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Your Money
Want Hopeful Signs From 2016? Look to Some of Its Aggravations
Glimmers of hope emerged on some consumer irritants of the year, including airline and rental-car fees, and college tuition transparency.Services I do not use.
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Times Insider
Good, Bad and Mad: Andrew Rosenthal on the News of the Year
Year-End Special: The opinion columnist Andrew Rosenthal on the good, bad and most maddening news of 2016.The year is hours from over.
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Times Insider
Forcing a District Attorney’s Hand
When the photographer cracked the door and inserted his lens, Mr. Valeska shifted his questioning (and gesturing) to a closet.Mr. Valeska is unsure of the law.
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U.S.
Inside the Trump Organization, the Company That Has Run Trump’s Big World
An examination of the company reveals a distinctly family business fortified with longtime loyalists that operates less on standardized procedures and more on a culture of Trump.I am not prosecuting Donald Trump.
I can believe he is guilty.
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Travel
Discounts at Caribbean Resorts, Even in High Season
Club Med, Holland America Line and a resort in the Bahamas are among those offering lower rates and spending credits.These resorts are feeling hungry.
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U.S.
Peabody Energy and Native Americans in Dispute Over Mining in Arizona
Navajo and Hopi leaders support the coal company, whose mine has provided jobs on reservations, but other tribe members say an expansion would destroy burial grounds.The Hopi and Navajo are getting a raw deal.
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U.S.
After 15 Big Mall Fights, Police See a Culprit: Teenage Boredom
The day after Christmas is one of the busiest shopping days of the year, luring shoppers looking for a bargain, and teenagers looking for trouble.OK
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Opinion
In a Los Angeles Neighborhood, Teenagers Report the News
For the working-class neighborhood of Boyle Heights, a newspaper written by youths might be more important than ever.The local news is always important to involved people.
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Opinion
To Make the World Better, Think Small
It is easy to become numb to suffering. Feeling empathy for individual victims can overcome the numbness.Yes.
Take action.
Do it in small ways.
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U.S.
‘Church Militant’ Theology Is Put to New, and Politicized, Use
Its use by a right-wing website and others has gone well beyond its longstanding meaning in the Catholic Church, one of spiritual warfare.The Trump coalition has an ugly membership.
Mr, Trump appears unwilling to distance himself from most of it.
Chris Christie appears to be out.
Happy New Year!
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Business Day
2016 Was a Year for Undoing Major Deals
Big takeovers by the likes of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, the Oreos maker Mondelez and the office supply retailer Staples were all consigned to the scrap heap.I am not sorry.
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Business Day
The Pitfalls of Trying to Read a Co-Worker’s Mind
A blind man is sensitive to his colleagues’ misconceptions. He then realizes he has his own.Communication helps.
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Business Day
After Uncertain Year, New Administration Portends Shift in Wall Street Scrutiny
With a businessman in the White House, markets will have to adjust to different views on what constitutes a violation of securities laws.Yes.
Things will be different.
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Magazine
Vivek Murthy Thinks We Need to Learn How to Deal With Stress
The surgeon general on the Affordable Care Act, the historic campaign to curb tobacco use and whether or not the president takes his advice.He has and will deal with stress.
The public will deal with more stress.
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Business Day
Walmart Slowly Makes Strides in E-Commerce
This year’s $3.3 billion acquisition of Jet.com will accelerate the push to compete with Amazon in 2017.Walmart has a destructive business model.
I do not wish them success.
Walmart is a near monopoly.
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Health
Can Psychiatric Drugs Blunt the Mother-Baby Bond?
Antidepressants and other medications can affect bonding, but letting an illness go untreated is far riskier for both mother and baby.All I can make of this is: Seek help.
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World
François Hollande Pardons French Woman Who Killed Abusive Husband
Jacqueline Sauvage, who was sentenced to 10 years for murdering her spouse, already had her sentence partly commuted by President François Hollande.I cannot read minds.
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Well
Why I Talk About My Daughter’s Body
I struggle with bulimia, and I want my 11-year-old to grow up with a healthier body image than my own.I need to move more.
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T Magazine
15 of T’s Most Enjoyable Stories in 2016
Great pieces that inspire, delight and make you think. (Just right for weekend reading.)
A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard
Technology
Why the Computing Cloud Will Keep Growing and Growing
The rapid expansion of internet-connected devices will put even more power in the hands of a few companies with the biggest cloud services.It is described as a race to the bottom.
It is also an end to privacy.
Any system can be hacked.
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