What We’re Reading
Date: 08 September 2015
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting interesting stories from around the web. In this installment, great reads from Jodi Rudoren, Mike Isaac and others.
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Morning Agenda: More Signs of a Sharper Slowdown in China
Date: 08 September 2015
By AMIE TSANG
Amie TSANG
Patrick Drahi, a Potential Player in U.S. Cable | Decoding Steve Jobs | Arctic Oil Bonanza Still Frozen
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The Tardigrade: Practically Invisible, Indestructible ‘Water Bears’
Date: 08 September 2015
By CORNELIA DEAN
Cornelia DEAN
Tardigrades, tiny creatures able to withstand environmental extremes of all sorts, are gaining widespread attention, including prominent place in American Museum of Natural History exhibit; creatures, which are typically sixteenth of an inch long, have been given their own phylum.
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Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex
Date: 08 September 2015
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
Alexandra ALTER
Erica Jong scrutinizes taboo subject of older women as carnal beings in latest novel Fear of Dying, which features erotic sixty-year-old grandmother as protagonist.
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Oysters May Serve as Link in Transmission of Norovirus
Date: 08 September 2015
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr
Donald McNEIL
Yongjie Wang study in journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology finds oysters are common host of human noroviruses, harboring viruses and allowing them to mutate.
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