Monday, October 2, 2017

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Food

What to Cook This Week

Herb-stuffed garlic bread, eggplant parm, spaghetti Bolognese: Make your life better by taking the time to cook for you and your loved ones.
Health

110 Million Americans Have an S.T.D.

Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are all on the rise, federal researchers found.

Sex education, early and often.
Arts

Review: NBC’s ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ Isn’t Partisan, but It’s Awkward

After a week on the air, Megyn Kelly’s NBC morning show feels like a forced effort to humanize a candidate.
Crosswords & Games

Variety: Acrostic

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon escape in a cloud of ink.
Opinion

Erick Erickson: How to Find Common Ground

In the past year, I have come under fierce attack and my wife has come down with cancer — and I have learned the importance of real friendships.
Fashion & Style

It Happened in Real Life, Unscripted

Alexis Gregorian, a federal prosecutor, and Jay Lavender, a writer and producer, got straight to the heart of their story.
Opinion

A Very Taxing President

The Trump team is rich, but they want to rewrite the tax code because they care only about you.
U.S.

‘Little Lobbyists’ Help Save the Health Care Law, for Now

Children with complex medical conditions helped their parents beat back Republican proposals to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
Fashion & Style

A First Date Begins, a Bit Prematurely, at the Bus Stop

They connected online and decided to meet at a restaurant. What they didn’t know was that they were neighbors and both used mass transit.
Opinion

Who Can Beat Trump in 2020?

A field guide for Democrats desperate to paint the White House blue.

early.


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Crosswords & Games

That’s One Way to Put It

Robert Fisher’s glass is tremendously full, of something delicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w3Qz4ui7Kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

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Health

110 Million Americans Have an S.T.D.

Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis are all on the rise, federal researchers found.

Sex education must be a required course in grade school.
Chlamydia vaccination is required for all.

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Opinion

Erick Erickson: How to Find Common Ground

In the past year, I have come under fierce attack and my wife has come down with cancer — and I have learned the importance of real friendships.

Sometimes there is no common ground in some locations

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Times Insider

When Budget Vacations Are Your Job

The Times’s Frugal Traveler shares his tricks, including his go-to cheap-trip recommendation, and when a splurge is worth it.

plan the trip.

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Crosswords & Games

Variety: Acrostic

Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon escape in a cloud of ink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsj1BnCF9mg

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Travel

A Polished Victorian Standout in a Sea of Island Inns


Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Arts

Review: NBC’s ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ Isn’t Partisan, but It’s Awkward

After a week on the air, Megyn Kelly’s NBC morning show feels like a forced effort to humanize a candidate.

Sticky plastic.

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Fashion & Style

It Happened in Real Life, Unscripted

Alexis Gregorian, a federal prosecutor, and Jay Lavender, a writer and producer, got straight to the heart of their story.


Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Fashion & Style

A First Date Begins, a Bit Prematurely, at the Bus Stop

They connected online and decided to meet at a restaurant. What they didn’t know was that they were neighbors and both used mass transit.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

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Arts

Ancient Egyptian Animals Had a Place in the Afterlife. Here’s Why.

“Soulful Creatures,” at the Brooklyn Museum, applies aged artifacts and contemporary technology to investigate the role of animal mummies in antiquity.

We are given only questions.

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Sunday, October 1, 2017

@15:58, 10/1/17

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1
Food

What to Cook This Week

Herb-stuffed garlic bread, eggplant parm, spaghetti Bolognese: Make your life better by taking the time to cook for you and your loved ones.

Yes.

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Opinion

Erick Erickson: How to Find Common Ground

In the past year, I have come under fierce attack and my wife has come down with cancer — and I have learned the importance of real friendships.

I have no problem with peace.
I do have problems with facts and their lack.

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Science

The Elusive Giant Coconut-Cracking Rat of the Solomon Islands

A chance encounter with a falling tree let scientists finally confirm the existence of a legendary rodent species in the South Pacific.

The Giant Rat of Sumatra is a Sherlock Holmes story that was not written.

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Fashion & Style

It Happened in Real Life, Unscripted

Alexis Gregorian, a federal prosecutor, and Jay Lavender, a writer and producer, got straight to the heart of their story.

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

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Fashion & Style

A First Date Begins, a Bit Prematurely, at the Bus Stop

They connected online and decided to meet at a restaurant. What they didn’t know was that they were neighbors and both used mass transit.

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

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Arts

A Landscape at Peace With Man and Nature

On the edge of Peconic Bay, a low-key garden offers solace and requires little work.

It is the right idea.  I would do a different execution.

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Opinion

What the Cubs Could Teach the President

Just about every quality that makes Donald Trump a nightmare in governance could be cured by a few summers at Wrigley Field.

Rich Cohen finds no joy in Mudville.

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/casey-bat

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Real Estate

Can Parents Leave a Co-op to a Grown Child? It Depends

The co-op board has the final say in whoever takes over the apartment and ultimately lives in it.

The board probably has the right to say no.

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Opinion

The Strange Impotence of the Republican Party

Anger is an excellent emotion for pushing ratings and winning elections but terrible for governing.

Failing to do the homework is failing.
There is nothing strange about political failure.

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Travel

A Polished Victorian Standout in a Sea of Island Inns

The Christopher’s Victorian roots are just the backdrop. Its owners have rehabbed the 15-room hotel in Edgartown to give it a sleeker, modern look.

If you wish.

