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Business Day
How Much Graduates Earn Drives More College Rankings
The purpose of education is to stretch and elevate young minds, right? Now some rankings are including future earnings in their calculations.College is a product that is sold.
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Opinion
I Don’t Want to Be ‘Inspiring’
Forging an identity apart from my disability is hard enough. Misguided sympathy makes it harder.The person is not the disability.
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U.S.
Orlando Officers Grapple With Trauma and Red Tape After Massacre
While compensation programs can help victims of mass shootings, it is often less clear what help is available for those who are first to respond to the scene.The first responders need to renegotiate their contracts.
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World
Fighting for Indonesia’s Mentally Ill, and Counting Toilets as Progress
Whatever improvements that have come to the country’s mental health system are largely the result of the efforts of Nova Riyanti Yusuf.Toilets are a big improvement.
It would not be my choice of places to be insane.
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N.Y. / Region
Want an Old Piece of the Statue of Liberty? This Is the Man to See.
Rick Stocks is the self-appointed caretaker of discarded parts from the Statue of Liberty’s $87 million restoration in the 1980s.The metal is a commodity.
The colossus in the harbor is the monument.
The liberty is art.
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Well
Resting Heart Rate May Predict Future Mental Ills
In young men, heart rates above 82 beats a minute were tied to increased risk of obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder and schizophrenia.Another bit of information, neither good or bad.
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N.Y. / Region
Steven Banks Was Hired to Stem New York’s Homelessness Crisis. It Didn’t Happen.
Mr. Banks, who joined the de Blasio administration after a lifetime of agitating for the poor, has faced criticism even from onetime colleagues he still considers allies.The basic problem is insoluble.
Steven Banks made a lot of noise about the problem.
He was given the problem and is being blamed for not solving it.
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Times Insider
Gun Control | Gun Rights: Is Resolution Possible?
At a Times Insider event on Tuesday, Oct. 25, four New York Times journalists took part in a discussion about gun control and gun rights. Watch the discussion here — and read through the comments, posted in real-time, by New York Times readers.Unlimited gun rights is a mistake.
The ownership of guns must be limited.
The limits are subject to discussion.
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World
Brazilian Lawmaker Who Led Impeachment of President Is Arrested
Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress, is charged with corruption, accused of taking as much as $40 million in bribes for himself and allies.I don't know how the collapse of the Brazilian elite will play out.
I expect it will.
Politics will be messier than usual for a few years.
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N.Y. / Region
After Almost a Century, the 2nd Avenue Subway Is Oh-So-Close to Arriving
Service on the new line’s first leg should start in December, transit officials say. But the testing of some features could mean a delayed opening — one more for a project that dates to the 1920s.The elevated rail lines were a remnant of Tammany Hall.
A bit of old New York is passing.
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Well
The Falls Were Bad. The Diagnosis Was Worse.
My mother has a rare disease called P.S.P., and she can no longer walk or talk. But she’s still my mom.Dying is not fun.
Yet we don't want to rush the process.
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World
‘The Worst We Have Ever Seen’: Fewer Migrants, More Death
Even though half as many people attempted to cross the Mediterranean this year as last, almost as many people have died.The migrants are desperate.
There are fewer boats.
The smugglers get paid to send migrants to sea.
Getting them landed in Europe is a criminal offense.
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Books
Saving Nature, for the Joy of It
Michael McCarthy’s “The Moth Snowstorm” is a plea to support conservation lest we endanger our own primordial pleasure.I have seen a mayfly hatch.
There are many fewer bugs on the windshield.
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N.Y. / Region
As Evening Commute Gets Darker, It Also Gets More Dangerous, Officials Warn
Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce Thursday a new $1.5 million “dusk and darkness” safety campaign for New York’s drivers and pedestrians.Such campaigns have not worked in the past.
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N.Y. / Region
2 Stations on New 2nd Avenue Line May Not Be Ready by December
Though only one of three new stations is on schedule, Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said Wednesday the agency could meet its goal of opening the new line before the end of the year.Another month or two is not going to worry me.
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World
Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’
Miaomiao Lake Village is just one of the new communities built to accommodate the world’s largest environmental migration project. But residents are struggling to adapt.People are in surplus in China.
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Business Day
A Whistle Was Blown on ITT; 17 Years Later, It Collapsed
In the interim, the for-profit education company made billions off federal student aid, while students amassed mountains of debt and few job prospects.Closing a bad actor took time.
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U.S.
Where Are Women in F.B.I.’s Top Ranks?
The F.B.I. has faltered recently in adding female agents and putting more women into senior management, which the bureau has agreed is a problem.Things may be about normal.
That does not mean they are good.
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U.S.
Trove of Stolen Data Is Said to Include Top-Secret U.S. Hacking Tools
Investigators found that stolen documents in the possession of Harold T. Martin III included top-secret N.S.A. hacking tools that two months ago were offered for sale on the internet."Correlation does not imply causality."
The N.S.A. must prove its case.
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Travel
I Hopped a Plane Just for a Barbecue Sandwich. I’d Do It Again.
The Skylight Inn in North Carolina is hundreds of miles from my home in New York City, but the lure of its signature barbecue sandwich was impossible to resist.Good.
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