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N.Y. / Region
West End Avenue, Two Days Before Thanksgiving
A poem about the modern celebration, from the frenzy of travel through the hellos, hugs and shared memories, and the long goodbyes.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Real Estate
$800,000 Homes in Chicago, New Orleans and Pennsylvania
This week’s properties include a condo in Chicago, a cottage in New Orleans and an old farmhouse in Kirkwood, Pa.The house at Kirkwood Pa. is the best of this lot.
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Real Estate
A Conversation With Barry Rice
Mr. Rice, 60, is the founder of Barry Rice Architects, based in New York. Before that, Mr. Rice spent 13 years at Robert A.M. Stern Architects.I would be uncomfortable working for him.
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Opinion
Affordable Housing vs. Gentrification
New Yorkers are finally getting their chance to say what they think of Mayor de Blasio’s plan.Inhabited ruins are a necessary part of viable cities.
Cities should serve as spawning grounds for businesses.
A city with only one business is a company town.
It will die with that business.
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U.S.
Indiana: Barrier to Keep Asian Carp Out of Great Lakes Is Near Completion
Eating the carp will control the population of the fish.
The barrier will work for a time.
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Business Day
South Korea Fines Volkswagen and Orders Recall Over Emissions Scandal
Volkswagen must recall more than 125,000 cars and pay $12.3 million in fines after a government investigation found that the carmaker illegally manipulated an emissions device.ok
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Real Estate
A Plumbing Problem: Sludge in the Bathtub
Fixing a pipe, qualifying for tax abatement, and installing smoke detectors.Plumbing is easy.
Competent plumbers are hard to find.
The soil line is blocked and must be cleared.
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Sports
Paul George Scores 40 and Pacers Hit 19 3s in Win Over Wizards
Indiana finished 73.1 percent (19 of 26) from 3-point range, crushing its previous season high of 44.4 percent (12 of 27).http://nytimes.stats.com/nba/scoreboard.asp?day=20151129
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World
Chinese Rights Advocate Known as Guo Feixiong Is Shocked by Last-Minute Charge
The new charge, “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” meant that he would spend an additional two years in prison, according to his lawyers.China is a sovereign nation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
The Chinese authorities have read and understood the books.
A free society is ungovernable.
The "rule of law" is a difficult concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law
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Opinion
The Heart Disease Conundrum
Why do South Asians account for so many of the world’s cardiac patients?There is more to learn.
"Crash" programs work for understood problems.
Basic research applies to basic mechanisms.
The epidemiological study is underway.
Comparative genetic studies may be a faster route to understanding.
Genomic comparisons are done by computer.
They will narrow the search.
Proving causality will teach us more about metabolism.
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Opinion
The Danger of Urban Oil Drilling
Los Angeles is accused of failing to address environmental consequences, especially in lower-income minority neighborhoods.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Brea_Tar_Pits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_Lake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unocal_Corporation
"The Union Oil Company of California was founded on October 17, 1890, in Santa Paula, California, by Lyman Stewart, Thomas Bard, and Wallace Hardison. It was a merger of three Southern California Oil Companies: the Sespe Oil Company, the Hardison and Stewart Oil Company, and the Mission Transfer Company.[3] All three were notable as being completely unaffiliated with Standard Oil. Union Oil moved its headquarters to Los Angeles, in 1901. The original headquarters in Santa Paula is a California Historical Landmark."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kern_County,_California#Economy
"Discovery and development
Oil development began with the 1894 discovery of the Midway-Sunset Oil Field, now the third-largest in the United States, in the southwestern portion of Kern County near Maricopa. Yet it was an 1899 discovery along the Kern River, today part of the giant Kern River Oil Field, that was the breakthrough in Kern's oil production.[7] Oil was refined here even before the establishment of the county.[7] The Buena Vista Petroleum Company was organized and incorporated in 1864.[7] Soon thereafter a refinery was built that operated until April 1867 when work ceased because of high freight charges.[7]"Oil development came before the city was built.
Cheap space is cheap for a reason.
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Opinion
New York City’s Rising Number of Homeless
Readers discuss former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s comments about chasing away the homeless, “right to shelter” laws and the “medically homeless.”The number of potential homeless is large.
The number of subsidized housing units is comparatively small.
The shelters will stay full.
The improvised shelters on the streets will be full.
Low rent situations will stay full.
People will die of exposure.
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Opinion
The G.M.O. Debate Turns to Salmon
Reactions to the F.D.A.’s approval of genetically engineered salmon that does not need to be labeled as such.If it is not good fish it will not sell.
Feed it Asian Carp.
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Business Day
Takata Said to Have Manipulated Testing Data for Troubled Airbag Inflaters
The manipulation involved tests intended to demonstrate compliance with automakers’ design specifications, a person with direct knowledge of internal company documents said.Takata is bankrupt or soon will be bankrupt.
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U.S.
Number of Migrants Illegally Crossing Rio Grande Rises Sharply
Once again, smugglers are bringing hundreds of women and children each day to the Mexican banks of the river and sending them across in rafts.These are refugees.
Let us treat them as such.
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N.Y. / Region
Amid Search for Answers, Woman Who Left Baby at Queens Church Is Elusive
The police were reviewing surveillance video of an unidentified woman who, officials said, secretly left the boy in a crèche at the Church of the Holy Child Jesus in Richmond."“The mother followed the spirit of New York’s ‘Safe Haven’ Law, which allows a parent to leave a child not older than 30 days with an appropriate person or in a suitable location where the parent promptly notifies an appropriate person of the child’s location,” he said. “It appears that the mother, in this case, felt her newborn child would be found safely in the church and chose to place the baby in the manger because it was the warmest place in the church, and further she returned the following morning to make certain that the baby had been found.”"
End of story.
The treatment of foundlings is another story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abandonment
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Opinion
Immigrant Women
The American Friends Service Committee of Arizona writes that there is a financial interest in keeping these women under strict surveillance.
"As
we work to reduce mass incarceration, we cannot allow the private
prison industry to make up lost profits by creating unnecessary systems
that profit off the backs of trauma survivors seeking asylum and refuge
in the United States."
CAROLINE ISAACS
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Sports
College Football Games to Watch on Friday
A matchup between Big 12 rivals T.C.U. and Baylor leads a busy day in college football, but the stakes are not as high as expected.| 3 | Final | |
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Sports
Indiana Fends Off St. John’s; Vanderbilt Reaches the Final
Yogi Ferrell led No. 13 Indiana over St. John’s in the consolation round of the Maui Invitational.http://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/scoreboard.asp?day=20151130&conf=000
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Sports
Thursday’s N.F.L. Matchups
Thursday gets a full plate of N.F.L. games this week because of Thanksgiving: Eagles at Lions, Panthers at Cowboys and Bears at Packers.http://nytimes.stats.com/fb/scoreboard.asp?meta=true
Sunday.
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