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

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T Magazine

Skin Care’s Backlash Against Essential Oils

Sometimes, the organic ingredients can also be the most irritating. Natural beauty experts are dedicated to providing safer alternatives.

Do what pleases you.
I would rather there was no permanent damage from your actions.

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N.Y. / Region

How Savannah Guthrie, of the ‘Today’ Show, Spends Her Sundays


Distracted.

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Well

Is Microvascular Heart Disease a Serious Condition?


Treat it.

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Fashion & Style

They Have No Reservations (About Each Other)


Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

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Health

They Swallowed Live Typhoid Bacteria — On Purpose

A clinical trial enlisted some of England’s brightest minds, tempted by curiosity and cash. They proved a new typhoid vaccine works and could save children’s lives.

The typhoid vaccine is needed.

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Job Market

Despite Challenges, Holding Down a Job at McDonald’s


He is happy.

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Style

Taking My Ex Back In (for His Own Good)

They loved each other and had a child together, but couldn’t make it work. Twenty years later, could their bond save his life?

Do what you must.

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Well

Learning to Breathe

My baby had an extra branch stemming from his heart, constricting his trachea. The surgery that saved him brought another crisis.

Sometimes it gets better.

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Business Day

Jody Gerson of Universal Music Publishing Group on Trusting Teams


The business model is in trouble.
A team effort will not make it better.
It does make it possible.

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Science

The Evolutionary Event That Gave You Pumpkins and Squash

About 100 million years ago, the genome of a melon-like fruit copied itself, leading to fruits now associated with autumn, scientists have found.

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

The end of October is coming.

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Well

Is Microvascular Heart Disease a Serious Condition?

Microvascular heart disease affects about four times as many women as men, and the condition can be very serious.

It is serious.
It can and should be treated.

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Science

Who’s Eating Jellyfish? Penguins, That’s Who

Researchers attached miniature video cameras to four penguin species and found that each was a jellyvore, even when other food was available.

Interesting.

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Business Day

Jody Gerson of Universal Music Publishing Group on Trusting Teams

The chairman and chief executive of a music publisher says she learned she didn’t have to solve every problem, and to rely instead on her managers.

Ok,
The team knows because the team was chosen for knowing.

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Opinion

Why I Dressed Down Hugh Hefner

I was fighting for women’s liberation. The Playboy creator only pretended to.

He sold a dehumanizing fantasy.

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N.Y. / Region

How Savannah Guthrie, of the ‘Today’ Show, Spends Her Sundays

The television host and children’s book author “sleeps in” until 6 a.m., enjoys a hearty breakfast, and then hits the town with her family.

Distracted.

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Fashion & Style

They Have No Reservations (About Each Other)


Sooner is better.     As soon as you can is best.

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Science

The Perils of Peanut Butter

How clean does a jar for your sandwich spread need to be for recycling efforts?

Good practice.

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Science

The Evolutionary Event That Gave You Pumpkins and Squash

About 100 million years ago, the genome of a melon-like fruit copied itself, leading to fruits now associated with autumn, scientists have found.

Butternut and acorn squash along with blue hubbard are better eating.

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

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Magazine

The 9.17 Issue

Readers respond.

Age is.  Staying mobile is enough

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Health

A Child’s Death Brings ‘Trauma That Doesn’t Go Away’

Even more than other parents, the elderly struggle to recover from the death of a child.

All people die.
There is some choice in how and when.

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Opinion

The Wrong Pill Can Play With Your Mind

For me, the same medication, in subtly different forms, was like night and day.

I take no medication.
Small differences are not trivial.  It may be the binder.

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Business Day

Jody Gerson of Universal Music Publishing Group on Trusting Teams

The chairman and chief executive of a music publisher says she learned she didn’t have to solve every problem, and to rely instead on her managers.

The business model is said to be in trouble.

I like the idea of artists getting paid.
I am reluctant to make the publishers rich.

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N.Y. / Region

How Savannah Guthrie, of the ‘Today’ Show, Spends Her Sundays

The television host and children’s book author “sleeps in” until 6 a.m., enjoys a hearty breakfast, and then hits the town with her family.

She leads a busy life.
There is little time to think in it.

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Job Market

Despite Challenges, Holding Down a Job at McDonald’s

He had a brain injury when he was 8 but has come a long way. He works happily, walks to his job by himself and lives in an apartment with a co-worker.

I need to interact with a whole mind.
I need to make things.

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Health

A Child’s Death Brings ‘Trauma That Doesn’t Go Away’

Even more than other parents, the elderly struggle to recover from the death of a child.

Death is an inevitable part of life.
Everyone dies.
There is choice in when and how for some.
Surprise is always possible.

"While we live, let us live!"

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Crosswords & Games

Crack Team’s Initials

Mary Lou Guizzo and Jeff Chen unite and conquer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTgFXbxhfFs

An harried pair.

Unite is good.
Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

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Opinion

Why I Dressed Down Hugh Hefner

I was fighting for women’s liberation. The Playboy creator only pretended to.

Hugh Hefner made a life selling a male fantasy.

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The Learning Network

Teaching Activities for: ‘Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain’

What distinguishes mantises from other insects?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/science/praying-mantis-eating-birds.html

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Opinion

Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner

An honest obituary for a wicked American.

Easily done.

His product sold and sold.

Reality is better.

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Fashion & Style

They Have No Reservations (About Each Other)

When the chef Melissa Perello hired Robert Wright as general manager of her San Francisco restaurant, she didn’t expect he’d also be Mr. Right.

Sooner is better.     As soon as you can is best.

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