nice - I keep paying for NYTimes subscription as it keeps giving me something I enjoy reading - keep it up !
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Re #35. "I Will Always Love You" is not Whitney Houston's--it is Dolly Parton's. Houston did (as we all know all too well) record a version of the Parton creation.
Perhaps you meant to say "Saddam used an Arabic version of Houton's arrangement of Parton's song, 'I Will Always Love You"'?
Cumbersome, of course. Better still,l always give Dolly the sole credit she is due. It is astonishing to me how often Houston is publicly credited with Parton's amazing song. NYT should know better.
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Thank you!!!
I adore page A3; always leads me on imaginative tangents. While I get both the print (a must!) and digital editions of the paper, I greatly desire A3’s inclusion in digital form.
Perhaps at least once a week; editors?
It seems to go hand and hand with Metropolitan Diary, in some esoteric, right brained way.
For the record, I started reading the New York Times in my teens, when it was delivered to my families apartment. I’m now in my 50’s and if I don’t read the paper every day, my knowledge, wonder, and thoughts are significantly hampered.
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I meant left brained; must have been my right brain getting in the way!
You missed the least delightful fact of the year: Trump is approaching 7,000 lies in his public statements since taking office.
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The article doesn't say that all of a person's neural connections form by Age 3. it says that MRI studies SUGGEST that 80% of a person's neural connections form by Age 3. And that isn't even true!
New findings about the brain's plasticity show that we can form neural collections all the time, even into old age! This is one of the biggest and most exciting stories in neuroscience and human development in this century, and it's hard to believe you've missed it! See The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doige, written 11 years ago, and scores of other books and articles written since, many no doubt discussed in your own newspaper.
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My favorite fact of the year is that Donald Trump passed the Montreal Cognitive Assessment with a perfect score of 100%.
If you believe him.
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I believe him, why would you not?
Because he is a narcissist who lies at an unprecedented rate.
Item #9 about gun ownership...please link to the report that shows the typical gun owner has a lot more than one gun, meaning a large majority of households do not have even one. And even fewer if you eliminate long guns (rifles and shot guns) used for hunting.
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Fascinating. Even if you remember these, this list is worth a second read.
Regarding #16, there was no mention of eyelashes. Not surprising. I've never seen any evidence in photographs of lashes on Trump's flat, reptilian eyes.
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Times, et al, you have outdone yourselves. What a great collection!
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#5 is incorrect, and an incorrect citation from the original article
The actual statement reads: "M.R.I. studies suggest that 80 percent of all neural connections form by age 3"
Here, it is listed as "all neural connections," not 80%
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This was worth at least a month of my annual subscription. Every one's a gem, and some led me to articles I hadn't caught the first time.
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What an interesting distraction. Please run this column everyday until the end of the Trump administration. If we are fortunate, the column will be short-lived.
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@Mikeyz yes!!
@BWW NO
“In 2017, 86 percent of the more than 17,000 people arrested on marijuana possession charges in New York City were people of color...”. Ignoring the racial disparity, assuming a very conservative estimate of $1000 to process and adjudicate each arrest, that’s $17 Million. Surely, NY City can find a better way to spend its money.
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@David Eike
Hopefully, with the legalization wave across the country, a statistic such as this will never reappear in the NYT.
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