Thursday, November 5, 2015

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  • New York Today: Spring Eternal - The New York Times

    New York Today: Spring Eternal - The New York Times
    PhotoFun in all seasons.CreditNicole Craine for The New York TimesUpdated 11:13 a.m.Good morning on this misty Thursday.There’s a dense fog advisory in effect until 10 a.m.Call it the endless Indian summer. Easter in November. Either way, this sunny, balmy weather is weird — nice, but weird.For the last two years, the average temperature in November has been 45.3 degrees. Sure, we’re only five days in, but so far, the average temperature this November is 66.7 degrees.And the warm streak is continuing — we’ll seea high of 68today, with a slight chance of rain later this afternoon. Tomorrow creeps up to a high of 73, with some isolated showers possible.There are some perks to this weather besi..
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  • Body reportedly recovered after small plane crashes off New York City | Fox News

    Body reportedly recovered after small plane crashes off New York City | Fox News
    Police have reportedly recovered a body after a small single-engine plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the New York coast late Wednesday.Police started to receive calls about a plane going down in the vicinity of Breezy Point in Queens at about 7:33 p.m. The New York Police Department’s aviation unit spotted the wreckage about a mile and a half off the coast. The New York Post reported that officers later recovered a body from the wreckage.A witness told The Post they saw the plane descend and it appeared to be speeding as it headed toward the water.“The lights were going at a 40-degree angle, super-fast beyond what I’ve ever seen,” he said. “I have never seen an airplane going from w..
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  • The Displaced Introduction

    The Displaced Introduction
    Cover PhotoKurdish refugees in 1974, after an Iraqi bombing.CreditBruno Barbey/Magnum Photos The Displaced: IntroductionNearly 60 million people are currently displaced from their homes by war and persecution — more than at any time since World War II. Half are children. This multimedia journey in text, photographs and virtual reality tells the stories of three of them.ByJAKE SILVERSTEINNOV. 5, 2015I have two photos on my desk. The first shows a child, a girl of about 10. She is standing behind an enormous pile of her family’s belongings, which have been tightly packed for a long journey. Her face is blank with uncertainty, but she strikes a bossy pose — one hand on her..
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  • Workers discover 19th century burial vault under New York City park | Fox News

    Workers upgrading water mains under New York City’s Washington Square Park this week discovered a vault containing a large pile of skeletal remains dating back approximately 200 years. Officials from the city’s Department of Design and Construction toldNewsdaythat the vault measured 8 feet deep, 15 feet wide and 20 feet long. It contained the remains of at least a dozen people. Anthropologists and archaeologists would be asked to investigate the vault to determine its exact age. The agency toldDNAInfothat work on the project would continue as planned south of the burial site. The vault was discovered east of the park, in an area surrounded by New York University buildings. The la..
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  • Your Thursday Briefing: Egypt, Justin Trudeau, Bush Biography

    Your Thursday Briefing: Egypt, Justin Trudeau, Bush Biography
    PhotoPresident George W. Bush with Donald H. Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in 2006. A biography of the elder George Bush is scathing about Mr. Rumsfeld and Mr. Cheney.CreditJ. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’sthe sign-up.)Good morning.Here’s what you need to know:• Elder Bush breaks his silence.Former President George Bush, in a biography to be published next week, has scathing things to say about Dick Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, the central figures in his son’s administration.The biography, “Destiny and Power,” comes out as Jeb Bush struggles to gain traction inhis White House bid.• Campaign update.Donald J. Trump will begin airing radio adstoday in ..
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  • Review: In 'Spectre,' Daniel Craig Returns as James Bond

    Review: In 'Spectre,' Daniel Craig Returns as James Bond
    PhotoDaniel Craig as James Bond in "Spectre," directed by Sam Mendes.CreditJonathan Olley/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer PicturesDoes it mean something that James Bond drinks a dirty martini in “Spectre,” the latest in the seemingly unkillable franchise? It’s too soon to know, though true Bondologists will be parsing this new drink’s significance shortly. As more of an amateur in all-things Bond, I had hoped a dirty bomb would go boom or that the actress Léa Seydoux would do something unspeakable to Daniel Craig, given that the pre-credit sequence features female nudes writhing alongside an octopus with busy arms. Part of the bankable pleasure of the series, after all, is that every so often, among the..
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  • In All-Gender Restrooms, the Signs Reflect the Times

    In All-Gender Restrooms, the Signs Reflect the Times
    PhotoTop, from left, all-gender restrooms at the Whitney; the University of Utah; Founding Farmers restaurant in Washington, D.C.Center, from left, the Folk Art Museum; Civic Hall; the University of Nevada.Bottom, from left, the Whitney; Hampshire College; Barnard College.Before theWhitney Museum of American Artmoved to its new location in Lower Manhattan, it hosted a discussion about what it means for a museum to be a safe and welcoming space.Providing restrooms for everyone on the gender spectrum was near the top of the list.“We invited artists of all gender identifications in,” said Danielle Linzer, the director of access and community programs, “and we heard loud and clear that it was so..
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  • Alabama Rolls Up Money, With Tide Lifting All Boats

    Alabama Rolls Up Money, With Tide Lifting All Boats
    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Bill Battle is near the 30-yard line with his fellow alumni, gripping hands and flashing a lighthouse smile, reassuring one and all that all is right in theUniversity of Alabamaathletics department, which he runs. Near the edge of the field, Molly Brautigan and fellow sorority sisters laugh and plot their postgame festivities.At midfield, with his back to the visiting Arkansas Razorbacks, a stone-faced Nick Saban — Alabama’s $7-million-a-year football coach — watches his team tick off its warm-up drills surrounded by a rising tide of crimson as the more than 101,000 faithful find their seats at Bryant-Denny Stadium.Jim Carabin, the general manager of Crimson Tide Sports Ma..
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  • Fall Fly Fishing In New York City

    Fall Fly Fishing In New York City
    On a 70-degree day in early November in New York City, there is really only one sensible thing to do: Go fishing. Captain Brendan McCarthy texted late last ...
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  • Sorry, New York Times: Your Big China Story is "Old News

    Sorry, New York Times: Your Big China Story is
    Photo by Tao Zhang/NurPhoto/Sipa via APA prominent global environmental organization is questioning one of the central claims in asplashyNew York Timesstory todayabout China's outsized carbon emissions, calling the report "old news."On Wednesday morning, theTimesreported that the world's biggest carbon polluter, China, had recently ratcheted up the amount of coal it says it burns every year by a staggering figure—17 percent more per year than the Chinese government had previously disclosed in official statistics. "The increase alone is greater than the whole German economy emits annually from fossil fuels," the article reads.One of the article's conclusions is that these revisions could chan..
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