1
Well
An Hour of Running May Add Seven Hours to Your Life
Runners tended to live about three more years than nonrunners, even if they run slowly or sporadically and smoke, drink or are overweight.The results are coming in.
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Science
In Ancient Guano, a Record of Penguin Disaster
Guano in lake sediment showed that an Antarctic penguin colony was devastated three times during the past 7,000 years by volcanic eruptions.Get what political traction you can.
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Climate
More Permafrost Than Thought May Be Lost as Planet Warms
A study suggests that as the planet warms toward 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, each degree Celsius of warming will lead to the thawing of 1.5 million square miles of permafrost.Most of the permafrost will melt in the next thirty years.
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Opinion
Treating Opioid Addiction
A psychiatrist writes that the addict resuscitated from an overdose is still in mortal danger.We can help an addict who wants to quit.
We cannot make an addict want to quit.
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Science
How Ants Figured Out Farming Millions of Years Before Humans
A new study traces the evolutionary history of ants throughout the Americas that cultivate fungus to feed themselves in underground chambers.Ants do not figure.
The ones hat did not get things right died.
It is called evolution by natural selection.
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N.Y. / Region
De Blasio Faces Tough Road Replacing Rikers With New Jails
The process for new construction is arduous, no one wants the jails in their backyard, and the mayor doesn’t want the fight as he gears up for a re-election campaign.Get Rikers Island a new set of guards.
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N.Y. / Region
Candidates Line Up Behind Legacy of Former Brooklyn District Attorney
Those running for the post once held by Ken Thompson, who died last year, are promising to build on his work to change the criminal justice system.Promises are cheap and easy.
I eagerly await action.
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Opinion
Video: Gut Hack
After a lifetime of intestinal problems, Josiah Zayner declared war on his own body's microbes.It worked.
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U.S.
Border Officers Nearly Double Searches of Electronic Devices, U.S. Says
There were nearly 15,000 searches at border crossings and airports from October to March — up from 8,383 a year before, Customs and Border Protection said.Silly and ugly.
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World
Spanish Court Clears Priest in Abuse Case Taken Up by Pope Francis
A Spanish court found no evidence that the Rev. Román Martínez had sexually abused an altar boy who later wrote to Pope Francis to detail his accusations.There will be other testimony.
The truth of the matter is not established.
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