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November 24, 2017

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As the singer prepares to release “Reputation,” her die-hard fans interact directly with their queen away from the critical glare of other social media.

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How Prince Invented Himself. Over and Over

November 24, 2017

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How Prince Invented Himself. Over and Over

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How Prince Invented Himself. Over and Over. – The New York Times

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100 Notable Books of 2017

November 24, 2017

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The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.

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First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’

November 17, 2017

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For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine.

The approval, announced late on Monday, marks a significant advance in the growing field of digital devices designed to monitor medicine-taking and to address the expensive, longstanding problem that millions of patients do not take drugs as prescribed.

Experts estimate that so-called nonadherence or noncompliance to medication costs about $100 billion a year, much of it because patients get sicker and need additional treatment or hospitalization.

A wearable sensor patch made by Proteus Digital Health is part of the Abilify digital pill study.CreditProteus Digital Health

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Lessons From Hurricane Harvey: Houston’s Struggle Is America’s Tale

November 17, 2017

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The mayhem that Hurricane Harvey unleashed on Houston didn’t only come from the sky. On the ground, it came sweeping in from the Katy Prairie some 30 miles west of downtown.

Water drains naturally in this stretch of Texas, or at least it used to. At more than 600 square miles, Houston has grown to be as big as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia combined, a giant spread of asphalt smothering many of the floodplains that once shuttled water from the prairies to the sea. When finished, the newest road to ring the city and propel its expansion, called the Grand Parkway, will encircle an area equivalent to all of Rhode Island.

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For years, the local authorities turned a blind eye to runaway development. Thousands of homes have been built next to, and even inside, the boundaries of the two big reservoirs devised by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s after devastating floods. Back then, Houston was 20 miles downstream, its population 400,000. Today, these reservoirs are smack in the middle of an urban agglomeration of six million.

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No Excuses, People: Get the New Shingles Vaccine

November 17, 2017

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Medical researchers and government health policymakers, a cautious lot, normally take pains to keep expectations modest when they’re discussing some new finding or treatment.

They warn about studies’ limitations. They point out what isn’t known. They emphasize that correlation doesn’t mean causation.

So it’s startling to hear prominent experts sound positively excited about a new shingles vaccine that an advisory committee to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved last month.

“This really is a sea change,” said Dr. Rafael Harpaz, a veteran shingles researcher at the C.D.C.

Dr. William Schaffner, preventive disease specialist at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, said, “This vaccine has spectacular initial protection rates in every age group. The immune system of a 70- or 80-year-old responds as if the person were only 25 or 30.”

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Key Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections

November 8, 2017

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By any measure, Tuesday was a big night for Democrats, especially in Virginia, where they swept the top offices, including governor, and made strong gains in the General Assembly.

Here are some key takeaways from the biggest election night since President Trump’s victory a year ago.

It was largely a suburban rebellion, where more moderate voters rejected Mr. Trump and embraced Democrats.

Be it New Jersey, Virginia or Charlotte, N.C., Democrats rode a miniwave of victories that will give them energy for candidate recruitment and fund-raising heading into the midterm elections next year.

Ralph S. Northam, a Democrat, celebrating his election as Virginia’s next governor with his family members at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., on Tuesday night.CreditGabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

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Key Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections – The New York Times

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What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer

November 7, 2017

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When the world looks at the United States, it sees a land of exceptions: a time-tested if noisy democracy, a crusader in foreign policy, an exporter of beloved music and film.

But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America’s fans and critics alike. Why, they ask, does it experience so many mass shootings?

Perhaps, some speculate, it is because American society is unusually violent. Or its racial divisions have frayed the bonds of society. Or its citizens lack proper mental care under a health care system that draws frequent derision abroad.

The New York Times |Source: Adam Lankford, The University of Alabama (shooters); Small Arms Survey (guns). Note: Includes countries with more than 10 million people and at least one mass public shooting with four or more victims.

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De Blasio Coasts to Re-election, as Second-Term Challenges Await

November 7, 2017

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Now comes the hard part.

Gliding to his second landslide victory, Bill de Blasio was re-elected on Tuesday as the mayor of New York City, overwhelming his Republican challenger, Nicole Malliotakis, and a handful of independent candidates in what he declared a persuasive affirmation of his progressive agenda.

Mr. de Blasio, the first Democratic mayor to be re-elected in a generation, since Edward I. Koch captured his third term in 1985, now has four years to further his goal of reshaping the city in his progressive mold.

“It’s a good night for progressives,” Mr. de Blasio said at a victory party at the Brooklyn Museum, with his wife, Chirlane McCray, and his son, Dante, at his side. “For the first time in 32 years, a Democratic mayor was re-elected in New York City. But let’s promise each other: This is the beginning of a new era of progressive Democratic leadership in New York City for years and years to come.”

Mayor Bill de Blasio greeting a crowd at the Brooklyn Museum after his win on Tuesday. “It’s a good

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Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments

November 6, 2017

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In fall 2010, the Russian billionaire investor Yuri Milner took the stage for a Q. and A. at a technology conference in San Francisco. Mr. Milner, whose holdings have included major stakes in Facebook and Twitter, is known for expounding on everything from the future of social media to the frontiers of space travel. But when someone asked a question that had swirled around his Silicon Valley ascent — who were his investors? — he did not answer, turning repeatedly to the moderator with a look of incomprehension.

Now, leaked documents examined by The New York Times offer a partial answer: Behind Mr. Milner’s investments in Facebook and Twitter were hundreds of millions of dollars from the Kremlin.

Obscured by a maze of offshore shell companies, the Twitter investment was backed by VTB, a Russian state-controlled bank often used for politically strategic deals.

And a big investor in Mr. Milner’s Facebook deal received financing from Gazprom Investholding, another government-controlled financial institution, according to the documents. They include a cache of records from the Bermuda law firm Appleby that were obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and reviewed by The Times in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

By The New York Times

Mr. Milner, right, with Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook. The company, along with Twitter and other social media sites, has become a major focus of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Kimberly White/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize

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James' World 2

Taylor Swift, Entering a New Era, Sticks to a Safe Space: Tumblr

As the singer prepares to release “Reputation,” her die-hard fans interact directly with their queen away from the critical glare of other social media.

How Prince Invented Himself. Over and Over

How Prince Invented Himself. Over and Over

100 Notable Books of 2017

First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’

Lessons From Hurricane Harvey: Houston’s Struggle Is America’s Tale

No Excuses, People: Get the New Shingles Vaccine

Key Takeaways From Tuesday’s Elections

What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer

De Blasio Coasts to Re-election, as Second-Term Challenges Await

Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments

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