I want to see a return to efficiency — and to sanity. I want our proud, pragmatic Catalan spirit back.

new elections for the Catalan Parliament.

the matter of independence has divided Catalans, distanced us from the European Union and frightened away banks and businesses. A resolution is necessary.

independence movement in Catalonia is still acting irresponsibly by threatening a unilateral declaration of independence

federal financing system should function as an alliance between the Catalonia tax office and the federal tax administration.

Second, the Catalan government should have exclusive jurisdiction over issues like language, education and culture. The Spanish state should guarantee that it will defend and encourage the use of all of Spain’s languages.

Catalonia is a nation that exists within Spain must be recognized

This new agreement, which should culminate in federal constitutional reform, must address several objectives.

the support of a much broader majority

The Socialist Party of Catalonia, which I lead, has a plan to move forward. We refuse to choose between paralysis and secessionism. We do not want to see a minority — or even a slim majority — of Catalans impose their views on the rest of the population on this issue

the matter of independence has divided Catalans

A minority cannot be allowed to impose its opinion upon the rest of Catalonia.

Some of it belongs to the pro-independence faction in Catalonia’s regional parliament, which chose to disregard the law and schedule an independence referendum for Oct. 1. But the central government in Madrid deserves much of the blame for the crisis, too. Incapable of negotiating with Catalans, it delegated the matter to the judicial branch, which issued an order forbidding the referendum, an order that ultimately led to the police’s use of excessive force against voters.

The relationship between Catalonia and the rest of Spain has become a serious institutional crisis

it must be resolved as soon as possible

There are rumors of imminent layoffs, though, which grow louder during the scenes set in 2000, along with speculation that the entire plant might relocate to Mexico.

Everyone complains about the factory, but the work it has provided for generations of Reading residents shapes the rhyme and reason of their shared world.

the first work from a major American playwright to summon, with empathy and without judgment, the nationwide anxiety that helped put Donald J. Trump in the White House.

That Cynthia is black and Tracey and Jessie are white becomes an issue in a way it never was before. So does the presence of Stan’s helper, Oscar (Carlo Albán), whose family comes from Colombia.

As bars often are in old-fashioned and socially conscious dramas like “Sweat,” this one is a microcosm for a larger world. That includes not only Reading, Pa., the steel town where the play is set, but also a beleaguered part of the United States in which jobs are under siege and identity is fraying.

The play is set both on the eve and in the twilight of George W. Bush’s presidency. It begins in 2008 — in scenes that switch between a parole officer’s interrogations of two young men recently released from prison — and flashes back to 2000, to follow the road to the crime for which they were incarcerated.

At the same time, all the characters in “Sweat” are given to elaborate passages of exposition, laying out the histories of their families, their employers, their city. Some of these, such as Tracey’s speech about the devaluing of manual labor, have a poignant lyricism.

The results are expected in February 2018.

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irected the student debt documentary “Ivory Tower.” “The entire model of American high

Now gray-haired and at times sounding angrier in his speeches, Mr. Gore, in “Sequel,” takes on the air of a Shakespearean figure, a man long cast out of power by what he casually refers to as “the Supreme Court decision” (meaning Bush v. Gore) but still making the same arguments that have been hallmarks of his career.

“starting to split the net.”

AT&T, Charter, Comcast and Verizon

the so-called gig economy, could similarly face higher costs to do their jobs from home.

So researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., recently conducted an experiment on the cells of 72 healthy but sedentary men and women who were 30 or younger or older than 64. After baseline measures were established for their aerobic fitness, their blood-sugar levels and the gene activity and mitochondrial health in their muscle cells, the volunteers were randomly assigned to a particular exercise regimen.

the subjects who did the interval workouts showed increases in the number and health of their mitochondria

the subjects who did the interval workouts showed increases in the number and health of their mitochondria

Many of these affected genes, especially in the cells of the interval trainers, are believed to influence the ability of mitochondria to produce energy for muscle cells;

So researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., recently conducted an experiment on the cells of 72 healthy but sedentary men and women who were 30 or younger or older than 64. After baseline measures were established for their aerobic fitness, their blood-sugar levels and the gene activity and mitochondrial health in their muscle cells, the volunteers were randomly assigned to a particular exercise regimen.

Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, a professor of medicine and an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic and the study’s senior author.

So researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., recently conducted an experiment on the cells of 72 healthy but sedentary men and women who were 30 or younger or older than 64. After baseline measures were established for their aerobic fitness, their blood-sugar levels and the gene activity and mitochondrial health in their muscle cells, the volunteers were randomly assigned to a particular exercise regimen.

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30 times what the World Health Organization considers safe.

Idaho, however, this year joined several other states that have declined to adopt new science standards that emphasize the role human activities play in climate change.

More than 10 percent of the world’s population is now obese

12.5 percent of children were obese

“This study shows what we know: No country in the globe has reduced overweight or obesity levels. This is astounding given the huge health and economic costs linked with overweight and obesity.”

“This study shows what we know: No country in the globe has reduced overweight or obesity levels. This is astounding given the huge health and economic costs linked with overweight and obesity.”

The change in physical activity preceded the global increase in obesity,”

poor diet

“What people eat is the key factor in whether they become obese or not,”

In China, for example, less than 1 percent of the population was obese in 1980

“The future health and economic burden facing all these countries is immense,” Dr. Popkin said.

disease burden caused by obesity is actually falling in some of the wealthiest nations

“But we cannot have all people on drugs,” he said. “Ideally, we want to go to the root causes and address the problem of overeating.”

“Most of the obese people are dying because of cardiovascular disease and diabetes,”

disease burden caused by obesity is actually falling in some of the wealthiest nations

Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Egypt.

People eat what they can afford.”

“It is all very nice to talk about the need to eat less unhealthy foods and more healthy foods,”

“What people eat is the key factor in whether they become obese or not,”

“We have more processed food, more energy-dense food, more intense marketing of food products, and these products are more available and more accessible

physical activity

nutrition scientists

“This study shows what we know: No country in the globe has reduced overweight or obesity levels. This is astounding given the huge health and economic costs linked with overweight and obesity.”

12.5 percent of children were obese

“The more heavily you regulate something, the less of it you’re likely to get.”

which required internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content without charging consumers for higher-quality delivery or giving preferential treatment to certain websites.

Many consumer advocates have argued that if the rules get scrapped, broadband providers will begin selling the internet in bundles, not unlike how cable television is sold today.

Want to access Facebook and Twitter? Under a bundling system, getting on those sites could require paying for a premium social media package.

E-commerce start-ups have feared they could end up on the losing end of paid prioritization, where their websites and services load slower than those run by internet behemoths.

Another major concern is that consumers could suffer from pay-to-play deals. Without rules prohibiting paid prioritization, a fast lane could be occupied by big internet and media companies, as well as affluent households, while everyone else would be left on the slow lane.

Russia’s information war

Brazilian Facebook user because Facebook blocks image searches of its profiles. The company declined to say whether it had searched internally and found the photos before Mr. Costacurta came forward.

The Times tried to find their source using Google’s image search function, but nothing turned up.

propagate

“We’re totally vulnerable,” he told G1. “You wonder how much security you have, right?”

because he used the privacy settings on Facebook to limit access to his profile.

“I was scared, and I asked my girlfriend to take a look because I do not understand much about social networks and the internet,” Mr. Costacurta said.

There was no such person in Harrisburg, Pa., where Mr. Redick said he lived. The high school and college he listed had never heard of him

Russian hackers

The New York Times featured Mr. Redick’s Facebook profile as an example of fake social media accounts that were used to attack Hillary Clinton, promote leaked emails obtained by Russian hackers and propagate the Kremlin’s political views.

Russia created Facebook profiles of fake Americans to influence the 2016 American election

108 million children, the authors reported. Obesity rates among children are rising faster in many countries than among adults.

food shortages, like Africa.

heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and other factors

obesity

obese,

University of Washington and funded by the Gates Foundation, looked at 195 countries, essentially the world’s population, finding that rates of obesity at least doubled in 73 countries — including Turkey, Venezuela and Bhutan — from 1980 to 2015, and “continuously increased in most other countries.”

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millions of premature deaths

obese

Hemings shared a father, John Wayles, with Jefferson’s wife, Martha.

