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Magazine
Judge John Hodgman on Fooling Babies
It’s funny, and it’s easy. But is it O.K.?It should not be done.
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Crosswords & Games
‘You Are Tough. You Have to Be This Boy's Mother. You Can Do a Saturday Puzzle.’
In the NICU, a life hangs in the balance and a new mother practices self-care with crossword puzzles.Do what works.
I have never found joy in crossword puzzles.
Spelling has always been a horror.
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Opinion
Mind Control in China Has a Very Long History
Repression by the Communist Party stems from an old Chinese belief that it’s the state’s role to set citizens straight.It is rather like hetro camp.
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U.S.
Without a Trump Infrastructure Plan, an Aging Ohio Bridge Is in Limbo
President Trump promised to replace the bridge. It is one of the many projects across the country in jeopardy without a federal infrastructure bill.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spence_Bridge
"Build it they wont"
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Travel
Five Tips to Make Traveling With a Food Allergy Easier
Managing a food allergy is tricky when you travel, but these precautionary steps can help you explore culinary culture and stay healthy.So far I have developed no food allergies.
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Books
How Bing Crosby Changed the Course of Pop Music
The second volume of Gary Giddins’s “Bing Crosby” traces the singer’s career through the war years.I have little desire to read Giddins's book.
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Books
A New Life of the Bebop Legend Dexter Gordon, Written by His Wife
“Sophisticated Giant,” by Maxine Gordon, recalls the restive musical innovator who left an indelible mark on the world of jazz.A loving portrait.
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New York
How a Push to Legalize Pot in N.J. Became a Debate on Race and Fairness
New Jersey has linked a proposal to clear hundreds of thousands of past criminal convictions with its effort to legalize recreational marijuana.Stop whining and pass the bill.
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Books
Delicacies of the Dining Car
“Food on the Move,” edited by Sharon Hudgins, is a collection of essays exploring the glamorous past and occasionally delectable present of dining on trains around the world.Motivations matter.
Food can be a major distraction.
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World
Chinese Scientist Who Says He Edited Babies’ Genes Defends His Work
The scientist, He Jiankui, said at a conference on Wednesday that his actions were safe and ethical. Some of his colleagues seemed unconvinced.People who believe in a creator will never be happy with The usurpation of creation.
People can do better than natural selection.
People can also deselect and go backwards.
Devolve is a word.
People, as a group, make mistakes and correct them.
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Books
A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose
Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s “The Circuit” is a poet’s-eye view of tennis in 2017.https://nytimes.stats.com/wcbk/scoreboard.asp
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Opinion
The Hard Road to Conservative Reform
Should a post-Trump conservative politics seek to learn something from his ascent or simply aim to repudiate him?There could be a conservative party.
The GOP is not it.
At this time there are no rational conservatives.
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Reader Center
Starving Babies, Molotov Cocktails and Death Threats: One Photojournalist’s Venezuelan Reality
Meridith Kohut, an American photographer who frequently freelances for The Times, feels “a moral obligation to stay” and bear witness to the horrors of Venezuela’s economic collapse.A place in need of a"new economic policy".
Oil is not magic.
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Magazine
When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty, and When Is It a Trap?
Sometimes it manages conflict and preserves our freedom; sometimes it does precisely the opposite. We may be obligated to sort out which is which.ZZ Packer has put her finger on a problem.
Her analysis is wrong.
The split she proposes between the intimate conflict resolution of daily life and tribal conflict resolution expressed as politics exists and is the problem.
The mechanism of conflict resolution is the rule of law.
The rule of law has been limited in the U.S. to physical
actions. Courts exist to draw the boundaries.
Governments are structures of law that may be modified.
They fail either through malice or ignorance.
Failure of governance traps people.
To trap people by malice is evil.
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Books
A Modern History of China, in Photographs
“Magnum China” collects decades-worth of images by Western photographers of a nation gripped by political conflict.The volume is limited by its medium.
Meaningful photo-interpretation requires more knowledge than can be packed into a single volume.
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Books
Nudge Nudge: New Books by Eric Idle and John Cleese
In “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life,” Idle remembers the Pythons and other famous friends; in “Professor at Large,” Cleese revisits his years at Cornell.Mythic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
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Lens
Unraveling the Mysteries of Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’
The history behind Ms. Lange’s photograph of Florence Owens Thompson has intrigued academics and photographers for decades. But a new book sheds fresh light on the portrait’s little-explored details.Homeless is an identity.
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Movies
Onscreen, Women Are Giving Patriarchy the Pink Slip
In “Widows,” “House of Cards” and other productions this year, women are not willing to play by the rules imposed by men. The result is exhilarating drama.None of these women are trying to end civilization.
Their revolts are local and limited.
Misogyny is much more fundamental.
"Think globally. Act locally."
Put gender neutral law on the agenda.
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Magazine
How to Survive a Flu Pandemic
Get a mask — in advance. Get to know your neighbors — in advance.Yes.
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Magazine
The American Casualties of Trump’s Trade War
Tariffs on Chinese imports have endangered small business around the United States — a growing nightmare that critics say the president could have avoided.If the U.S. is to exist in isolation it must produce what it collectively buys.
The U.S. population has never done that.
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