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Sports
A Former Ranger Returns as a Big Part of an Improving Coyotes Team
With the fast starts of Anthony Duclair and Max Domi, both 20, the Coyotes are showing that the future is bright for hockey in the desert.Hockey continues to puzzle me.
Mostly it is the speed of the play.
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Times Insider
Reporter’s Notebook: 71 Migrants Dead in a Truck. Why?
David D. Kirkpatrick describes his experience reporting the story of how and why the migrants willingly entered an airless meat truck in Austria.A well written block of prose.
I agree. People will take the next step toward their goal if they can.
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U.S.
Health Law Vulnerable to Errors in Coverage, Federal Investigators Find
The Government Accountability Office found mistakes in eligibility decisions that had led the government to pay for duplicate coverage for some people and an excessive share of costs for others.Single payer was not acceptable to congress.
Specifically to the "conservative" caucus.
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U.S.
California Is First State to Adopt Sex Reassignment Surgery Policy for Prisoners
Guidelines permit specific services to transgender inmates and creates an expert committee to weigh each case.Ultimately, why not?
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Real Estate
A Conversation With Ben H. Shaoul
Mr. Shaoul, 38, is the founder and principal of the Magnum Real Estate Group, which acquires, develops and manages residential and retail property in Manhattan and Brooklyn.I don't want to play.
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Sports
Draws Rule the Day
Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic struggled as Paris St.-Germain and Real Madrid played to a lackluster 0-0 draw in the Champions League.http://www.theguardian.com/football
http://www.theguardian.com/football/results
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World
Hong Kong’s Drive for ‘Green Burials’ Clashes With Tradition
Concerned by a scarcity of burial space and a rise in deaths, Hong Kong officials urge the public to scatter ashes in designated gardens or at sea.Yes.
I do not believe in a resurrection.
I will not need a stone.
Burials can matter only to the living.
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Magazine
Should I Set the Record Straight About a Suicide?
Would sharing the details of a friend’s military service deepen the conversation after he took his own life?Most of us go on.
If we are lucky, we learn.
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N.Y. / Region
At Word of Life Church, an Evolution From Bible Study Group to Secretive Sect
The mystery of how a church in central New York became a breeding ground for the brutal beating of two brothers continues to hang over a stretch of central New York, confounding even ex-congregants.Broken by internal stresses.
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N.Y. / Region
Brother Who Survived Beating at New York Church to Testify Against Relative
Christopher Leonard, 17, was released from the hospital after surviving being brutally beaten at the Word of Life Christian Church in central New York this month and plans to testify against at least one of his attackers.The cult was destructive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult
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Sports
Lamar Odom Moved to Los Angeles as Recovery Continues
Lamar Odom left a Las Vegas hospital and is now in the Los Angeles area to continue his recovery a week after being found unconscious at a Nevada brothel.A boy toy searched for manhood.
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World
New Clues Into Ebola as Ill Nurse Improves
Pauline Cafferkey has been treated with an experimental anti-viral compound that is thought to work by incorporating itself into the genetic material while the Ebola virus is being copied.Medicine continues to learn.
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Sports
Thompson Agrees on Deal
Tristan Thompson, a restricted free-agent forward, has agreed in principle with Cleveland on a five-year, $82 million contract.The season for the UConn women starts November 2.
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Science
Struggling to Get a Handle on the Flavorful Neutrino
Neutrinos were invented in 1930 to fill a hole in physics, and when peeling away the layers of theory behind them, reality can start feeling pretty abstract."If I could have remembered all those names I would have been a botanist"
Enrico Fermi
Everyone writes the names and transformations down.
Neutrinos must travel at less than light speed.
"Rest masses become infinite at light speed" Relativity
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Opinion
A New Attack on Health Care Reform
Republicans are now going after nonprofit insurance plans."A disorderly retreat has become a rout."
Vote your interest.
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U.S.
Chicago Father Charged After Boy, 6, Kills Brother, 3
The younger boy was shot in the face after his brother found an illegal gun in the house.Yes.
Fantasy is powerful.
Use it or lose it is the rule of handguns.
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World
U.N. Accuses Czech Republic of Violating Migrants’ Rights
Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the high commissioner for human rights, said “the violations of the human rights of migrants are neither isolated nor coincidental, but systematic.”Islam and the Czechs have been enemies for centuries.
The Turks penetrated to the walls of Vienna.
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Books
‘Dissent and the Supreme Court,’ by Melvin I. Urofsky
How dissent has shaped court deliberations and the course of constitutional history.Dissent on the supreme court is the constitutional dialog.
Lesser objections are monologue.
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The Upshot
When Gas Becomes Cheaper, Americans Buy More Expensive Gas
Researchers also show that consumers use their savings to buy more gasoline, a tendency behavioral economists call “mental accounting.”Trivial.
The American public has been sold high compression high octane for a hundred years.
High compression engines for automobiles ended with leaded gas; forty years ago.
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World
Rapid Economic Growth in China Is Chipping Away at Coastal Wetlands
A report adds to rising concerns that China’s decades of rapid economic growth have caused possibly irreversible damage to the environment.China should act to preserve what is left of its coastal wetlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_net_loss_wetlands_policy
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