in the morning light.
I will read your list.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
@15:10, 1/29/13
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I must bed down.
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Science
Viagra as Diet Pill? One Day, Perhaps
In a German study, the erectile-dysfunction drug was found to help convert undesirable white fat cells to energy-burning beige fat cells in laboratory mice.
2
Science
U.S. Team Drills Through to Antarctic Lake
The American team drilled through a half-mile of ice to reach Lake Whillans, and retrieved water samples, according to the project’s Web site.
3
Education
Education Dept. to Hear School Closing Complaints
Plans to close or reorganize public schools in Philadelphia, Detroit and Newark have drawn complaints of discrimination against black and Hispanic students, and those with disabilities.
4
Science
Pesticide Protection
Federal agencies regulate the use of pesticides and set tolerance limits, but consumers can minimize exposure by washing produce thoroughly or buying certified organic fruit.
5
N.Y. / Region
Former State Senator From Queens Expected to Plead Guilty to Corruption
Federal prosecutors filed documents in Federal District Court in Brooklyn indicating that the former senator, Shirley L. Huntley, had waived her right to have a grand jury consider potential charges.
6
Opinion
Religious Liberty Law Clinic
John Ragosta, the author of a book about the history of religious freedom, responds to a news article.
7
N.Y. / Region
Twice as Many Structures in FEMA’s Redrawn Flood Zone
The maps, already in the process of being updated when the hurricane struck, suggest that damage will spread even farther inland in future storms.
8
N.Y. / Region
Bloomberg Asks for Legislature’s Help in Teacher Evaluation Fight
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, angry about a missed deadline on an evaluation agreement, said the city schools stood to lose $724 million.
9
Science
Hide and Seek With Deer Mice
Deer mice make an appealing subject of genetic studies because they are widely prevalent and that they have adapted to their environments in both coat color and behavior in tunnel-making.
10
Science
Is There a Green Side to the Super Bowl?
A study conducted with smart meters showed that consumption of electricity dipped during last year's game.
11
Business Day
Costly Last-Minute Deals for the Super Bowl Crowd
If you waited until this week to plan your trip to the N.F.L. championship game in New Orleans, you will have a difficult time finding affordable airfare and hotels.
12
World
U.S. Envoy Apologizes for Ship’s Grounding on Philippine Coral Reef
The grounding of the naval ship was preceded by other events that have led to renewed criticism of the United States military presence in the Philippines.
13
Fashion & Style
The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
With few outside pressures, we had nothing to do but love each other and be happy.
14
World
France Says Syrian Rebels Need Aid to Fend Off ‘Chaos’
At a Paris meeting of the Friends of Syria, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned that without the aid promised, control of Syria could fall to militant Islamists.
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Opinion
Paying Doctors for Performance
New York City’s public hospital system is moving away from cost-of-living increases.
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N.Y. / Region
Reliving Horror and Faint Hope at Massacre Site
For the first police officers to arrive at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, no amount of training could prepare them for what they found next, inside those two classrooms.
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Science
Diving Into the Coral Triangle
An expedition begins to save the spectacular biodiversity of Indonesia's seas, which are threatened by an unholy trio of coastal pollution, climate change and habitat destruction.
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Magazine
Surf and Turf Revisited
Chicken and clams, oysters and sausage, mussels and chorizo — who says you need to stick to steak and lobster?
19
Opinion
Sunday Dialogue: Mayhem on Our Screens
Is there a link between violence in the media and in real life?
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Style
What You Don't Know About Episiotomies Can Hurt You
The midwife put a cut in the top of a piece of paper and pulled. The paper ripped cleanly in half. "That's what happens to a woman's perineum when you do an episiotomy," she explained.I must bed down.
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@2:30, 1/29/13
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The world must treat shark fin as the Ivory trade was treated.
An outright ban on trade in shark fin.
They will not be bought, sold or otherwise traded.
The world is out of fish. Distant water is closed.
We can reconsider when stocks recover.
Maryland has a good idea.
Oysters may not be taken from state waters under power.
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1
Science
Viagra as Diet Pill? One Day, Perhaps
In a German study, the erectile-dysfunction drug was found to help convert undesirable white fat cells to energy-burning beige fat cells in laboratory mice.
