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World
Alberta Wildfire Upends Plan to Restart Oil Sands Operations
Just as the Canadian oil sands companies were preparing to resume full-scale operations, they and residents of the Fort McMurray area were forced to stay away.All the sellers like higher prices.
Fire proof is better.
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Travel
Bringing a Destination Wedding Within a Family’s Reach
With an infant in tow, a thrifty couple learns that a beach fiesta and wedding in Mexico are exercises in budgetary gamesmanship.I have two toddlers who might want to attend.
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Travel
To Tip or Not to Tip Your Uber Driver
Uber has begun allowing drivers in two states to post signs in their cars that say tips are appreciated. Is this just the beginning of Uber tipping?Uber does not pay a living rate.
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Food
Telepan, an Upper West Side Mainstay, Has Closed
The chef Bill Telepan says he couldn’t keep up with rising costs.There is no limit to greed.
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Opinion
New Priority Means Fewer Beds in City’s Shelters
Shelter beds and permanent housing are roughly equivalent.
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World
Prosperous Mexican Farms Suck Up Water, Leaving Villages High and Dry
Scientists warn that as farms bore deeper into the aquifer they are reaching tainted water deposited between 10,000 and 35,000 years ago.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral
Water treatment is a possibility.
It will not recharge the fossil aquifers.
Larger rain collection systems with drip irrigation would do more good.
Industrial farming will end.
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Business Day
Hiring Hurdle: Finding Workers Who Can Pass a Drug Test
As labor markets tighten, employers are having a harder time finding applicants free of drugs, especially marijuana.Some workers can stop. Pay them to stop.
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Business Day
Fiat Chrysler Recalls 500,000 Jeeps Over Airbag Malfunction
The automaker said dirt or dust from driving off-road or with the top or doors removed could keep the driver’s-side airbag from deploying in a crash.The fix is cheap.
A sealed or solid state circuit.
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World
Fort McMurray Residents May Be Allowed Back Even as Fire Rages
The return of residents evacuated on May 3 is contingent on the restoration of a variety of basic services, Alberta’s premier said.Sanity returns.
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U.S.
Judge in Freddie Gray Case Presses Prosecutors on Charges
The judge in the trial of Edward M. Nero, one of six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, questioned when an assault occurred.The Judge will try to look fair.
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Travel
The Farallon Islands Are Off Limits to Humans — But Not Wildlife
The Farallon Islands are only 26 miles west of San Francisco but feel remote. A boat trip offers passengers a view of seabirds, seals and whales.Looks good to me.
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Opinion
Who Gains From College Diversity?
College administrators and others discuss financial aid and diversity in the student body as well as academic administration.Fairness is not most colleges objective.
The objective is the production of an elite to succeed the present elite.
The definition of the elite is a local problem primarily.
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N.Y. / Region
Decaying Long Island V.A. Hospital Closes Operating Rooms
The five rooms at the Northport Veterans Affairs Medical Center have gone unused since February because of sand-size black particles falling from air ducts.The dust is not primarily an administrative problem but an engineering problem.
Funds for maintenance must be found.
After chilling the fresh air must be reheated to reduce the relative humidity of the air.
The duct walls will then run dry. The particulate problem should not recur.
Get the design right and conditions will stabilize.
The Northport V.A. should hire a competent H.V.A.C engineer.
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U.S.
Florida Man Says He Killed Sick Wife Because He Couldn’t Afford Her Medicine, Sheriffs Say
William J. Hager, 86, said he shot his wife of more than 50 years while she slept in their Port St. Lucie house.Mr Hager is a brave and stubborn man.
I hope not to face such a choice.
The Dominicans provide shelter from such choices.
I am not too stiff necked to sign up for part D at need.
Medicare is available.
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N.Y. / Region
Adirondack Railroad and Trail Plan Approved by Cuomo
The $23 million project involves renovating 45 miles of tracks and converting 34 miles between Lake Placid and Tupper Lake into a recreational trail.Trails and highways exist connecting Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.
