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N.Y. / Region
New York Changes How It Tests for Lead in Schools’ Water, and Finds More Metal
In new tests after experts raised concerns, New York has found many more water outlets with significant levels of the metal than it did last year.New York City schools have been trying not to test positive for lead.
They are being properly called on the carpet for their behavior.
The sources of lead in the water must be removed.
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Science
The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say
Two studies suggest that the brain edits itself during sleep, paring back the tangle of neurons that grows in waking hours.The theory makes sense anecdotally.
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Opinion
Protect Our Children’s Brains
President Trump should follow the E.P.A.’s lead and get the pesticide chlorpyrifos out of our food.The E.P.A. regulates after careful consideration.
All of their regulations are fact based and politically neutral.
Striking them down will have dire consequences for public health.
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Your Money
Navigating the Many Offers of Free Tax Help
The Internal Revenue Service and commercial vendors provide free tax software, but the offerings often carry income restrictions, and features vary.If the annual taxes are complex it is best to pay an accountant to do them.
The help desk has only a rudimentary knowledge of tax law.
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World
Brazilian Tycoon Eike Batista Is Arrested After Returning Home
Mr. Batista, once Brazil’s richest person, had been a fugitive since Jan. 26, when police discovered he had gone to the United States.Brazil is corrupt.
Only the corrupt can live and thrive there.
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Business Day
U.S. Starts Year With Job Surge, but Pay Gains Are Weak
Employers added 227,000 to payrolls, but pay gains were scant despite increases in minimum-wage laws. The jobless rate ticked up to 4.8 percent.There is no competition in the labor market.
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Education
Bernie Sanders Talks Tuition, Free for All
His movement seems to be gaining momentum.Public Universities only.
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World
Office of South Korea’s Embattled Leader Blocks Search of Presidential Compound
Prosecutors investigating President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal had a warrant but were told they needed presidential consent to search the offices.Properly so.
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World
Paris Turns to Flower-Growing Toilet to Fight Public Urination
The city is testing the Uritrottoir, a urinal that looks more like a modernist flower box than a receptacle for human waste.Silly. More urinals for men and women.
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U.S.
For Andrew Puzder, Labor Nominee, Fighting for Owners’ Interests Began Early
As a young lawyer, Mr. Puzder led the defense for his boss, a famous mob lawyer and casino owner accused of squandering millions from his workers’ pension funds.There is no right to do business.
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