1
Opinion
Let Kindergarten Children Learn Through Play
A psychologist and a former teacher praise kindergartens that allow children to play and delay reading until developmentally appropriate.Know the children and do what is appropriate.
Easy reading has a window of opportunity along with other language.
2
Arts
Brooklyn Botanic’s New Discovery Garden, Not Just for Kids
This new one-acre children’s area abounds with opportunities to play, learn and get muddy.The out of doors needs children.
3
U.S.
Ohio: Judge Approves Deal for Monitoring Cleveland Police
Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. of Federal District Court seemed especially interested in the section of the agreement that requires officers to receive more training on use of force and bias-free policing.Cleveland can try this "half measure".
4
Real Estate
A New Manhattan Rental Designed to Feel Like a Resort
The Moinian Group’s new rental building on the Far West Side will contain 1,175 apartments and many amenities, including outdoor pools, a Turkish bath, a yoga room and free daily breakfast.It is a tower rental.
Every space has perhaps as many as13 near neighbors.
5
World
Video: Leaders From Myanmar and China Meet
Video from China’s state-run television shows a meeting on Thursday between President Xi Jinping and Myanmar’s opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, in Beijing.There is a continuing problem at their border.
6
Business Day
Honda Links a Rupturing Takata Airbag to a 7th Death
At least 34 million of the Japanese supplier’s airbags need to be recalled, but automakers have identified and recalled only 16 million cars.Takata is bankrupt in fact if not in law.
Contract with a munitions company like Winchester for replacement parts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotechnic_fastener
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_generator
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag
7
Real Estate
A Neighbor’s Harassment
Subjects include a menacing neighbor; the ethics of fielding purchase offers; and the rights of a family not listed on the lease.Many of the things I do are noisy.
I do not want to be the subject of complaints.
8
N.Y. / Region
Jurors’ Rancorous Split Over Etan Patz Mistrial Remains on Display Outside Hearing
Several jurors who failed to reach a decision in the trial of a man accused of killing Etan in 1979 showed up at the defendant’s court appearance, airing the bitter divisions that led to a hung jury.Jury duty can be really demanding.
9
Sports
Women’s Team Gives Oregon N.C.A.A. Track and Field Sweep
The Ducks’ women’s team earned its first N.C.A.A. track and field championship in 30 years, winning a day after the schools’ men’s team won their second straight title.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| W: M. Estrada (4-3) L: E. Rodriguez (2-1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tor HR: D. Valencia (2) R. Goins (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bos HR: D. Ortiz (9) |
10
Opinion
The Myth of a White Minority
We use outdated, illogical racial and ethnic categories. Social reality is much more complex.Racism is a religious practice.
11
N.Y. / Region
Belmont Ticketholders Hope to Cash In Online
More than 90,000 winning tickets from American Pharoah’s Triple Crown victory are unclaimed, with many bettors guessing their ticket is worth far more behind a frame, or on eBay.I am not in that market.
12
N.Y. / Region
A Court Keeps People Out of Rikers While Remaining Tough
The Red Hook Community Justice Center has reduced jailings, recidivism and costs, but one city councilwoman has blocked an attempt to duplicate it in Brownsville.It looks to be a better way.
Get on with it.
Sentencing people to education . . .
13
Magazine
‘On the Brooklyn Bridge’
Poem selected by Natasha Trethewey.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
14
Opinion
No Justice in Pakistan
A system where confessions are obtained under torture and terrorism suspects are tried in secret results in outrage abroad.Pakistan is sovereign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty
15
Your Money
Same-Sex Parents’ Rights May Be Unresolved After Justices’ Ruling
A Supreme Court endorsement of gay marriage would still leave many parents fighting to share custody of their same-sex partner’s children.One step at a time.
If they are married adoption of the other spouses children should be trivial.
Divorce is always a problem.
16
Science
Video: Saying Goodbye After 84 Million Miles
The crew that launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 24 hands over command to a new crew led by Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space AgencyGood enough.
17
U.S.
Ruling Finds Tribunal Is No Place for Guantánamo Detainee’s Case
A decision with implications for the debate over whether foreign terror suspects should be prosecuted in civilian court or before military commissions.Do justice.
18
World
Philae Spacecraft Reawakens on a Speeding Comet With Data for Scientists
In November, the European Space Agency landed a probe on a speeding comet, but it lost battery power after 60 hours. The spacecraft began transmitting data packets to earth on Saturday.Good enough.
19
Science
Aid to Women, or Bottom Line? Advocates Split on Libido Pill
While some feminists lend heft to a campaign for a pill to bolster women’s libido, other groups opted not to join the campaign, concerned that calls of gender bias would undermine what should be an impartial scientific process.Both would please many.
20
U.S.
No comments:
Post a Comment