Tuesday, August 30, 2016

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Fashion & Style

Rebecca Ravski, Mitchell Berkowitz

The bride’s brother, a rabbi, set up the couple four years ago. Now he is marrying them.

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

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Fashion & Style

Kathryn McCabe, Samuel Boyce

The couple played house as children, lost touch as teenagers and reconnected on Facebook as adults.

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

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Your Money

7 Essential Money Questions Sure to Start a Conversation

Books

One Nation, Under Stress


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Opinion

Why We Never Die


A hero was given eternal life by the gods.
He was not given eternal youth.
He grew old and did not die.

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Fashion & Style

Caitlin Landy, Brandon Ponder

He wore a cat Christmas sweater. She thought it was funny. And now they are married.

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N.Y. / Region

When Only a Scoop of Soursop Will Do


I will buy you as much as you want.

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N.Y. / Region

Review: After a Hiatus, a Chef’s (Mostly) French Revival


As convenient.

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World

Russia, Fuming at Paralympics Ban, Steps Up Campaign Against Whistle-Blower

The authorities are hounding the whistle-blower doctor in the doping scandal and spinning elaborate conspiracy theories — anything but admitting their own misdeeds.

Russia must now be provably drug free.

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Health

All Donated Blood in U.S. Will Be Tested for Zika

Donated blood and blood components should be screened by blood banks for contamination with the virus, the Food and Drug Administration said.

Stay out of the gulf states.

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Job Market

Discipline, Detail and Devices That Work They Way They Should

Raul Matias is a quality assurance engineer for Wink, which makes an app that allows people to monitor and control devices in their home.

Remote control is still a bad idea.

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Opinion

New York’s Disappearing Storefronts

High rents are pushing out our most beloved retail outlets. Can anything be done?

Politically impossible.

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Technology

Cloud Computing Brings Sprawling Centers, but Few Jobs, to Small Towns

As big companies race to build oversize data networks, communities are finding that the giant buildings can operate with only about 30 people.

Cloud computing will not save the small towns.

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Books

A Kids’ Novel About That One Teacher Who Changes Everything

Three troubled sixth graders and one amazing teacher who changes everything, in John David Anderson’s “Ms. Bixby’s Last Day.”

Teacher appreciation.

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Fashion & Style

Erin Hays, Stan Chiueh

The couple met at Yale but reconnected years later at a trivia night in New York.

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

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U.S.

Want to Own a Newspaper? A Vermont Contest Has Trouble Finding Takers

The editor and publisher of The Hardwick Gazette, the grand prize in an essay contest, extended the deadline after submissions fell short.

Lost dogs and church announcements are best done with an edited chat room.

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Automobiles

Video Review: The Clubman Is a Mini, but in a Larger Package

The squared-off, chunky Clubman is a small practical package that does not fit into any one box.

I am not ready to trust British manufacture.

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U.S.

Coal Country Is Wary of Hillary Clinton’s Pledge to Help

Mrs. Clinton is promising $30 billion to create a new economy by retraining miners and investing in technology, but locals have heard promises before.

Coal country is home because it has coal.
Without coal it has no excuse.

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Opinion

What Disability Means

Readers share their experiences of disability, and how it’s affected their identity and their interactions with the world.

Wilderness, even preserved wilderness, kills the ignorant and immobile.
I would not change that.
I will give up wilderness when I cannot deal with it as found.
The bits we have are precious.
Accommodation ends with civilization.
I am left with cities.
How much of a city must accommodate which disabilities?
Must a bakery make all products glutin free?


 

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Monday, August 29, 2016

@9:35, 8/29/16

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1
Opinion

The Trouble With Welfare Reform

Readers offer their ideas, including job training, free child care and guaranteed jobs, and disagree with John Kasich’s call for more state control.

The nation claims to have an interest in healthy, civilized children.
It must then pay the cost of these children.
One of the costs is the loving attention children require.

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Opinion

A Summer to Make Mistakes

How close should I have gotten to the man in the rented armor?

