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Science
Coffee Grounds May Filter Out Heavy Metals in Water
Chemists in Italy offer up a solution for all that smelly espresso and coffee waste.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activated_carbon#Mercury_scrubbing
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Books
Natural Disaster
New books about a powerful hurricane, disaster preparedness, water management and the eruption of Mount St. Helens.Human beings are slow learners.
Every natural disaster is a lesson in risk management.
Risk management would be eased if people depended less on faith and more on careful observation.
Admittedly it is hard to see through the errors of previous generations.
Blow downs have been regular occurrences in the northeast.
Knot free white pine comes from stands that started simultaneously.
That implies a burn or a blow down.
The land is shaped by nature or human action.
"One is a silly number and can't exist."
When people choose to replace one species with another in an ecology the management patterns of the previous species should be maintained to maintain the ecology. That is Allan Savory's observation. The key is replacement.
At Mount St. Helens developers thought they would be lucky and
the volcano would not erupt on them.
Their faith failed them.
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N.Y. / Region
New Charges for Long Island Foster Father Accused of Abusing Boys
Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, who is charged with sexually abusing five of his adopted sons, pleaded not guilty in Suffolk County court after being accused of abusing another young boy."One is a silly number and cannot exist."
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Books
In a New Novel, an Indian Woman Tracks Her Abuser
An orphan heads to a temple town to confront her history of abuse in Anuradha Roy’s Booker-longlisted novel “Sleeping on Jupiter.”Manil Suri performs an act of denial.
Anuradha Roy describes it.
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Arts
The Other 13 Women Testifying Against Cosby ... if the Court Lets Them
Bill Cosby’s fate may rest on whether a judge in his sexual assault trial lets jurors hear from a group of women with details that prosecutors say echo his accuser’s.Bill Cosby's fate has been sealed by the press.
He will be forgotten.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan
This week’s properties are in Midtown, the West Village and Crown Heights, Brooklyn.I can build anything but location.
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Magazine
The 9.11.16 Issue
Readers respond.Starving the school systems effectively kills the hopes of children living in poverty.
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Well
Air Pollution Is Linked to a Diabetes Marker
The effect was particularly strong in people who are already considered prediabetic because of abnormally high blood sugar levels.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
"The underlying mechanism is not well understood and the findings are correlational and do not prove cause and effect"
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=pure%2C%20white%20and%20deadly&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20
The industrial environment leading to fast food and beer is the problem.
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Opinion
Teenage Smoking Rates
A drop in smoking rates is “cause for celebration,” a writer says, but the one-fifth of teenagers who still smoke remain at risk.yes
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World
Demand for Inquiry Into Police Abuse of Women May Embroil Mexico’s President
An international commission’s call for an investigation into a 2006 crackdown, ordered by Enrique Peña Nieto when he was governor, is a new blow to his presidency.Mexico has a long record of suppressing rather than correcting political problems.
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Business Day
Government Moves to Close a Watchdog of For-Profit Colleges
The Education Department said a staff report found a body that had overseen failing institutions like Corinthian Colleges and ITT had fallen short.An under funded agency did a less than perfect job.
Fix the funding.
Do not close the agency.
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World
On the Verge of Extinction, a Chinese Fishing Village Resists
Officials, who restricted fishing because of a devastated supply, have tried to promote tourism as an alternative. But villagers say tourists are demanding what the sea cannot give.It is easier to close the fishing than to fix the river.
Fix the river and close half the fishing.
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Real Estate
Amor Towles, a Gentleman in Gramercy Park
The author of ‘Rules of Civility’ and ‘A Gentleman in Moscow,’ lives in a gracious townhouse near Gramercy Park.I can build anything but location and history.
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Opinion
A Right to a Lawyer to Save Your Home
A smart new bill would make New York City the first in the country to provide lawyers for all lower-income tenants facing eviction.I had not realized the statistics were that favorable for the tenants.
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T Magazine
An Artist and a Poet on Shame
As part of an ongoing series, the artist Ed Ruscha responded to a poem by the writer Timothy Donnelly.Shame requires accepting the violation of standards.
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Opinion
Apple in Ireland
A reader from Ireland writes that Dublin must now deal with a corporate-profits reporting system that was either not understood or scrutinized.Terms and conditions apply is indeed true of Apple in Ireland.
Ireland struck a deal that looked good then.
It still looks good to Ireland.
The E.U. has limited power to tax.
When the E.U. gains the power to tax they can ask for money.
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Real Estate
Homes for Sale in New York and Connecticut
This week’s properties include a four-bedroom in Norwalk, Conn., and an six-bedroom in Eastchester, N.Y.The Norwalk house is traditional
There is no mention of a barn or garage.
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N.Y. / Region
Physicist in Albany Corruption Case Was a Geek With Big Goals
Alain E. Kaloyeros rose from a university laboratory to oversee hundreds of millions of dollars in state economic development funds. Beyond money, the rewards he sought seemed mostly to involve power.Academic politics is politics. Alain E. Kaloyeros is a politician.
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N.Y. / Region
Whistle-Blower Suit Accuses Visiting Nurse Service of Fraud
The agency extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from Medicaid and Medicare in New York through falsified and improper billing while shortchanging patients, the suit says.The accuser will have to prove his case.
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N.Y. / Region
Chris Christie ‘Protected’ Culprit in Bridge Lane Closings, Agency Head Testifies
The executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Patrick J. Foye, said at trial Thursday that he was prevented from questioning an ally of the governor about the closings.Chris Christie should be charged.
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