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Travel
Resort and Tour News: Nighttime Climbing in Canada, Birding in Costa Rica
What you need to know if you’re on a trip or planning one soon, including multi-sport trips from Classic Journeys and a scuba festival in the Cayman Islands.I can find dark skies closer than the Canadian rockies.
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Opinion
Diet Advice That Ignores Hunger
Researchers say, cut calories. But they don’t take into account what that means over the long term.There is more to learn about dieting and nutrition.
I have known anorexics.
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Opinion
Homeland Security’s Peculiar Prosecution of Rentboy.com
It is baffling that a website for male escorts would be considered a priority for an agency that is supposed to be protecting the country from terrorists.There is a section of the population that believes homosexuality is contagious.
Rentboys are actively evil to that group.
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N.Y. / Region
The History of the Sweeney Building in Brooklyn
The Sweeney Building, once home to the W.H. Sweeney Manufacturing Company in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, is now a residential property.Mildly interesting.
I am more interested in the development of the city than the individual buildings.
The physical artifacts are fun.
It is more interesting to know how and why they were and are made.
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Real Estate
Dear Landlord: Where’s Our Building Canopy?
This week’s subjects include a missing building canopy; jointly inherited property; and rules governing security deposits.Though we all desire our parents house none of us can buy the others out.
We know the the situation.
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World
Death of Knut the Polar Bear Is Explained at Last
The beloved star of the Berlin Zoo drowned in 2011 in his enclosure after a seizure caused by a treatable form of encephalitis thought to affect only humans.Another treatable disease.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-NMDA_receptor_encephalitis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-NMDA_receptor_encephalitis#Recovery
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Times Insider
Loving Queens: Reporter’s Notebook
The reporter Kirk Semple describes his great affection for the borough of Queens, New York.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Queens,+NY/@40.6874747,-73.9110174,11z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c24369470a592b:0x4109d18b6c5c7b05
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N.Y. / Region
Girl, 8, Dies After Being Hit by an S.U.V.
An 8-year-old girl died on Wednesday after being hit by a sport utility vehicle as she crossed a Brooklyn street, the police said.Accident.
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U.S.
Tribe Takes Lead in Saving Reindeer Herd in Rocky Mountains
The Kootenai Indians will present a plan to the government to restore the Selkirk caribou near the border of the United States and Canada.The Endangered Species Act is the dominant player.
The indians have the right idea.
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Sports
Esteban Chaves Wins and Moves Into Lead of Vuelta a España
Chaves of Colombia timed his final charge perfectly to win the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España.Still racing.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/international/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/sports/keen-ice-defeats-american-pharoah-at-travers-stakes.html
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N.Y. / Region
Bystander’s Death Shows Risks in Gun-Buy Stings
Hazards of undercover police work were made clear when an investigation into illegal firearms sales in the Bronx quickly turned into a deadly shooting in Mount Vernon.There was no need to shoot the thief with the money.
The police appear "trigger happy".
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U.S.
Texas: Sheriff’s Deputy Is Fatally Shot at Gas Station
A uniformed Harris County deputy was fatally shot in suburban Houston late Friday as he was pumping gas, the sheriff’s office said.Another nut in Texas.
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World
Video: Officials on Bodies in Truck Near Vienna
Chancellors Werner Faymann of Austria and Angela Merkel of Germany expressed sorrow on Thursday after police discovered at least 20 bodies of presumed migrants piled in a truck east of Vienna.Words will not help.
Keeping up appearances will not help the refugees.
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U.S.
St. Paul’s Student Not Guilty of Main Rape Charge
The verdict came after a trial revealed the backslapping sexual culture among some students at one of the nation’s most exclusive boarding schools.St. Paul's School will not get another chance.
Its culture must change.
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World
Grim Findings in Austria and at Sea Push Migrant Crisis Into Public View
The discovery of 71 bodies in a truck in Austria, and the drowning of more than 150 people off the Libyan coast have led to new calls to focus on human trafficking.The deaths demand public attention.
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N.Y. / Region
Man Is Fatally Shot and 3 Others Are Injured at Brooklyn Hookah Bar
The police have yet to publicly identify the assailant in a shooting that unfolded at the Buda Hookah Lounge on Flatbush Avenue on Friday morning.We just don't know.
There should be good pictures on the security cameras.
The cameras presence speaks to the culture of the establishment.
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Science
Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work
To some, the news that most studies do not hold up when retested came as a relief, like the field had “come clean,” one expert said.Progress is made.
We must not freeze theories in advance of knowledge.
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Times Insider
1959-75 | The Rise and Fall of the West (Side)
The reporter David W. Dunlap looks at the West Side printing plant that was meant to be the foundation for The New York Times’s headquarters.The demise of the New York Central Rail Road doomed the plant.
It was not designed for tractor trailer trucks.
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World
Video: Germany Urges Sharing of Migrant Burden
While offering aid to Balkan countries hit by the recent wave of migrants, Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, called on European Union states to cooperate to solve the crisis.Germany does not control the refugee flow or its borders.
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Magazine
The 8.16.15 Issue
Readers react.https://books.google.com/books?id=P-QCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=republic+of+montmartre&source=bl&ots=I1NzJX2aDD&sig=83gpOei-dwQ2fiq40RY1ovYvqB8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEMQ6AEwCGoVChMIiuPi78HRxwIVQh0-Ch0G0wd2#v=onepage&q=republic%20of%20montmartre&f=false
It was a practical joke that grew.
The bail system is not a joke.
It ruins lives.
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