Wednesday, January 24, 2018

@17:45, 1/24/18

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Sports

Oklahoma’s Trae Young, the Superstar Nobody Saw Coming

Freshman Trae Young began the year unheralded. Now he leads in points and assists and has single-handedly made Oklahoma-Kansas a marquee matchup.

Women's College Basketball
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The Learning Network

Teaching Activities for: ‘Inside Amazon Go, a Store of the Future’

What details make the Amazon Go store different from a traditional grocery store?

Nothing is fresh or local.

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Business Day

Loan Program Plans to Offer Students Prepaid Bank Cards

The cards would hold loan amounts that exceeded tuition, giving borrowers another way to pay expenses — and financial firms a peek at spending patterns.

Regulation should forbid the sale or other distribution of the data.

4
Opinion

What Homoerotic Videos Can Teach Us About Modern Russia

How teenagers dancing in their underwear triumphed over Russian officialdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasimir_Malevitch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reds_(film)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/   Beatty got close to the facts.

John Reed has a window at the Lampoon.

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Business Day

Katerra, a Construction Start-Up, Raises $865 Million

The new round, led by SoftBank’s enormous Vision Fund, will bolster a company that is trying to standardize the construction of offices and apartments.

Standardization has often failed in construction.

Building codes try to get it right.

We need to talk about design.

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

6
World

Mysterious Bank Deposits Fueled Suspicion of Former C.I.A. Officer

Authorities detected hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexplained deposits, but found no proof linking Jerry Chun Shing Lee to a devastating intelligence breach.

I suspect there are errors in the case.  
I have no way to know where.

Assassination of individuals is easy.
Ian Flemming made a good living writing about assassination.

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Business Day

Coal’s Decline Seems Impervious to Trump’s Promises

Domestic demand continues to fall as coal is displaced by natural gas in power plants. The impact is being felt at a Pennsylvania mine about to close.

Yes.

8
Fashion & Style

Finally, How to Wear a Beret Without Laughing

Here, looks to steal from the street-style peacocks at the men's wear shows.

Skip the Galois and the holder.

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Arts

Watch Unearthed Footage of One of Leonard Bernstein’s Last Rehearsals

In a previously unseen video, Bernstein tells Tanglewood students that Copland’s music “should be that casual, and that American.”

https://bernstein.classical.org/

https://bernstein.classical.org/#

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Arts

The Moment of Seduction

A scene from the choreographer Dean Moss’s “Petra,” which explores race, desire and power — bitter tears and all.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeV0Cm7ATg5/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_legacy

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


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