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Technology
Alibaba Had a Bright Quarter, Despite Clouds Over China’s Economy
Chinese stocks are slumping. The currency is down. But serving the country’s middle-class shoppers still seems to be rollicking good business.The clouds seem to be in the mind of Trump.
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World
Aide’s Diary Suggests Hirohito Agonized Over His War Responsibility
Entries in 1987 by the imperial chamberlain Shinobu Kobayashi suggest that the emperor ruminated about his role in World War II.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/world/asia/typhoon-jebi-japan-evacuations.html
The weather is giving Japan trouble.
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Opinion
Hidden Wounds of Yemen’s War
The war in Yemen has reduced the country’s people to destitution, forcing many to beg for survival.The Religious war continues.
I don't know what the conditions for an end to the war are.
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Climate
A Leader in the War on Poverty Opens a New Front: Pollution
A pastor is resurrecting the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement started by Martin Luther King Jr. He sees the climate and environment as issues on par with poverty and racism.Duke Energy is not welcoming change.
Trump has changed the mission of the E.P.A.
The local environmental organizations are trying to get active.
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Opinion
How College Basketball’s Rule Changes Could Backfire
By allowing players to hire agents, the N.C.A.A. may have hastened amateurism’s demise.It is time to pay colege athletes as the professionals they are.
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Reader Center
Faithful Catholics Respond After Abuse Scandals: Commitments to Change and Belief in Pope Francis
Catholic readers explain how and why they plan to strengthen the church from within.The Roman Catholic church has failed.
Abusing priests must be removed from contact with the laity.
If criminal charges are brought the charged must stand trial
by the civil authorities. Civil suits should be defended. If they are lost they should not be appealed.
Recruitment must change.
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Arts
Review: ‘The Innocents’ on Netflix Is a Stylish, Slender Teen Romance
This new series about a 16-year-old with a strange power is on the brooding side of the mutant-teenager spectrum.You could drag me to see it.
I will not search for it.
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Well
Depression in Mothers Impacts a Child’s Immune and Psychological Health
Children exposed to maternal depression respond like those under chronic stress.The child of a clinically depressed mother is under chronic stress.
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Technology
The Week in Tech: Democracy Under Siege
Microsoft busted Kremlin-linked hackers who broadened their targets in the United States. And Facebook, YouTube and others found new influence campaigns originating from Russia and Iran.People are learning.
Technology is not neutral.
Advertising media sell attention to eager buyers of any political oppinion.
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U.S.
A Rebirth for Alabama Democrats? Not So Fast.
Democrats were euphoric after Doug Jones’s Senate victory, but even he says “you’re not going to see a giant blue wave” in one of America’s reddest states.Trump and the Republicans have months to get into more trouble.
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