The trip through the Saranacks is justly famous.
Keep the rails.
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Food
Build the Sandwich Your Heart Desires; Barney Brown Delivers
The website invites you to assemble the ingredients for a BLT, pastrami on rye or almost anything else.Find a Deli you like and phone ahead.
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Automobiles
Video Review: BMW Brings Buttoned-Down X1 to the Crossover Party
The X1 is available in the United States only as an all-wheel drive model, but it’s built on the front-wheel architecture of the Mini Clubman.I would rather drive a dependable junker.
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U.S.
San Francisco Forces Out Police Chief After Officer Kills Black Woman
Police Chief Gregory P. Suhr was asked to resign after the third killing since December involving the police force.Quiet is valued more highly than change.
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Travel
On Packing Light and the Car Seat Question
A new mother traveling internationally with her infant for the first time learns that there is a daunting list of baby must-haves.It is a parental problem.
Grand parents get to watch.
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U.S.
In Sharp Reversal, California Suspends Water Restrictions
Under the new rules, which followed a relatively wet winter and savings in urban water use, communities will set their own conservation standards.http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/home/regionaldroughtmonitor.aspx?west
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Science
City Bees Stick to a Flower Diet Rather Than Slurp Up Soda
An entomologist investigated whether bees prefer flower nectar or sugary soda.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_carbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_carbon#Tracing_food_sources_and_diets
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Your Money
Single-Payment Car Title Loans Can Lead to Long-Term Debt
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reported that borrowers often end up taking out multiple loans and remain in debt for months.A car is a luxury. Treat it like one.
Pay cash or do without.
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N.Y. / Region
Turning a Man Onto the Right Path
Watching in admiration as a patient young man tries to persuade an inebriated older man to go home.It works occasionally
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U.S.
In Sharp Reversal, California Suspends Water Restrictions
California will be dry for next year.
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Travel
Bringing a Destination Wedding Within a Family’s Reach
Lets keep things simple.
We know it is important. Our guests know its important.
It is your party.
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Food
What to Cook This Weekend
Serve a feast like Yotam Ottolenghi, then read the oral history of “Walk This Way.”8
Your Money
Rising Premiums for Universal Life Insurance Draw Scrutiny
People must be dying younger.
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Opinion
Unplugging the Colorado River
Could the end be near for one of the West’s biggest dams?Jim Lochhead, chief executive of Denver’s water utility, said decommissioning the dam would probably require an act of Congress, a new agreement among seven state legislatures, a revised treaty with Mexico, and a lengthy federal environmental impact analysis.
If rain increases with warming oceans the dam could be refilled.
The Glenn Canyon Dam was always a mistake.
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Fashion & Style
Your Summer Beauty Reboot: 13 Ways to Upgrade Your Routine
Pump up your SPF, tame the frizz, get a pretty manicure.Please yourself. You will please me.
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N.Y. / Region
Bronx Woman Sentenced to 8 Years for Poisoning and Drowning Her Children
A lawyer for Lisette Bamenga argued that she had postpartum psychosis when she killed her 4-year-old son and 4-month-old daughter in 2012.She is mad or a monster or both.
Place her in a hospital and find out.
There is no need for more punishment.
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Travel
On a Lush Island, the Splendor of Venice but Not the Crowds
The luxurious JW Marriott Venice Resort & Spa is the sole resident of a private island where convalescing patients once took in the fresh air.It is a break from city life.
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Fashion & Style
Natural Beauty 2.0: Credo Comes to Town
The one-stop eco-beauty boutique, newly arrived from San Francisco, wants to be the Tesla of the cosmetics world.Please yourself.
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U.S.
‘I Quit,’ Handcuffed Man Says in Video of Fatal Encounter With Georgia Police
The New York Times obtained video of Chase Sherman, 32, being repeatedly stunned with a Taser gun by sheriff’s deputies while he was handcuffed in the back of a car.It seems like murder to me.
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