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U.S.

Alan Dershowitz Says Martha’s Vineyard Is ‘Shunning’ Him Over Trump

By NIRAJ CHOKSHI | Jul 3rd 2018

His comparison to McCarthyism drew online mockery. He told the local paper, “This is supposed to be a place where you leave your politics at the door.”

Trump does a good job of attacking himself.

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Well

Probiotics May Be Good for Your Bones

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR | Jul 3rd 2018

Older women who took a probiotic supplement had less weakening of bones than women who didn’t take the supplements.

Waiting for certainty will not help now.
Take the supplements and discontinue them if they do not help.

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T Magazine

How to Detox Your Scalp for Healthier Hair

By KARI MOLVAR | Jul 3rd 2018

Exfoliating your roots — with everything from charcoal scrubs to sea salt cleansers — delivers a deeper kind of clean.

Do what works.

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Books

The Woman Whose Hair Frightens Iran

By RAFIA ZAKARIA | Jul 3rd 2018

The exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad writes about her protest against compulsory hijabs in “The Wind in My Hair.”

I would read the book out of curiosity about Iran.

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Opinion

Away From the Bay: Alternatives to San Francisco

Jul 3rd 2018

There’s a whole big, largely more affordable country out there, a reader writes.

The San  Francisco area is the mother load of fashionable exploitation.  The culture is the key.

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World

Killing of African Giraffe Sets Off Anger at ‘White American Savage’ Who Shot It

By CHRISTINE HAUSER | Jul 3rd 2018

Photographs of an American woman with the giraffe she shot in South Africa last year have fueled an online debate about big-game trophy hunting.

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

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New York

Jersey City Makes a Statement With Fireworks Over the Hudson

By RICK ROJAS | Jul 3rd 2018

Officials in Jersey City aim to use Independence Day festivities as a way to declare their grand ambitions for the future.

It will be a dramatic show on both the east and west sides.

I will not see it.

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Sports

The East Needs Some Beasts

By MICHAEL POWELL | Jul 3rd 2018

LeBron James as a Laker makes the Western Conference absurd. Time for most of the East to become the Far Eastern Conference.

"Follow the money."

https://nytimes.stats.com/mlb/standings.asp

East
Team	W	L	Pct	GB	Home	Road	East	Central	West	Last 10	Streak
Boston	58	29	.667	-	28 - 12	30 - 17	29 - 12	6 - 6	17 - 10	7 - 3	W 2
NY Yankees	55	28	.663	1	32 - 13	23 - 15	20 - 14	11 - 2	16 - 6	5 - 5	W 1
Tampa Bay	42	42	.500	14.5	23 - 17	19 - 25	18 - 19	9 - 3	13 - 12	8 - 2	L 1
Toronto	40	45	.471	17	23 - 22	17 - 23	12 - 20	12 - 7	8 - 15	6 - 4	W 1
Baltimore	24	60	.286	32.5	12 - 29	12 - 31	9 - 23	8 - 12	1 - 15	2 - 8	L 1

 

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T Magazine

9 Reads Almost as Satisfying as Taking a Vacation

Jul 3rd 2018

We’ve rounded up some of T’s most transportive stories for those who need a break from their surroundings, or from the news cycle.

Not just now.

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Health

Lots of Successful Women Are Freezing Their Eggs. But It May Not Be About Their Careers.

By HEATHER MURPHY | Jul 3rd 2018

The decision to head to the fertility clinic for women in a study had more to do with an absence of suitable men and little to do with getting ahead at work.

The problem of mate choice is not one I want to solve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah%27s_Children

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

Robert Heinlein had no children.

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