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Business Day
Desperately Plugging Holes in an 87-Year-Old Dam
A crucial dam struggles to keep things moving as improvements are continually delayed — a symbol of the nation’s infrastructure problems.Underfunding the Army Corps of Engineers has been a mistake.
The mistake will not be corrected soon.
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Well
In Toy Ads and on the Catwalk, Models With Down Syndrome
Advertisers say featuring models with Down syndrome helps them to communicate their values and connect with customers who value inclusiveness.The merchandisers are wrong.
Millennial parents have low opinions of their children.
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Magazine
Running Into Danger on an Alaskan Trail
A confrontation with a wild black bear.Do not be food or a threat.
Better not to meet a bear.
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World
After Window-Washing Deaths, a Debate Over Migrants’ Rights in Hong Kong
Reports of domestic workers falling to their deaths this year have added urgency to a long-running debate about the city’s reliance on low-cost migrant labor.Window washing in a highrise is a profession.
Require a license.
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U.S.
In a California Valley, Healthy Food Everywhere but on the Table
The Salinas Valley, known as the salad bowl of the nation, is struggling with poverty and malnutrition among the migrant farmworkers who harvest its crops.Gather the culls. Make them available.
Supply good water.
There is nothing unhealthy about starch.
Sugar is toxic.
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U.S.
Gun Owners ‘Can Breathe Again’: Trump’s Win Emboldens Advocates
Supporters of the Second Amendment, ecstatic that Hillary Clinton lost, anticipate an expansion of gun rights with a Trump administration and a Republican-led Congress.The second amendment must be nullified.
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Opinion
Trump Reassures the Media (For Now)
The president-elect says journalists will be “happy” about his First Amendment views. The vice president-elect has actually defended a free press.This is a new song.
The song will change again.
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Business Day
Auto Safety Regulators Seek a Driver Mode to Block Apps
Voluntary guidelines will be issued amid a spike in traffic fatalities in the last two years.I will believe it when I see it.
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Science
Your Phone Carries Chemical Clues About You, but There Are Limits to Using Them
Researchers could make inferences about people from the chemicals they left on their phones, but there could be problems with using them in criminal investigations and court cases.An early problem for the police is finding a group of possible suspects.
Chemical identification does as well as any method.
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N.Y. / Region
2 Workers Killed in Construction Accident in Queens
A steel beam fell from a crane on a construction site in the Briarwood neighborhood, where work was being done on an apartment complex, officials said.It is probably just an accident.
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Well
Born to Move
Are we fighting thousands of years of evolutionary history and the best interests of our bodies when we sit all day?Yes.
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World
Shearing Sheep at the End of the World
On Isla Grande, gauchos might not see another human for weeks, but around this time each year, they drive their sheep home to ranches for shearing.It is easy for me to be too much alone.
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Science
Mercury Is Shrinking, a ‘Great Valley’ Shows
The canyon is about the size of Montana and twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, and the planet’s cooling may have led to its formation.The crust buckled inward.
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World
A Call to Prayer, or Noise Pollution? Israel Targets Mosque Loudspeakers
In response to noise complaints, a proposal backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would ban the use of loudspeakers by mosques summoning the faithful.My parents first house was by the New York Central main line.
I was a young child there.
I do not remember the noise of the trains.
The argument is artificial.
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U.S.
A Crumpled School Bus Leaves Chattanooga Dazed
At least five students in Tennessee died, and another 12 were still hospitalized, the authorities said. The bus driver was charged with vehicular homicide.Let the investigators work.
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Business Day
A Bleak Outlook for Trump’s Promises to Coal Miners
The president-elect promised jobs, but market forces, automation and pollution concerns may block coal’s comeback.Coal will not be back.
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U.S.
After Obama Push for Clemency, Hints of Reversal Likely to Come
Mr. Obama is on pace to be the first president since Lyndon B. Johnson to leave office with a federal prison population smaller than the one he inherited.I think it an achievement to release these prisoners.
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U.S.
White Nationalists Celebrate ‘an Awakening’ After Donald Trump’s Victory
Hundreds of members of an extremist movement, feeling surprised but validated, gathered in Washington to herald a moment of political ascendance.The White Nationalists will be difficult to silence.
I may need to shave.
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Business Day
China Arrests 3 Workers From the Australian Casino Operator Crown Resorts
Australia said it had been told of the official arrest of the three workers, who were among 18 held last month in an inquiry into the promotion of gambling in China."A free lunch" has become a problem.
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World
New Quake Tests Resilience, and Faith, in Japan’s Nuclear Plants
The 7.4-magnitude tremor prompted some fearful memories, but the Fukushima Daini and Daiichi power stations seemed to respond well.TEPCO was lucky this time.
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