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N.Y. / Region
Mayor de Blasio and Cardinal Dolan Highlight Plan to Add Beds for Homeless
Providing beds this winter to people living on the street is part of a collaboration New York City has created with religious organizations to fight homelessness.I object on the grounds of separation of church and state.
The churches do charity as is their duty.
Charity is never big enough to support most of the strangers.
Secular government does entitlements which can but often do not support all the desperate.
Among the desperate are the homeless.
Because the homeless travel at will their entitlements must be national.
What is bare existence in one place is luxury in another and slow death in a third.
All of congress is local representatives none of whom are interested in keeping strangers in luxury.
Entitlements are and will be skint.
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Science
Costa Rica to Shield Sea Turtles
Weeks after tourists disrupted the nesting of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles, the government said it would enforce stricter security measures.Good.
I hope the politicians stay convinced.
I must attend to other problems.
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Opinion
Protecting Apes Could Backfire
A new rule to protect laboratory chimpanzees could hurt research on vaccines for their wild brethren.The wild apes will have to look after themselves.
We can try to keep our closer relatives away from them.
We must treat them as people.
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Business Day
Alabama Vote Is Rare Win in the South for the U.A.W.
Employees cited low wages, worsening benefits and the growing use of temporary workers as reasons they voted to join the United Automobile Workers union.The workers are voting their pockets.
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N.Y. / Region
A Manhattan Prosecutor Is Convicted of Assaulting a Woman at a Bar
"Do I look fat in this?"
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Science
The World Heard by Hominins
These human ancestors didn’t hear as well as modern humans — with one exception in a softer range of sounds, according to researchers.The frequencies of rustling grass and snapping twigs.
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Health
F.D.A. Panel Discusses Essure Contraceptive Implant
The public meeting was called after complaints accumulated that the device, inserted into the fallopian tubes, caused pain and possibly even death.There might be something to the complaints.
Causality has not been established.
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Business Day
Workers at Alabama Plant Vote to Join the U.A.W.
Workers at an auto parts plant in northeast Alabama cited issues such as wage caps and growing use of temporary workers in their vote to join a labor union."Some of the people some of the time"
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Real Estate
The Stress of New Construction
As hammers clang and views vanish, not everybody is embracing development.I did not note the loss of the heterogeneity of urban life.
Multiple cultures of multiple trades have typified great cities.
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Opinion
Homeless and Mentally Ill
A sociologist discusses the problem of untreated mental illness among the homeless population.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder
Guardianship is privatized institutionalization.
The homeless are generally competent.
The incompetent are dead.
The crazy are not stupid.
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U.S.
Man Indicted in Arizona’s Freeway Case
The indictment of Leslie Allen Merritt Jr., 21, replaces a 16-count criminal complaint announced earlier in the week.I am interested in Mr. Merritt's mental process.
I am relieved that he is no longer at liberty.
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Business Day
Better Living Through Social Science Research
“Friend & Foe” demonstrates the value of making technical research understandable to the uninitiated.A narrow view of an interesting book.
We have details to settle.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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U.S.
Video: Pope Francis Visits: Day 7
The pope toured Manhattan beginning with an address at the the United Nations General Assembly and ending with an evening mass at Madison Square Garden.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice
As yet there is no absolute standard of social justice.
It is a matter of patching as we can.
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U.S.
In Vicious Fire Season, an Endurance Test for California Crews
Thousands of firefighters have worked around the clock, battling exhaustion, to try to contain flames that have swept through vast acreage.There is no animus to the fires.
They are not vicious.
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Business Day
Norway’s Central Bank Cuts Interest Rate
The second reduction in four months came as oil and gas companies had been canceling investments and laying off workers because of lower crude prices.Buy Norwegian currency risk when the Kroner stops falling.
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N.Y. / Region
Video: Harlem Kids Thrilled After Meeting Pope
New York City students said that meeting the pope on Friday was a life-changing experience.Yes.
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N.Y. / Region
Rib-Crushing Throngs Press Toward Central Park to See Pope Francis
Conditions on a warm New York afternoon were dangerous because of the huge crowds eager for a glimpse of Francis’ 20-minute procession.A power of faith.
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World
Against Odds, Seeking Hope for Mexican Students Who Vanished a Year Ago
This weekend families of the missing are commemorating the disappearance of their sons, all students at a teachers’ college in Ayotzinapa, in rural Guerrero State.The bodies were disposed of at sea.
If the bodies could be produced the pressure would go down on the government.
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World
As Indonesia Prospers, Air Pollution Takes Toll
Years of robust economic growth have put more vehicles in reach and on roadways, and more hazardous pollutants in the air.Fashion has become more dominant.
The article reads like it is high sulfur oil rather than soot or unburned hydrocarbons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_sulfur_oxides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smog#Photochemical_smog
I don't feel much need to sniff the air in Jakarta.
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