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Health
Black Americans Are Living Longer, C.D.C. Reports
Disparities between blacks and whites in death rates and life expectancy are disappearing over time, according to federal researchers.This is an optimistic view.
I would like to see a more detailed statistical image.
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U.S.
Video: U.S. Antimissile System ‘Operational’ in South Korea
The American antimissile system — Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, known as Thaad — in South Korea has been deemed operational. The system was deployed in response to inflating threats from North Korea.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/world/asia/thaad-north-korea-missile-defense-us.html
The deployment is an escalation of hostilities.
Trump is not successful in dealing with Kim Jong-un
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-un
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U.S.
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosopher of the Limits of Computers, Dies at 87
Professor Dreyfus’s 1972 book “What Computers Can’t Do” made him a scourge and eventually an inspiration to researchers in artificial intelligence.http://full-tilt.blogspot.com/2005/10/hubert-dreyfus-interview.html
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2006/P3244.pdf
"Inevitably, he said, artificial intelligence ran up against something called the common-knowledge problem: the vast repository of facts and information that ordinary people possess as though by inheritance, and can draw on to make inferences and navigate their way through the world."
This is the integrated world model that is acquired by rote
memorization in early childhood.
Young children memorize everything.
I will read further.
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Times Insider
Meet the Mexico Bureau Chief. (His Job Has Changed Since Trump.)
Azam Ahmed, who is bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, says the new spotlight on Mexico has helped reveal its contradictionsHuman intelligence works better than walls.
"Attention must be paid"
The Death of a Salesman
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Opinion
The Great Vietnam War Novel Was Not Written by an American
Literature about the war and its aftermath by Vietnamese and Vietnamese-Americans is plentiful and good. Too few Americans read it.Vietnam was a defeat for the American Military.
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U.S.
In Sign of Independence, Gorsuch Is Out of Court’s Labor Pool
Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, like Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., will not receive recommendations written by a group of law clerks in deciding which cases to hear.His mind is made up. Do not confuse him with the facts.
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World
Two Muslim Teenagers Killed in India Over Accusation of Cow Theft
They were kicked and hit with sticks by a mob of hundreds. The police said the attack was not motivated by religious concerns.India is a sovereign nation.
I am concerned though I believe I am powerless.
Nuclear war should concern everyone.
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U.S.
Trump’s Immigration Proposals ‘Conspicuously Absent’ From Spending Bill
Lawmakers from both parties rejected key elements of the president’s proposals to enforce the nation’s immigration laws more aggressively.Noted with interest.
Real Estate
$700,000 Houses in Connecticut, Michigan and Texas
A 1790 farmhouse in Roxbury, a midcentury house near Grand Rapids and a 1902 cottage in San AntonioWe would do better by designing and building.
Connecticut is worth another look.
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