Thursday, November 21, 2019

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1
Health

Surgery for Blocked Arteries Is Often Unwarranted, Researchers Find

Drug therapy alone may save lives as effectively as bypass or stenting procedures, a large federal study showed.

Sugar, the bitter truth    google search.
 Fructose is toxic.

2
Real Estate

Where Could They Get More for Their Money: Upper East Side or Upper West Side?

For their first purchase together, a couple debate the merits of Manhattan’s northern flanks. Which of these places would you choose?

Neither.
The girls can shop.
Try near work.

3
Opinion

Republicans’ Best Defense Is a Bad Offense

What the day’s impeachment hearings revealed.

There is no defending against an indictment.

4
Smarter Living

How to Move Abroad

Millions of Americans move overseas every year, some for love, some for jobs and others to embrace new cultures. Here’s how you can join them.

I don't want another set of problems.
There is no far away from life.

5
Smarter Living

How Small Habits Can Lead to Big Changes

The power of taking microsteps.

It should work.
I must develop more speed.

6
Opinion

When ‘Incorrigible’ Teen Girls Were Jailed

At 15, my grandmother was locked up alongside young women committed for “immorality.” Her story taught me about a little-known history.

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

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

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

The seventeenth century took the King James translation seriously.

7
New York

She Hung Nooses on Halloween. What Happened Next Was Surprising.

Uproar on Instagram. Then, a frank conversation about race.

Most people are not paying attention.
Iconography matters.

8
Climate

Cities Worldwide Are Reimagining Their Relationship With Cars

Cars changed the way we move. They also led to toxic levels of air pollution in many cities. Now, under pressure from their citizens, city officials are experimenting with new ways to reimagine the role of cars.

Fire like living is toxic.

An automobil is always a fire in motion.

The limits of urbanism are real.
Culture is pushing against some of those limits.
Paliatives are available.
Paliatives make no effort to cure.

9

Arts

Is It Time Gauguin Got Canceled?

Museums are reassessing the legacy of an artist who had sex with teenage girls and called the Polynesian people he painted “savages.”

Understand and reject his iconography. 
See his painting.

10
Magazine

China’s Internet Is Flowering. And It Might Be Our Future.

What most Westerners don't know about China's highly integrated approach to mobile apps: It’s amazing.

Big business needs regulation.
Regulation is not destruction of the regulated entity,
China needs to respect diversity though the state sees it as disorder.

There are operating systems that own themselves.  Linux, and BSD,for example. 

Ultimately no.

11
Opinion

Trump’s Contempt for True Professionals

It’s driving the impeachment inquiry. It’s dooming his presidency.

True.

12
Opinion

The White House Motto: Watch Your Back

Having stooped low to protect the president, administration officials are vulnerable to one another.

Anarchy.

13
Opinion

Devin Nunes Is Danielle Steel

Republicans’ impeachment strategy? Storytelling.

Fiction is their home.

14
Opinion

In Praise of Washington Insiders

The people who are showing us what public service looks like.

The deep state is not my enemy.

15
Science

How Narwhal the ‘Unicorn’ Puppy May Have Grown a Tail on His Head

The likeliest explanation is not all that cute, some scientists say. But Narwhal is still very cute.

Get a sane and able dog if there must be a dog.

16
Movies

The Best-Picture Race Has Begun. Could One of These Films Win?

From “Parasite” to “Joker,” and Scorsese to Tarantino, we’ve sized up the current field, and it’s a wide-open race.

I have formed no oppinion.

17
World

This Mexican Village’s Embroidery Designs Are Admired (and Appropriated) Globally

The distinctive iconography used by the Indigenous Otomí people has attracted unsolicited attention from fashion houses, which have incorporated similar images in their designs, often without credit.

Fashion steals.

18
World

To Make This Tofu, Start by Burning Toxic Plastic

Plastic waste from America, collected for recycling, is shipped to Indonesia. Some is burned as fuel by tofu makers, producing deadly chemicals and contaminating food.

People externalize costs if they can.

19
Opinion

The Evidence of Wrongdoing by Trump Is Overwhelming

The witnesses’ testimony on Wednesday was clear and alarming.

Yes,

20
Health

Facing ‘Certain Death,’ Teenager With Vaping Injury Gets Double Lung Transplant

The surgery on the 17-year-old was the first transplant reported in the recent nationwide outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries.

The boy was lucky.
Learn from the incident.

Vaping is not safe.




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