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Opinion
Ultra-Luxury for the 1%
Readers discuss how certain businesses, like cruise lines, are catering to the superwealthy.Cruise Lines and most resorts cater to the middle class.
The ultra wealthy are always pampered if they wish it.
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N.Y. / Region
Christie Orders Lead Tests for All New Jersey Public Schools
The governor, in a shift on mandatory testing, said the move would address parents’ concerns about the safety of drinking water.Chris Christie has always been blind to lead exposure.
The lead in the potable water must be removed at its source.
Lead and leaded brass pipe is an easy place to start.
Smarter voters are less conservative and more conservation minded.
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Opinion
How Colleges Can Again Be Levelers of Society
Higher education has become a guardian of class division and privilege, but leadership can reverse that.Tina Rosenberg starts with a wrong premise.
Colleges never have been levelers of society.
The goal is to train an elite.
Many have understood that promising candidates appear randomly
in the population.
Others use a sophist model and exist to pay their administrations.
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Opinion
No Trust in the Electoral Process
A reader writes that after Bush v. Gore, many assumed that the government would move to fix the system, but it hasn’t.The American electoral system is as rigged as previous winners could leave it.
It is fair compared to others.
The U.S. tends to rig its culture.
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Fashion & Style
Charlotte Johnson, Christopher Jones
The bride is a descendant of Mayflower passengers, and the groom of Daniel Webster.Call yourself what you will.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Food
Roman Cookbook Is History, Lost Dishes and Inspiration
“Tasting Rome” offers complex bread and curing recipes, and simpler crostini and chicken with tomatoes.Get the book from the library. We can get it from Amazon if it is needed.
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N.Y. / Region
Correction Officer Brandished Gun During Parking Dispute, Police Say
The officer, Robin Mervin, was arrested on charges of menacing and criminal possession of a weapon after the confrontation late on Saturday.There is no reason for most corrections officers to be armed.
Prisoners are not permitted weapons.
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Opinion
Abortion in Nepal
Ipas writes that “the barriers are many, and women are often stigmatized for the decision to end a pregnancy.”All should be schooled in civil living.
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Fashion & Style
Lauren Kirchner, Evan Simko-Bednarski
The bride and groom have degrees from Wesleyan and Columbia.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-uniting_marriage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_wedding#The_marriage_procedure
In any ceremony you can get I will participate.
The District of Columbia offers such a license.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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U.S.
Resettling the First American ‘Climate Refugees’
A $48 million grant for Isle de Jean Charles, La., is the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the effects of climate change.It is obvious that the residents must move or die.
Some of them claim death is preferable.
Some would like to become rich.
Many would like a home.
They are owed homes they can love.
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Science
After a Comeback, New Challenges for Yellowstone’s Grizzly Bears
Being “delisted” as threatened under the Endangered Species Act could subject a larger bear population to new challenges.Delisting the bears will be an error.
People will not tolerate being eaten.
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Fashion & Style
A Shop for Leather Goods and More in Los Angeles
René Holguin set out to be a humble craftsman in a workshop, like Geppetto. Now he’s a fashion force.It is better to have an income.
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Business Day
F.D.A. Again Reviews Mandatory Training for Painkiller Prescribers
Several groups are working to reduce the inappropriate use of opioids.The only cure for opioid addiction is death.
People "in recovery" need constant support.
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World
Thai Officials Battle Buddhist Monks Over Tigers’ Fate
The Tiger Temple, a wildlife attraction backed by monks but accused of abuse and exploitation, filed a lawsuit to stop the government from shutting it down.There are Thai tigers because the temple exists.
Naturalize most of the cubs. Maintain the genetic diversity of the captive population.
Traditional medicine can do without these tigers.
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Opinion
The Way to Contain Health Care Costs
Health care providers are consolidating. So are insurers. Regulation combined with competition can ensure consumers see the savings.Competition is over rated as a cost control mechanism.
Healthcare's problem is excess demand.
Offer a single payer program with source bargaining as one competitor.
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Fashion & Style
Alyssa Hjemdahl-Monsen, John McKee
The couple met in September 2011 when they were working together at a Manhattan law firm.I only care that our wedding is recorded.