Living in society is not instinctive.
Humans must practice.
Some observe much more closely than others.

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Fashion & Style

Rebecca Ravski, Mitchell Berkowitz

The bride’s brother, a rabbi, set up the couple four years ago. Now he is marrying them.

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

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Opinion

A Helping Hand for College Freshmen

For college students, particularly those from low-income families, fear of failure can be crippling.

A first learning must be time management.

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Fashion & Style

Kathryn McCabe, Samuel Boyce

The couple played house as children, lost touch as teenagers and reconnected on Facebook as adults.

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

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U.S.

California Judge Rejects Request to Suspend Assisted Suicide Law

The law, which took effect on June 9, will not be blocked now, but the judge agreed to allow a lawsuit challenging the measure to go forward.

The argument rests on the Hipocratic commandment: First, do no harm.
Western Civilization is much less certain of what constitutes harm.

The suit should fail on "separation of church and state."

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U.S.

New Orleans Program Teaches Officers to Police One Another

A new course trains police officers to intervene when they see colleagues engaging in unethical behavior.

"“Would you stop your partner from getting shot if you could?” Officer Jacob Lundy, an instructor, asked. “Why wouldn’t you stop your partner from being fired if you could?”"
The program will work among officers of roughly equal rank.
It will work down the command chain and across the chain.
It will not work up the command chain.

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Your Money

7 Essential Money Questions Sure to Start a Conversation

Questions that focus on family, feelings and the future we plan for ourselves.

What lessons about money did you learn from your parents?

What does the word “money” conjure up for you?

How many children would you like to have when you retire?

How do you think your children feel about that?

Tell me about your financial situation when you first met.

What are the most important things in your life?

What does the prospect of retirement look like to you?

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T Magazine

A ’70s Pendant Lamp From the Future

This recently reissued fixture, designed in 1972 by the Danish architect Louis Weisdorf, doesn’t merely illuminate a room.

Unfortunately I do not hold the copyright.

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U.S.

Judge in Stanford Sexual Assault Trial Will No Longer Hear Criminal Cases

Aaron Persky, who was denounced for sentencing Brock Turner to six months in prison for assaulting an unconscious woman behind a Dumpster, asked to be transferred to a civil division.

Aaron Persky is a rational man.

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Technology

Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway

A federal court ruling may halt the spread of municipal high-speed internet providers, which often serve households and businesses where commercial cable and telecom firms have been unwilling to go.

Vick Family Farms has a different problem.  They are operating through the cloud.
If they would operate on a private on site server their dependence on high speed service would disappear.  They could do business at a very low data rate. 

Badly regulated near monopolies are fighting for dominance.
Shortly they will provide good service or go out of business.
The open net is an established set of rules proven in court.

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N.Y. / Region

A Rite of August Shrinks Away for Some New Yorkers

The death of the August vacation for psychotherapists underlines the cultural decline of the therapeutic profession in the life of New York.

Psycologists carry the patient contact load.
Psychiatrists do not have emergencies.

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Fashion & Style

Richa Tandon, Mrunal Parmar

Upon meeting, she kept mangling his first name, but that didn’t stop them from reaching the altar.

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

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Fashion & Style

Black Health Matters

A number of police killings prompted this writer to seek relief in yoga, meditation and other holistic strategies carried out in a black radical tradition.

Do what works.

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Books

One Nation, Under Stress

Sarah Jaffe’s “Necessary Trouble” and Zachary Roth’s “The Great Suppression” examine disparate efforts to further democracy and to restrict it.

It is certain that the political landscape is troubled.
"Teaching the controversy" does not clarify the politics.
Reporting the politics will help.

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Opinion

Why We Never Die

My son is experiencing the same fears of death that I did as a child. What should I tell him?

The real horror of death is the thought that the end of control might not be the end of consciousness.
Religions teach that we will encounter our decisions without the ability to mitigate them.

