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N.Y. / Region
New York’s Public School Students Sweat Out the End of the Semester
A maze of safety regulations and contractual obligations make it difficult for many of the city’s public schools to acquire and maintain air-conditioning.The system could be heat pumps.
Just pay the bill.
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Fashion & Style
PETA Targets Hermès Days Before Paris Men’s Wear Show
The group says that the brand sources its exotic skins from crocodile farms in Texas and Zimbabwe that abuse the animals.The fact that PETA is crazy does not make them wrong.
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Business Day
Fiat Chrysler Issues Recall for 164,000 Jeep Cherokees
Fiat Chrysler is recalling 164,000 Jeep Cherokee S.U.V.s worldwide to install shields that stop water from getting into the power rear lift gate controls, which poses a risk of fire.Safe design is the responsibility of the manufacturer.
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N.Y. / Region
3 Men Convicted of Misdemeanors in 2013 Skydive From 1 World Trade Center
A jury at State Supreme Court in Manhattan found James Brady, Marko Markovich and Andrew Rossig guilty of reckless endangerment. They were found not guilty of burglary, a felony.Their problem was they were caught.
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Real Estate
Recent Commercial Transactions
Recent commercial transactions in New York.These spaces are more costly than I want to carry this month.
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World
China Aims to Move Beijing Government Out of City’s Crowded Core
The move is a recognition, urban planners and historians say, that the existing strategy has created ever-worsening traffic problems, and widespread destruction of Beijing’s monumental old city.The government may not survive the attempt to move it.
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Travel
Hotel Review: The Brice in Savannah
From the sunny yellow awnings to the unfailingly friendly bellhops, the hotel delivers a fresh and cheerful interpretation of Southern hospitality.Inoffensive.
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World
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Court Grants Compensation to War Crimes Victim
The former soldiers were sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $15,160 to a Croat woman they raped during the Serb attack on her village in 1992.The Balkans will remain balkanized.
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Business Day
Hacking Grounds Flights of Poland’s National Airline
If confirmed, the attack would be one of the first instances in which flights were canceled or delayed because of a malicious hacking.There is no privacy of connected devices.
I have no confidence in encryption.
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Science
Ruling Says Netherlands Must Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The decision by the Dutch court could motivate environmental activists to pursue a similar legal strategy in other countries.https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
- VII, 9
- As a youth I prayed, "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
Fashion & Style
Model at Rick Owens Fashion Show Steps Out in Protest
A Paris runway show for the designer Rick Owens’s men’s wear collection was interrupted on Thursday when a model began a one-man political protest.I don't know what that was about.
I don't want to find out.
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U.S.
Post-Trial Disclosure Brings Mistrial in Vanderbilt Rape Case
A Tennessee judge declared the mistrial after discovering that a juror had failed to disclose that he had been the victim of sex crimes as a teenager.The defense did a competent job.
The defendants will spend another year on trial before they spend years in prison and the rest of their lives as sex criminals.
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U.S.
California: Attorney General Can Ignore Antigay Initiative
A judge has relieved Attorney General Kamala D. Harris of the duty to process a proposed ballot initiative that advocated killing anyone who engages in gay sex."Judge Raymond Cadei of Sacramento County Superior Court ruled late Monday that the so-called Sodomite Suppression Act was patently unconstitutional."
There is some filtering.
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World
Unicef Report Describes Grim Trends for the Poorest Children
The United Nations Children’s Fund said improvements in national averages had obscured worsening trends among the world’s poorest children.Better is still not good.
A normal distribution always has two tails.
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Opinion
Ending the Rikers Nightmare
New York City has taken an important step in agreeing to sweeping policy changes to settle a long-running legal battle over abuses at the jail.Policing practice in N.Y.C. violates the sixth amendment.
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N.Y. / Region
Suit Accuses Landlord of Discriminating Against Tenant With AIDS
David Goode said a landlord, Goldfarb Properties, was discriminatory by refusing to rent him an apartment after learning he had a city subsidy for tenants with H.I.V. or AIDS.Landlords are not omniscient.
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U.S.
Nevada: Lake Mead Near Trigger Point for Supply Cuts
Federal water managers let the closely regulated surface level at Lake Mead go to a record low overnight before guiding it back above a crucial drought shortage trigger point.Lake Mead is at the irrigation supply cutoff level. Las Vegas will be going dry.
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N.Y. / Region
Four Wounded in Upper Manhattan Shooting
The shooting, in which three men and one woman were hit, erupted around 3:30 p.m. near the corner of Madison Avenue and 132nd Street, the police said. Officials said at least one of the men is likely to die.Hot weather.
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U.S.
Freddie Gray’s Death Was Homicide, Autopsy Says
A medical examiner found that Mr. Gray sustained the injury while riding in a Baltimore police van and that the failure of the officers to follow procedures meant the death was a homicide.The Baltimore police will lose the squad.
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