PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Boy Bullied for Homemade Shirt of Favorite College Team Gets His Design Turned into Official Merch
https://start.att.net/news/read/category/sports/article/people-boy_bullied_for_homemade_shirt_of_favorite_college-rtime

HEALTH
Study accidentally reveals biological aging may be reversible
https://www.foxnews.com/health/groudbreaking-study-accidentally-reveals-biological-age-may-be-reversible

Chicken 'causes cancer': Oxford University scientists say people who eat poultry are at increased risk of developing deadly disease
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7440195/Oxford-University-scientists-claim-Britons-eat-poultry-risk-developing-cancer.html

EDUCATION
Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/us/college-cheating-papers.html?auth=login-email&login=email

SPORTS
Extreme Ironing: The Insane Sport You Probably Never Knew About
https://www.sadanduseless.com/extreme-ironing-funny/

FINANCIAL
Sweden partially privatized its Social Security ??? here???s how it has worked out
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sweden-partially-privatized-its-social-security-heres-how-it-has-worked-out-2019-09-06

BUSINESS
U.S.-Japan Corn Deal Has Just One Flaw: Japan Doesn???t Need the Corn
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-japan-corn-deal-has-just-one-flaw-japan-doesnt-need-the-corn-11567933201?emailToken=496803f7073cd47801c635928de352f8h2NCJIFS0KaukYL/b50vNijS+JwC51XQ/tUl4LRsSLhSK4oqBeSHLML/2i20VYqyPiYt5XAFiMRQq+niCxySTsfiEf4IA15arO6H68nkUbEnf/ZKvoq03zfQ/vPBrgoB&reflink=article_email_share

ENVIRONMENT
States Look for New Ways to Recycle Your Plastic and Paper
https://www.wsj.com/articles/states-look-for-new-ways-to-recycle-your-plastic-and-paper-11567935001?emailToken=11c2ac257295364f06823232398417120Slj+DgDLWaYivLEY5vlqG6zWbfhxntA/fGaiaeI6u9rM76np3uZEqGhkPqq0riv1ivezGMcY7fIzXB2QXQOGTcCsrrr47sxi5mrBh1QS1OGVw1YDDF/FXvWdISPtOqb&reflink=article_email_share

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NATURE
How this ???camera car??? captured the perfect tiger close-up
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/07/pictures-of-tigers-taken-by-steve-winter-camera-car/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SunStills_20190908&rid=8AB81768A9E4FFBB59BE0B699A9A72AD

TECHNOLOGY
How technology feeds extreme weather fears
https://nypost.com/2019/09/07/how-technology-feeds-extreme-weather-fears/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

10 clever things you never knew your iPad could do
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/10-clever-things-you-never-knew-your-ipad-could-do

FOREIGN POLICY
Hong Kong protesters appeal to Trump for help
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49625233

DEFENSE
A thawing Arctic is heating up a new Cold War
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/2019/08/how-climate-change-is-setting-the-stage-for-the-new-arctic-cold-war-feature/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SunStills_20190908&rid=8AB81768A9E4FFBB59BE0B699A9A72AD

SecDef: Moving military funds to the border wall is actually a good thing
https://taskandpurpose.com/esper-wall-funds

Congress probing why Air Force C-17 stopped for fuel and stayed overnight at Trump property in Scotland
https://taskandpurpose.com/air-force-c17-scotland

The Flying Crowbar: The Insane Doomsday Weapon America Almost Built
https://jalopnik.com/the-flying-crowbar-the-insane-doomsday-weapon-america-1435286216

LAW AND ORDER
Doris Payne: From dirt-poor nurse to world-famous jewel thief
https://nypost.com/2019/09/07/doris-payne-from-dirt-poor-nurse-to-world-famous-jewel-thief/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

It used to be super easy to steal from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://nypost.com/2019/09/07/it-used-to-be-super-easy-to-steal-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

MEDIA
Why the media dislike Andrew, Tulsi, Bernie and Marianne
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/460224-why-the-media-dislike-andrew-tulsi-bernie-and-marianne

TRUMPGATE
Trump probes threaten to overshadow Democrats' agenda
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/460324-trump-probes-threaten-to-overshadow-dems-agenda

POLITICS
Kamala Harris never 'sued Exxon Mobil,' despite her claim on CNN: reports
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-claim-that-she-sued-exxon-mobil-over-climate-change-isnt-true-reports

Ex-SC Gov. Mark Sanford to challenge Trump in primary
https://news.yahoo.com/ex-sc-gov-mark-sanford-134615977.html

"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end ??? 
which you can never afford to lose ??? with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
        - VAdm James Stockdale, USN (1923-2005)