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The Upshot
Job Disconnect: Male Applicants, Feminine Language
Listings for most fast-growing jobs use feminine language, which has been statistically shown to deter men.Self image is important to people.
If the posting promises to conflict with ones self image the posting will be ignored.
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Science
Absolutely Every Bit of Our Galaxy
With novel mathematical methods, scientists have come up with a new estimate for the mass of the Milky Way.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_mechanics
The article treats the two body problem.
A galaxy can be treated as a single body of low density.
By looking at the behavior, the path, of a single body, a star, in relation to a galaxy the masses of both are known. The paths of stars are not known with great precision so the masses are not precisely known. A 25% uncertainty is not precise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_mechanics
People have spent lifetimes playing with these problems.
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Science
The Stem-Cell Revolution Is Coming — Slowly
Where are the miracle treatments we were promised? A Nobel Prize-winning scientist explains.Congress has refused to allow the work to be funded in government laboratories.
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U.S.
In Texas, a Test of Whether the Voting Rights Act Still Has Teeth
A federal judge put Pasadena, Tex., under federal oversight after finding that city officials had discriminated against Latino voters. But an appeal is expected.The Supreme Court will decide eventually.
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N.Y. / Region
Funding Disparities Abound in New York’s Senior Centers, Report Finds
A study of more than 200 senior centers in the five boroughs found sharp inconsistencies in the amounts paid by the city to the nonprofit groups operating them.The Old Age program has not been rationalized.
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Opinion
Eric Cantor: What the Obama Presidency Looked Like to the Opposition
He started with an outstretched hand. Then that changed.Easy words.
Eric Cantor has a convenient memory.
The ACA is RomneyCare, an Heritage Foundation creation.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/health-care-fundamentals/
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Arts
Trump, Twitter and the Art of His Deal
President-elect Donald J. Trump has always been hooked on recognition. More than ever, tweeting has given him a fitting outlet."Mr. Trump may not follow a deliberate distraction strategy, but he doesn’t need one. He distracts instinctively. All he needs is a phone, the press and whatever thought just entered his mind."
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The Upshot
Republican Men Say It’s a Better Time to Be a Woman Than a Man
A survey shows 82 percent of women feel sexism is a problem today, while men underestimate the sexism felt by the women in their lives."The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."
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World
Life on the Farm Draws Some French Tired of Urban Rat Race
In towns like Saulx-les-Chartreux, small-scale farming is driven by a thriving market for organic food.In France the extant farmers don't want the competition.
In the U.S. the developers don't want the competition.
A final crop of houses covers unprofitable farms.
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Opinion
Retweeting Donald Trump
Imagine the benefits to the country if the president-elect’s messages were nice, not nasty.Kind words from the wrong mind and at the wrong time.
The fences are only strengthened.
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