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Well

Pregnant Mothers Need Whooping Cough Vaccine

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR | Apr 6th 2017

The Tdap vaccine is highly effective in protecting newborns against pertussis in the first two months of life, but less than half of women get it.


Yes.     Mercury free vaccines are available at a price.

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Arts

No Extra Screening of Jurors in Bill Cosby Case, Judge Rules

By JON HURDLE | Apr 4th 2017 

Plea bargaining continues.

3

Opinion

Trumpcare 2.0

By DAVID LEONHARDT | Apr 5th 2017

The only bills Republican leaders have come up with so far would deprive millions of people of health insurance.

There are no takers.

4

U.S.

Trying to Revive Health Bill, G.O.P. Adds $15 Billion for Sickest Americans

By ROBERT PEAR | Apr 6th 2017

Under intense pressure from President Trump to revive legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans added a fund to help insurers pay the most expensive claims.

The effort is aborted.

5

Technology

Twitter Sues the Government to Block the Unmasking of an Account Critical of Trump

By MIKE ISAAC | Apr 6th 2017

Twitter said it had a received a summons to reveal the owner of a so-called rogue account, whose owners say they are dissident current or former government workers.

"Turn about is fair play"

The Trump administration is in no position to complain.

6

Real Estate

$2 Million Homes in California, Massachusetts and Texas

By VIVIAN MARINO | Apr 5th 2017

A Victorian condominium in San Francisco; a 1958 colonial in Falmouth, Mass.; and a brick-and-stone house in University Park, Tex.

Victorian is expensive to build.
It is labor intensive.

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N.Y. / Region

Valuable Sacred Texts Stolen From Brooklyn Synagogue

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI | Apr 3rd 2017

The police said three burglars took the property, which was valued at $223,000, from Congregation Maase Rokach in Borough Park.

The resale market is vanishingly small.
There will be a ransom demand.


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U.S.

No Rest for the Wary: First Family’s Needs Strain Secret Service

By NICHOLAS FANDOS | Apr 6th 2017

The president’s protectors are underresourced and morale is low, and the globe-trotting Trumps are placing ever greater demands on them.

Taxes will rise.

Another promise broken.

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Books

A Great Indian Novel Emerges From Another Tongue

By PARUL SEHGAL | Apr 6th 2017

Vivek Shanbhag’s “Ghachar Ghochar” is the first novel translated into English from an Indian language spoken by 40 million people and published here.

Sooner is better.     As soon as you can is best.

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Health

In a Win for Brownback, Kansas House Votes No on Expanding Medicaid

By ABBY GOODNOUGH and MITCH SMITH | Apr 3rd 2017

A loss for Kansas.
Oz is far away.


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