Thursday, June 9, 2016

@22:30, 6/8/16

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1
Science

New Fossils Strengthen Case for ‘Hobbit’ Species

Teeth, a piece of jaw and tools dating to 700,000 years ago support the idea that ancestors of Homo floresiensis arrived in Indonesia about a million years ago.

People continue to learn.

2
Opinion

Pretrial Detention


It is time to pass pretrial detention through the courts again.

3
N.Y. / Region

A Riding Program for Disabled Children Finds Stables It Can Call Home

Gallop NYC, which began 11 years ago teaching riding skills to children with physical and intellectual disabilities, will expand with a move to Howard Beach, Queens.

When I looked a few years ago there was only one stable listed.
I am glad to see the facilities.


Real Estate

Jersey City: Growing, With Many Personalities

With some 264,000 residents over 15 square miles, the city a collection of many distinct neighborhoods.

I worry about the water.

5
N.Y. / Region

What the Tenants He Helped Didn’t Know: He Was Living His Life on the Run


Active criminals get caught sooner.

6
Opinion

Just Pay the Overtime

A reader rebuts some of the excuses that bosses use for not paying overtime to their workers.

The economy is not working.

7
Science

Was There an Ice Age in the Southern Hemisphere?

Glacial periods affect all parts of the Earth, but there are big differences between hemispheres, because the north has more land.

Yes

8
The Upshot

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


The U.S. does not do charity.

9
Travel

4 Camps for the Surfing Traveler

Surf camps are enjoying a rise in enrollment, and resorts in popular surfing destinations are increasingly offering the sport as a guest activity.

Could be fun.

10
U.S.

Supreme Court to Hear Two Death Penalty Cases

The justices will consider the roles race and intellectual disability may play in capital prosecutions.

Texas must learn. 

11
Magazine

Is It O.K. to Take a Gender-Non-Conforming Child to North Carolina?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how the state’s “bathroom bill” applies to a family reunion and whether loyalty to a nanny is worth paying overtime.

The beach house is not subject to the bathroom bill.

Discussion is part of working.

12
Fashion & Style

Melissa Danesh, William Feldman

The couple met in medical school at the University of California, San Francisco.

Call yourself what you like.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

13
Real Estate

$1.5 Million Homes in Ohio, New York and Austin

This week’s homes include a Victorian with an attached lighthouse in upstate New York, a contemporary in Ohio and a lake house in Texas.

I dislike the Victorian taste.

14
N.Y. / Region

Fiancée Was ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’ Days After Kayaker Died, Police Say

A hearing focused on an encounter between investigators and Angelika Graswald days after Vincent Viafore drowned in the Hudson River in 2015. She is accused of murdering him.

Accidental drowning is probably the proper resolution.

15
Fashion & Style

Rebecca Flatow, George Zornick

The bride and groom met in 2014 through the dating app Hinge.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

16
Times Insider

How a Vague Hunch Led From a Nursing Home to an Island of Mass Graves

Nina Bernstein, a Metro reporter, followed a complex web of records to track down wards of court-appointed guardians who ended up buried on Hart Island.

Sometimes all that is required is attention.

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U.S.

November Trial Scheduled for Dylann Roof in Charleston Church Killings

Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty in the trial, which will begin Nov. 7, and up to 1,500 prospective jurors may be called.

Jury selection could be a project.

18
Real Estate

House Hunting in ... Mexico

Mexico City’s real estate market is performing strongly this year, agents say, with many new developments and higher prices across the board.

It sounds like a place to avoid.

19
Science

No Escape From Black Holes? Stephen Hawking Points to a Possible Exit

New calculations by Dr. Hawking and other researchers suggest that essential properties of whatever falls into these cosmic pits may survive.

I cannot yet reconstruct the argument.

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N.Y. / Region

Snow in June? It’s Forecast for the Adirondacks

The higher peaks in northern New York, along with the Green Mountains in Vermont, are expecting up to two inches on Wednesday night into Thursday. This weather is unusual, but not unheard-of.

The Adirondacks are real mountains.  The Whites are taller.

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