Monday, July 18, 2016

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Food

For This Greek Pie, You Don’t Need a Crust

Filled with yogurt, dill and mint, these pitas are wrapped in chard leaves, rather than pastry.

http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018049-chard-wrapped-greek-yogurt-pies

Yes

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Opinion

‘They Will Not Drive Us Apart’

President Obama’s unifying speech at the memorial for five slain Dallas policemen will likely be remembered among the rhetorical peaks of his tenure.

"They" have driven us apart.

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Opinion

Pool Neuroscience

Why I get all my best ideas in the water.

Ok,  transcendental meditation. 

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U.S.

Philando Castile, Fatally Shot in His Car, Was a Magnet for Minor Traffic Stops


His record was not known at the time of the shooting.

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Sports

Swimmer Kathleen Baker Overcomes Crohn’s Disease to Become an Olympian

Baker, 19, who has been dealing with the disease since she was about 13, will compete for the United States in the 100-meter backstroke in Rio de Janeiro.

Long odds.

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N.Y. / Region

New York Slang, an Officer’s Stripes and Eclipses

Explaining terminology used in New York’s old days, how to read a police officer’s uniform and the last total solar eclipse visible here.

Consider my calendar marked. 

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Science

Juno Sends First Image Back While Orbiting Jupiter

NASA released the first photograph taken from its space probe since its camera was turned back on after it locked into orbit on July 4.

Celestial mechanics is real.


U.S.

Immigration Detention Center in Arizona Failed to Contain Measles Outbreak

Health officials say the disease was spread by unvaccinated staff members at the facility in Eloy, Ariz.

A bad idea grows worse.

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Multimedia/Photos

Video: Fragments of a Life: A Curbside Mystery

A quest to solve the mystery behind an abandoned bag of photo slides found on a New York City street corner leads reporter Deborah Acosta and her audience to uncover truths about life, love, and loss.

People get lost among the lives of others.

I have tried to move on to new memories.
The past does not grow.
We grow into the future.

Many people like lakes for swimming.

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N.Y. / Region

Bronx District Attorney Says New System Will Reduce Case Delays

Darcel D. Clark is addressing delays by adopting a new system this month that will assign every incoming case to a single prosecutor who will be responsible from beginning to end.

There will be many more prosecutors. 

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N.Y. / Region

Construction Firm Found Guilty in Queens Worker’s Death Defies Sentence

Harco Construction, vowing to appeal, said it would not obey a judge’s order that it pay for public service announcements on worker safety.

Contempt of court will be the result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court#United_States

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Science

Why Jet Lag Can Feel Worse When You Travel West to East

Researchers produced a mathematical model of certain brain cells to help explain why travel’s toll on fliers feels more severe in one direction than the other.

Synchronize your diurnal clock.
Do it before the flight.

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World

Bernardo Provenzano, ‘Boss of Bosses’ of Sicilian Mafia, Is Dead at 83

Mr. Provenzano managed to elude the Italian police for four decades before being captured in 2006.

It is a fond hope that the Sicilian mafia is reduced.
There was no war of succession.
The power passed by prearrangement.

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Opinion

Blood on Your Hands, Too


I guard my tongue.

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The Upshot

So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors

There is such a surplus of Ph.D.s that in the most popular fields, like biomedicine, fewer than one in six reach their goal in academia.

Most researchers are glad to be relieved of teaching duties.
Another support system for research is required.

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Your Money

Calls for Social Security Expansion Grow Louder in Washington

After years of talk about reining in Social Security, the discussion has turned to making it more generous instead.

The thought is good.
The frame is bad.
The article still assumes Social Security must maintain a positive cash flow.
It is an arm of the national government with the right to call on the Treasury.

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World

When the Planets Align, Delhi Drowns in a Chorus of ‘I Do’

A certain astrological configuration is considered auspicious by many Indians, and in the capital it means something very specific: a wedding apocalypse.

A predictable surge in the business.

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

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Fashion & Style

At Sea, and Seeking a Safe Harbor

A woman who escaped the Cambodian genocide as a child hopes her mother can accept her for who she is now.

There is some choice in life.
Who I love is not now one of my choices.
Who loves me was never my choice.

