New Your Times - Health - Australia Just Had a Bad Flu Season. That May Be a Warning for the U.S.

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
NYT Health
In 2017, a terrible flu season in Australia presaged an American outbreak in which 79,000 died. Experts advise getting the shot soon.
Published date: October 4, 2019 at 03:00AM

New Your Times - Health - In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer

By KNVUL SHEIKH
NYT Health
A new study found that certain fungi can settle in the pancreas, where they spur the growth of tumors.
Published date: October 3, 2019 at 03:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Trump Administration Plans to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes

By SHEILA KAPLAN
NYT Health
As vaping-related illnesses spread, President Trump and top health officials met at the White House to discuss ways to keep the products away from teenagers.
Published date: September 11, 2019 at 03:00AM

Astronomy picture of the day by NASA - Betelgeuse Imagined

Why is Betelgeuse fading? No one knows. Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and most recognized stars in the night sky, is only half as bright as it used to be only five months ago. Such variability is likely just normal behavior for this famously variable supergiant, but the recent dimming has rekindled discussion on how long it may be before Betelgeuse does go supernova. Known for its red color, Betelgeuse is one of the few stars to be resolved by modern telescopes, although only barely. The featured artist's illustration imagines how Betelgeuse might look up close. Betelgeuse is thought to have a complex and tumultuous surface that frequently throws impressive flares. Were it to replace the Sun (not recommended), its surface would extend out near the orbit of Jupiter, while gas plumes would bubble out past Neptune. Since Betelgeuse is about 700 light years away, its eventual supernova will not endanger life on Earth even though its brightness may rival that of a full Moon. Astronomers -- both amateur and professional -- will surely continue to monitor Betelgeuse as this new decade unfolds. via NASA

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New Your Times - Health - F.D.A. Plans to Ban Most E-Cigarette Flavors but Menthol

By SHEILA KAPLAN and MAGGIE HABERMAN
NYT Health
The tobacco and vaping industries and conservative allies intensively lobbied against a ban on popular flavored e-cigarettes.
Published date: December 31, 2019 at 02:00AM

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Factbox: IMO 2020-a Major Shake-Up for Oil and Shipping

By Reuters
NYT Business Day
Tougher rules on sulphur emissions from ships came into effect on Wednesday, in the biggest shake-up for the oil and shipping industries for decades.
Published date: January 1, 2020 at 02:12AM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2004-2776

go.cgi in GoScript 2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) query string or (2) artarchive parameter.

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 10:15PM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2011-3585

Multiple race conditions in the (1) mount.cifs and (2) umount.cifs programs in Samba 3.6 allow local users to cause a denial of service (mounting outage) via a SIGKILL signal during a time window when the /etc/mtab~ file exists.

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 10:15PM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2013-4161

gksu-polkit-0.0.3-6.fc18 was reported as fixing the issue in CVE-2012-5617 but the patch was improperly applied and it did not fixed the security issue.

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 09:15PM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2013-4357

The eglibc package before 2.14 incorrectly handled the getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service.

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 09:15PM
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New Your Times - Health - Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets for China

By GINA KOLATA
NYT Health
Nearly 200 investigations are underway at major academic centers. Critics fear that researchers of Chinese descent are being unfairly targeted.
Published date: November 4, 2019 at 02:00AM

NASA Image of the day on December 31, 2019 - Galactic Pyrotechnics From 23 Million Light Years Away

Описание: NGC 4258, a galaxy about 23 million light years away, is the site of impressive, ongoing fireworks. via NASA

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Warren to Ask Americans to 'Imagine Something Better' in New Year's Eve Speech

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U.S presidential contender Elizabeth Warren will seek to bolster her flagging campaign in a New Year's Eve speech on Tuesday, as the race for the Democratic nomination hurtles toward the first test before voters.
Published date: December 31, 2019 at 05:06PM
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Today in History - December 31

Today in History - December 31

On December 31, 1837, Democrat Amasa J. Parker, congressman from New York, sat down in his quarters in Mrs. Pittman’s boarding house in Washington, D.C., to write a letter to his wife, miles away at their Catskills home in Delhi, New York. Continue reading.

