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World
China Charges Taiwan-Born Activist With ‘Subverting State Power’
The mainland authorities have never leveled that charge against someone from Taiwan before, and his formal arrest adds a new strain to tensions between Beijing and Taipei.Beijing is feeling nervous.
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Real Estate
$1.9 Million Homes in South Carolina, Oregon and Vermont
An updated 1815 house in Charleston; a contemporary home in Bend; and a Queen Anne-style house in Montpelier.Domestic architecture is a developed art.
Build or buy there are choices to be made and resources to be considered.
It is like meal preparation.
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Opinion
Safe Abortions, and the Adoption Option
A reader says abortions will always be done, regardless of law, and another speaks of the equally difficult decision of placing a child for adoption.Abortion or placing a term child for adoption or raise that child. These are personal choices every potential mother faces. The state should not interfere.
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N.Y. / Region
Frances Sliwa, a One-Woman Kitchen Cabinet for the Guardian Angels, Dies at 93
Mrs. Sliwa became the bookkeeper, administrator and publicist for the red-beret-wearing neighborhood patrol group her son, Curtis, formed in New York in 1979.A good life.
Policing is part of urban life.
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Food
Happy Memorial Day
Before the feast, reflect on the toll war takes on soldiers and their families.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/us-veterans-use-greek-tragedy-to-tell-us-about-war.html
"He kept us out of war." Wilson reelection 1916
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Opinion
A Haven From Trauma’s Cruel Grip
In California, a national model for a place to “come and be safe and sit with the horror and not be judged.”Science
In Antarctica, Scientists Are Lured to a Frozen Desert
The McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica may be Earth’s closest equivalent to a Martian landscape.The Learning Network
Editorial Contest Winner | ‘The Asian Misnomer: What the Affirmative Action Debate Misses’
We are honoring each of the Top 10 winners of our Fourth Annual Student Editorial Contest by publishing an essay a day. Here, an essay by Matteo Wong, age 16.Opinion
Lies vs. B.S.
Even if Donald Trump’s untruths are not meant to persuade, they are typically intended to distract people from reality.U.S.
Trump Tweets ‘Covfefe,’ and a Waiting World Supplies the Punchlines
The debate over what the president meant effectively consumed Twitter — or at least a certain segment of insomniac Beltway types, often journalists and political operatives.|
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