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World
World Leaders Agree to Extend Efforts to End Ukraine Conflict
The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany called for the Minsk peace agreement to be carried out in full in 2016.The shooting has slowed. The Russian speakers have not been removed.
Pan-slavism has not died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavism
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World
21 Injured on Air Canada Flight After Sudden Turbulence
Passengers on a flight from Shanghai to Toronto on Wednesday were thrown from their seats, some hitting the ceiling, as the plane suddenly plummeted. It then made an emergency landing in Calgary.Clear air turbulence caused by a strong flow over tall mountains.
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U.S.
St. Louis Area Surveys Toll as Flood Risk Shifts South
Some towns began to let residents in to inspect their flood-ravaged homes even as residents flanking the Mississippi River farther south in Missouri and Illinois evacuated.More levees mean higher floods.
The river can't grow to respond to more water.
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Opinion
Mr. Cuomo’s Challenges: The Short List
A few big things that would make New York a better place.Andrew Cuomo is riding an unbridled horse.
He is doing as well as can be expected.
I find it interesting that the population of the state is called at twenty million people.
I asked Google for the population of the city of New York: Twenty Million people.
The portion in New Jersey and Connecticut appear equal to the rest of the state of New York.
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Sports
Miami Open Is Likely to Relocate
The Miami Open is all but certain to leave Key Biscayne because of a court decision that blocks the tournament from upgrading its complex, a lawyer for the tournament said.https://www.google.com/maps/place/Key+Biscayne,+FL+33149/@25.6937316,-80.1677925,14z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88d9b5f6594fa365:0xecf8e502280e8ed3
Let the developers bluster.
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection=Tennis®ion=TopBar&WT
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/sports/baseball/majorleague/bostonredsox/index.html?8qa
No news yet.
http://www.boston.com/
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox?p1=menu_sports_more_redsox
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Real Estate
Recent Commercial Real Estate Transactions
Recent commercial real estate transactions in New York City.You can play Monopoly if you wish.
It is late in the game and winning is more difficult.
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U.S.
Texas Urges Supreme Court to Reject Appeal on Obama’s Immigration Program
In a brief filed Tuesday, the state’s attorney general argued that lower courts had properly rejected an “unprecedented assertion of executive authority.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
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Opinion
Global Trade After the Failure of the Doha Round
With the Doha talks dead, world leaders need to start thinking differently about the global trading system.The world has not recognized the necessity of a world government.
The common is not infinite.
The common is over exploited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_%281740%E2%80%9341%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_%281879%29
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World
Egypt: 15 Bodies Are Recovered After Ferry Sinks in Nile River
Two other people were still missing after a small ferryboat sank on New Year’s Eve."As God wills" is not the way of boats.
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N.Y. / Region
Number of Traffic Deaths in New York Falls for a Second Year in a Row
A second year of decline demonstrates that a project to reduce traffic fatalities works, said a safety advocate, who called on the mayor to expand the effort.Low speed is probably responsible.
Lack of parking will shrink both the city and the suburbs.
It will also impose higher effective speeds on the city.
Streetcars cannot deal with parked vehicles.
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Opinion
Let’s Rethink Our Homeless Shelters
Holistic services are critical to equipping families in need with skills and treatment.The shelter system needs to be rethought.
What the occupants want is a door that locks from the inside.
What the landlords want is rent.
The conflict will not be resolved.
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U.S.
California: Father to Many, Condor Is Set Free
A male California condor has flown back into the wild after a captive breeding program that helped save North America’s largest species of land bird.The condor is endangered.
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Business Day
Universities Offers Classes for Those Interested in Beer
With the craft beer industry growing rapidly over the last decade, more universities are offering online programs about the business side of craft beer.Professors are trying to get attention.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Police Department Fires Back at Crime-Data Accusations
The city police commissioner, William J. Bratton, refuted assertions by the department’s former leader, Raymond W. Kelly, that statistics on shootings and murders had been manipulated.Former leader, Raymond W. Kelly Is playing at politics.
The public should ignore him.
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Sports
Dodgers Add Kazmir on 3-Year Contract
The left-handed pitcher Scott Kazmir agreed to a three-year, $48 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday.Try the off shore islands.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Santa+Catalina+Island,+California+90704/@33.4805882,-119.4220947,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80dd6f237be18b25:0x3e59a3d5c5f50eab
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox
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N.Y. / Region
Raccoons Invade Brooklyn
City law requires that any of the animals that are captured must be euthanized in a humane fashion, but many exterminators and homeowners aren’t doing it.Killing is proper.
Enough will survive.
There is no place to put the captives.
I do not want to feed them.
I do not want to hunt them.
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World
China: Trapped Miners Found
Rescuers on Wednesday found eight surviving miners who were trapped for five days after a mine collapsed in eastern China.The search is not over.
The other nine must be found.
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N.Y. / Region
Prosecutors’ Secrecy Orders on Subpoenas Stir Constitutional Questions
A federal judge has warned that prosecutors may be going too far when they ask witnesses to keep quiet about receiving a subpoena.The state has all the available resources to secure a conviction.
It must build the case before it secures the evidence.
It may not search at random.
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Opinion
No Indictment in Shooting of 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice
Two readers are dismayed by the grand jury’s decision not to press charges against the police officer.Anger and suspicion are and are shared.
The officer appears to have been following protocol.
The protocol will change.
There is no N.R.A. for toys.
I remember toys that passed as guns.
They are not sold.
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Technology
At C.D.C., a Debate Behind Recommendations on Cellphone Risk
While consensus holds that there is little to no evidence linking cellphone use to an increased risk of health problems, scientists and health agencies disagree about what guidance to give the public.The danger of cellphones is the danger of distraction.
It is a risk connected with cellphones.
A warning is issued.
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