On December 31, 1881, Charles J. Guiteau, the assassin of President James Garfield, wrote a New Year’s greeting to his jailer. Continue reading.

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Saudi Economy Contracts 0.46% in Q3 as Oil Output Slumps

By Reuters
NYT Business Day
Saudi Arabia's economy contracted by 0.46% in the third quarter from a year earlier, hit by a drop in oil output as the de facto leader of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) cut production, government data showed on Tuesday.
Published date: December 31, 2019 at 01:39PM
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Doctors, Nurses and the Paperwork Crisis That Could Unite Them

By Theresa Brown and Stephen Bergman
NYT Opinion
They don’t always get along. But they are both under siege by the bureaucracy of a failing health care system.
Published date: December 31, 2019 at 01:00PM
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New Your Times - Health - Popular Grain-Free Dog Foods May Be Linked to Heart Disease

By JAN HOFFMAN
NYT Health
A small but concerning number of dogs on diets heavy in lentils, chickpeas and other legumes have developed enlarged hearts. Researchers are investigating.
Published date: July 24, 2018 at 03:00AM

The Most Important Week of the Democratic Primary in 2019

By Astead W. Herndon
NYT U.S.
How a series of turning points in mid-October explains the state of the race today and can serve as a cheat sheet for the casual 2020 primary observer.
Published date: December 31, 2019 at 12:00PM
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New Your Times - Health - Rx for Doctors: Stop With the Urine Tests

By PAULA SPAN
NYT Health
The tests often are positive in people without symptoms, particularly older patients. The result: overtreatment with antibiotics.
Published date: October 14, 2019 at 03:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?

By KNVUL SHEIKH
NYT Health
In nature, the gene-editing tool Crispr protects bacteria against viruses. Now it’s being harnessed in the fight against superbugs and the flu.
Published date: October 28, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - To Drive Down Insulin Prices, W.H.O. Will Certify Generic Versions

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
NYT Health
About 80 million people with diabetes around the world need the hormone, and half of them can’t afford it. Creating competition could help, the agency said.
Published date: November 13, 2019 at 02:00AM

China Has Pain Pill Addicts Too, but No One's Counting Them

By The Associated Press
NYT World

Published date: December 31, 2019 at 06:36AM
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Uber, Postmates Sue to Block California Gig Worker Law, Claiming It's Unconstitutional

By Reuters
NYT Business Day
Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc and courier services provider Postmates Inc asked a U.S. court to block a California labor law set to go into effect on Wednesday, arguing the bill violates the U.S. Constitution.
Published date: December 31, 2019 at 04:15AM
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Uber and Postmates File Suit to Block California Freelancer Law

By Noam Scheiber
NYT Technology
The ride-hailing company and the delivery start-up are seeking an injunction against the new law, which takes effect Jan. 1.
Published date: December 31, 2019 at 03:32AM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2012-5663

The isearch package (textproc/isearch) before 1.47.01nb1 uses the tempnam() function to create insecure temporary files into a publicly-writable area (/tmp).

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 12:15AM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2013-0196

A CSRF issue was found in OpenShift Enterprise 1.2. The web console is using 'Basic authentication' and the REST API has no CSRF attack protection mechanism. This can allow an attacker to obtain the credential and the Authorization: header when requesting the REST API via web browser.

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 12:15AM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2013-0264

An import error was introduced in Cumin in the code refactoring in r5310. Server certificate validation is always disabled when connecting to Aviary servers, even if the installed packages on a system support it.

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 12:15AM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2013-2016

A flaw was found in the way qemu v1.3.0 and later (virtio-rng) validates addresses when guest accesses the config space of a virtio device. If the virtio device has zero/small sized config space, such as virtio-rng, a privileged guest user could use this flaw to access the matching host's qemu address space and thus increase their privileges on the host.

