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Health
More Locally Spread Zika Infections Found in Miami Neighborhood
At least 14 cases of the virus been found in the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami and have been spread by local mosquitoes there.News but not a surprise.
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N.Y. / Region
2 Hospitalized After Police Shooting in Queens, Authorities Say
The shooting occurred when officers responding to a burglary report encountered two people inside a house in the Maspeth neighborhood, a police spokeswoman said.A busy night in Maspeth.
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Fashion & Style
Whitney de Luna, Kenneth Lau
The bride is an anesthesiology resident; the groom works in Washington for Facebook.Any ceremony you can get.
Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Making the Transition to Renewable Energy
Readers discuss problems that are mostly solvable in the move.Eventually all the energy production options will be considered.
We must end the use of fossil carbon as soon as politically possible.
The more humanity uses, the more humanity will suffer.
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Fashion & Style
Susan Liss, Fred Reiner
The couple’s wedding ceremony was performed by the groom’s son, a rabbi.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Fashion & Style
April Reiersen, Bradford Chu
The couple met in 2012 while working in the pediatric intensive care unit at NYU Langone Medical Center.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Opinion
Common Core Regrets?
Readers differ on the value of educational standards.Kathleen Elvin does not believe highschool students should learn rhetoric.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric
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Opinion
Local Zika Cases in Florida Should Wake Up Congress
Too many people have been put at risk by the failure to appropriate emergency funds to fight the virus.Congress has made ideological considerations its only concern.
Public health does not yield to argument.
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Fashion & Style
Mary Wright, David Cavicke
The bride and groom met through eHarmony in 2014.Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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N.Y. / Region
A Voiceless Man Whose Spirit Spoke Volumes
Bernhardt Wichmann III, a Korean War veteran, possessed little except a big heart, and he spread kindness up and down his Upper East Side street.A monastic life.
Happy to be in the city.
I have not freed myself of desire.
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World
Lula, Brazil’s Ex-President, Will Face Trial on Obstruction Charges
The decision could complicate the political ambitions of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is accused of obstructing the inquiry into the bribery scheme at Petrobras.The story is an episode in the third or fourth year of a soap opera.
It appears that the wrong people were paid off after the offshore oil strike in Brazil.
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Business Day
Making Hospitals More Like Hotels
Hospitals are offering patients an attention usually reserved for guests at hotels. Medically, the attention seems to work, too."But a big driver of the trend may be hospitals’ interest in marketing — attracting patients with private insurance who have a choice in where they receive care, and encouraging word-of-mouth recommendations."
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Science
Hypnosis May Put You in a ‘Trance’ Because You Expect It
A study at Stanford showed the “trance” people fall into is more a byproduct of a subject’s presumption rather than a neurophysiological state.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_strength
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_healing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker
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Business Day
Paula Kerger of PBS: Find the Courage to Take a Terrifying Leap
Ms. Kerger, president and C.E.O. of PBS, says every once in a while we should resist human nature and leave our comfort zone, even if it’s painful.She has done splendid work.
Speaking truth to power is an art that needs constant practice.
It so often is not survived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_truth_to_power
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Opinion
Barriers to Reforming Police Practices
The procedural justice strategy can work, but much else also must change in police departments to regain a community’s trust.The police do not like change.
Any reform is change.
Reform will be resisted.
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Times Insider
When Covering Life and Death Means Writing About a Friend
I was warned that reporting on Jason’s fight against cancer might extract a heavy emotional price. In the end, it was a gift.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/health/immunotherapy-offers-hope-to-a-cancer-patient-but-no-certainty.html
Not me as yet.
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Books
Ask Polly, and Heather Havrilesky Will Answer
Life tips and a shoulder to cry on in Heather Havrilesky’s “How to Be a Person in the World.”I try.
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Health
Four Zika Cases in Florida Likely Spread by Mosquitoes
Zika is spread by mosquitoes. It is also an STD.
There is nothing special about Florida. It grows mosquitoes.
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Magazine
Secret Liaison in Tbilisi
A flight from Russia, a flight from Qatar and romantic freedom in between.I have little interest in nostalgia.
The picture is of buckeyes, horse chestnuts.
The "Chinese chestnut" has a different burr and leaf.
Business Day
Chickens Uncaged
Readers respond to “Clearing the Cages but Maybe Not the Conscience” (July 17).Sadistic farmers go broke.
Successful farmers observe with care and understanding.
Stress does not help.
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