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Health
What a Compelling Blood Pressure Finding Means for Patients
A study on reducing blood pressure ended suddenly because medical ethics demand that researchers stop giving inferior treatment to any participants.Blood pressure should be as low as is healthy.
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Business Day
New Cholesterol Drugs Are Vastly Overpriced, Analysis Says
A report from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review says the prices on two drugs to fight cholesterol that cost more than $14,000 a year should be slashed.That is called profit.
There are generics that are nearly as effective.
There is health insurance.
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Sports
All-Italian Open Final Is an Unlikely First
Flavia Pennetta will face 43rd-ranked Roberta Vinci, who derailed Serena Williams’s scheduled coronation on Saturday.http://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/scoreboard.asp
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N.Y. / Region
For New York’s Pools, It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Politics
Extending the public pool season — along with the already longer beach season — could be an imperative of democracy, given how few children come from wealthy families with weekend houses.The three million dollars it would cost to keep the city pools open another month amounts to about forty cents from each city resident.
Less than a coffee from each adult.
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Science
Study Predicts Antarctica Ice Melt if All Fossil Fuels Are Burned
Burning all the world’s coal, oil and natural gas would lead to temperature increases that would melt Antarctica’s ice sheet and raise sea level more than 200 feet, a new study found.The result is not frightening enough.
No politician can see further than its next election.
Rising temperatures will kill the tropics before the seas cover the dead coastal cities.
The postulated mechanism is to melt the ice in place.
That will not happen.
The ice is sliding off Antarctica and Greenland at an accelerating rate.
The ice does not have to melt to raise sea level.
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Your Money
Health Savings Accounts Growing, Especially Among the Better Paid
An analysis found the number of accounts reached 6.5 million in 2012, with older and higher-income tax filers four times more likely to fund them.A savings account is not an insurance policy.
Health care can bankrupt almost any of us.
"H.S.A.s
offer the prospect of significant tax savings. Contributions are
deducted from pretax income, and any contributions you make from
personal funds are tax-deductible — even if you don’t itemize deductions
on your return. Withdrawals aren’t taxed either, as long as the funds
are used for eligible medical costs.
The
researchers found that high-income and older tax filers both
established and fully funded their H.S.A.s at least four times as often
as low-income and younger filers. (It remains to be seen, the study
noted, whether the Affordable Care Act changes that dynamic. Many plans
sold on government exchanges offer H.S.A.s, but the study ended before
the marketplaces began operating.)"Insurance is required.
Income is required.
I am signed up for Medicare A&B. Part D will wait for problems.
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Opinion
Homeless in New York: Ways to Help
Readers call for permanent housing rather than shelters and free legal representation to reduce evictions.The proposals are institutional care with or without an open door.
The need is larger than any set of institutions.
Traditionally homelessness kills quickly.
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U.S.
New Orleans Mayor Avoids House Arrest in Labor Dispute
The Louisiana Supreme Court issued a stay just before Mayor Mitch Landrieu would have been confined in a dispute between the city and its firefighters.The city must borrow the money to pay the arrears.
If the bankruptcy manager gets the loan it will cost more.
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Opinion
The Quieter Gun Death Toll
The presence of poorly secured firearms in American homes offers too much of a risk for those in despair.Convince the N.R.A.
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U.S.
California: Deputies Charged in Prisoner’s Killing
Three corrections deputies were charged with murder on Tuesday in the beating of a mentally ill inmate at the Santa Clara County jail in San Jose, Calif.Yes.
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Opinion
The Mayor’s Battle on Homelessness
New York City’s homeless crisis is now Mayor Bill de Blasio’s problem to solve.There is no legal cure.
Indigence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifications_of_poor_used_in_the_Poor_Law_system
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N.Y. / Region
As Lobsters Dwindle in Long Island Sound, Oysters Thrive
As many sea animals seek cooler waters, aquaculture farmers are turning to resilient mollusks.Connecticut destroyed it's oyster fishery in the nineteenth century.
http://connecticuthistory.org/oystering-in-connecticut-from-colonial-times-to-today/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tide
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Opinion
A Mojave Solar Project in the Bighorns’ Way
Two environmental priorities clash in the Mojave Desert.The endangered species win.
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N.Y. / Region
No. 7 Subway Station to Open on Far West Side After Series of Delays
The station, at 34th Street and 11th Avenue, is scheduled to open on Sunday to the public — New York City’s first new subway station in a quarter century.Real estate development wins again.
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U.S.
Kim Davis, Released From Jail, Takes Break From Work
A lawyer for Ms. Davis, jailed after defying a court order to issue marriage licenses, said she “needs some rest and time with the family.”Her's is not a winning cause.
Martyrdom is no longer theoretical.
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World
Video: Migrants Scramble for Food in Hungary
Hungarian police officers were filmed throwing packs of sandwiches to migrants at a reception center in Roszke. The authorities told Reuters they had started an “emergency inquiry” into the matter."My constituents don't read.
Those pictures get to them" Boss Tweed of Thomas Nast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast#Campaign_against_the_Tweed_Ring
https://www.google.com/search?q=thomas+nast&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIva6BmqXyxwIVCjs-Ch13qAfT&biw=1024&bih=635#imgrc=vQlQMYvJ36W4VM%3A
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Sports
Roger Goodell Doesn’t Expect Immediate Changes to N.F.L.’s Disciplinary Process
The N.F.L. commissioner also disputes the notion that the league harshly punished the Patriots because it was too lenient with them in 2007 when they videotaped opposing coaches.Football should not be played.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan
This week’s properties are co-ops in Chelsea and Clinton, and a condo in the Columbia Street Waterfront District.I can build much better spaces for far less money.
They will not be urban.
I do not have much furniture I treasure.
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Opinion
Campus Justice
A Bennington College official writes that restorative justice “reflects an important shift” to a more sophisticated approach to address harm.Try the experiment.
Show me a result.
I hope it works.
"Honor codes" do work.
They feel like police states.
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Your Money
For Widows, Social Security System Can Provide Rude Shocks
There is no simple, universal road map for maximizing benefits because of the complexity of Social Security rules and the variations in individual circumstances, including age and work history.I will do ok on Social Security.
TIAA-CREF will about match the benefit.
The widows benefit will be minimal.
Social Security benefits grow only by inflation adjustment after age seventy.
I don't know how to figure your income.
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