What did this mean for the institution of slavery in America? What did it mean for the hundreds of other people Jefferson enslaved during his lifetime? Virtually nothing, as it did not transform American slavery or change the lives of others enslaved on Jefferson’s plantations. But it meant a great deal to the six Hemings-Wayles children, who had very different lives and destinies than others enslaved at Monticello.

Jefferson was on the defensive about this his entire time in the country. That is almost certainly why he put James and Sally Hemings on the payroll with the other servants at his residence, the Hôtel de Langeac. The siblings were paid wages near the very highest rate in the city for a chef de cuisine and chambermaid. They had access to other people of color, as their neighborhood had the greatest concentration of such people in Paris, a small group who helped one another. There were lawyers who filed petitions on behalf of the enslaved. They did so pro bono and for money, which the Hemings siblings had.

decades of historiography that makes clear that enslaved people, when they had chances, often acted to shape their circumstances to the extent that they could

A number of news reports as well as comments on social media discussing the plans drew the ire of many readers because they referred to Hemings as Jefferson’s “mistress” and used the word “relationship” to describe the connection between the pair, as if those words inevitably denote positive things. They do not, of course — especially when the word “mistress” is modified by the crucial word “enslaved.”

Jefferson would never be involved with “a slave girl” and that such a person was too low to have influenced Jefferson

Employment attributed to electronic shopping firms has doubled

The number of Portuguese dying from overdoses plunged more than 85 percent before rising a bit in the aftermath of the European economic crisis of recent years. Even so, Portugal’s drug mortality rate is the lowest in Western Europe — one-tenth the rate of Britain or Denmark — and about one-fiftieth the latest number for the U.S.

25,000 Portuguese use heroin, down from 100,000 when the policy began.

After more than 15 years, it’s clear which approach worked better. The United States drug policy failed spectacularly, with about as many Americans dying last year of overdoses — around 64,000 — as were killed in the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars combined. Photo

drug addiction has been treated more as a medical challenge than as a criminal justice issue.

gently encourages them to try to quit and gives them clean hypodermics to prevent the spread of AIDS.

“These are animals,” President Trump said of MS-13 members. Most often, rather, they are like my student: young people, not unlike child soldiers, who enter a violent life

. Being in school felt impossible to him because he felt unable to succeed at it. He had an upcoming court case and no lawyer; that, he knew, would cost money he didn’t have.

thousands of dollars of high-interest debt and little or no English skills. And they face an administration that insists that they are gangsters bringing bloodshed and gang warfare to American cities.

13. For two years he lived alone in her house, selling water bottles on the street on behalf of a neighboring family. Sometimes they invited him over for dinner; other times they didn’t.

In the latest dramatic development for the Ball family, LiAngelo Ball, the U.C.L.A. freshman basketball player who recently got into legal trouble while in China, will leave the team.“We learned today of LiAngelo Ball’s intention to withdraw from U.C.L.A.,” the Bruins’ coach, Steve Alford, said in a statement. “We respect the decision he and his family have made, and we wish him all the best in the future.”TMZ Sports initially reported the news that LiAngelo Ball would not return, and ESPN later confirmed the news with Ball’s father, LaVar, who said his son was leaving the school entirely. Lonzo Ball, LiAngelo’s older brother, starred for U.C.L.A. last season before departing for the N.B.A. after his freshman year.“We are exploring other options with Gelo,” LaVar Ball told ESPN, using LiAngelo’s nickname. “He’s out of there.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story In the ESPN report, LaVar Ball said that LiAngelo would not be seeking another college team, and would instead begin preparing for the N.B.A. draft. But while his brother, Lonzo, was the No. 2 pick in this year’s draft, LiAngelo is not considered an N.B.A. prospect. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage Trump Blasts LaVar Ball: ‘I Should Have Left Them in Jail!’ NOV. 19, 2017 How Trump Helped Liberate U.C.L.A. ‘Knuckleheads’ From China NOV. 14, 2017 High Octane Is a Brotherly Blend FEB. 19, 2016 Advertisement Continue reading the main story The family’s only public commentary on the move thus far has been a post to Twitter by their shoe and apparel company, Big Baller Brand. Family First. ️️️ pic.twitter.com/ijeVHHkcdz — Big Baller Brand (@bigballerbrand) Dec. 5, 2017 If the decision is not reversed, LiAngelo Ball, who gained national notice when he and his two brothers all committed to play for the Bruins, will finish his stint at U.C.L.A. without appearing in a regular season game for the team, though he did play in the preseason.LiAngelo Ball’s problems at U.C.L.A. started with a disastrous trip to China with the team, during which he and three teammates were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting. President Trump, who was on a tour of Asia, personally intervened with President Xi Jinping of China to get the issue settled. The team responded to the incident by suspending Ball and the two other players who were arrested, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill, on an indefinite basis.While Ball made it clear in his public remarks following his return to the United States that he was grateful for the president’s assistance, the situation escalated when LaVar Ball publicly questioned how much help the president had actually delivered.For LaVar Ball, the drama of arguing with the president and having his son leave U.C.L.A. — where his youngest son, LaMelo, is also committed to attend in 2019 — is nothing new. The patriarch of the family is so outspoken that the Lakers have been enforcing a policy in which the news media is not permitted to congregate in a section of the arena where family and associates of the players wait after the game. Some employees have reportedly been calling the enforcement the “LaVar Ball rule”.How the situation at U.C.L.A. will affect Lonzo Ball, a rookie guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, is unknown, but as recently as last night he had been telling reporters that the drama around him was beginning to die down. Asked about the chaos surrounding him and his brother’s legal situation, Lonzo Ball said: “Yeah, it is definitely calming down, given that it happened two weeks ago. When it first happened, it was definitely on me and stuff. But it definitely died down.”

