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Times Insider

What We’re Reading

Compiled by ANDREA KANNAPELL | Jun 6th 2017

Great reads around the web, from Glenn Thrush and others.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/#1344bc2a6b4a

Donald Trump is not charitable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/04/us/politics/paris-treaty-reactions.html

There is general agreement that Trump must be stopped.
"Who will bell the cat?"

http://glineq.blogspot.in/2017/05/the-hidden-dangers-of-fukuyama-like.html

I disagree with the fame Branko Milanovic uses.
There was no liberal attached to Capitalism in 1951.
The Republican party has never accepted Liberal-Capitalism.
It fights for Eighteenth Century  Laissez-faire Capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire
It has never accepted the Populist reforms of Woodrow Wilson and F.D.R.
Liberal-Capitalism is a mask to make Democracy acceptable to Socialists.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/wonder-woman-revisiting-the-comics-story-that-redefined-her.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COIgh87E5bM

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=xena+warrior+princess+full+episodes+

https://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/05/the-balancing-act-of-learning-to-bike-as-an-adult/527238/

Learning was not easy.
A bicycle is a joy.  
I failed to teach my niece.
My observation is that most do not ride comfortably or safely.
Bicycles are fashionable again.

Amazon and the Chinese own the market.

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Food

What to Cook This Week

By SAM SIFTON | Jun 4th 2017

Baking, roasting, grilling, steaming — it all takes practice. Let’s get started.

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

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N.Y. / Region

New York Police Officer in Critical Condition After Being Dragged by Car

By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH | Jun 4th 2017

The officer, responding to reports of shots fired in Brooklyn, was dragged for two and a half blocks.

Self inflicted injuries?

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Science

How a Galápagos Bird Lost the Ability to Fly

By JAMES GORMAN | Jun 1st 2017

Scientists have identified the genes that led to the Galápagos cormorant becoming Earth-bound

James Gorman should read and understand Charles Darwin.

N.Y. / Region

Police Commissioner Quietly Visits Injured New York Officer Dragged by Car

By SEAN PICCOLI | Jun 5th 2017

Officers were keeping vigil at Kings County Hospital Center for Officer Dalsh Veve, who was dragged by a stolen car in Brooklyn late Saturday.

politically astute.

Opinion

Choosing When and How to Die

Jun 3rd 2017

A story about a terminally ill Canadian man’s death by lethal injection, after he attended his own wake, evoked strong, and varying, reactions.

The able always have death as a choice.
The less than able should not loose that choice.

Food

Satay Bar Opens at Gansevoort Market

By FLORENCE FABRICANT | Jun 5th 2017

Skinny’s Satay Bar sells chicken skewers made popular at Philippe and Mr. Chow.

If you wish.

The Learning Network

Questions for: ‘The Empathetic Dog’

By CAROLINE CROSSON GILPIN | Jun 7th 2017

In what ways does ‘emotional contagion’ make dogs and people good partners?

Do what works.

Crosswords & Games

Advice to Writers

By DEB AMLEN | Jun 3rd 2017

Tom McCoy gives us some good advice.

http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/stephen-kings-top-20-rules-for-writers.html

U.S.

Your Guide to All the Comey News Heading Into His Testimony

By MIKAYLA BOUCHARD | Jun 7th 2017

James B. Comey has been at the center of the story of Russian meddling and the early months of the Trump administration. Here’s a look at how we got here.

The story will be told.


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