Published at: December 31, 2019 at 12:15AM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2012-5474

The file /etc/openstack-dashboard/local_settings within Red Hat OpenStack Platform 2.0 and RHOS Essex Release (python-django-horizon package before 2012.1.1) is world readable and exposes the secret key value.

Published at: December 30, 2019 at 10:15PM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2012-5476

Within the RHOS Essex Preview (2012.2) of the OpenStack dashboard package, the file /etc/quantum/quantum.conf is world readable which exposes the admin password and token value.

Published at: December 30, 2019 at 10:15PM
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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2012-5645

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the server component of Freeciv before 2.3.4 processed certain packets. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted packet that, when processed would lead to memory exhaustion or excessive CPU consumption.

Published at: December 30, 2019 at 10:15PM
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Judge Denies Motion for New Trial in Boat Sinking Case

By The Associated Press
NYT U.S.
A man whose boat sank in 2016 resulting in his mother being lost at sea was denied a new trial Monday by a federal judge amid an ongoing dispute with insurance companies over the boat's seaworthiness.
Published date: December 30, 2019 at 09:21PM
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New Your Times - Health - F.D.A. Failed to Ensure Safe Prescribing of Opioids, Documents Show

By ABBY GOODNOUGH and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
NYT Health
The agency, whose oversight of opioid safety has largely eluded scrutiny, did not improve flawed programs designed to reduce addiction and overdoses.
Published date: December 30, 2019 at 02:00AM

3 Years in, No Sign of Trump's Replacement for Obamacare

By The Associated Press
NYT U.S.
As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own that would provide “insurance for everybody.”
Published date: December 30, 2019 at 07:06PM
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Thanks for Your Support!

Thanks for Your Support!

Thank You!

Thank you for all you do to support the nation’s Library. With new books, films, and music arriving every day, the Library of Congress is your place to discover new ideas. Whether you support us with a gift or simply by spreading the word about what we do, you help us in our mission to connect millions of people around the world with the stories of the world’s past, present, and future.

Spread the word and encourage your friends and family to visit us online or in person and make a gift to the nation’s library today!

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NASA Image of the day on December 30, 2019 - Exploring the Night Sky with Hubble’s Caldwell Catalog

Описание: This loose collections of stars, known as an open star cluster, is image 100 of the Caldwell catalog. via NASA

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California's Gov. Newsom Had 'Baptism by Fire' in 1st Year

By The Associated Press
NYT Business Day
During his inaugural address last January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made only a passing reference to wildfires and never mentioned the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric. Both soon became inescapable topics.
Published date: December 30, 2019 at 04:36PM
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Today in History - December 30

Today in History - December 30

U.S. Minister to Mexico James Gadsden, and three envoys of the President of Mexico General Antonio López de Santa Anna Pérez de Lebrón, signed the Gadsden Purchase, or Gadsden Treaty, in Mexico City on December 30, 1853. Continue reading.

Turn-of-the-century progressive reformer John Peter Altgeld was born in Germany on December 30, 1847. Continue reading.

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NHL Roundup: Blackhawks Outlast Blue Jackets in Shootout

By Reuters
NYT Sports
Dylan Strome and Erik Gustafsson each scored in the third period as the visiting Chicago Blackhawks rallied from a two-goal deficit on Sunday to record a 3-2 shootout win over the Columbus Blue Jackets, who have earned a point in 10 straight conte...
Published date: December 30, 2019 at 11:51AM
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Islanders Get Three Goals in 3rd Period, Beat Wild 3-1

By The Associated Press
NYT Sports
Ryan Pulock and Matt Martin scored less than 2 minutes apart early in the third period and the struggling New York Islanders rallied to beat the Minnesota Wild 3-1 Sunday.
Published date: December 30, 2019 at 03:57AM
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Today in History - December 29

Today in History - December 29

Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth president of the United States, was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on December 29, 1808. Continue reading.

