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The Learning Network
A War of Words: The Winners of the 2017 Vocabulary Video Contest
Nearly 900 teenagers from around the world sent in submissions. Here are our winners, runners-up and honorable mentions.Some learn.
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N.Y. / Region
Employee Accused of Records Leak in Eric Garner Case Resigns
In announcing the forced resignation, a city agency confirmed that leaked disciplinary records of the officer who placed Mr. Garner in a fatal chokehold, were authentic.Double jeaperdy
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Food
When the French Chef Becomes the Pitmaster’s Pupil
The new executive chef at Benoit in New York, Laetitia Rouabah, is teaming up with Hometown Bar-B-Que’s pitmaster, Billy Durney.It is about food.
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Opinion
Rep. Nunes Is a Lapdog in a Watchdog Role
The head of the House Intelligence Committee is trying to shift attention away from allegations of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.Representative Nunes is a coconspritor with Trump.
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N.Y. / Region
Freed From Custody, and Accused of Killing E.M.T. Three Weeks Later
The case of Jose Gonzalez, who is charged in the death of an emergency medical technician, shows the limitations judges have in setting bail.Jose Gonzalez is crazy.
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U.S.
California Today: Measuring the Snowpack From the Sky
Thursday: A new way to measure the Sierra snow, the governor gives an impassioned speech on health care, and readers weigh in on a controversial I.C.E. practice.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/california-measuring-snowpack.html
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U.S.
G.O.P. Panel Chairman Apologizes for Withholding Trump Data From Democrats
On Wednesday, Representative Devin Nunes said he had received information that Mr. Trump or aides may have been “incidentally” caught up in foreign surveillance.There was nothing incidental about reading the Russian mail.
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Books
‘The Pages of the Sea’: A Walcott Sampler
The words of Derek Walcott.It is time to find a shore.
A time shore, sometimes a beach.
Book near shelving water.
Type on paper,
Blinding sun and surf.
Books are for shelter.
Seek warmer water and sand in time.
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Opinion
Kitty Dukakis, on Veterans’ Mental Health
She praises a remedy that will help those veterans who have less than honorably discharges.Electroconvulsive therapy should be avoided.
The veterans, all the veterans, deserve treatment for the damage of war.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/us/politics/health-care-affordable-care-act.html
The vote has not taken place.
Opinion
Trump’s Global Gag Rule
The Population Connection Action Fund writes that we must not turn our backs on low-income women and girls here and abroad.No woman is required to be infertile.
All women should be able to control their fertility.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/opinion/the-scammers-the-scammed-and-americas-fate.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/opinion/06krugman.html
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