The administration shrank Bears Ears National Monument, a sprawling region of red rock canyons, by 85 percent, and cut another monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante, to about half its current size.

Education start-ups like Seesaw give her their premium classroom technology as well as swag like T-shirts or freebies for the teachers who attend her workshops. She agrees to use their products in her classroom and give the companies feedback. And she recommends their wares to thousands of teachers who follow her on social media.

It was a repudiation of feminism itself.

it happened that “women” was the one tent large enough to contain almost every major strain of protest against Trump.

An Iceberg the Size of DelawareJust Broke Away From Antarctica

Arctic’s Winter Sea Ice Drops to Its Lowest Recorded Level

called Arctic amplification

could occur by 2030, although many scientists say it may not happen for a decade or two after that.

Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year

Choosing

What these findings show is that pride, gratitude and compassion, whether we consciously realize it or not, reduce the human mind’s tendency to discount the value of the future.

If the South Bronx were a state, it would have the second highest rate of drug overdose in the country after West Virginia.

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For example, many experts on sea level believe that a rise of 15 or 20 feet has already become inevitable, though they cannot say how fast it will happen. A rise that large would drown most of the world’s coastal cities without heroic efforts to fortify them.

“It never stopped.”

When the heat buildup in the ocean is taken into account, global temperatures are rising relentlessly.

That group, however, did not find that three records had been set in a row; in its analysis, 2010 was slightly warmer than 2014.

400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs exploding across the planet every day

Fear has erupted within the agencies about whether their data will now be subject to political manipulation.

only one other instance when global temperature records were set three years in a row: in 1939, 1940 and 1941.

some of them fear an accelerated era of global warming could be at hand over the next few years.

The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean.

“Faith requires the possibility of rejection, or it is not faith.”

The Alexandria scenes are shot in an actual housing development called the Gin Property — anyone who moves in must accommodate the show’s filming schedules and needs, like the unsightly metal wall that surrounds the subdivision in order to protect Rick and the gang from invaders.

without pay since late November

“While we believe that Glenn has acted offensively, we have decided that he does not deserve to be fired,” Mr. Baquet said.

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to dismantle landmark rules regulating the businesses that connect consumers to the internet, granting broadband companies power to potentially reshape Americans’ online experiences.

our wildfires roared through Southern California on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people and destroying hundreds of homes and other buildings in the latest chapter of what has been one of the state’s worst fire seasons.

but a federal judge ruled this summer that the state is not required to inform people with convictions who couldn’t vote under the old law that they may now register to vote.

The law bars people with felonies of “moral turpitude” from voting. For decades such crimes were ill defined, but once included things like miscegenation

President Trump plans to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American Embassy there, upending nearly seven decades of American foreign policy and potentially destroying his efforts to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

An undocumented immigrant from Mexico who had been deported 20 times and had been arrested for various offenses was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to brutally assaulting two women in Oregon on the same day in July.

