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Style

Mom, I Need a Break

By PHILIP GALANES | Jul 5th 2018

There’s only so much inter-parental drama a daughter can handle.

I read and try to reason.

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

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Style

This Is What Happens When Friends Fall in Love

By SAMMY SASS | Jul 6th 2018

She hoped their platonic bond would always outshine romantic attraction. Then her friend got a crush on someone else.

There is no where to go but on.

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World

Record-Smashing Heat Wave Kills 33 in Quebec

By DAN BILEFSKY | Jul 5th 2018

“It’s survival of the fittest,” said one man who managed to buy one of the last air-conditioning units at a Home Depot in Montreal.

A few more days.

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Style

I’m in My 40s, Child-Free and Happy. Why Won’t Anyone Believe Me?

By GLYNNIS MacNICOL | Jul 5th 2018

Since I turned 40 I’ve encountered disbelief that I could possibly be enjoying my own life. But then there’s the other unexpected gift of this age: just how little concern I have for others’ opinions.

I will.

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U.S.

Annapolis Shooting Suspect Sent Letter to Virginia Newsroom, Police Say

By MATT STEVENS | Jul 6th 2018

The Virginian-Pilot got a letter Thursday morning that the police believe was from Jarrod W. Ramos, the suspect in the killing of five people in a Maryland newsroom.

I do not know enough.
The shootings appear insane.

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Arts

Statue of Liberty Stamp Mistake to Cost Postal Service $3.5 Million

By AMANDA SVACHULA | Jul 5th 2018

The U.S. post office used a Las Vegas replica on its Lady Liberty “forever” stamps. It now owes the sculptor $3.5 million for copyright infringement.

I do not understand copyright law.

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

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

The U.S. Postal Service was badly served by their legal department.

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Well

Airline Crew Have Higher Cancer Rates

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR | Jul 5th 2018

Flight attendants had increased rates of breast, uterine, cervical, gastrointestinal, skin and thyroid cancers.

Yes.

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The Upshot

Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why.

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Jul 5th 2018

Women have more options, for one. But a new poll also shows that financial insecurity is altering a generation’s choices.

Fewer, later children are not a surprise too me.

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Movies

Scarlett Johansson’s Casting as Transgender Man Draws a Backlash

By SANDRA E. GARCIA | Jul 5th 2018

Transgender actors led the criticism of her role in the film “Rub & Tug,” saying such casting takes opportunities away from members of marginalized communities.

The persons who are objecting have no case.

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World

Japan Executes Cult Leader Behind Deadly 1995 Subway Attack

By AUSTIN RAMZY | Jul 6th 2018

Shoko Asahara, whose doomsday cult killed 13 people when it released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway, was put to death on Friday, Japanese media reported.

Judicial killings do not please me.

I will hope they will not be used again.



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