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Fashion & Style

Caitlin Landy, Brandon Ponder

He wore a cat Christmas sweater. She thought it was funny. And now they are married.

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

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N.Y. / Region

When Only a Scoop of Soursop Will Do

Taste the Tropics USA, a West Indian-themed ice cream parlor in Brooklyn that opened in the 1970s, serves ice cream flavors like pineapple, coconut, soursop and even a beer-based option: Guinness.

Extra Stout on the way.

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N.Y. / Region

Review: After a Hiatus, a Chef’s (Mostly) French Revival

Rob Ubhaus’s new restaurant is something of a departure from his previous endeavors, but the chef’s love of France still permeates in welcome ways.

As convenient.

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World

Russia, Fuming at Paralympics Ban, Steps Up Campaign Against Whistle-Blower

The authorities are hounding the whistle-blower doctor in the doping scandal and spinning elaborate conspiracy theories — anything but admitting their own misdeeds.

Russia is losing all credibility.


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@22:45, 8/28/16

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World

Holy Water at Home: In India, a Pilgrimage Alternative

The Indian postal service is using its offices to deliver holy water from the Ganges River, which is usually collected after a barefoot pilgrimage.

Bureaucratic blessings.
Perfectly departmental.
There is no rumor that the post office is cheating yet spread by Pakhistan.


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Fashion & Style

Holly Donaldson, Adam Casella

The bride is a fund-raising officer at AmeriCares, and the groom is studying for an M.B.A. at Dartmouth.

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

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Fashion & Style

Rachel Reed, Brett Shorenstein

Both bride and groom are doctors, but his patients are much more likely to bark.

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

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Fashion & Style

Rebecca Ravski, Mitchell Berkowitz

The bride’s brother, a rabbi, set up the couple four years ago. Now he is marrying them.

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

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Fashion & Style

Amanda Cowie, Alex Jansen

The couple, both 31, met in 2005 at Boston College, from which they graduated.

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

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Fashion & Style

Charlotte Chapman, Jorge VilariƱo

The couple, who met at Columbia University, were married in Guadalajara, Spain.

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

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Fashion & Style

Jill Brimmer, Patrick Boland

The bride works for Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and the groom for Representative Adam B. Schiff of California.

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

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Fashion & Style

Sarah Fecht, Charles Choi

She is an assistant editor for Popular Science’s website. He is a freelance science writer.

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

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Opinion

Graduate Students’ Labor

A reader responds to an editorial about a National Labor Relations Board ruling on unionization.

Yes

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Fashion & Style

Jennifer Nedeau, Austin Helm

The bride, who works for an advertising firm, and the groom, who works for a business consulting firm, met in a Washington bar.

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

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Opinion

The Unlimited Power of Ocean Winds

It is now possible and practical to provide a significant part of the nation’s power needs from ocean winds.

The record is replete with long passages by sailing ship due to long calms.

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Fashion & Style

Jennifer Harris, Sasha Post

The bride holds degrees from Wake Forest, Oxford and Yale, the groom from Harvard and Yale.

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

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Fashion & Style

Claire O’Donnell, Reid Rader

The bride and groom work in Seattle, she for Amazon and he for Eastdil Secured, a real estate investment banking firm.

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

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U.S.

Man Confesses to Killing 2 Nuns in Rural Mississippi, the Police Say

The sheriff in Holmes County said that Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, confessed after an interrogation to the stabbing deaths of the women who were found dead on Thursday.

Finger prints.  It is fast for DNA.

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Fashion & Style

Renee Seong, Stephen Kyriacou

The bride works for an advertising agency. The groom is a lawyer.

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

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Opinion

A Summer to Make Mistakes



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Fashion & Style

Selina MacLaren, John Sprangers

The couple met at the University of Chicago, from which both received law degrees.

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

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U.S.

California’s Emissions Goal Is a ‘Milestone’ on Climate Efforts

Lawmakers passed, and Gov. Jerry Brown promised to sign, bills requiring the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels.

A progressive majority helps.

