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The Upshot
A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges
How Congress and the Department of Education can fix an increasingly important system in which graduation rates are low and default rates are high.Their goal is extracting money.
Education is just an excuse.
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U.S.
What Else Is on the Ballot? Minimum Wage, Death Penalty and Guns
Election Day measures include initiatives to raise the minimum wage, impose background checks on gun purchases and reinstate the death penalty.Remember to read the whole ballot.
Vote your interest.
Look at California where taxes are high and business is doing well.
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World
Germany Confronts, in Unique Exhibit, Its ‘Holocaust of the Bullets’
A new display in Berlin is the first in Germany to focus solely on the executions of more than two million people after the invasion of the Soviet Union.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Willing_Executioners
There is no true confrontation as yet.
Show the children the records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
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Travel
13 Essential Barbecue Stops (and What to Order)
From Harrisburg, Pa., to Memphis, Tenn., the brisket, sausage, pulled and chopped pork, and fried okra you should put on your plate.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory#Route_problems
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N.Y. / Region
Roommate in Tyler Clementi Case Pleads Guilty to Attempted Invasion of Privacy
Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers student who used a webcam to spy on Mr. Clementi while he was having sex, accepted a deal with prosecutors to drop all other charges.It is an end to the matter.
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Science
First Fossilized Dinosaur Brain Found
An amateur fossil hunter found something that looked like a pebble more than 10 years ago. Turns out, it was a dinosaur brain."“It’s uniquely remarkable,” Dr. Norman said, “but it’s not going to change the way we think.”"
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Opinion
Don’t Use Girls as Props to Fight Trans Rights
All students are at risk if schools embrace too narrow a vision of what a woman is supposed to be.American culture is untangling gender, sexuality and sex.
The process is not a smooth one.
People go to war for orthodoxy.
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U.S.
Case of Former N.S.A. Contractor Escalates as Espionage Act Charges Loom
A new filing said prosecutors plan to charge Harold T. Martin III with committing felonies, crimes that could put him in prison for decades if he is convicted.The prosecutors must prove their charges.
It is unproven Harold T. Martin committed espionage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage
The judge will have to decide.
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N.Y. / Region
Merciless End for a Long Island Cop Killer
John MacKenzie, who murdered Officer Matthew Giglio in 1975, repented and became a model inmate, but was repeatedly denied parole. It was too much for him to bear.The prison system believes in punishment.
It should oppose the death penalty.
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N.Y. / Region
In Bid to Build Trust, New York City Adds Victims’ Allies in All Precincts
Advocates for crime victims would open a door to therapeutic and financial services that people in poor, minority neighborhoods have lacked, the department said.Social services needs to be more active.
Getting the agency into the precincts will be useful.
Attaching social services to the police is a matter of practical politics.
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Opinion
Seeing What the Wildfires Took, and What They Left Behind
Once the fire in Fort McMurray died, we came back to find neighborhoods reduced to ashes but our house untouched. How do we live now?The oil business continues. Winter is there.
The town has survived.
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Business Day
Plan to Bail Out ‘Too Big to Fail’ Banks Raises Skepticism
There is something odd about adding yet another legal entity to the already complex corporate structure of banks.The plan is not explained.
http://ww2.cfo.com/regulation/2015/07/bankruptcy-bill-replace-bank-bailouts/
"Under Chapter 14, a failed bank would go bankrupt, leaving its owners and unsecured creditors on the hook for its bad decisions, not taxpayers, say the bill’s co-sponsors.
To avoid systemic risk to the financial system, which is what has led the government to use bailouts in the past, Chapter 14 would enable all the failed bank’s assets and the liabilities that pose systemic risk to be transferred to a new “bridge” company. This new, solvent, company would go on meeting the failed bank’s obligations, while all losses would be incurred by the owners of the failed bank."
The plan is not acceptable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_company
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/11/business/dealbook/banks-living-wills-are-murky-guides.html
The stocks held by the bank are an asset that would be auctioned in bankruptcy.
http://ww2.cfo.com/regulation/2015/07/bankruptcy-bill-replace-bank-bailouts/
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Business Day
An EpiPen Rival Is About to Return to the Shelves
The Auvi-Q, which drew an ardent fan base, was taken off the market in 2015. It is unclear whether its comeback next year will help lower the price of the EpiPen.The price of automatic injectors should quickly fall.
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Travel
TripAdvisor to Start Booking Travel to Cuba
Travelers will soon be able to book through one of the world’s largest travel websites, the latest development in an American travel industry that is slowly normalizing tourism to Cuba.The Republican party has not forgiven Cuba.
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Science
Flying for 10 Months Without a Layover
Researchers attached tiny logging devices to common swifts to confirm that the birds stay aloft when they aren’t nesting.Clever investigators.
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Business Day
Why Wait a Month for a Sofa That’s Not Even What You Wanted?
Start-ups are trying to break off pieces of the furniture market by offering custom sizes and colors, or more affordable prices, and quicker turnaround.People need furniture.
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Science
Dark Spot in Mars Photo Is Probably Wreckage of European Spacecraft
The remnants of the Schiaparelli lander seemed to appear on Mars in photos taken by a NASA orbiter, the European Space Agency said Friday.Automated equipment is tricky.
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World
Mexico Arrests Ex-Chief of Police in City Where 43 Students Disappeared
The former chief, Felipe Flores Velázquez, was in charge of the police force in Iguala, where the students vanished in 2014.When he is convicted Felipe Flores Velázquez can tell us his story.
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Style
Do I Fight for Child Visitation, or Pick a Job Transfer?
Also, loyalty to an accountant, and a daughter who drives too ... slowly?Good advice.
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