2
Education
Education Dept. to Hear School Closing Complaints
The United States Department of Education is investigating complaints that plans to close or reorganize public schools in Philadelphia, Detroit and Newark discriminate against black and Hispanic students, and those with disabilities, a department official said.
3
Science
U.S. Team Drills Through to Antarctic Lake
The American team drilled through a half-mile of ice to reach Lake Whillans, and retrieved water samples, according to the project’s Web site.
4
World
France Says Syrian Rebels Need Aid to Fend Off ‘Chaos’
At a Paris meeting of the Friends of Syria, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned that without the aid promised, control of Syria could fall to militant Islamists.
5
Booming
Living, and Dying, on His Own Terms
Clark Lambros, a successful businessman and philanthropist who at 39 found a life partner in a woman a generation his junior, lived with intention and by his own rules until the end.
6
Science
Pesticide Protection
Federal agencies regulate the use of pesticides and set tolerance limits, but consumers can minimize exposure by washing produce thoroughly or buying certified organic fruit.
7
World
Leader’s Visit Lifts a Village, Yet Lays Bare China’s Woes
Xi Jinping’s visit to a particularly poverty-stricken village in north China brought it attention and help, but also threw into relief the vast scale of the challenge.
8
Opinion
Religious Liberty Law Clinic
John Ragosta, the author of a book about the history of religious freedom, responds to a news article.
9
N.Y. / Region
Twice as Many Structures in FEMA’s Redrawn Flood Zone
The maps, already in the process of being updated when the hurricane struck, suggest that damage will spread even farther inland in future storms.
10
N.Y. / Region
Bloomberg Asks for Legislature’s Help in Teacher Evaluation Fight
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, angry about a missed deadline on an evaluation agreement, said the city schools stood to lose $724 million.
11
Science
Research Chimps Retire, Yaks Make a Comeback and More
“The Week” highlights recent developments in health and science news and glances at what’s ahead. In this column: sleep in older people, the avian flu virus and a popular conference.
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N.Y. / Region
Former State Senator From Queens Expected to Plead Guilty to Corruption
Federal prosecutors filed documents in Federal District Court in Brooklyn indicating that the former senator, Shirley L. Huntley, had waived her right to have a grand jury consider potential charges.
13
Technology
Silicon Valley Companies Lobbying Against Europe’s Privacy Proposals
A dispute has brought into the open how much Europe and the United States differ on privacy rights and their role in the digital economy.
14
Science
Hide and Seek With Deer Mice
Deer mice make an appealing subject of genetic studies because they are widely prevalent and that they have adapted to their environments in both coat color and behavior in tunnel-making.
15
Science
Is There a Green Side to the Super Bowl?
A study conducted with smart meters showed that consumption of electricity dipped during last year's game.
16
Business Day
Costly Last-Minute Deals for the Super Bowl Crowd
If you waited until this week to plan your trip to the N.F.L. championship game in New Orleans, you will have a difficult time finding affordable airfare and hotels.
17
World
U.S. Envoy Apologizes for Ship’s Grounding on Philippine Coral Reef
The grounding of the naval ship was preceded by other events that have led to renewed criticism of the United States military presence in the Philippines.
18
Fashion & Style
The Race Grows Sweeter Near Its Final Lap
With few outside pressures, we had nothing to do but love each other and be happy.
19
N.Y. / Region
Reliving Horror and Faint Hope at Massacre Site
For the first police officers to arrive at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, no amount of training could prepare them for what they found next, inside those two classrooms.
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World
Taste for Shark Fin Fades Slightly in China
The high-profile campaign against shark fin soup has persuaded only a small number of Beijing hotels and restaurants to drop it from their menus.The world must treat shark fin as the Ivory trade was treated.
An outright ban on trade in shark fin.
They will not be bought, sold or otherwise traded.
The world is out of fish. Distant water is closed.
We can reconsider when stocks recover.
Maryland has a good idea.
Oysters may not be taken from state waters under power.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
@16:28, 1/28/13
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1
Science
An Ecolabel for McDonald's Fish Fare
The company's offerings have been certified by the Marine Stewardship Council as responsibly harvested.
2
Crosswords/Games
Barry at the South Pole
Barry Hayes is on a stroll - at the South Pole. What are the chances he will make it back to the South Pole Marker?
3
U.S.
Obama Focuses on Status Quo, Not Left, in Battle With G.O.P.
