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Health

She Didn’t Want a Pelvic Exam. She Received One Anyway.

By Emma Goldberg | Feb 17th 2020

Medical schools and students are grappling with an unsettling practice: Performing pelvic exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients.

The medical students will have to pay like other Johns.

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U.S.

Michael Bloomberg Surges in Polls and Qualifies for 2 Democratic Debates

By Reid J. Epstein and Maggie Astor | Feb 18th 2020

After garnering 19 percent support in a national poll, the billionaire will be on the debate stage, where he is certain to be a target of onstage criticism.

Director of intelligence?

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Business

They Documented the Coronavirus Crisis in Wuhan. Then They Vanished.

By Vivian Wang | Feb 14th 2020

Two video bloggers whose dispatches from the heart of the outbreak showed fear, grief and dissatisfaction with the government have gone silent.

The PRC wants to be seen as perfect.

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U.S.

Las Vegas Democratic Debate: Bloomberg’s Stage Debut

By Shane Goldmacher and Adriana Ramić | Feb 19th 2020

Michael R. Bloomberg appears onstage with his Democratic presidential rivals for the first time tonight. See how his onstage presence might affect the dynamics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/us/politics/democratic-debate-las-vegas.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/19/us/politics/democratic-debate-live-updates.html

Sanders has not released his medical record.

The Nevada results will be interesting.

I will vote for Elizabeth Warren in New York.

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World

They Escaped an Infected Ship, but the Flight Home Was No Haven

By Motoko Rich and Edward Wong | Feb 17th 2020

The U.S. had said cruise ship passengers infected with the coronavirus would not be allowed on evacuation flights, but the decision was apparently reversed at the last minute.

The long infectious incubation period makes isolation difficult.
People are obligate social.

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Opinion

Why Don’t We Know Which Democratic Candidate Can Beat Trump?

By Adam Jentleson | Feb 17th 2020

We seem to know less than we did at the beginning of the primary.

Our ignorance is by intention.
We are having an election.
Each must make ones best guess.
We will discuss and individually must choose.
In a democracy there should be no single authority.

Militaries are not democracies in wars of choice.

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Opinion

The Bloomberg Temptation

By Ross Douthat | Feb 15th 2020

Will the Democrats try to replace Donald Trump with a power-hungry plutocrat?

Ross Douthat is a token oligarch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy

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Opinion

Why Do My Fellow Republicans Make Excuses for Trump’s Deficits?

By Mark Sanford | Feb 18th 2020

He is driving the country to financial ruin. And his own party is letting it happen.

Few people are not hypnotised by the prospect of personal fortune.
Mark Sanford is not among them.

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Business

The Struggle to Mend America’s Rural Roads

By Patricia Cohen and Tim Gruber | Feb 18th 2020

As supersize vehicles bear heavier loads, maintenance budgets can’t keep up. Meet the Wisconsin farmers paying the price.

Civil engineering is a real skill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Loudon_McAdam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_transport

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm-to-market_road
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_routes_in_New_York

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U.S.

How Elizabeth Warren’s Camp Is Seeking to Regain the Spotlight

By Astead W. Herndon | Feb 18th 2020

Ms. Warren’s campaign and her allies, convinced her message is being ignored, see a path forward — and they say writing her off would be a mistake.

Winning is the only sure cure.

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