Saturday, August 1, 2015

@17:00, 8/1/15

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1
Food

Chicks To Go Serves Chicken and Peruvian Pride in the Rockaways

At the takeout shop, spicy, smoky pollo à la brasa is best chased by gulps of sweet lemon-verbena soda.

This is not present for Inca cola or barbecued chicken.
I hope it is that your girl will leave after the bar exam. 

2
Travel

Luxury Hotels in London and Bermuda Offering Signature Liquors

Luxury hotels are getting into spirits, offering private label blends guests can sample at the bar or take home as a memory in a bottle.

If the only memorable thing is the spirits, travel is beside the point.

3
Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties include co-ops in the West Village and Chelsea, and a Prospect Heights condo.

Yes,  natural light.

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N.Y. / Region

New York City Questions English, Math and Science Taught at Yeshivas

Responding to a letter, the Education Department plans to investigate whether 39 Jewish schools are providing adequate training in secular subjects.

All that is asked is that the Yeshivas be inspected for their secular standards.

5
Opinion

What Emotions Are (and Aren’t)

Fear isn’t the firing of neurons in the amygdala, for instance.

Our ignorance is revealed.
Our knowledge is not increased.

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N.Y. / Region

Construction Plans for La Guardia Airport Don’t Faze Its Neighbors


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Food

Smoky, Juicy Mussels and Clams Pop on the Grill

Shellfish deserve a turn during grilling season, and the leftover juice is a delicious bonus when soaked up with grilled bread. (Article plus video.)

Cook shellfish on top of the stove.

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Magazine

‘Air Mail’

Selected by Natasha Trethewey.

I am guessing.
Direct words are better.
If words fail there are actions.
Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

9
Real Estate

Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut

This week’s properties include a three-bedroom stone house in Scarsdale, N.Y., and a four-bedroom house built in 1906 in Darien, Conn.

The stone house would be hard to insulate and seems to not have enough glass.
Darien is better but not enough better.
The decorators have been busy. 

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N.Y. / Region

Video: Melting in Central Park


Swim.

11
Opinion

Should We Charge Patients for Medical Research?

It could subsidize promising experiments. But is it ethical?

Usually the charges are time shifted.

The experimental subjects do not pay. 
The treated subjects pay for the next decades

12
Business Day

Millennials Less Likely to Leave the Nest, a Pew Study Finds

Data show that more young adults are living at home with their parents, not fully healed from the damages of the last recession.

People who do not earn do not leave.

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Business Day

Former University of Virginia Fraternity Members Sue Rolling Stone

N.Y. / Region

Family of Man Killed by Rogue Detectives Settles Suit for $5 Million

Israel Greenwald was killed in 1986 by two New York Police detectives known as the “mafia cops,” Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito. His body was not found until 2005.

The city got off cheap.

15
World

Mexico: Runaway Truck Kills Pilgrims

The authorities on Thursday raised the death toll to 23 in a central Mexican town where a truck lost control and slammed into a religious procession.

Corruption has a high price.

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N.Y. / Region

Catholic Church Closings in New York Bring Sadness and Anger

The closings were the culmination of the biggest overhaul of the parish structure in the history of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Churches without congregations close.
The bishop insists.

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World

Video: Video of Plane Debris on Remote Island

Aviation officials inspected the wreckage of a plane on Wednesday that washed up on the island of Réunion, off the coast of Madagascar.

There will be a report.

18
Books

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

I would not choose any of these.

19
Opinion

Are Artificial Sweeteners Safer Than Sugar?


probably

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N.Y. / Region

Problems of Housing Mentally Ill People Spill Into the Street

There is widespread agreement that shelters like the one housing a man who fought a Washington Heights restaurant owner are wrong for mentally ill people, but there are now more shelters and less supportive housing.

There is a place for asylums.


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