Much of the president’s early second-term energy seeks simply to preserve the status quo as he continues to face off with Republicans over fiscal issues.Ratings and Rates
The interest rate on U.S. long term debt is up a bit, briefly breaking above 2 percent today. So, is this reflecting worries about US debt sustainability?
Of course not — and by now it seems that even financial reporters get it. The main cause of the slight uptick, according to news reports, was a better-than-expected durable goods number, which brings marginally closer the day when the Fed might finally start raising rates. In other words, it was economic optimism, not pessimism, behind the rate rise.
And according to the FT Alphaville post linked above, a second reason may have been a statement by Fitch that a US downgrade is less likely. That’s right, reduced fears of a downgrade lead to higher, not lower, US borrowing costs.
Why? Because scare talk from the rating agencies feeds the deficit scolds, making destructive austerity more likely, and therefore pushing back the date when the Fed might raise rates. You might say that the only thing we have to fear from the rating agencies is fear itself — not market fear, because the bond markets don’t seem to care, but political fear, the instinctive tendency to overreact to talk of bond vigilantes.
All of which is just a bit more evidence that everything the Very Serious People have been saying about confidence and the bond markets is wrong."
Of course not — and by now it seems that even financial reporters get it. The main cause of the slight uptick, according to news reports, was a better-than-expected durable goods number, which brings marginally closer the day when the Fed might finally start raising rates. In other words, it was economic optimism, not pessimism, behind the rate rise.
And according to the FT Alphaville post linked above, a second reason may have been a statement by Fitch that a US downgrade is less likely. That’s right, reduced fears of a downgrade lead to higher, not lower, US borrowing costs.
Why? Because scare talk from the rating agencies feeds the deficit scolds, making destructive austerity more likely, and therefore pushing back the date when the Fed might raise rates. You might say that the only thing we have to fear from the rating agencies is fear itself — not market fear, because the bond markets don’t seem to care, but political fear, the instinctive tendency to overreact to talk of bond vigilantes.
All of which is just a bit more evidence that everything the Very Serious People have been saying about confidence and the bond markets is wrong."
4
Science
Cute Anger, Wingprints and a Dolphin-Crocodile Hybrid
A sampling of some of the day’s science headlines.
5
Business Day
Keeping an Eye on Bouncing Prices Online
With retailers’ Internet prices now changing more often, new online tools like Hukkster automatically scan for price changes and alert shoppers when the price drops.
6
Business Day
Start-Up Puts Streaming TV on Campus
Tivli tries to reconcile students’ viewing habits, which increasingly involve mobile devices, with the desire of companies to be paid for wireless content.
7
World
Indonesia's Sexual Education Revolution
A movement is under way to teach students about AIDS and contraception.
"Sumarsono, head of reproductive health at the women’s and social
empowerment agency in Yogyakarta, responded that there were already too
many subjects in school.
“Due to the limitations in the curriculum, our effort now is to make sex
education an extracurricular activity,” he said."
Learning is better done in school. Activity is for bed.
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Technology
Google Says Electronic Snooping by Governments Should be More Difficult
Google argues that government requests for user information have been increasing, particularly in the United States, where law enforcement does not need a judge's consent to ask for private online information.
9
World
Italians Have a New Tool to Unearth Tax Cheats
The new tool, known as the “redditometro,” aims to minimize the wiggle room for evasion by examining a taxpayer’s expenditures and comparing them with declared income.
10
N.Y. / Region
3 Years After Inception, a DNA Technique Yields Little Success for the Police
Investigators have used partial match DNA to locate criminals in more than two dozen cases in New York City, but law enforcement officials said they knew of no cases solved because of a lead generated by the technique.
11
World
2 Outlets Find Prized Sources in Algeria Siege: The Fighters
The gas facility in Algeria was cordoned off during the hostage crisis, but two little-known news agencies from Mauritania published updates on the attack and even cited the attackers.
12
Job Market
Learning From Setbacks
The head of First Wind, a wind power company, says he has learned more from a couple of negative experiences in his career than from the successes.
13
Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
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15
Business Day
At Fed, Nascent Debate on When to Slow Asset Buying
The Federal Reserve has left little doubt about its immediate plans, but inside the central bank, debate is moving from whether the Fed should do more to boost the economy to when it should start doing less.