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New Your Times - Health - Surgery for Blocked Arteries Is Often Unwarranted, Researchers Find

By GINA KOLATA
NYT Health
Drug therapy alone may save lives as effectively as bypass or stenting procedures, a large federal study showed.
Published date: November 16, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - Getting a Handle on Self-Harm

By BENEDICT CAREY
NYT Health
Cutting and other forms of self-injury are on the rise among adolescents. Researchers are beginning to understand the phenomenon and how to treat it.
Published date: November 11, 2019 at 02:00AM

New Your Times - Health - High Medical Bills Are at Center of Hospital Group’s Trial

By REED ABELSON
NYT Health
California has accused Sutter Health, the big hospital system, of abusing its market power to charge higher prices.
Published date: October 3, 2019 at 03:00AM

Astronomy picture of the day by NASA - Cassini Spacecraft Crosses Saturns Ring Plane

If this is Saturn, where are the rings? When Saturn's "appendages" disappeared in 1612, Galileo did not understand why. Later that century, it became understood that Saturn's unusual protrusions were rings and that when the Earth crosses the ring plane, the edge-on rings will appear to disappear. This is because Saturn's rings are confined to a plane many times thinner, in proportion, than a razor blade. In modern times, the robot Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn frequently crossed Saturn's ring plane during its mission to Saturn, from 2004 to 2017. A series of plane crossing images from 2005 February was dug out of the vast online Cassini raw image archive by interested Spanish amateur Fernando Garcia Navarro. Pictured here, digitally cropped and set in representative colors, is the striking result. Saturn's thin ring plane appears in blue, bands and clouds in Saturn's upper atmosphere appear in gold. Details of Saturn's rings can be seen in the high dark shadows across the top of this image, taken back in 2005. The moons Dione and Enceladus appear as bumps in the rings. via NASA

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New Your Times - Health - Scientists Designed a Drug for Just One Patient. Her Name Is Mila.

By GINA KOLATA
NYT Health
An achievement in ultra-personalized medicine also raises questions about fairness and regulation.
Published date: October 9, 2019 at 03:00AM

More Socialism, or More Capitalism?

By Unknown Author
NYT Opinion
Readers discuss David Brooks’s rejection of his early socialist ideas, how to get Americans to love capitalism and Finland’s success.
Published date: December 28, 2019 at 07:00PM
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Nebraska Town’s Grim Choice: Can It Pick Up and Move?

By The Associated Press
NYT U.S.
It took only minutes for the icy Elkhorn River to surge over a levee and engulf tiny Winslow, but months after the floodwaters receded, the village finds itself struggling to decide its future — or if it has a future.
Published date: December 28, 2019 at 06:06PM
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Today in History - December 28

Today in History - December 28

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia. Continue reading.

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Astronomy picture of the day by NASA - A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse

Yes, but have you ever seen a sunrise like this? Here, after initial cloudiness, the Sun appeared to rise in two pieces and during partial eclipse, causing the photographer to describe it as the most stunning sunrise of his life. The dark circle near the top of the atmospherically-reddened Sun is the Moon -- but so is the dark peak just below it. This is because along the way, the Earth's atmosphere had an inversion layer of unusually warm air which acted like a gigantic lens and created a second image. For a normal sunrise or sunset, this rare phenomenon of atmospheric optics is known as the Etrucan vase effect. The featured picture was captured two mornings ago from Al Wakrah, Qatar. Some observers in a narrow band of Earth to the east were able to see a full annular solar eclipse -- where the Moon appears completely surrounded by the background Sun in a ring of fire. The next solar eclipse, also an annular eclipse, will occur in 2020 June. via NASA

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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2012-4980

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in CFProfile.exe in Toshiba ConfigFree Utility 8.0.38 allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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New vulnerability on the NVD: CVE-2014-4559

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in test-plugin.php in the Swipe Checkout for WP e-Commerce plugin 3.1.0 and earlier for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) api_key, (2) payment_page_url, (3) merchant_id, (4) api_url, or (5) currency parameter.

