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Business Day
Oil Prices’ Decline Deepens as a Seemingly Ungovernable Country’s Output Rises
West Texas intermediate crude closed at $43.23, a 52-week low, as Libya’s production undermines OPEC’s effort to hold down production.OPEC is disabeled for the moment.
If and when the disorders in Iraq and Syria burn out the world price of petroleum will rise.
Production will be maintained by the return of the brakken formation and tar sands more expensive crude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_Formation
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T Magazine
Audrey Tautou’s Very Private Self-Portraiture
Over the last 15 years, the actress has built up a practice as a photographer. Her work goes on view for the first time in France next month.Self promotion has a place.
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World
Germany Arrests 36 Accused of Hateful Postings Over Social Media
The people were arrested in a coordinated campaign across 14 states. Most cases concerned politically motivated right-wing incitement, police said.Germany is.
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U.S.
Finders Keepers? An Ohio Goodwill Returns $97,000 Mistakenly Donated With Clothes
A surprising number of people carry vast sums in cash, lose it — and then get it returned by Good Samaritans.A feel good story.
There are usually a few every summer.
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N.Y. / Region
Art Forger Is Accused of Selling Fake Prints. Again.
Vincent Lopreto, who went to prison for a forgery scheme, started selling fake Damien Hirst prints just 15 days after being released, the authorities said.Damien Hirst made it easy.
That does not make it right.
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World
The Secret Room, the Nazi Artifacts and an Argentine Mystery
Investigators searching a home outside Buenos Aires found a door behind a bookcase, and more than 75 artifacts from the Third Reich.Seventy plus years later the iconography is still hot.
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Magazine
Tired of ‘Winning’? You Should Be
At some point, it ceased to be about success or achievement. Now it’s all about looking powerful, at any cost.Another voice in opositon reveals itself.
Trump is contesting himself.
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N.Y. / Region
At Colleges, Demographic Changes Everywhere but the Top
A national survey of higher education leaders found little shift in who is in the president’s office, as well as plenty of concern about budgets.There is no surprise in this report.
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U.S.
A Look at Earlier Collisions Involving Navy Vessels
Maritime collisions involving two ships are rare, but they do happen. And some of them have been deadly.A sad list.
The Navy should give more attention to ship handeling.
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N.Y. / Region
Man Who Jumped From Ambulance Says It’s New York City’s Fault
Yaugeni Kralkin, who leapt while drunk, is suing the city, the Fire Department and four emergency services workers for not stopping him.I can hope the judge throws the suit out of court.
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