16
Arts
Stanley Karnow, Historian and Journalist, Dies at 87
Mr. Karnow’s books “Vietnam: A History” (1983) and “In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines” (1989) were adapted into successful PBS documentary mini-series.
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Fashion & Style
Here Comes the Neighborhood
A proposed $312 million renovation is expected to transform the Design District into an ultra-high-end retail destination within a year or two.
18
Opinion
A Tale of Two Islamisms
While jihadists take over the north of Mali, a republican form of Islamism is peacefully conquering the south.
19
Science
A Solar-Powered Shed for India's Perishable Food
While the unit is too costly for the vast majority of India's farmers, designers hope one day to make it available to the poorest of the poor.
20
Business Day
Court Overturns E.P.A.’s Biofuels Mandate
The court ruled that a quota set by the Environmental Protection Agency for incorporating liquids made from woody crops and wastes into car and truck fuels was unrealistic.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
@19:47
1
Crosswords/Games
Barry at the South Pole
Barry Hayes is on a stroll - at the South Pole. What are the chances he will make it back to the South Pole Marker?
2
Opinion
When an Elephant Falls...
A close encounter on the front lines of Africa's continuing elephant slaughter.
3
U.S.
Obama Focuses on Status Quo, Not Left, in Battle With G.O.P.
Much of the president’s early second-term energy seeks simply to preserve the status quo as he continues to face off with Republicans over fiscal issues.
4
Science
Cute Anger, Wingprints and a Dolphin-Crocodile Hybrid
A sampling of some of the day’s science headlines.
5
Business Day
Keeping an Eye on Bouncing Prices Online
With retailers’ Internet prices now changing more often, new online tools like Hukkster automatically scan for price changes and alert shoppers when the price drops.
6
Business Day
Start-Up Puts Streaming TV on Campus
Tivli tries to reconcile students’ viewing habits, which increasingly involve mobile devices, with the desire of companies to be paid for wireless content.
7
Science
Market for Bear Bile Threatens Asian Population
The extraction of the substance from their gall bladders on makeshift farms causes deep suffering. And some bears' organs are harvested through poaching.
8
World
Indonesia's Sexual Education Revolution
A movement is under way to teach students about AIDS and contraception.
9
Technology
Google Says Electronic Snooping by Governments Should be More Difficult
Google argues that government requests for user information have been increasing, particularly in the United States, where law enforcement does not need a judge's consent to ask for private online information.
10
World
Italians Have a New Tool to Unearth Tax Cheats
The new tool, known as the “redditometro,” aims to minimize the wiggle room for evasion by examining a taxpayer’s expenditures and comparing them with declared income.
11
N.Y. / Region
3 Years After Inception, a DNA Technique Yields Little Success for the Police
Investigators have used partial match DNA to locate criminals in more than two dozen cases in New York City, but law enforcement officials said they knew of no cases solved because of a lead generated by the technique.
12
World
2 Outlets Find Prized Sources in Algeria Siege: The Fighters
The gas facility in Algeria was cordoned off during the hostage crisis, but two little-known news agencies from Mauritania published updates on the attack and even cited the attackers.
13
Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
14
Business Day
At Fed, Nascent Debate on When to Slow Asset Buying
The Federal Reserve has left little doubt about its immediate plans, but inside the central bank, debate is moving from whether the Fed should do more to boost the economy to when it should start doing less.
15
Arts
Stanley Karnow, Historian and Journalist, Dies at 87
Mr. Karnow’s books “Vietnam: A History” (1983) and “In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines” (1989) were adapted into successful PBS documentary mini-series.
16
Fashion & Style
Here Comes the Neighborhood
A proposed $312 million renovation is expected to transform the Design District into an ultra-high-end retail destination within a year or two.
17
Opinion
A Tale of Two Islamisms
While jihadists take over the north of Mali, a republican form of Islamism is peacefully conquering the south.
18
Science
A Solar-Powered Shed for India's Perishable Food
While the unit is too costly for the vast majority of India's farmers, designers hope one day to make it available to the poorest of the poor.
19
Business Day
Court Overturns E.P.A.’s Biofuels Mandate
The court ruled that a quota set by the Environmental Protection Agency for incorporating liquids made from woody crops and wastes into car and truck fuels was unrealistic.
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