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Real Estate
$1,460,000 Homes in Los Angeles, Washington State and Maryland
This week’s offerings include water views in Washington, a farm in Maryland and canyon views in Los Angeles.I can build anything but a location.
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Sports
Texas Football Player Dies
Cam’ron Matthews, a football player in Alto, Tex., died after collapsing on the sideline during a game Friday night. No official cause of death had been determined.http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/10/high-school-football-death-camron-
matthews
The Coroner says a heart condition.
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Science
A Mother’s Ability to Reproduce All by Herself
A reader asks how is it that some snakes can give birth without mating, a process that involves no males and is known as parthenogenesis.OK.
The creatures loose all the benefits of sex.
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Sports
FIFA Confirms Investigations of Numerous Officials
FIFA confirmed that it was actively investigating nearly a dozen current and former officials, amounting to a who’s who of past FIFA scandals.FIFA is in a sad bind.
It needs a new board.
http://www.theguardian.com/football
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Travel
Hotel and Resort News: Two Views of Japan, on the Ice in Las Vegas
What you need to know if you’re on a trip or planning one soon, including hotels with a hot new amenity: the fire pit.We can build a fire without an hotel.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Officer Killed After Gunfight in East Harlem Led to a Police Chase
Officer Randolph Holder was fatally shot Tuesday night after a battle between rival crews led to a shootout on a footpath over the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive.I can't call it an accident.
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Magazine
Judge John Hodgman on Bad Faith
Thou shalt not use your town’s Hebrew school like a Learning Annex.I expect the wife's parents said Kaddish for her or should have.
It depends on the Reformed Rabbi.
This is not an area I know.
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Sports
DraftKings Continues to Operate in Nevada
The daily fantasy sports website accepted entries into its contests for the weekend, apparently defying an order from the Nevada Gaming Control Board to quit operating immediately.http://www.theguardian.com/football/results
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/sports/football/index.html
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Business Day
Toyota to Recall 6.5 Million Vehicles to Fix Window Switches
The recall is one of the largest single recalls initiated by the company and brings the number of vehicles affected by the problem to 14 million.Just a problem. It will get fixed.
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U.S.
Family of Ahmed Mohamed, Student Clockmaker, to Move to Qatar
Ahmed, 14, who was detained after he took to his school a clock, which a teacher feared was a bomb, has won a full scholarship to a science program in Doha.They are wise to leave Texas.
I think we will miss them.
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Food
Video: Can Big Food Get Healthy?
Michael Moss, author of “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” discusses how many of the players involved in selling us on bad food are now helping to promote ostensibly healthier options.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/dining/michael-moss-food-for-tomorrow.html
Not as yet. Probably never.
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Science
Serious Human In Utero Infection Is Found in Rhesus Monkeys
The first nonhuman finding of cytomegalovirus could help scientists develop a vaccine to protect against the infection.Yes.
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World
Philippines Mauled by Slow-Moving Storm
The Philippines must be allowed to ask for help.
If they ask we must be generous.
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U.S.
Officer in Corey Jones Shooting Had Record of Reprimands
Officer Nouman K. Raja got in trouble at another police department for mishandling evidence, including morphine, and files, records show.We only know enough to be upset.
It is not time to form a mob.
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U.S.
Illinois: Wife of Jesse Jackson Jr. Begins Prison Term
The wife of former Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. went to prison Tuesday to serve time for convictions tied to $750,000 in lavish illegal spending of campaign money.She should have taken legal advice.
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U.S.
Unable to Obtain Drugs, Ohio Suspends Executions
Ohio is extending its moratorium on capital punishment until at least 2017 because of difficulties obtaining the lethal drugs needed to carry out executions, the state prisons agency said on Monday.I thought the tactic could not work.
A skilled chemist could formulate the drug.
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Sports
Michel Platini Is Ineligible for FIFA Presidency While Suspended
FIFA’s executive committee ruled on Tuesday, without mentioning Platini by name, that candidates for the top job who are suspended were not eligible to run.The executive committee should be replaced.
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