Any officiating you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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N.Y. / Region
College Student in Newark Killed in Attempted Robbery at Fraternity House
Joseph Micalizzi, a junior at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, was shot as he made his way from the library to his room in the Tau Kappa Epsilon house.For sufficient reasons frat houses are not university property.
Students look rich to Newark.
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World
Inquiry Into Missing Mexican Students Ends on Note of Frustration
Foreign investigators and the government battled each other with dueling news conferences in the inquiry’s final week.The Mexican authorities want the incident to go away.
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N.Y. / Region
Cuomo Backs Schneiderman in Troy Police Shooting Inquiry
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo amended an order to specifically allow the attorney general to investigate “unlawful acts or omissions” related to Edson Thevenin’s death.Mr. Schneiderman is playing precidence games.
A car is a deadly weapon.
The officer was probably justified. He would be justified if his legs were crushed.
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Business Day
Selling Bottled Water That’s Better for the Planet
Companies like Just Water are addressing customers’ demand for convenience while working to make their bottles more environmentally friendly.I question the ease of recycling a coated paper stock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Legislation
- 3 Recyclates
- 4 Recycling consumer waste
- 5 Recycling industrial waste
- 6 Recycling codes
- 7 Economic impact
- 8 Cost–benefit analysis
- 9 Criticisms and responses
- 10 Public participation rates
- 11 Related journals
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 Further reading
- 15 External links
Incineration is the probable fate of these bottles.
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U.S.
Dredging of Miami Port Badly Damaged Coral Reef, Study Finds
The report found that as much as 81 percent of the reef near the dredging site was buried in sediment, despite a plan to minimize the damage.Blow the sediment off the reef and reseed it.
Fashion & Style
Alicia Aemisegger, Patrick Biggs
The bride and groom are Princeton graduates who work for Morgan Stanley in New York.The recorded signed license is what counts.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
N.Y. / Region
A New Marina Aims to Remind New Yorkers of Their Waterways
ONE°15 Brooklyn Marina, a private dock with 100 slips that opened on Sunday at Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, will offer kayak lessons and other services to the public.The waters of New York were a danger for a century.
Conditions have improved since the middle of the last century.
N.Y. / Region
Serbs in New York Mourn a Spiritual Pillar, Swallowed by Flames
A day after a fire gutted the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan, worshipers began a sad pilgrimage there to survey the damage.A sad event.
Fashion & Style
Katherine Phillips, Eric Bent
The bride and groom graduated from Brown, where they met as freshmen.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
Business Day
Judge Requires Sumner Redstone to Testify on Eve of Competency Suit
Mr. Redstone, the chairman emeritus of Viacom and CBS, will be questioned for 30 minutes at his Los Angeles home.Asking the person in question is good evidence of competency or not.
N.Y. / Region
Correction Officers Show Solidarity for Rikers Colleagues on Trial
Prisons are a problem.
Fashion & Style
Lauren Kirchner, Evan Simko-Bednarski
The bride and groom have degrees from Wesleyan and Columbia."married under the Pennsylvania self-uniting statute on April 30"
The District of Columbia offers "do it yourself marriage"
Fashion & Style
Allison Siegel and Michael McCullick: Seems Like a Good Idea for a Musical
He was a sailor walking by her table during Fleet Week in New York. They caught each other’s eye.It is the season.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
World
Former Auschwitz Guard Apologizes at Trial in Germany
The 94-year-old defendant, Reinhold Hanning, told a German court he was “ashamed I witnessed injustice and allowed it to continue” while serving at the Nazi death camp.All of the guards were volunteers.
Real Estate
A Penthouse on the Hudson for $20 Million
A full-floor at One Riverside Park was the sale of the week.For some money is cheap.
N.Y. / Region
Christie Orders Lead Tests for All New Jersey Public Schools
The governor, in a shift on mandatory testing, said the move would address parents’ concerns about the safety of drinking water.Replace the lead plumbing.
Opinion
Speed Read This!
The president of Spritz Technology discusses his company’s approach.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/sorry-you-cant-speed-read.html
The president of spritz is wrong.
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