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N.Y. / Region

Family of Robert Durst’s First Wife Asks Court to Declare Her Dead

Kathleen Durst’s relatives contend that Mr. Durst killed her in 1982, when she vanished. Her disappearance was the subject of the HBO documentary “The Jinx.”

The matter needs resolution.

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Science

Fecal Transplants Can Be Life-Saving, but How?

Fecal transplants have proved effective against a bacterial infection. But scientists still have a lot to learn.

Coevolution has time on its side.


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Business Day

Eggs That Clear the Cages, but Maybe Not the Conscience

The country’s biggest food companies are embracing cage-free eggs, but hens raised in aviaries may not be much healthier than their caged counterparts.

It is our consciences that need soothing.


Science

Juno Sends First Image Back While Orbiting Jupiter


I am glad it is working.

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The Upshot

So Many Research Scientists, So Few Openings as Professors


Teaching can be a burden.

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The Upshot

Obama on Obamacare’s Flaws: An Assessment

Two Times health reporters discuss the president’s frank analysis that the health law has weaknesses that need to be addressed.

Obama care is the best program that could pass congress at the time.

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Science

Astronomers Discover New Likely Dwarf Planet, the Latest of Many

The object was seen in the Kuiper belt, a ring of icy debris beyond Neptune. Dozens of similar bodies may also meet the definition of a dwarf planet.

Yes.

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N.Y. / Region

Bronx District Attorney Says New System Will Reduce Case Delays


good luck.

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N.Y. / Region

She’s Still on the Case

Ida Van Lindt has been secretary to Robert M. Morgenthau, the former Manhattan district attorney, for 41 years.

A working relationship.

They grow into place. The typing pool nolonger exists.


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N.Y. / Region

K2’s Sudden Surge Tests New York Authorities

After 33 people overdosed on what authorities suspected was the synthetic street drug, a police crackdown failed to seize even a single packet of K2.

Someone is pushing for reform.

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Opinion

Blood on Your Hands, Too


As little as I can manage.

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N.Y. / Region

One Dead and 3 Hurt After Officer’s S.U.V. Hits Pedestrians in Brooklyn

The officer, who was off duty when his vehicle mounted a sidewalk in the Williamsburg section early on Saturday, appeared to be intoxicated, police said.

Saddening.

11
Travel

Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua

How do you get to know this island? Go off-season, to Carnival, and use the writer’s books as your guide.

I would always be a foreigner.

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N.Y. / Region

Police Raid 5 Brooklyn Bodegas After Suspected K2 Overdoses

No K2 was found in the raids, which came a day after 33 people were sent to the hospital for suspected overdoses.

Let them rot.

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Real Estate

Shopping Guide: Kitchen Islands

Expert tips from the interior designer Nate Berkus.

I am not fond of iron furnishings in the kitchen.

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Real Estate

Three Bedrooms on ‘Billionaires’ Row’ for $27 Million

Four more apartments sold at 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere..

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Opinion

‘They Will Not Drive Us Apart’

President Obama’s unifying speech at the memorial for five slain Dallas policemen will likely be remembered among the rhetorical peaks of his tenure.

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N.Y. / Region

The Bridge Bounced Too Much. Now, After 2 Years, a Fix Is in Store.

Squibb Park Bridge, a link between Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park that closed in 2014, will undergo repairs in the fall.

If it scared you, one did not need to use it.

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Opinion

The Guns of My Girlhood

There were guns in the bedside tables and behind the face of the mantel clock.

Yes

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Science

Dr. Alfred G. Knudson, the ‘Mendel of Cancer Genetics,’ Dies at 93

A 1971 theory on the inheritable nature of retinoblastoma in children, proved in 1986, is credited with helping advance the framework of how cancers are studied.

The work goes on.

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Business Day

Gretchen Carlson, Former Fox Anchor, Speaks Publicly About Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Ms. Carlson repeated the allegations she made last week against Roger Ailes, her former boss at the news network.

Now she needs to win.

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N.Y. / Region

Yale Drops Case Against Worker Who Smashed Window Depicting Slaves

The university will not press charges after a black dining hall employee broke the stained-glass panel in Calhoun College, the name of which has been the subject of intense debate on campus.

He cut a Gordian knot.


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