After Mr. Garcia Zarate’s acquittal on Thursday, “Mr. Martinez becomes the immigration boogeyman that the administration all wants us to fear,” Mr. Sarre said. “He’s the poster boy for the border wall. It’s a great way to scare people.”

I can only imagine how it has reopened the wounds of the women who came forward with their stories about him, and did not receive enough attention. This country is currently trying to reconcile itself to years of power abuse and sexual misconduct. Its leader is wantonly poking the bear.

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Mr. Mueller’s investigators have learned through witnesses and documents that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Trump transition team to lobby other countries to help Israel, according to two people briefed on the inquiry. Investigators have learned that Mr. Flynn and Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, took the lead in those efforts. Mr. Mueller’s team has emails that show Mr. Flynn saying he would work to kill the vote, the people briefed on the matter said.

“The way we die is a mirror of the way we live,” said Takumi Nakazawa, 83, the chairman of the resident council at Mrs. Ito’s housing complex for the past 32 years.

One account, Army of Jesus, published an illustration of an arm-wrestling match between Christ and the devil. “Satan: If I win, Clinton wins!” the headline read.

One factor driving Mr. Zuckerberg may be the brisk ad business that Facebook does from its Hong Kong offices, where the company helps Chinese companies — and the government’s own propaganda organs — spread their messages.

At a White House dinner in 2015, Mr. Zuckerberg had even asked the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, whether Mr. Xi might offer a Chinese name for his soon-to-be-born first child — usually a privilege reserved for older relatives, or sometimes a fortune te

Populous, developing countries like Vietnam are where the company is looking to add its next billion customers — and to bolster its ad business.

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Senate leaders can afford only two Republican defections in order to win passage through the narrowly divided chamber.

We found that one in five of the coalition strikes we identified resulted in civilian death, a rate more than 31 times that acknowledged by the coalition. It is at such a distance from official claims that, in terms of civilian deaths, this may be the least transparent war in recent American history. Our reporting, moreover, revealed a consistent failure by the coalition to investigate claims properly or to keep records that make it possible to investigate the claims at all. While some of the civilian deaths we documented were a result of proximity to a legitimate ISIS target, many others appear to be the result simply of flawed or outdated intelligence that conflated civilians with combatants. In this system, Iraqis are considered guilty until proved innocent. Those who survive the strikes, people like Basim Razzo, remain marked as possible ISIS sympathizers, with no discernible path to clear their names.

No doubt most of you do some or all of these things

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“This is not editorial censorship and does not affect the content we publish or make accessible elsewhere in the world,” she said.

They accused the company of prioritizing profit over free speech.

The publisher defended its decision, saying that only 1 percent of its content was inaccessible in mainland China.

truly pursue its lofty goals

Whistle-blowers and dissidents might need to use a different platform.)

Given this problem, Facebook needs to help us unite by building new sharing tools based on trust and respect.

Political and interest-based advertising should be under much stricter scrutiny than, say, the advertising of T-shirts or hair products.

It’s very difficult, and in many cases impossible, for researchers to independently look at behavior on the platform.

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Facebook could also offer an optional filter that would keep any post (or share) of an unverified account from showing up. I’d use that filter.

countering misinformation, hate speech and propaganda — can take is to abandon the focus on emotional signaling-as-engagement.

As they stand, and especially with algorithmic reinforcement, “reactions” and “likes” are like megaphones for echo chambers and news outrage.

Africa remains a dangerous assignment. In addition to Sergeant Melgar and the four soldiers killed in Niger, one soldier committed suicide in Kenya last October and another died in a vehicle accident while on patrol in Niger in February.

The courage this country has shown

has caused an outcry and our response to it has become a priority.

It is essential to weave solid alliances with all the social and economic actors that want to build a national state truly at the service of its citizens

convert the country into just one more province of a divided Spain that does not tolerate national plurality

our police force at its service

control the media

educational curriculum

control them despotically

there is a clear dissociation between the democratic will of citizens and the central government

impose the state’s brute force

the representatives of the citizens

limit rights and freedoms

dialogue

quash self-government

they will not always be easy to understand.

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