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The Upshot
Jobs Forecast Is Another Reason for the Fed Not to Raise Rates
The Congressional Budget Office increased its estimate of how many Americans are going to look for work in coming years.Inflation is not up.
Rates should rise after we have significant inflation.
Say, 6%.
The rest is noise.
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World
At Least 150 Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Sinks Off Libya
If confirmed, the death toll would be among the highest this summer for those trying to reach Europe from North Africa.We did know how to build large seaworthy rowing boats.
They would not show well on radar.
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Your Money
Tax-Free Savings Accounts for Disabled Are Expected in 2016
The plans, known as 529A or Able accounts, are being created in most states and could grow to $100,000 without jeopardizing federal benefits.I do not know how this applies.
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U.S.
F.B.I. to Look at Guards at County Jail in Missouri
Four recent cases of possible abuse of inmates by guards is the focus of a civil rights inquiry by the F.B.I.Some personalities should not be prison guards.
There are many unemployed.
It should be possible to fire guards for brutality.
Have the new hires read the rules. Fire them for violating the rules.
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Business Day
A New Way to Charge Insider Trading
The Justice Department pursued a different track in a recent case, arguing that it didn’t have to prove that a benefit flowed from a recipient to a tipper.If I were a trader listening to tips I would worry.
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Science
A Home’s Story, Told in Dust, Bacteria and Fungi
An analysis of dust from 1,200 homes across the continental United States provides new information about the fungal and bacterial communities within.A preliminary report. There will be more.
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Opinion
Jimmy Carter’s Inspiring Approach to Cancer
A doctor says Carter’s “sense of perspective about his life and his equanimity are inspiring.”Jimmy Carter was one of our better presidents.
He is a smart and perhaps a wise man.
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N.Y. / Region
Palestinian Authority Is Ordered to Post $10 Million Bond in Terror Case
A judge also ruled that the group must pay an additional $1 million monthly to appeal a huge damages award for its role in six terrorist attacks in Israel that killed and injured Americans.The situation in international law is unclear to me.
Sovereign states are not subject to foreign civil law.
I cannot imagine how pirates could be required to pay monetary damages.
Recognition as a sovereign state could well be worth the money.
Something strange is happening.
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Travel
Vienna Hotel Is Lavish, Stylish, but Not Stuffy
The Park Hyatt Vienna is in the picturesque Am Hof Square in the first district, a central neighborhood that is a Unesco World Heritage site.The one percent can have it.
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U.S.
Waukesha Plan for Lake Michigan Water Raises Worries
The city is not permitted by treaty to draw from Lake Michigan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/washington/24lakes.html
http://glc.org/files/main/GreatLakesBasinCompact.pdf
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T Magazine
A Crystal Healer’s Guide to Curing What Ails You
In Los Angeles, Azalea Lee offers up the five stones that she finds especially resonant today.null set.
She has good taste in furniture.
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U.S.
Savannah State University Placed on Lockdown After Shooting on Campus
A shooting near the student union injured one student, the university said, and the lockdown was later lifted though no suspect had been arrested.I remain ignorant.
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Science
Mutation Reduces Pregnancy Complications for Africa’s Khoe-San People
The gene variant can alter the formation of the placenta, resulting in larger, healthier babies, a study shows.Beneficial mutations happen.
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Sports
Lang Leads in L.P.G.A. Event
Brittany Lang shot a seven-under-par 65 to take the first-round lead in the Yokohama Tire L.P.G.A. Classic in Prattville, Ala.I plead ignorance.
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U.S.
Colorado: Inquiry Faults Regulators in Mine Spill
Federal and state regulators underestimated the potential for a toxic blowout from a Colorado mine, despite warnings more than a year earlier that a large-volume spill of wastewater was possible.It is so much easier to blame the E.P.A. examiners than the absent former owners.
Blaming the regulators is a habit.
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N.Y. / Region
How a Gun in a Purse Became a Permanent Ball and Chain
A Virginia woman’s 1985 felony conviction is an example of how the merciless application of justice can harm a person for life."The only way to be not guilty is to be not guilty"
"Life is not fair."
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World
Austria Now Says Over 70 Bodies Thought to Be of Migrants Were in Truck
Officials had initially said that as many as 50 corpses were in the vehicle, but they revised the number after working through the night.Yes.
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U.S.
Missouri: Man Charged With Killing a Child Doing Her Homework
A man was charged with killing a 9-year-old who was sitting on her mother’s bed doing her homework when shots were fired into her home in Ferguson.The murder charge may not get to trial.
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Opinion
Let Fear Guide Early Stage Breast-Cancer Decisions
Our emotions can make the unlikely risks of early stage breast cancer feel highly probable, or cloud the perceived benefit of treatment.We continue to learn.
I cannot decide for another.
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Automobiles
Video Review: Toyota Tacoma Retains Its Reliability
With an upgraded structure, a reduction in noise and more, the 2016 model is a far better truck than the one it replaces.This is not a truck I would own.