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More Investors Sue Danske Bank for Alleged Money Laundering

By Reuters
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About 60 investors have sued Danske Bank for 1.5 billion crowns (£171.46 million) over alleged money laundering, their lawyers said on Friday, the third such case to hit Denmark's biggest lender.
Published date: December 27, 2019 at 03:00PM
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Снимка: “Comic Art” Exhibition: Exploring the History of a Beloved Format

While recently viewing the Library of Congress exhibition, “Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages,” I was struck by the effective storytelling Frank King employed in a cartoon drawing for his Gasoline Alley comic strip. In the cartoon, the main character Walt Wallet is depicted as a father whose well-meaning plans to introduce his son to the beauty of the great outdoors have gone awry.

Gasoline alley. Walt, I’m going up the canyon. Drawing by Frank King, 1921. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.10592

After an uneventful start to his hike with his son Skeezix, Walt begins to suspect that his friend Doc is sneaking up on the two of them. Walt teasingly says “You can’t fool us!” before realizing they are actually being approached by a bear. A comical slide down a mountain into a river ensues, concluding the narrative. I particularly like how the frightening scene in the top panel alludes to the story’s conclusion.

Curator Sara W. Duke provided me with further context: “At the time this comic strip was created, each comic strip appeared on a separate tabloid page, which gave the artists plenty of room to use the title panel as a prelude to the story. While Walt and Skeezix only encounter one bear, Frank King imagines a much more menacing interaction.”

Cropped section from Gasoline alley. Walt, I’m going up the canyon. Drawing by Frank King, 1921. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.10592

Gasoline Alley first appeared in print in 1918 and in 1921 became the first cartoon to show its main characters aging contemporaneously with its readers. It is also the longest running cartoon strip still in production in the United States. The exhibition provides these and many other facts and insights from the history of the art form.

For those of you unable to visit Washington to see the exhibit, please enjoy the online version, which includes digital copies of nearly every item displayed in the physical exhibit space. If you are able to visit the exhibition in person, you will have the luxury of seeing many original drawings close up.

Learn More:

• View the online version of “Comic Art: 120 Years of Panels and Pages.”
• Read about and view digitized images from some of our major collections of cartoon art: the Cartoon Drawings filing series, Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon and Herblock Collection.
• Explore the online versions of previous exhibitions featuring cartoon drawings, including “Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to their Times,” “Cartoon America,” and “Humor’s Edge: Cartoons by Ann Telnaes.”

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Published on December 27, 2019 at 04:18PM

U.S. International Investment Position, 3rd quarter 2019

The U.S. net international investment position, the difference between U.S. residents' foreign financial assets and liabilities, was -$10.95 trillion at the end of the third quarter of 2019, according to statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Assets totaled $28.26 trillion and liabilities were $39.21 trillion. At the end of the second quarter, the net investment position was -$10.61 trillion. Full Text

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Today in History - December 27

Today in History - December 27

Radio City Music Hall opened to the public on December 27, 1932. Continue reading.

On December 27, 1900, Carry Nation brought her campaign against alcohol to Wichita, Kansas, when she smashed up the bar at the elegant Carey Hotel. Continue reading.

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In the U.S., an Angioplasty Costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400.

By Margot Sanger-Katz
NYT The Upshot
A study of international prices finds American patients pay much more across a wide array of common services.
Published date: December 27, 2019 at 12:00PM
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Watchdog Orders Japan Post Units to Halt Insurance Sales Over January-March

By Reuters
NYT Business Day
Japan's financial regulator ordered two units of Japan Post Holdings to halt sales of insurance products for three months from January, after they were found to have improperly sold thousands of policies.
Published date: December 27, 2019 at 09:51AM
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New Your Times - Health - Women Should Be Warned of Breast Implant Hazards, F.D.A. Says

By RONI CARYN RABIN
NYT Health
The agency proposed that surgeons discuss the risks with patients and that manufacturers print bold warnings on the device packaging.
Published date: October 23, 2019 at 03:00AM