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U.S.
How Much Is Too Much Marijuana to Drive? Lawmakers Wonder
As more states consider legalizing cannabis, legislators are struggling to set laws on impairment because the body absorbs it differently from alcohol.The problem is marijuana is detectable at lower levels than levels that cause impairment.
The test must be the impairment itself.
We are back to walking the line.
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Opinion
A Humane Revolution
Animal rights activists are winning gains by working with corporations to change behavior and supply lines.Reducing fossil carbon use must continue to dominate.
Humane treatment must get its triumphs without support from fossil carbon.
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Opinion
One Neighborhood at a Time
Healing the social fabric is complex, but communities like Lost Hills, Calif., are beacons of hope.Lost Hills was a migrant camp that became a company town.
If the nut orchards go it will be a ghost town.
Utopian communities can last as much as one generation.
They have problems with the transfer of leadership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia
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Opinion
Plastic Bags in the Grand Canyon
A New York City plan to charge for shopping bags brings to a reader’s mind the image of bags littering the Grand Canyon.Put a deposit on the bags rather than a sale price.
The bags become worth turning in and an income stream for scavengers.
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Food
Savory Doughnuts With Avocado or Potato Fillings
And on the sweet side at Doughnut Plant is a new black-and-white confection.I am dodging sugar.
Savory doughnuts sound like a good idea.
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World
The Vaquita, the World’s Smallest Porpoise, Slips Closer to Extinction
Scientists say only about 60 are left in the Gulf of California, threatened by nets that fishermen illegally use to catch totoaba, a source of a Chinese delicacy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totoaba
End the fishery.
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Opinion
New Priority Means Fewer Beds in City’s Shelters
Federal officials have shifted money to favor permanent housing, but New York City also needs transitional shelters.The supply of homeless exceeds the supply of quarters for them.
"Permanent housing" is equivalent to shelter beds.
It has the bonus of reducing the demand for shelter beds temporarily.
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Science
Scientists Hold Secret Meeting to Consider Creating a Synthetic Human Genome
The project poses ethical issues about whether humans could be created without parents.I do not find the thought upsetting.
There are many who will.
Secrecy seems a good idea.
The zygote without parents is as potentially as human as any other.
It will have a mother.
It will need love and parenting.
The Skinner Box is not under consideration again.
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U.S.
Teenager Sues Over Being Pulled From Bike, Tasered and Arrested Outside Tacoma Mall
Monique Tillman, 17, is suing a police officer, the mall and others for damages over the 2014 episode in which she says she was slammed to the ground."Do not poke the tiger."
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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.Offer more money.
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World
Wind Pushes Raging Alberta Blaze Back Toward Fort McMurray
New evacuations are in progress as the out-of-control blaze also appeared headed for two major oil sands projects north of the city.Canadians understand backfires.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_burn
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Opinion
Managing Pain and Opioid Addiction
Doctors and patients discuss the conundrum.All use of opioids is addictive.
For terminal patients it matters not at all.
For less than terminal patients it is a judgment call.
Is the pain relief worth the addiction.
Addicts can kick. Most do not.
An addict "in recovery" remains an addict.
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Opinion
The Crippled Supreme Court
The eight justices have again declined to rule on a major legal issue. They cannot do their job without a full bench.The court requires a majority interested in effective government.
This probably an odd number of sitting justices.
The Republicans must not win in November.
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U.S.
When Appointing Friends of Court, Justices Are Friendliest Toward White Men
A study of the Supreme Court’s practice of calling in extra lawyers revealed a sort of patronage system that rewarded few women or minorities.First be a "friend of the court".
The justices get their choice.
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Fashion & Style
Jan Benzel, Bruce Weber
The bride is the editor of the Metropolitan section of The New York Times, where the groom is an obituary reporter.I am not going to choose for you.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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World
Anticorruption Campaign in China Snares Former Top Party Official
Ling Jihua, who was once the equivalent of the White House chief of staff, has been charged with taking bribes, illegally obtaining state secrets and abuse of power.Convictions are necessary.
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Fashion & Style
Margaret Pitney, Rory Melvin
The couple met on a blind date set up by mutual friends in December 2012.Use any ceremony you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
I must go to Laguardia now.
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