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World

Afraid of Falling? For Older Adults, the Dutch Have a Cure

Text by CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE | Jan 2nd 2018

The Dutch, like people elsewhere, are living longer than in previous generations. Courses that teach fall prevention, and how to fall correctly, are gaining popularity.

Practical people.

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Magazine

Can an Algorithm Tell When Kids Are in Danger?

By DAN HURLEY | Jan 2nd 2018

Child protective agencies are haunted when they fail to save kids. Pittsburgh officials believe a new data analysis program is helping them make better judgment calls.

No. 
An algorithm cannot make a final decision on danger to children. 
It can filter much of the noise.

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Science

To Sate China’s Demand, African Donkeys Are Stolen and Skinned

By RACHEL NUWER | Jan 2nd 2018

A gelatin made from donkey hides is prized as a traditional Chinese remedy. Now slaughterhouses have opened in Africa, and domestic animals are disappearing from villages.

Exploitation of people offends me.
Theft is not excusable.

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U.S.

President Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid to Palestinians

By MICHAEL TACKETT and PETER BAKER | Jan 2nd 2018

President Trump used Twitter on Tuesday to rail against the Palestinians and Pakistan, threatening to withhold aid, while also attacking a familiar target: Hillary Clinton.

Donald Trump is evil.

https://www.juancole.com/2018/01/israeli-ruling-palestinian.html

War.

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Books

We Are What We Read

By JOHN SUTHERLAND | Jan 2nd 2018

Yes.

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World

South Korea Proposes Border Talks With North Korea After Kim’s Overture

By CHOE SANG-HUN | Jan 2nd 2018 

Keep talking.

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Opinion

Erica Garner and How America Destroys Black Families

By KASHANA CAULEY | Jan 2nd 2018

She didn’t just fight against police brutality. She also resisted the forced destruction of black families by the state.

Erica Garner's causes should not fade.

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Food

Scandals Keep Breaking, but Restaurateurs Have Yet to Own Up

By PETE WELLS | Jan 2nd 2018

The silence from chefs and owners has been deafening, but they need to admit and address the sexual predation that seems endemic to the business.

# Times Up

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World

Taiwan Dentist Is Ordered to Pay Mother, Who Financed His Education, Nearly $1 Million

By CHRIS HORTON | Jan 2nd 2018

Do not sue the children.

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World

Hard-Liners and Reformers Tapped Iranians’ Ire. Now, Both Are Protest Targets.

By THOMAS ERDBRINK | Jan 2nd 2018

The demonstrations that have spread to dozens of Iranian cities were set off by miscalculations in a long-simmering internal power struggle.

https://www.juancole.com/

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