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Business Day
Airbag Propellant Bound for Takata Factory Detonates en Route
The truck was carrying Takata airbag inflaters and ammonium nitrate, the propellant used in them, when it crashed and exploded in Texas.It is interesting that the drivers survived.
The truck crashed.
The drivers ran.
The trailer blew up.
The rest of the report is noise.
There was a time between the crash and the explosion sufficient to allow the drivers to escape.
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Science
With Dogs, It’s What You Say — and How You Say It
New research suggests that dogs respond to meaning and intonation in human voices.Mute companions, friends, assistants and dependents.
Members of the pack.
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Science
Why Do Algae Grow in Ponds in Warm Weather?
The usual suspects are not common algae but a kind of microorganism once called blue-green algae and now usually referred to as cyanobacteria.Because they can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria#Health_risks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotoxin
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N.Y. / Region
Long Nights With Little Sleep for Homeless Families Seeking Shelter
As the number of homeless people rises, a 1999 order meant to keep families with children from sleeping at an intake center in the Bronx forces many of them to forgo any rest at all.The city must construct purpose built dormitories for the homeless.
The present system is over capacity.
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U.S.
Video: Applying for Housing at a Trump Property in the '60s
In the 1960s, Mae Wiggins and her friend Maxine Brown applied for housing at the Wilshire Apartments in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. Ms. Wiggins recalled her experience.Donald Trump has not changed.
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Opinion
Voting Narcissistic Sociopath — Until Now
Donald Trump doesn’t quite make the cut.Attempted politician; the paint is wet.
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Science
Like Tens of Millions of Matchsticks, California’s Dead Trees Stand Ready to Burn
A complex convergence of factors — the drought, bark beetles, a pathogen spreading sudden oak death, and human failings — has devastated huge, breathtaking forest areas.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_blight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_elm_disease
People keep trying to reestablish the trees.
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Health
In Reaction to Zika Outbreak, Echoes of Polio
New York’s polio epidemic a century ago had many of the problems found in the response to Zika: false rumors, ethnic prejudice and ineffective measures.Polio is not a good model.
Zika is mosquito born and an STD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_fever Not an STD.
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Books
Richard Peck’s Middle-Grade Novel: A Boy, His Teacher and Same-Sex Marriage
“The Best Man,” by Richard Peck, examines a boy’s relationships with the men in his life, two of whom will marry."“The Best Man” is political. It will be a battered paperback in classrooms soon enough, one more reminder that no matter your gender or sexuality, love is love is love."
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Opinion
Fair Pay, Safe Workplaces, Republican Objections
Many companies that receive federal contracts have gotten away with cheating and harming workers — until now."At last, the government has devised a means to better protect American workers and ensure that companies obey the law. Why would anyone stand in the way?"
Corruption is a reason to stand in the way.
Political opposition to all the works of a political party is another.
There may be a third.
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World
Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in Norway
“We have never seen anything like this,” said an official from the Norwegian Environment Agency, after an entire herd appeared to have been electrocuted.The Norwegians think it natural.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hardangervidda+National+Park/@60.154287,7.4408573,7z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x463ee4512cafa9d1:0xbd0bc34b78d87122!8m2!3d60.1542843!4d7.443046
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hardangervidda+National+Park/@60.154287,7.4408573,9z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x463ee4512cafa9d1:0xbd0bc34b78d87122!8m2!3d60.1542843!4d7.443046
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Books
Two New Novels Succeed in Telling the Story of 9/11 to Kids
Nora Raleigh Baskin’s “Nine, Ten” and Jewell Parker Rhodes’s “Towers Falling” bring the events surrounding the 2001 terror attacks to a new group of readers.The fall of world trade center has become legend.
I suspect that this is not the form of the legend that should survive.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/13/nyregion/trade-center-verdict-mastermind-law-satisfied-but-answers-don-t-cover-every.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/nyregion/03mbrfs-verdict.html
The secular west is an affront to Islam.
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Opinion
Making Modern Toughness
Today’s youth may be emotionally fragile because of overprotective parents. But another reason may be that they haven’t found their purpose.The ends do not justify the means.
I would rather vote than fight.
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N.Y. / Region
Family Grieves After Sophomore Is Killed in Ithaca, a College Town Thought to Be Safe
Anthony Nazaire, 19, of Brooklyn, was fatally stabbed over the weekend in the upstate city’s first homicide since 2011.The homicide will not remain unsolved. There are pictures and witnesses.
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World
Federal Investigators in Brazil to Seek Graft Charges Against Ex-President Da Silva
The move by the Federal Police, an investigative force similar to the F.B.I., deals a new blow to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his once-dominant Workers’ Party.Brazil did not get a boom.
Macro economics is a hard subject that has been intentionally obscured by true believers.
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N.Y. / Region
‘The Market Is Saturated’: Brooklyn’s Rental Boom May Turn Into a Glut
With 19 residential towers under construction or recently finished in just one section of the borough, developers worry about oversupply.Maybe.
Rents have not fallen significantly.
Builders are not going bankrupt yet.
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Your Money
A Car Renter’s Costly Detour to Collection Center Drive
A Payless Car Rental customer who is charged for unwanted insurance disputes the charge on her credit card, leading to vague threats to pay up, or else.Be very careful what you sign.
I will avoid Payless Car Rental.
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Books
A Y.A. Novel Takes on College Admissions Mania
An Indian-American negotiates her way through boyfriends, privilege, parties and plagiarism in Rahul Kanakia’s “Enter Title Here.”Maybe it works in the original. It does not work in this review.
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The Upshot
Surprisingly Little Evidence for the Usual Wisdom About Teeth
Many of the things we’re told to do for our dental health aren’t supported by systematic reviews.Do what works.
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Science
Stuck in Traffic, Polluting the Inside of Our Cars
According to a study, pollution levels in vehicles at red lights or in traffic jams are up to 40 percent higher than when traffic is moving.Incomplete. I know no more now than before I read the article.
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