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N.Y. / Region

GPS Tracks Down a Missing Van and a Face Familiar to New York Police

A plumber’s vehicle, filled with copper and other materials, went missing from the Lower East Side and was eventually located as it reached a block of scrap-metal dealers in the Bronx

The failure to learn is chronic.

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World

Brazilian Police Recommend Charges Against Ryan Lochte

The American swimmer could be charged with giving false testimony in connection with claims that he was robbed at gunpoint during the Rio Olympics.

Brazil is feeling bruised.

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Fashion & Style

Claire O’Donnell, Reid Rader

The bride and groom work in Seattle, she for Amazon and he for Eastdil Secured, a real estate investment banking firm.

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

2
Fashion & Style

Jennifer Harris, Sasha Post

The bride holds degrees from Wake Forest, Oxford and Yale, the groom from Harvard and Yale.

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

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U.S.

California’s Emissions Goal Is a ‘Milestone’ on Climate Efforts


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Fashion & Style

Rachel Reed, Brett Shorenstein

Both bride and groom are doctors, but his patients are much more likely to bark.

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

5
Fashion & Style

Rebecca Ravski, Mitchell Berkowitz

The bride’s brother, a rabbi, set up the couple four years ago. Now he is marrying them.

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

6
Fashion & Style

Holly Donaldson, Adam Casella

The bride is a fund-raising officer at AmeriCares, and the groom is studying for an M.B.A. at Dartmouth.

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

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U.S.

North Dakota Oil Pipeline Battle: Who’s Fighting and Why

A federal judge is expected to decide soon whether to halt the Dakota Access pipeline, a project vehemently opposed by American Indians and environmentalists.

I will be interested in the resolution.

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World

Brazilian Police Recommend Charges Against Ryan Lochte

Fashion & Style

Jill Brimmer, Patrick Boland

The bride works for Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island and the groom for Representative Adam B. Schiff of California.

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

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Fashion & Style

Caitlin Landy, Brandon Ponder

He wore a cat Christmas sweater. She thought it was funny. And now they are married.

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

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Food

Video: Grilled Corn with Cheese, Lime and Chile

This summer cookout classic gets the street-food treatment, with the addition of chile, lime, mayo and cheese.

Any time in season.

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Opinion

A Summer to Make Mistakes


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Books

‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories


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World

Quake Exposes Italy’s Challenge to Retrofit Its Architecture

This week’s death and destruction was amplified by the lack of anti-seismic codes that are too costly, too complicated and too cumbersome to approve.

Slowly it will be put back.
Things will be only slightly improved.

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Business Day

Crackdown on For-Profit Colleges May Free Students and Trap Taxpayers

The goal of relieving students saddled with onerous debt and a subpar education can be at odds with reducing the cost to taxpayers who are likely to be stuck with the bill.

The Republicans do not get to complain.
They have been caught cheating.

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Fashion & Style

Jennifer Nedeau, Austin Helm

The bride, who works for an advertising firm, and the groom, who works for a business consulting firm, met in a Washington bar.

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

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Fashion & Style

Hadley Planting, Alexander Powell

The couple met in August 2014, at the Maine Seacoast Mission gala in Bar Harbor, Me.

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

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Public Editor

Why’d You Do That? How The Times Decides to Send News Alerts

Too many? Not enough? Not newsy enough? Finding the right volume, mix and audience is a juggling act.

The cost of publication is approaching zero.
Think of push notifications as Lite Extra Editions.

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Books

Read It Later: A Procrastinator’s Memoir

The reporter Phyllis Korkki takes on procrastination and the urge to defer in “The Big Thing.”

There is always another distraction.

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Business Day

Warren Hinckle, Ramparts Editor Who Embraced Gonzo Journalism, Dies at 77

Mr. Hinckle, the flamboyant editor who made Ramparts magazine a voice for the radical left, championed the work of Hunter S. Thompson.

He saw with his right eye so he processed with his left brain.

We can blame him for the Nixon Southern Strategy.



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