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N.Y. / Region
She Lost Years to Addiction and Depression. Now 54, She Has Work to Do
Robin Thompson still lives near the streets where her struggles began, but with help, she’s resisting old temptations and making up for lost time.She has found a way to live.
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Opinion
The Scope of Hate in 2016
While there’s no comprehensive data yet on hate crimes since the election, here are some things we know.Let the studies continue.
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Opinion
The Bathroom Solution
A reader writes about gender disparity in the allocation of bathrooms and stalls.The fights are not about practicality.
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Opinion
Feminism Lost. Now What?
“It’s amazing to me the lightning speed at which these issues have receded. The story is the total omission of women.”Equal pay for equal work.
A child care premium paid as a tax credit.
There must be a next generation.
Income based support for public schools.
Educated children are a public good.
The franchise is a civil right. Prisoners receive absentee ballots.
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Business Day
Takata Said to Be Close to Deal With U.S. Over Deadly Airbags
The auto parts maker is nearing a settlement with federal prosecutors over airbags that may explode and have been linked to many deaths and injuries, according to two people briefed on the matter.A corporation cannot be guilty.
What is wanted is a change of policy.
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World
As U.K. Tightens Voting Rules, Critics Say Labour and the Poor Will Suffer
The government announced plans to fight voter fraud by requiring voters to show official ID, tightening rules on absentee ballots and preventing political activists from handling such ballots.Limiting the franchise is not a good thing.
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Opinion
Donald Trump, Race and Identity Politics
Trump and the people he has appointed “are woefully ignorant of the issue of racial equality,” a reader writes."All politics is local."
The Republicans are masters of fright.
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Technology
Daily Report: Inside Snopes, a Fighter of Fake News
A Times reporter visited the San Diego offices of Snopes, the longstanding debunker of misinformation that recently partnered with Facebook.Snopes conflicts with the Facebook business model.
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Travel
An Orangutan Expert Says Now Is the Time to Visit Indonesia
According to Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, the president of Orangutan Foundation International, tourism benefits the primates and local people.Ok
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Business Day
Gazprom Answers Antitrust Charges in Proposals to European Commission
Russia’s state-owned energy company, which supplies a third of the European Union’s gas, is accused of overcharging customers in Eastern and Central Europe.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(business)
Gazprom is a monopoly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
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