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U.S.
Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds
A panel assigned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel says police officers have mistreated people, operated without oversight and lost the trust of residents.We have the findings and the taskforce recommendations.
Send the investigative teams in a few weeks to find out what has and has not been done.
Find out how and why.
Send help with subpoena power.
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N.Y. / Region
Group Home Workers Are Charged With Falsifying Records
The three employees worked at homes that were closed last year after three teenagers sneaked out during the night and raped a woman in Manhattan.There are monsters.
There are incompetents.
The combination of the two classes is dangerous.
Dangerous to institutions and individuals.
There are political factions that want to end the institutions and the care they provide.
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Opinion
Animal Cruelty or the Price of Dinner?
For some reason, dangling a dog by the scruff of its neck is mistreatment, but sometimes scalding a chicken alive is accepted as agribusiness."When even chicken farmers say that the system has failed, it’s time for consumers to use their buying power to push for food that causes less harm to everyone, human and bird alike. If we can rally on behalf of a frightened dog in Orlando, can’t we also muster concern for billions of farm animals — as well as the humans struggling to raise them?"
About half the population has a very limited food budget.
It has no choice as to what to buy.
If the cost of chicken doubles the retail price will more than double.
People will be hungry.
There will be a market for cheap food.
Regulation can force better behavior on the chicken production chain.
Better behavior will raise the cost and so the price of food.
Shortly taxes will rise to pay most of those higher costs.
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Opinion
Tweaking Genes to Save Species
Genetic engineering may emerge as an important tool to avert extinctions. But ecosystems are complex, and this tinkering might not unfold as planned.The techniques we know work should be used.
The feats like a new passenger pigeon or a woolly mammoth are useful as stunts.
Our understanding of ecology, biology and gene expression must grow as rapidly as possible.
There is no room for Lysenkoism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Lamarkism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck
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N.Y. / Region
A Station Closes in SoHo, Making Lower Manhattan a Gasoline Desert
The station, which is to be replaced by a luxury office building, was a lifeline for many looking to fill up downtown, especially cabdrivers.I have a warning light that works.
There is still gas in Brooklyn.
The police have their own gas pumps.
The mayor is not troubled by a fuel shortage.
I tried to float a bicycle based gas delivery service.
It got a laugh.
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Your Money
Reclaiming Fees When Airline Luggage Goes Astray
The frustrating struggle when you try to get your money back — and the new legislation that could help travelers.We will ship the luggage and do carryons.
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Travel
Captivated by the Ganges, a River of Souls
On the sacred Ganges near Varanasi, the writer puts aside his camera and notebook, and is enveloped in the moment. “On this river I had no name.”There are times and places a camera does not belong.
Memory must serve.
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World
Colombia Reports First Cases of Microcephaly Linked to Zika Virus
Though the two cases were the first confirmed in the country since the infection spread there, officials said they did not expect the birth defects to reach the same scale as in Brazil.The virus and the mosquito are the same.
High altitude will make a difference.
The statistical prevalence of microcephaly should be the same if the association
persists.
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N.Y. / Region
Ruling Juror Didn’t Lie, Judge Upholds Ex-Officer’s Conviction in Stairwell Shooting
The verdict against Peter Liang in the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley had been imperiled by the revelation that a juror withheld information about a similar family episode.Peter Liang is going to prison as things stand.
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Travel
A Detroit Restaurant That Shows Michigan Pride
James Rigato’s Mabel Gray, in the suburb of Hazel Park, is thoroughly of, by, and for Michigan.Let us use it when convenient.
Invitations, if extant, must include my family.
There are more than thirty. Most will not come.
I will ask for the list Ann keeps.
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Opinion
On Zika, Congress Is Failing to Do Its Job
Making vague promises of funding to fight a mosquito-borne virus that causes birth defects is no way to address a public health crisis.Congress will spend lavishly when the Zika virus gets loose in the South.
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Business Day
Even Million-Dollar Bugattis Get the Recall Blues
Seventy-two luxury French Bugatti Veyrons may underestimate how much fuel is in the tank — critical data for a car that gets eight m.p.g. city.Bugatti faces a civil fine.
It may not be imposed.
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Health
Zika Causes Birth Defects, C.D.C. Officials Confirm
The finding is likely to increase pressure on Congress to allocate funds requested by the Obama Administration to combat the epidemic.
"Dr. Frieden
and other agency officials said they hoped that the announcement
increased awareness and concern about the potential threat to Americans
who travel to affected areas in Latin America and those living in Puerto Rico, American Samoa and Southern states where the virus is expected to arrive this summer."
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Job Market
Wielding a Soldering Gun to Give Panes Their Brains
Candy Urch installs wiring in windowpanes that adjust to various tint levels to allow customers to control sunlight without using blinds or shades.http://sageglass.com/
Bookmarked.
I will happily look into the technology.
It would make south facing glass easily civilized.
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N.Y. / Region
Former Rikers Inmate Can’t Identify Officer He Believes Ordered His Attack
Jahmal Lightfoot’s testimony is at the center of the criminal case against nine officers in what prosecutors have described as an orchestrated assault and attempted cover up.Traumatic stress destroys memory.
I would not expect Jahmal Lightfoot to be a good witness to his beating.
The video and medical evidence should be enough.
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Opinion
Chicago’s Racist Cops and Racist Courts
The Chicago Police Department isn’t the city’s only racist institution — the legal system is rife with bias, too.I am not surprised.
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Health
It’s Not Cancer: Doctors Reclassify a Thyroid Tumor
Medical experts reclassified as noncancerous a specific kind of thyroid tumor, sparing about 10,000 people a year from aggressive treatments.I am glad the surgeons are learning.
I expect oncologists to learn.
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N.Y. / Region
With Spring, the Rare Spotted Salamander Emerges
How these coldblooded New Yorkers have survived underground in the city is anyone’s guess, but the amphibians emerge during spring’s first rain.There is at least a paragraph missing near the end of the tale.
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Food
Seeking Oyster Perfection? Steam Them
In Richmond, Va., shellfish so fluffy that you can’t stop eating.I eat them as stew or on the half shell. I shuck my own often.
I am willing to do steamed.
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Magazine
The Looming Threat of Avian Flu
Last year’s outbreak showed just how difficult it is to protect America’s agricultural system from devastating diseases. Next time it could be even worse.The disease is so deadly it may not survive.
Let us learn more.
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