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World
Helicopter Carrying Injured Skier Crashes in Italy, Killing 6
The accident was a further blow to an area of central Italy struggling to emerge from earthquakes and a deadly avalanche that killed at least 15 people.The rescue service is badly stretched in Italy.
There are probably 29 dead at the hotel site.
Fog and freezing temperatures make icing conditions.
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World
Train in Southern India Derails, Killing Scores
Rescue workers struggled into the morning to pull the injured and dead from the train in the latest disaster for India’s overburdened railway.The description seems to be of a failure of a rail on the inside of a curve.
That kind of fault is easy to detect and repair.
Inspections are necessary along with prompt corrections of discovered faults.
India's rail system would be much safer with relatively modest investment in maintenance.
Major investment in reconstruction would be good.
Maintenance is necessary though there is nothing to name after a politician.
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Business Day
‘Basic Economy’ Airline Service Squeezing Business Travelers
When corporate travel managers insist on the least expensive flights, some employees must contribute their own money to make trips bearable.Business travelers are caught between two bottom lines, the airline's and their employer's.
Both want more profit.
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U.S.
Claims of Corrupt Immigration Contractors Go Unexamined, Investigators Say
Congress has liked the situation.
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U.S.
Storm That Roared Through the South Sweeps Into the Northeast
Fueled by two low-pressure systems, the storm is expected to reach its peak overnight, with heavy wind gusts.The storm's energy was expended in the Deep South.
On Long Island it was another Northeaster.
There was snow fifty miles inland.
http://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KFRG.html
http://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KBGM.html
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Business Day
Doubts Arise as Investors Flock to Crowdfunded Start-Ups
Advocates of a new law that aims to make it easier for businesses to raise capital worry whether investors are getting the information they need.Do your due diligence.
The risks are prohibitive.
Almost every project fails.
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U.S.
San Francisco Asks: Where Have All the Children Gone?
San Francisco has the lowest share of children of the country’s largest cities, a longstanding trend reinforced by a tech industry that skews young and single.Workers at tech startups do not have home lives.
San Francisco is suffering a "gold rush"
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Opinion
A Bold Plan to Prevent Homelessness
A proposed statewide rental subsidy would go a long way toward finding long-term solutions to making housing affordable.Forty six percent of the population is potentially homeless.
300,000,000 X .46 = 138,000,000 people are in need of good homes.
The number is greater than any city's resources.
Cities must shelter the ones that show up.
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Opinion
Repeal and Compete
A possible health care compromise would put conservative ideas to a test.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/health-care-fundamentals/
. . . "So here we go:
providing health care to those previously denied it is, necessarily, a
matter of redistributing from the lucky to the unlucky. And, of course,
reversing a policy that expanded health care is redistribution in
reverse. You can’t make this reality go away.
Left to its own
devices, a market economy won’t care for the sick unless they can pay
for it; insurance can help up to a point, but insurance companies have
no interest in covering people they suspect will get sick. So unfettered
markets mean that health care goes only to those who are wealthy and/or
healthy enough that they won’t need it often, and hence can get
insurance.
If that’s a state of
affairs you’re comfortable with, so be it. But the public doesn’t share
your sentiments. Health care is an issue on which most people are
natural Rawlsians: they can easily imagine themselves in the position of
those who, through no fault of their own, experience expensive medical
problems, and feel that society should protect people like themselves
from such straits.
The thing is, however,
that guaranteeing health care comes with a cost. You can tell insurance
companies that they can’t discriminate based on medical history, but
that means higher premiums for the healthy — and you also create an
incentive to stay uninsured until or unless you get sick, which pushes
premiums even higher. So you have to regulate individuals as well as
insurers, requiring that everyone sign up — the mandate, And since some
people won’t be able to obey such a mandate, you need subsidies, which
must be paid for out of taxes.
Before the passage and
implementation of the ACA, Republicans could wave all this away by
claiming that health reform could never work. And even now they’re busy
telling lies about its collapse. But none of this will conceal mass loss
of health care in the wake of Obamacare repeal, with some of their most
loyal voters among the biggest losers.
What they’re left with
is a health economics version of voodoo: they’ll invoke the magic of
the market to somehow provide insurance so cheap that everyone will be
able to afford it whatever their income and medical status. This is
obvious nonsense; I think even Paul Ryan knows that he’s lying like a
rug. But it’s all they’ve got."
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N.Y. / Region
End of the Line for Penn Station’s Departure Board
Amtrak disconnected the board, which has been replaced by video monitors. Its demise prompted nostalgia from some commuters, though not all.I have found the mechanisms fascinating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton_clock
https://www.google.com/search?q=automatons&source=
lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=
0ahUKEwjG6-rf597RAhXM8CYKHVvcDkMQ_AUICigD&biw=1024&bih=639
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