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Health
Obesity Rises Despite All Efforts to Fight It, U.S. Health Officials Say
Despite years of efforts to reduce obesity, federal health officials reported Thursday that the share of Americans who were obese increased slightly.Sugar should be classed as an addictive drug.
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N.Y. / Region
Public Housing Nationwide May Be Subject to Smoking Ban
A proposed federal rule, to be announced on Thursday, opens the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke.Bans of addictive drugs have never worked before.
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Food
Jams Gets a Reboot in Midtown
Jonathan Waxman’s revival of a 1980s haunt trudges ahead in zombie-like fashion.Try it in the spring.
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Food
Thanksgiving for All
How to plan and cook Thanksgiving.I could cancel Medfield if you could provide.
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N.Y. / Region
Smoking Ban Proposal a Surprise to Some Public Housing Tenants
Citing health concerns, the federal government wants to bar residents of subsidized complexes from lighting up in their apartments — causing some tenants to wonder about officials’ priorities.I do not expect success.
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Magazine
The Secrets in Greenland’s Ice Sheets
By studying the largest glaciers on earth, scientists hope to determine whether we’ll have time to respond to climate change or whether it’s already too late.The world is committed to a five degree temperature rise.
The use of fossil carbon must end.
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N.Y. / Region
At Heights Chateau, a Welcoming Home for Wine Lovers
When it opened in 1986, its stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights was known for dive bars, but it slowly built a relationship with local residents.Andrew Cotto likes the shop.
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Food
Tito King’s Kitchen and Bago Join a Filipino Feast in the East Village
Two new restaurants with modest, occasionally boundary-crossing delights set up shop around the neighborhood’s Little Manila.Food if it is local.
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U.S.
Federal Appeals Panel Overturns Anti-Death Penalty Ruling in California
Last year, a federal district judge ruled that the process was “cruel and unusual.” The panel, however, said the ruling failed on technical grounds.
"“Today’s
result is no surprise, but the arguments have merit,” said Eric M.
Freedman, a professor of constitutional law at Hofstra University and a
death penalty opponent. Different kinds of motions in state court could
keep the issue alive and even open a more certain pathway back into the
federal courts, he said, characterizing the circuit court ruling as a
“speed bump.”
The
argument that implementation of death sentences has become unacceptably
delayed and arbitrary is particularly strong in the case of California,
and Thursday’s ruling, which will probably be appealed, is not going to
result in executions anytime soon."
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N.Y. / Region
Witness Held for Questioning in Fatal Subway Shooting
The police said that Vincent Arcona was present on Monday when three men were shot in a subway station after an argument at a McDonald’s on Eighth Avenue.There is more to know.
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World
A Glut of Coal-Fired Plants Raises Doubts About China’s Energy Priorities
Renewable energy supporters wonder if China is weaning itself off of coal as quickly as it can, and if leaders will ever fulfill their promise of basing the economy on consumption rather than investment."The construction boom — with capital costs estimated by Greenpeace at $74 billion — is a clear sign that China remains entrenched in investment-driven growth, despite promises by leaders to transform the economic model to one based on consumer spending."
Growth is, by definition, investment driven.
"“It takes a lot of time to switch the economic growth model from investment-driven to consumption-driven,” said Lin Boqiang, director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University. “Now the only way to drive up economic growth is still to rely on investment.”"
The doubts are well founded.
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U.S.
Maine: Anti-Abortion Protester Faces Lawsuit Over Loud Protests
An attorney general filed a civil rights suit against the protester, contending that his yelling outside a Portland Planned Parenthood clinic disrupted the staff.Brian Ingalls is not effectively gagged.
He will buy a megaphone and carry on his campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_pollution
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_pollution#United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-air_preaching
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Business Day
Volkswagen Hires Expert in Self-Driving Cars From Apple
The move indicates that the German carmaker will continue to invest in advanced technologies despite the burdens of its emissions cheating crisis.It is interesting that Apple did not retain him.
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Business Day
Supreme Court Hears Tyson Foods Class-Action Labor Case
Thousands of workers at an Iowa pork processing plant are seeking to band together in a single lawsuit seeking overtime pay.The workers should win.
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World
Nancy Pelosi Made Rare Visit to Tibet, China Says
Chinese leaders allowed her to make a tightly controlled visit to the region, which is under Beijing rule and usually off limits to foreign officials and journalists.There appears to be no better way to press for religious liberty.
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Sports
Arrest of Jose Reyes May Test Baseball’s New Domestic Violence Policy
Reyes, now a shortstop for the Rockies, was arrested in Hawaii last month, and Rob Manfred, the baseball commissioner, said he had begun an inquiry.The baseball commissioner should not have the power to impose penalties before there is a criminal conviction.
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Opinion
Obama Should Let Fossil Fuels Lie
The president can act to stop new extraction on our public lands without the approval of Congress.Everything that is politically possible should be done.
If the price of fuel rises because of actions that can be attached to Obama
we will have a Republican in the White House again.
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World
Rights Lawyers in China Routinely Face Abuse, Report Says
President Xi Jinping’s legal overhauls have not resulted in a more humane system, the Amnesty International report contended.Treachery as China defines it is not tolerated in China.
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World
Slovenia Starts Building Border Fence to Stem Flow of Migrants
Soldiers rolled out razor wire along the Slovenian side of the River Sotla, which forms part of the 400-mile border with Croatia.Borders are effectively closed to Syrians and other external migrants.
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U.S.
Los Angeles Police Urged to Review Use of Force After ‘Alarming’ Rise in Shootings
The number of shootings by the police so far this year has nearly doubled, prompting the call from the civilian board that oversees the force.Guns are fashionable.
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