Monday, January 30, 2017

@12:12, 1/30/17

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1
Science

Advances Made Toward Growing Organs in ‘Chimera’ Animals

One research team demonstrated that human cells can help form pig tissues; another used mouse pancreases grown in rats to reverse diabetes in mice.

Early days.

2
U.S.

Days Before a Deadline, Trump Team Cancels Ads for Obama Health Plan

The ads would have run in the final days of the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period, which ends Tuesday. Many consumers tend to sign up just before the deadline.

The Trump administration does not want Obama care to grow.

3
Opinion

Drilling and Dirty Air in Los Angeles

The continued reliance on nonrenewable sources of energy like oil and natural gas is a health hazard.

The oil companies were there first.
Usually there is a reason when space is cheap.

4
N.Y. / Region

Child Welfare Unit Tied to Toddler’s Death Is Understaffed and Poorly Trained, Report Says


Children do not vote or pay taxes.

5
Job Market

Healing the Health Professional

An addiction counselor at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation says her job allows for creativity and spontaneity.

It is important to close the door on work every working day.

6
U.S.

In Private, Republican Lawmakers Agonize Over Health Law Repeal

An audio recording of a closed-door meeting reveals concerns that contrast with the confidence party leaders and President Trump express in public.

There is no acceptable substitute for Obama care.

Twenty million newly uninsured is not acceptable.

7
Real Estate

Homes for Sale in Brooklyn and Manhattan

This week’s properties are in the East Village, the Gramercy area and Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.

Make the children happy if you can.
We should please ourselves.

8
Technology

Generation X More Addicted to Social Media Than Millennials, Report Finds

Adults from the ages of 35 to 49 were found to spend an average of six hours and 58 minutes on social media per week, compared with six hours and 19 minutes for their younger counterparts.

The difference is small.

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U.S.

Nearly 8 Decades Later, an Apology for a Lynching in Georgia

The police chief in LaGrange, Ga., who is white, says he will apologize for the death of a young black man by a white mob in 1940.

Late, an apology by a man who was not there.

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U.S.

After Months of Care and Hope, a Woman Shot in Chicago Dies

Precious Land, a young mother who was shot in May, had been tended to by medical workers and her mother ever since being shot. In January, she died, adding to the city’s grim toll.

There is not much to do about a random event.
Gun control would help.

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