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Opinion
Trump: The Antithesis of a Boy Scout
“As a man who spent some very formative years in the Boy Scouts, I found Donald Trump’s speech to the national jamboree nauseating,” a reader says.Mark Remy had different leadership in the Scouts than I experienced.
Trump has no relationship to Scouting.
Hollywood did it better.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/
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World
Want a Job, Mate? Amazon Is Hiring Aussie Speakers
The American tech behemoth may be seeking to tailor its widely used voice recognition system to an Australian audience.Most voice recognition does not work as well as a Palm Pilot.
Neural networks could help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network
Artificial neural networks may be Amazon's method.
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Opinion
Citizen Action on Health Care
Is there anything that concerned Americas can do to help prevent massive losses of insurance coverage? Yes, there is.Kill the bill.
It is the House bill that is under consideration.
The question in the Senate is how can the bill be modified to make it acceptable.
There is no acceptable modification of the House bill.
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The Upshot
‘Skinny’ Obamacare Repeal Would Clash With Republicans’ Health Care Promises
The new option being considered by Senate leaders could plausibly be described as Obamacare repeal. But it would disrupt markets and raise premiums.https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/there-will-be-no-obamacare-replacement/
Paul KrugmanVerified account @paulkrugman
Also it's a Trojan horse, designed to get into conference with House and ram through something even worse
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U.S.
McCain Returns to Washington to Cast a Vote to Help the President Who Derided Him
Senator John McCain ambled into the Senate chamber less than two weeks after brain surgery to help put a health care bill over the line.No modification of the house bill
is acceptable to anyone sane.
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Opinion
A McCain-Biden Team to Fight Cancer?
A reader suggests a legacy for Senator John McCain: working with Joe Biden to make state-of-the-art cancer care available to all.McCain has rejected state-of-the-art cancer care for all.
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Podcasts
‘The Daily’: Jared Kushner Speaks
What we learned from the president’s son-in-law on Monday. Plus: what Betsy DeVos plans to do about sexual assault on college campuses.Senator Kirsten Gillibrand probably understands the problem better than Betsy DeVos.
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Food
Cook Those Blues Away
Making something for yourself, even a small thing, will help shake off the unease Monday brings.Yes
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Podcasts
‘The Daily’: On the Senate Floor
After the dramatic return of John McCain, the Senate narrowly agrees to begin work on repealing Obamacare — then votes down a plan to do exactly that.This system is not playing The Daily.
Considering destroying Obama-care is an error.
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Opinion
Donald Trump’s Dominatrix
Technically, he defeated her. Emotionally, not so much.Trump's preoccupation appears perverse.
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