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New York
Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots
The tiny number of black students offered admission to New York City’s elite public high schools adds pressure on officials to confront the challenge of integrating those schools.Childen are about equally genetically endowed.
The City of New York public school system must carry on a racist herritage.
A mandarinate is a taditional entry into privelege.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mandarinate
Aristocrats are the desendents of warlords or other politicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord
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World
Utrecht Shooting Updates: Gunman Kills 3 on Tram, Suspect Arrested
Dutch authorities were looking into multiple possible motives for the shooting, which wounded five people, including terrorism and a domestic dispute.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_war
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Opinion
Who Do Jared and Ivanka Think They Are?
A new book probes the Kushner family’s secrets."As political actors, the couple are living exemplars of the Dunning-Kruger effect, a psychological phenomenon which leads incompetent people to overestimate their ability because they can’t grasp how much they don’t know."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10626367
"“You’ll notice that the U.S. position toward Qatar changes when the Qataris bail out 666 Fifth Avenue,” said Ward, adding, “We look like a banana republic.” Maybe that’s why Jared and Ivanka appear so blithely confident. As public servants, they’re obviously way out of their depth. But as self-dealing scions of a gaudy autocracy? They’re naturals."
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Arts
11 of Our Best Weekend Reads
The epic hunt for a sunken World War II warship. Why you should eat food off the floor. The future of Japan’s enchanting ice monsters. And more.OK
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Style
Andy Cohen Is Tired of Being ‘Dad Shamed’ by ‘Momsplainers’
The Bravo host, who became a father last month, has received lots of unsolicited advice about his newborn. Welcome to parenthood!https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10626367
I have oppinions but no authority.
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U.S.
Formerly Homeless Student Gets Into 17 Colleges, on His Own
“I think it is unfair that people could just buy their way in,” the student, Dylan Chidick, said of the admissions scandal that has roiled the country.Dylan Chidick took the traditional route.
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Fashion
Until Honeymoon We Do Part
First the wedding, now for some me time! They’re called solomoons — couples taking separate trips after the ceremony.Unsatisfactory.
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Science
A History of the Iberian Peninsula, as Told by Its Skeletons
With an analysis of DNA from nearly 300 fossilized remains, scientists are peering into human prehistory in the region.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea#Tectonics_and_paleoenvironmental_analysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_deluge_hypothesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary
Some could have walked across the strait of Gibralter.
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Opinion
Why Do Central European Nationalists Love Israel So Much?
Benjamin Netanyahu provides a very attractive model.Interesting thought.
Antisemitic is not a selective term.
Arabs and Jews are both Semites.
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Opinion
Is Pain a Sensation or an Emotion?
We could learn a thing or two from the ancient Greeks’ understanding of suffering.Yes, Pain is both an emotion and a sensation.
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Style
Call Me Cozy
As I struggle with chronic pain, cozy for me is less hygge and more my ex-boyfriend’s mother, nurses with juice and weird, sandy doughnuts.Ok
It is a worthwhile project.
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Opinion
My Glamorous Life as a Movie Star in Control-Top Pantyhose
The sublime liberation of caring about being funny most of all.I am surprised it works.
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Opinion
Confronting Philosophy’s Anti-Semitism
Should we continue to teach thinkers like Kant, Voltaire and Hume without mention of the harmful prejudices they helped legitimize?Why bother?
Philosophy is a process.
Garbage in; garbage out.
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U.S.
‘I Put My Work In’: Honest College Applicants Await Their Fates
Unlike the parents indicted by federal prosecutors last week in the college admissions scandal, these students have followed the rules.Yes
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U.S.
Mass Migration of Painted Lady Butterflies Entrances Californians
Clouds of painted lady butterflies are flying through Southern California. The reason? Abundant rainfall that has caused an explosion of plant growth.Some years have more than others.
Enjoy.
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Science
Did Dietary Changes Bring Us ‘F’ Words? Study Tackles Complexities of Language’s Origins
Softer foods from agricultural lifestyles may have changed the human bite, making it easier to form certain sounds.Get more evidence.
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U.S.
‘It’s Probably Over for Us’: Record Floods Bring New Toll When Farmers Can Least Afford It
Midwestern farmers were contending with freezing floodwaters and dead livestock, only the latest crisis in farm country. “There’s no harder business to be in,” one Nebraska man said.Watch the price of land.
Losses are expected.
I am worried about New Orleans.
I will study the hydrology soon.
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Opinion
Legislators Are Not Stupid People. So What’s Behind Their Stupid Behavior?
Following the Koch playbook, Tennessee keeps finding new ways to undermine the welfare of its citizens.Faith, it fails to work wonders.
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Obituaries
W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91
Mr. Merwin, one of the world’s most decorated poets, sang of silence and nature with an oracular voice. Later in life he became an ardent conservationist.Age and silence
Some early
some late
in any order
the difference is the order.
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World
Ethiopian Airlines Crash Updates: Canada Grounds Boeing Plane, Leaving U.S. Basically Alone
The latest on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max 8.The Boeing 737 Max 8
is grounded for cause.
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