Wednesday, June 15, 2016

@8:30, 6/15/16

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Business Day

Liberal Returns Policies for Consumers Can Reduce Retail Workers’ Pay

Department store customers, taking advantage of returns policies set by retailers competing with e-commerce, are playing havoc with sales commissions.

The returns policy is unfair to the sales people.


Fashion & Style

Amanda DeFiore, Michael Singer

The couple met in high school but their courtship didn’t begin until after college.

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

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N.Y. / Region

Morning Shock at Zabar’s, as Man Accidentally Shoots Himself

Officials said the firearm discharged as Louis Lester Anderson was adjusting his waistband after buying coffee and a bagel at the upscale Manhattan market.

An accident.

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N.Y. / Region

Brooklyn Teenager Gets 19 Years to Life for Fire That Killed Officer

Marcell Dockery set fire to a mattress in the hallway of a Coney Island apartment building in 2014, killing Dennis Guerra and injuring his partner.

It is an attempt to bury a failure.
A feral child aged out of the educational system.

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N.Y. / Region

Fewer Hurdles to Graduation for Disabled Students in New York

The state’s Board of Regents voted to reduce the number of exams that some students with disabilities must pass to graduate high school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud

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U.S.

Dr. Philip Majerus, Among the First to Discern Aspirin’s Heart Benefits, Dies at 79

Dr. Majerus is credited with recognizing that small doses of aspirin taken daily can help to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

I had not realized that the work on aspirin was so recent.

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Science

Insects Don’t Need Noses to Sense a Stench

It’s just that their olfactory receptors are essentially on the outside and not inside a collection organ.

I like your nose.

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T Magazine

Person to Know: The Men’s Wear Phenom Straight Out of School

Kiko Kostadinov, who showed his first collection during London Collections Men today, seeks to make elevated workwear for his generation of creative men.

I have not understood his aesthetics.

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Opinion

Reusable Shopping Bags

Rather than penalizing shoppers for using plastic bags, reward them for bring their own bag, a reader suggests.

The proposed rule rewards the shopper with reusable bags.

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The Upshot

After Mass Shootings, Gun Laws Frequently Loosen

Research finds that the response is the opposite of what you might expect.

The N.R.A. supports politicians who support it.
The N.R.A. slogan is: "Only a good man with a gun stops a bad man with a gun."

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Opinion

How Did I Get an Abortion in Texas? I Didn’t.

The Supreme Court will soon decide whether other women will have to go through what I did.

Rationality must return to Texas.
Access to abortion is a right.

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T Magazine

Portraits of an Italian Town That Time (Almost) Left Behind

In 1993, Stephen Shore photographed the inhabitants of Luzzara, a traditional community embracing modernity.

The stone work speaks of wealth.
There is little new evidence.

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N.Y. / Region

New York Serbian Church Gutted by Fire Won’t Be Demolished, for Now

Despite reports that the city had ordered the ruins to be taken down, the Buildings Department said the investigation of the structure, which has landmark status, was not finished.

The walls will stand for the moment.
Brownstone does not do well.

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Corrections

Quotation of the Day

Quotation of the Day for Sunday, June 12, 2016.

As soon as you can is best.

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Science

National Aquarium Plans to Create Dolphin Sanctuary

In the face of protests by animal welfare activists, the institution is discontinuing the popular tourist attraction.

The time has come to end the freak show.

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U.S.

Friends Arrived Just Moments Before Orlando Shooting Began

Demetrice Naulings, 34, survived the deadly rampage at Pulse nightclub, but his friend Eddie Justice was killed.

I feel little need to know the details.

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N.Y. / Region

A Game of Musical Chairs, Played With Schools, Divides the Upper West Side

The city’s Education Department has proposed a convoluted plan to shift students and school buildings in the Manhattan neighborhood.

New York City is individually racist.

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U.S.

Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow Bolder

Those who have lost jobs to foreigners on temporary visas, in particular, have begun to speak out despite their severance agreements with companies.

Cheap help is always popular with corporate management.
The H1(B) visa is abused.

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Health

Orlando Injuries Were Severe, but Trauma Care Was Nearby

A rise of mass shootings reveals the challenges facing emergency medicine, and doctors are re-evaluating how best to save lives.

The military trains the trauma surgeons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15

5.56 mm = 21.889 caliber
The round is designed to tumble on impact.

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U.S.

Video: Everything We Know About Omar Mateen

An updated video on Mr. Mateen's background, marriages and his possible motives behind the deadly attack in Orlando, Fla.

We suspect more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_in_Islam

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