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More than 800,000 city residents will live in flood zones by the 2050s, according to new warnings released by the Bloomberg administration, which hopes to encourage better preparation for climate change.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/nyregion/new-york-city-faces-increasing-risk-from-climate-change-new-data-show.html
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office has not honored a Freedom of Information request for a video he already screened that pokes fun at his reputation for secretiveness.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/nyregion/cuomo-now-keeps-private-a-self-deprecating-video-on-his-secretiveness.html
Do the newly disclosed U.S. surveillance programs mean the differences between America and China on this issue are shrinking?
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/on-surveillance-is-america-becoming-more-like-china/
A new study suggests that many designated drivers do not themselves refrain from drinking, creating an obvious barrier to the campaign’s effectiveness.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/designated-drivers-often-drink/
An estimated $5.5 billion have been lost and over 3 million people have been affected in one of the biggest financial frauds in India.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/collapse-of-ponzi-scheme-spreads-panic-in-west-bengal/
Jamie Dimon’s victory in a JPMorgan Chase shareholder vote was aided by months of lobbying. | Timothy D. Cook mollified lawmakers who had been furious over Apple’s taxes. | After Warren E. Buffett, will Berkshire Hathaway be able to negotiate such sweet deals? | A lawyer for Rajat K. Gupta argued that wiretap evidence should not have been admitted.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/how-dimon-won/
This Retro Report video lays out how limited scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/booming/revisiting-the-crack-babies-epidemic-that-was-not.html
A judge’s ruling that evidence could be excluded at the inquest into the death of a former K.G.B. agent was arguably a triumph of official opacity in a struggle over what the public should be allowed to know.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/world/europe/in-litvinenko-case-secrecy-wins-out-over-inquiry.html
Parts of the vast High Plains Aquifer are so low that crops can’t be watered and bridges span arid stream beds.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/us/high-plains-aquifer-dwindles-hurting-farmers.html
Parliament has voted to scrap the use of the word “race†in the country’s laws. Critics have condemned the move as an empty gesture that will do nothing to combat racism.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/france-fights-racism-by-outlawing-race/