Saturday, November 7, 2015

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  • Rockefeller Center Tree Goes up in New York City | NBC New York

    Rockefeller Center Tree Goes up in New York City | NBC New York
    The giant evergreen that will light up the Rockefeller Center plaza for this year's holiday season has arrived in New York City. (Published Friday, Nov. 6, 2015) ..
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  • Hundreds of Nude Photos Jolt Colorado School

    Hundreds of Nude Photos Jolt Colorado School
    PhotoCañon City High School in Colorado. Students used a “photo vault” app on their phones to hide the photos, an official said.CreditNick Cote for The New York TimesCAÑON CITY, Colo. — At least 100 students at a high school in Cañon City traded naked pictures of themselves, the authorities said Friday, part of a large sexting ring.The revelation has left parents outraged, administrators searching for missed clues, and the police and the district attorney’s office debating whether to file child pornography charges — including felony charges — against some of the participants.George Welsh, the superintendent of the Cañon City school system, said students at Cañon City High School had been ci..
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  • The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York - The New York Times

    The Big Bang of Art and Tech in New York - The New York Times
    PhotoBilly Kluver, left, and Robert Rauschenberg in Rauschenberg's studio working on “Oracle” in 1965.CreditLarry Morris/The New York TimesWhat happens when you put artists and technologists together? Forty-nine years ago last month,Robert Rauschenbergand aBell Telephone Laboratories engineer named Billy Kluveranswered that question with a tennis match.The game pitted the tennis proMimi KanarekagainstFrank Stella, already one of America’s most radical and celebrated painters. Surrounded by some 1,200 viewers on bleachers, the two strode into the drill hall of the 69th Regiment Armory in New York and faced off across the net. Each time one of them hit the ball, a miniature radio transmitter i..
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  • NYProbes Exxon, Peabody Climate Statements: AP

    NYProbes Exxon, Peabody Climate Statements: AP
    New York's attorney general is examining statements by Exxon Mobil and Peabody Energy to determine whether they deceived investors about the causes and impacts of climate change, an official familiar with the investigations said Thursday. A subpoena was sent Wednesday to Dallas-based Exxon after a yearlong review of shareholder disclosures, said the official. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office sought similar documents on climate change from St. Louis-based Pe..
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  • Libraries in New York and Seattle Area Staging a Battle of the Sorters - The New York Times

    Libraries in New York and Seattle Area Staging a Battle of the Sorters - The New York Times
    On Tuesday, Salvatore Magaddino will crank up the “Rocky” theme song and deliver a pep talk. His crew will then have one hour to defend the city’s title as home to “the world’s fastest library-sorting system” (at least according to the trophy) and to break its 2-2 tie with a squad from theKing County Library System, which serves the area around Seattle.“The adrenaline is outta control,” Mr. Magaddino said.Mr. Magaddino, a former captain in the New York Police Department, once investigated major crimes and coordinated security for the World Series. Now that he is deputy director ofBookOps, a 191-person unit, his job includes finding high-tech ways to manage old-fashioned materials.Mechanized ..
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  • Man Dead, Girl Injured in Street Shooting inNewJersey: Authorities...

    Man Dead, Girl Injured in Street Shooting inNewJersey: Authorities...
    A man died and a 6-year-old girl and her aunt were injured in a shooting in New Jersey Friday, authorities say. According to witnesses, the man was standing in the middle of Evona Avenue in Plainfield when someone came up and started firing shortly before 3 p.m. A 6-year-old girl was caught in the crossfire and grazed by a bullet. At least three bullet holes could be seen in the siding of one home on the street, and a car had shattered windows. "The guy was shooti..
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  • Greater New York Watch - WSJ

    Greater New York Watch - WSJ
    Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his political organization, the Campaign for One New York, for accepting contributions from real-estate interests and others with ...
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  • Cyrus Vance Has $808 Million to Give Away

    Cyrus Vance Has $808 Million to Give Away
    These days, the programs being announced by the Manhattan district attorney sound more like the projects of a major philanthropic foundation than those of a local prosecutor’s office.Consider the last two months. District AttorneyCyrus R. Vance Jr.announced that he was giving grantsto agencies across the country to test piles of rape kits that had been collecting dust in police storage. He pledged millions to start an international center to monitor cyberattacks and hasprovided seed moneyfor a new institute at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice devoted to educating the nation’s 2,700 prosecutors.At a time when most city and state agencies are struggling with budget constraints, Mr. Van..
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  • Resisting Bomb Theory, Egypt Finds Itself Increasingly Alone

    Resisting Bomb Theory, Egypt Finds Itself Increasingly Alone
    PhotoA plane carrying remains on Friday in St. Petersburg, Russia.CreditPool photo by Dmitry LovetskyCAIRO — Six days after the crash of a Russian charter flight from the Egyptian resort area of Sharm el Sheikh, the government of Egypt is finding itself increasingly isolated in its resistance to the possibility that a terrorist’s bomb brought down the plane.Britain has concluded the cause was most likely a bomb. President Obama has said pointedly that he takes the possibility “very seriously.” After standing arm in arm with Egypt for six days in discouraging any such discussion of terrorism, even President Vladimir V. Putin on Fridaysuspended Russia’s flights to Egyptfor fear of another att..
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  • Mormons Sharpen Stand Against Same-Sex Marriage

    Mormons Sharpen Stand Against Same-Sex Marriage
    PhotoThe Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah.CreditKim Raff for The New York TimesChildren of same-sex couples will not be able to join the Mormon Church until they turn 18 — and only if they move out of their parents’ homes, disavow all same-sex relationships and receive approval from the church’s top leadership as part of a new policy adopted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In addition, Mormons insame-sex marriageswill be considered apostates and ordered to undergo church disciplinary hearings that could lead to excommunication, a more rigid approach than the church has taken in the past.The new policies are an effort by the church..
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