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Fashion & Style
Panama City’s Casco Viejo Cleans Up Nicely
Once ridden with gangs and crime, the Panamanian neighborhood now attracts stylish tourists.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoolander
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Opinion
Essentials for a New La Guardia
Readers discuss the lack of a direct rail link to Manhattan, preservation of a mural in Terminal A, and a suggestion to rename the airport..Robert Moses built the parkway system for the urban middle class.
Laguardia Airport is a feature of the parkways.
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U.S.
Trial Opens for Charlotte Officer Who Fatally Shot Black Motorist Seeking Help
The fatal shooting of Jonathan Ferrell in September 2013 occurred amid the beginning of the national debate over the deaths of young black men that followed the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2012.A sad way to end a police career.
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U.S.
A.C.L.U. Sues Over Handcuffing of Boy, 8, and Girl, 9, in Kentucky School
The federal lawsuit seeks to spotlight the use of handcuffs to restrain young children who act out in school.Cultural conflicts like this should not happen.
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Opinion
Value of Payroll Cards
An advisory board member of Master Your Card says New York State “should proceed with caution” on proposed rules for payroll cards.A payroll card is a checking account. The fee is about ten dollars a month.
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N.Y. / Region
Legionnaires’ Disease Death Toll in Bronx Climbs to 7
New York City officials announced that the tally had climbed by three amid calls for tighter regulation of water-cooling towers.It is still trivial
unless you or yours are sick.
The sick should get treated.
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U.S.
5 Questions About Obama’s Climate Change Plan
More on the plan, its opponents and the effect on global warming.Yes on all points.
Travel
What the Australian Adventurer Tim Cope Learned From Nomads
An interview with Mr. Cope, whose three-year trek on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary taught him how to live in harmony with the environment.We will need to move if we are to take one of his expeditions.
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U.S.
Mississippi: Defendant Shot to Death Outside Court
A man got out of his pickup, walked up to the defendant in a drug-dealing case and fatally shot him in the chest, then set down his gun and surrendered as deputies confronted him outside the Madison County Courthouse Monday morning.We will learn the story in time.
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U.S.
Suspect in Memphis Police Officer’s Death Turns Himself In
Law enforcement authorities confirmed that Tremaine Wilbourn, wanted in the death of Officer Sean Bolton on Saturday, had been taken into custody and faced a first-degree murder charge.He is still alive.
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World
Spain: Migrant Suffocates in Car
A Moroccan man suffocated while being smuggled into Spain by his brother in a suitcase in the trunk of a car on a ferry.Smuggling is not worth it if there is an alternative.
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Food
Hannah Kirshner of Sweets & Bitters and Her Omelet Pan for the Backyard Bounty
The founder and editor of the hybrid food magazine-cookbook, who owns three chickens, treasures her cast-iron omelet pan.We can do at least as well.
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Sports
Rafael Nadal Prevails in Hamburg
Nadal overcame sloppy play on clay, his favorite surface, on Sunday to beat Fabio Fognini, 7-5, 7-5, and win the Hamburg Open for the second time.American League
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U.S.
Obama to Unveil Tougher Climate Plan With His Legacy in Mind
President Obama will unveil on Monday a set of environmental regulations devised to sharply cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power plants and ultimately transform America’s electricity industry.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/opinion/president-obamas-tough-achievable-climate-plan.html
A next step.
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U.S.
Native Alaskans Study and Clean Up a Legacy of Pollution
On St. Lawrence Island, a former military listening post in the Bering Sea, native residents and scientists believe pollution has contributed to their poor health.The natives are becoming informed.
There does not appear to have been much extraction of toxics as yet.
The worry is the polychlorinated biphenyl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
Some studies have shown them much less toxic than has been thought.
I will be reserve judgment until low toxicity is demonstrated.
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World
Britain to Investigate Police Handling of Abuse Claim Against Ex-Premier Edward Heath
An independent agency will look into whether an inquiry was dropped when a subject threatened to go public with accusations that former Prime Minister Edward Heath had sexually abused children.The English speaking cultures claim "a rule of law and not of men".
That rule must be more dominant.
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World
Rohingya Women Flee Violence Only to Be Sold Into Marriage
Migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar seeking to escape turmoil and poverty are often tricked or forced into marriages to pay smugglers for their freedom.Women are half of humanity.
Gender cannot define property.
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N.Y. / Region
Trend of New York Gun Violence Has Flattened Out, Police Statistics Show
Since early June, shootings have fallen, even as the number of homicides in the city remains 10 percent higher than last year’s historic low.Statistics show many things that are not facts.
Noise is easily mistaken for trends.
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U.S.
Dr. James Jude, Who Helped Develop Use of CPR, Dies at 87
Dr. Jude was a resident at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine when he recognized that external manual pressure could revive a stalled heart, a discovery that led to the widespread use of CPR.I tend to forget how much has been learned in my lifetime.
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Magazine
The Continuing Reality of Segregated Schools
Michael Brown was not only a victim of police brutality; he and millions of other black children endured another scourge almost as harmful.The segregation is a symptom and not the problem.
The problem is the failure of communities to invest in all their children.
Such investment is antithetical to aristocracy or oligarchy.
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