Friday, June 10, 2016

@20:20 6/9/16

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1
Fashion & Style

Can I Meddle to Reunite My Dying Partner With His Siblings?

Also, public criticism of a stranger, inviting divorcing friends to a wedding, and a pastor’s day off.

I am not a social person.

2
Opinion

Elderly and Homeless

An advocate for the homeless writes that we have not come very far in providing help to the elderly.

Costs continue.  Income ends.

3
The Upshot

The U.S. Is Failing in Infant Mortality, Starting at One Month Old


4
Health

New Opioid Limits Challenge the Most Pain-Prone


5
N.Y. / Region

New York Attorney General Seeks to Halt Nursing Home Sale Amid Inquiries

The office of Eric T. Schneiderman said it was objecting to the sale of two centers to the Allure Group, citing “misrepresentations” by the company.

Allure Group has a record of destructive behavior.

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N.Y. / Region

Death of 3-Month-Old Staten Island Girl Is Ruled a Homicide

The city’s medical examiner found that Morgan Ricks, who was found unconscious and unresponsive on Aug. 30, 2015, died of abusive head trauma.

Questions are doubtless being asked.

7
U.S.

Owl Hugs Man*

An expert said, “I would be surprised if it had anything to do with its reaction to its handler.” Still, the internet swooned at photos showing a great horned owl embracing a wildlife volunteer in Mississippi.

Add it to the list of strange events.

8
Real Estate

Brooklyn Apartment Sticker Shock

Jerod Coker and Emily Scheele knew New York would be expensive, just not how expensive.

Yes.

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U.S.

Who May Die? California Patients and Doctors Wrestle With Assisted Suicide

As the state begins to allow what has come to be known as aid in dying, two patients and two doctors explain how it will affect them and how they are preparing for the changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misericorde_%28weapon%29

Oregon, Washington and Vermont are not that far away.

11
Magazine

Why the Stanford Rape Conviction Actually Represents Progress

The outraged reaction to Brock Turner’s light sentence suggests that it has become increasingly unacceptable to excuse sexual aggression because of drinking.

Yes.

12
Travel

In Defense of the Three-Week Vacation

The Romans did it. Jesus did it. Why, when we need it the most, are we limiting ourselves to such short sojourns?

The children are solipsistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
When they are not engaged with their worlds, their worlds do not exist.
As they are dependent on their worlds, disengagement is profoundly upsetting.


13
Magazine

Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City

How one school became a battleground over which children benefit from a separate and unequal system.

Brooklyn is rapidly shedding its black population.
Gentrification is doing its work all over the borough.

14
Science

Scientists Find Genes That Let These Bees Reproduce Without Males

In a subspecies of honey bees from South Africa, female workers can escape a queen’s control and produce offspring of their own. Scientists say a gene explains how.

We keep trying to learn.

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U.S.

He Had 8 Convictions for Driving Drunk. On His 9th, He Got Life.

A Texas man’s uncommonly severe sentence raises the question: How many times must someone be caught driving drunk before he or she can no longer drive?

Alcoholism should be grounds to revoke rather than suspend the driving privilege.

16
Opinion

Separated at Birth

Children have no control over where they’re born, but increasingly it controls their fate.

The economy is not functioning for most of the population.

17
U.S.

Freddie Gray Died From ‘Rough Ride,’ Prosecutors Assert

The murder trial of Caesar R. Goodson Jr., the police officer charged in the death of Mr. Gray, got underway in Baltimore.

There was no intent to kill.

18
U.S.

Supreme Court Ruling Counters Pennsylvania Judge on Recusal

The justices also ruled in narrow decisions on double jeopardy in a Puerto Rico case and on recalling jurors in civil cases after a mistake in a verdict.

The court is doing its job so far.

19
Opinion

After Prison

An advocate for the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated stresses the importance of the message in an Op-Ed article.

Yes.

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U.S.

Video: No Charges for Mother Over Dead Gorilla

An Ohio prosecutor said Monday that there will be no charges brought against a mother whose child fell into a Cincinnati Zoo enclosure, leading to the death of a silverback gorilla.

Let it rest.

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