@19:17, 10/17/18

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/on-politics-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-iran.html

The Democrats seem to be doing the right things.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-science-dna.html

Adult lactose tolerance.

"“There are often many layers of uncertainties in our findings,” said Anna Di Rienzo, a human genetics professor at the University of Chicago. “Being able to communicate that level of uncertainty to a public that often just sees things in black and white is very, very difficult.”

As a step toward changing that, Dr. Di Rienzo has helped organize a meeting of social scientists, geneticists and journalists at Harvard next week to discuss the social implications of the field’s newest tools.

Participants have been promised that the meeting will be restricted to some three-dozen invitees and that any remarks made there will be confidential.

And David L. Nelson, a Baylor College of Medicine geneticist who is president of the human genetics society, says it will not stay completely quiet on the issue, promising a statement later this week.

“There is no genetic evidence to support any racist ideology,” he said."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/trump-painting-republicans.html

I cannot imagine such a gathering.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/menendez-hugin-prostitutes-fact-check.html

People hear what they want to hear.  
The F.B.I. looked and found no evidence.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/christine-hallquist-vermont.html

Let the Republicans burn with a gem like flame of purity.
I am happy with the foggily defined progressive coalition found on the left side of the aisle. 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/trump-china-shipping.html

The treaty has not been modified by the negotiated process.
I suspect that the initiation of the process has been blocked by the Republican party.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/prudential-financial-regulation-trump-administration.html

Some think finance should be exciting.
The crashes are part of the excitement.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/arizona-marquez-peterson-congress.html

That hard gem like flame of purity has further alienated the Hispanics.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/middleeast/pompeo-khashoggi-murder.html

Keep the money flowing.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/nyregion/florida-storm-victims-voting.html

Make a special effort.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/world/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia.html

"Any reporter who has covered a humanitarian disaster should understand what Stalin is once reported to have said to a fellow Soviet official: The death of one person is a tragedy, but the death of one million is a statistic."

"Psychologists have repeatedly found that people experience a greater emotional reaction to one death than to many, even if the circumstances are identical. Perversely, the more victims, the less sympathy that people feel.The effect even has a name: collapse of compassion. It’s not that we can’t care about a million deaths, psychologists believe. Rather, we fear being overwhelmed and switch off our own emotions in pre-emptive self-defense."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/virginia-race-comstock-wexton-facebook-attack-ads.html

Social media is not fixed yet.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-dna-test.html

Trump should pay.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-dna-test.html

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