s custody.The French police should get these things before a judge sooner.
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Science
Peter Walter’s Voyage From West Berlin to the Inner Workings of Cells
The biochemist discusses the path he took to studying how proteins within cells communicate with one another.I am not getting much original work done.
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Science
Letters to the Editor
Readers react to articles in Science Times.Extreme age is enough a prison.
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Travel
New Nature Trail and Interactive Museum in the Adirondacks
When the Wild Walk opens on July 4, visitors to the Adirondacks will get to see the region’s lush landscape and diverse wildlife from a new perspective."The Wild Walk (along with the Wild Center) was designed by Charles P. Reay, whose career began at the Charles Eames studio in the ’60s, when the firm collaborated with Eero Saarinen to design the IBM Pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens."
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World
Zoo Animals on the Loose in Tbilisi After Flooding
Heavy rains destroyed the enclosures of the Georgian city’s main zoo, and at least eight people have been reported dead.Better the zoo than the taxidermist.
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World
With Little Fanfare, Mexican Supreme Court Effectively Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court of Mexico has said laws on the books in most of the country’s states are discriminatory, but gay couples still need costly injunctions from lower courts in order to wed.A civil union is not a marriage.
"Accept no substitutes"
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Business Day
E.U. Urged to Plan for Greece to Default
Officials from Germany were among the most outspoken voices, with one warning of the need for a “state of emergency” to handle a potential fallout.Greece will try script before open default.
Greece will exit the euro when Germany demands it.
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N.Y. / Region
Comfort Food From the Caucasus, Served Up in Brooklyn
Toné Café, a few blocks from the Atlantic Ocean in Brighton Beach, provides a taste of home to the area’s large Russian population.I will eat there when there.
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Food
Video: Deluxe Cheesecake
Sam Sifton recreates Craig Claiborne’s classic cheesecake recipe.I will make it for a group.
For two I will buy it by the slice.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/dining/craig-claiborne-classic-cheesecake-recipe.html
Bookmarked.
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