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The Upshot
Health Insurance and the States: A Closer Look
Responding to reader comments on our effort to map the uninsured.We do not have good measurements.
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World
Remains of Nearly 2,750 Korean Wartime Laborers Found in Japan, South Says
Historians estimate that at least 1.2 million Koreans were coerced, or sometimes duped, into toiling as part of Japan’s war efforts in Japan, China and elsewhere.Reparations are a doubtful business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushido
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto#State_Shinto
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U.S.
Thousands Start Life Anew With Early Prison Releases
The initial group of prisoners, who were released as a result of an adjustment of federal drug penalties, had sentences that averaged 10.5 years.The released prisoners have served their time.
They are released prisoners like other released prisoners.
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Sports
Fantasy Football Week 9: Browns at Bengals
Fantasy football analysis for Thursday night’s game between the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals.I am not involved.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk
http://www.theguardian.com/football
http://www.theguardian.com/football/results
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N.Y. / Region
The 10th One Is Free
Part of life’s morning routine is watching the progress of the coffee punch card, day by day, with growing anticipation.Life goes in circles.
I will stop coffee tomorrow.
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Opinion
Death Among Middle-Aged Whites
The health and financial implications are disturbing for America’s “lost generation.”Addictive drugs kill.
Death rates can be informative about the economy.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=Social+security+age
Raising the Medicare Age
Jonathan Cohn rightly slams a little-noticed feature of the Republican plan — a rise in the Medicare eligibility age.
In general, the fervor
with which Washington types call for raising eligibility ages is a
“tell”: it shows how disconnected they are from the way the other half
lives (and dies). For in our increasingly polarized society, life
expectancy is more and more a class-related issue. As the Social Security Administration has shown, the gap between life expectancy in the top and bottom halves of the wage distribution has risen sharply:
And by the way, Social Security eligibility has already gone up one year, and is scheduled to rise by another.
Add to this what I
believe to be true, which is that rising life expectancy has not gone
hand in hand with a rising age before costly conditions become common;
Cohn shows that adding 65 and 66-year olds to the private insurance pool
would cause a devastating rise in costs.
And then there’s the wisdom of Peter Cook:
All in all I’d rather have been a judge than a miner. And what is more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with the judges.
And wouldn’t you know
it, it’s the judges — and the politicians, who are similar — who think
it’s a great idea to raise the Medicare age.
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N.Y. / Region
Potential Jurors in Sheldon Silver Trial Face Questions About Bias
Lawyers for the prosecution and the defense will try to identify jurors who might have made up their minds about the guilt or innocence of Mr. Silver, the assemblyman who is charged with corruption.I would not make a good juror for Sheldon Silver's trial.
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N.Y. / Region
Jury Selected in Sheldon Silver Corruption Trial
Nine women and three men make up the jury in the trial of Mr. Silver, the once powerful speaker of the State Assembly who is facing political corruption charges.They found a jury.
9
Opinion
Pretrial Release in Los Angeles
The Vera Institute of Justice cites research showing that pretrial incarceration for people charged with lower level offenses increases recidivism.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_sentence
Individual's connection to society requires constant attention by the individual
The justice system interrupts that connection.
On release individuals try to reform their connections to societies.
Their existing relations dominate.
Those relations are with other released prisoners.
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N.Y. / Region
The Giant Asparagus
A vexed dieter made a threat at the supermarket, followed by a helpful suggestion from her husband.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollandaise_sauce
Not vegan and not helping.
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N.Y. / Region
Doctor in Sheldon Silver’s Corruption Trial Denies Improper Relationship
Dr. Robert N. Taub, whose testimony many believed would be damaging in the corruption trial for Mr. Silver, a former New York Assembly speaker, denied they had a financially beneficial relationship.Dr. Robert N. Taub did not need to understand the financial arrangements.
12
Food
Grandchamps Welcomes You to Haiti, via Bedford-Stuyvesant
The chef, Shawn Brockman, has been trusted with his mother-in-law’s recipes, which may explain the generous, maternal quality of his dishes.I can be convinced to visit.
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U.S.
Supreme Court Justices Fear Loss of Control Over Redistricting Cases
Several Supreme Court justices said they did not want to avoid hearing challenges to gerrymandering, but also said they did not want to be required to rule on them.Districting is clumsy. The politicians like that.
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U.S.
Georgia Prisoner Accused of Killing Sheriff Is Caught After Escape
Jim Edward Lowery slipped out of leg shackles and used them to break the window of a patrol car that was transferring him to a local jail, officials said.Call it manslaughter.
15
Fashion & Style
Nigel Cabourn’s Old-School Workout
The British designer carries heavy medicine balls with him wherever he travels for a unique workout that has helped him lose 50 pounds.Ok
16
Business Day
In Religious Arbitration, Scripture Is the Rule of Law
Organizations can compel their customers and employees to resolve disputes in arbitration proceedings bound not by state or federal law, but by religious edict.The practice of arbitration in contract disputes is improper.
Congress should act though it has not.
If the terms of a contract are beyond the comprehension of a civil judge they cannot be enforced in the civil courts.
Corporations are the creatures of the civil courts.
Coporations hold no opinions.
Conflicts within a religion are matters for the members to resolve.
Conflicts between a religion and a nonmember are a business of the civil courts.
17
World
Leaders of South Korea and Japan Meet in Effort to Mend Ties
President Park Geun-hye of South Korea and Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, held the first high-level meeting between their two nations in more than three years.Mend is the wrong word.
Any ties are new after the disruptions of the Second World War and the Korean War.
18
Magazine
A Slice of Heaven in Pittsburgh
In his farewell column, Mark Bittman visits Pittsburgh to learn how to make pizza easy again.I regret the end of the Bittman column.
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017793-rick-eastons-pizza-with-peppers
http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017794-rick-eastons-pizza-with-potatoes
I can make these.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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N.Y. / Region
A Son’s Illness and a Mother’s Aspirations
Many of Shiniqua Scott’s days are spent taking her son David to medical appointments, but she was able to complete a teacher’s assistant program.20
Sports
Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony Knocks Down a Few Shots and One Teammate
Anthony collided with his teammate Kristaps Porzingis, who had 13 points and 14 rebounds but left with a neck strain, as San Antonio won at Madison Square Garden.| 7:30 PM ET | CSNE/CSNM | ||||
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