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Real Estate
A Conversation With David von Spreckelsen
Mr. von Spreckelsen is president of Toll Brothers City Living, New York, a division of the luxury home builder Toll Brothers that he started in 2004He is a happy marauder.
His business model is destructive of urban life.
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Food
The Tomato Sandwich Perfected
Slightly overripe tomatoes, onion, raw garlic and mayonnaise produce the perfect, deliciously drippy summer sandwich. (Article plus video.)http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017666-tomato-sandwiches
We will need to grow our own tomatoes.
These are seasonal sandwiches.
Good tomatoes are local tomatoes.
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N.Y. / Region
Queens as a Tourist Destination? Readers React
An article on the rising number of tourists visiting Queens attracted reader responses from along the No. 7 train line and beyond.Queens is part of New York.
A hundred years ago it was rural.
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Science
Regenerative Medicine Researcher Cleared of Scientific Misconduct Charges
The allegations, brought by colleagues, related to three patients on whom Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a surgeon, had performed experimental operations.Selling is powerful.
Missionaries demonstrate that power.
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U.S.
Analysis Finds Higher Expulsion Rates for Black Students
While black students represented just under a quarter of public school students in the 13 Southern states studied, they made up nearly half of all suspensions and expulsions."“This is at least partly attributed to people having these racist assumptions about black kids,” Mr. Harper said."
Racism is pervasive.
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Times Insider
Sept. 13, 2005 | The Hard Road to the Big Easy
Joseph B. Treaster’s entry in The Times internal newsletter described writing about Hurricane Katrina at the time of the storm.The storm was over ten years ago.
Recovery and reconstruction continue.
The political history of the reconstruction interests me.
The result is unsatisfactory.
How to continue the effort needs consideration.
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Opinion
Time to Fix the Fafsa
Shortening the nightmarish federal financial aid form for college loan applicants will allow lower-income students greater access to higher education.Access to as much education as one can adsorb is a right.
I am lonely in that position.
The process will not become easier while Republicans dominate government.
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Health
School Lunches Becoming Healthier, Statistics Indicate
Substantially more schools are offering two or more fruits and two or more vegetables than in 2000, according to federal data.Tell me when the children stop getting obese.
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U.S.
Agent Cleared Over 2010 Florida Shooting Inquiry, but Lawyer Lashes Out
Rusty Rodgers did not commit any crime in his investigation, a special prosecutor said in a report, but criticism of the agent in a cover letter led to the first public comments on the case.St. Johns County does not wish to prosecute.
I dislike Florida.
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Real Estate
Upper East Side Makeshift Bedrooms Need Not Apply
Rachel Smisloff and Kelly Irvolino wanted an apartment on the Upper East Side, and found they don’t have to live as if they were fresh out of school.I am floored by the rent.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan
This week’s properties are co-ops in Lenox Hill, the Upper East Side and Park Slope, Brooklyn.Nice places if one can live like that.
The decorators do not offend me.
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T Magazine
A Ruschmeyer’s-Style Lobster Boil, Starring the Sussman Brothers
The Brooklyn-based chefs also share the perfect side dish.Everyone likes lobster and sweet corn.
New potatoes hot or cold go well.
I like ceviche.
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Times Insider
In the Eye of the Storm: Remembering Katrina
In September 2005, Times reporters and editors who covered Katrina wrote about their experiences for Ahead of The Times, our internal newsletter.Policy cannot be perceived from the ground.
Policy does not change during a disaster.
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U.S.
San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless
One of the city’s engines was cited as the busiest in the country last year, but less than 2 percent of its runs involved fires.The cities must deal with their homeless.
Letting them die in the streets will not be tolerated by most of the population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal
http://fleursdumal.org/
I do not want to pay attention to how the situation continues.
If I find a fix for the hierarchy of poverty I will publish and promote it.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Police Dept. Creates Unit to Monitor Times Square Issues
The officers in the new unit will address quality-of-life concerns amid rising complaints over the costumed characters and topless women in the area’s pedestrian plazas.
"So,
one reporter asked whether the presence of so many topless women,
contrary to signaling a creeping lawlessness, was rather a
manifestation, if perhaps to some a little bawdy, of how safe the area
has become?
“I’d agree with that,” Chief O’Neill said."
These activities are constitutionally protected.
The city can zone them elsewhere and so destroy Times Square.
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N.Y. / Region
Record Number of Claims Filed Against New York Police a Year Ago, Report Says
The city comptroller’s office also found that preliminary data for the most recent fiscal year indicated an 11 percent decrease in personal-injury and other tort claims.The police may be learning.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in New York and New Jersey
This week’s properties include a waterfront home in Bayville, N.Y., and a carriage house in Highlands, N.J.yes, it is depressing.
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World
Video: Vultures Face Own Death
Across East Africa, vulture populations have been decimated by poaching, poisoning and other human interventions.We can have people or we can have animals.
I have not been able to choose.
The best I can do is try to concentrate the people and thus leave space for the animals.
Needy people will not have it thus.
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