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World
Brazilian Police Recommend Charges Against Ryan Lochte
The American swimmer could be charged with giving false testimony in connection with claims that he was robbed at gunpoint during the Rio Olympics.The Brazilian police feel their honor has been besmirched.
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Food
Two New Stops for Middle Eastern Food: Dizengoff and Gyro96
A downtown stand serves hummus several ways, while an uptown takeout window specializes in falafel.As convenient.
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N.Y. / Region
New York Police Dept., Citing Law, Stops Sharing Personnel Data
Some criticized the department’s decision to shield information from journalists as a step away from transparency.The police do not like criticism and see no reason for humiliation.
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N.Y. / Region
What’s Next for the New York Subway? Toronto Already Knows
A small improvement at a significant cost.
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Travel
How to Eat Like a Local on the Road
Want a memorable meal while traveling? Dine like a resident by asking locals for suggestions, and try appetizers instead of entrees.Spend more time out of the car.
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World
Some Villages in Italy May Never Recover From Earthquake
For some of the smallest mountain towns, where homes have been leveled and lives lost, displaced residents face the possible elimination of the towns themselves.It is always sad when a way of life ends.
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N.Y. / Region
Revisiting Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises
A new book brings attention to the deadly 1971 prison uprising. Reporters for The New York Times and The Marshall Project describe what has changed since then, and what hasn’t.The population does not refuse to be distracted.
Editors are required to have short attention spans.
Activists concentrate our attention.
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World
Video: Marathoner’s Symbol of Protest
Feyisa Lilesa, a runner from Ethiopia, caught the world’s attention Sunday when, at the finish line of the Olympic marathon, he raised his arms in solidarity with the Oromo people in his country.It is almost a tradition that the U.S. takes in potential and actual revolutionaries.
Anticommunism has paused the practice.
Brooklyn can find a place for this Marathon runner.
New Mexico or Arizona would be more like home.
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Food
Tucson Becomes an Unlikely Food Star
Named a culinary capital by Unesco, the city has a long history of wringing plenty from a desert.People farm in Iowa and Missouri for good reasons.
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N.Y. / Region
Cyclist’s Death Shows Biking Perils Persist in New York
When Michael Schenkman was fatally hit by a car while biking this week, it was the 15th such fatality in the city this year, despite efforts to improve safety.The children forget.
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Opinion
Gridlock Comes to Kuala Lumpur
One of the growing pains of Malaysia’s economic prosperity is that its capital’s traffic problem is reaching critical mass.Build the rail system.
Plan now to add to it.
The world must abandon fossil carbon.
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U.S.
2 Nuns Are Killed in Mississippi: ‘The Sweetest People to Ever Draw a Breath’
The women, who worked as nurse practitioners and were known for their singing at Mass, were found in their home in Durant, a small city where violent crime had been rare.Addicts do not think.
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U.S.
Obama’s Action Will Create Largest Marine Reserve on Earth
The president is set to vastly expand an sanctuary northwest of the Hawaiian Islands, part of efforts to burnish his environmental legacy before leaving office.After seven years of frustration this is a reward.
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Books
An Indian Novelist Stung by Hometown Wrath Now Hears a Self-Censor in His Head
When one of Perumal Murugan’s novels was attacked in his home state, he retreated from the public eye. But he has since rediscovered his voice, and now has several new books coming out.Social censure is a disease from which recovery is possible.
Perumal Murugan is slowly recovering.
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Books
‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories
The work is published.
I d not need to honor the man further.
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Opinion
Italy’s Fragile Beauty
It’s too easy to forget that this is a stunning but shaky land.Corruption destroys building codes.
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N.Y. / Region
Long Island Congressmen Seek Inquiries Into Veteran’s Suicide Outside V.A. Hospital
Representatives Peter T. King and Steve Israel asked the F.B.I. and the Veterans Affairs Department to investigate Peter A. Kaisen’s death.Politicians find a "bloody shirt" is useful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waving_the_bloody_shirt
https://www.google.com/#q=%22bloody+shirt%22
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Real Estate
Center Moriches: Small-Town Feeling, Gentle Prices
It is possible.
Forty years from now the bay will be lapping at the foundations.
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Opinion
Rape, Race and the Jogger
The murders of three runners evoke a painful racial history.These are their own injustices and not "bloody shirts" for the causes of racism, misogyny, misandry and religion.
Let us do what we can to end injustice.
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World
Search for Missing in Italy Quake Intensifies as Death Toll Rises to 247
Another 264 people had been hospitalized and dozens more injured, officials said, but with hundreds of people unaccounted for, the count was expected to rise.http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/08/26/world/europe/26reuters-italy-quake.html
The count of the dead stands at 278 and rising.
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