2. Suicide Bombing Kills
30 in Turkey Attack
A suicide bombing struck a
cultural center in a Turkish town
near the Syrian border on Mon-
day, killing at least 30 and wound-
ing more than 100 in an attack
that Turkey’s prime minister
suggested had been plotted by
the Islamic State. The assault, in
the town of Suruc, was the dead-
liest in Turkey in more than two
years. If the Islamic State is con-
firmed to be behind the assault,
it would be the organization’s
first mass killing of civilians in
Turkey and the worst spillover
in deadly violence from Syria’s
civil war. Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu said preliminary find-
ings pointed to “a suicide attack
carried out by Daesh,” the Arabic
acronym for the Islamic State,
also known as ISIS. (NYT)
American Embassy
Reopens in Havana
After more than a half-centu-
ry of Cold War estrangement,
the United States reopened its
six-story embassy in Havana on
Monday, and Cuba raised a flag
outside its own stately embassy
in Washington. The resumption
of diplomatic relations between
the two nations — a historic
milestone in the official thaw that
President Obama set in motion
last year — was the culmination
of months of negotiations to
overcome decades of enmity.
But the promise of restoring full
ties remained remote. Even as
top American and Cuban diplo-
mats held a meeting at the State
Department for the first time in
decades, Cuba’s foreign minister
railed against the United States’
travel and trade embargo and its
presence at the military base at
Guantánamo Bay. (NYT)
Friendly Fire From
U.S. Kills 7 Afghans
In one of the deadliest episodes
of friendly fire in Afghanistan in
recent years, American helicop-
ters opened fire on an outpost
belonging to the Afghan Army in
the eastern province of Logar on
Monday, killing at least seven Af-
ghan soldiers and wounding five,
officials said. This was the second
time in less than two years that
American forces had mistakenly
targeted Afghan soldiers in Log-
ar. A similar case in March last
year left five dead. In a further
twist, after the strikes, Taliban
fighters on about 25 motorcycles
mounted an offensive to take
over the destroyed outpost, but
they were repelled by members
of the Afghan Local Police after
two hours of heavy fighting, said
Sabir Khan, the commander of
the police unit. In a statement, the
United States military headquar-
ters acknowledged the casualties
and expressed “deep regret” and
condolences, adding that a joint
investigation with Afghan offi-
cials was underway. (NYT)
In Brief
BUJUMBURA, Burundi —
The rebel fighter lay grievously
wounded in the mud along a river
in central Burundi.
With enemy soldiers bearing
down, he thought it was the end.
Butthencrocodilessetuponthe
advancingsoldiers.Hewassaved.
It was divine will, he would say.
It is a story the rebel, Pierre
Nkurunziza, has told often since
that day in 2001, to explain how he
knew he was the one who could
save this country after years of
ethnic strife and civil war.
Despite being sentenced to
death in absentia for abuses by
a Burundian court, Nkurunziza
went on to become president af-
ter the war ended. But now, after
10 years in office, diplomats, crit-
ics and protesters say his drive
to hold on to power is setting his
country on a path toward tyranny
and more bloodshed.
As the presidential election on
Tuesday neared, there were few
ralliesandstumpspeeches.There
were no campaign posters on the
roadsides and no debates.
Instead, the lead-up to the vote
has been marked by scores of
deaths, protests that were vio-
lently shut down, the silencing of
newsmedia,afailedcoupattempt,
shootings and grenade attacks
and, last week, another threat of
rebellion from military leaders
whobrokewiththepresident.
What happens in Burundi can
quickly draw in the countries in
Africa’s Great Lakes region. Ma-
ny experts fear that the violence
could escalate swiftly, setting off
a chain of events that could ripple
across Rwanda and other neigh-
boring countries.
Burundi has a similar ethnic
makeup as Rwanda, and the civil
war pitting Hutus against Tut-
sis here was intertwined with
the genocide that left more than
800,000 people dead in Rwanda,
most killed in 1994.
Since April, about 170,000 peo-
plehavefledBurunditoneighbor-
ing countries.
“What the people of Burun-
di are telling us is that they fear
their country is on the brink of
devastating violence,” Zeid Ra’ad
al-Hussein, the United Nations’
high commissioner for human
rights, recently told the Security
Council. MARC SANTORA
UNITED NATIONS — The
United Nations Security Coun-
cil on Monday unanimously ap-
proved a resolution that creates
the basis for international eco-
nomicsanctionsagainstIrantobe
lifted,amovethatincitedafurious
reaction in Israel and potentially
sets up an angry showdown in
Congress.
The 15-to-0 vote for approval of
theresolutionwaswritteninVien-
na by diplomats who negotiated a
pact last week that limits Iran’s
nuclear capabilities in exchange
for ending the sanctions.
Iran has pledged to let in inter-
national monitors to inspect its
facilities for the next 10 years and
othermeasuresthatweredevised
toguaranteethatitsnuclearener-
gy activities are purely peaceful.
TheSecurityCouncilresolution,
which is legally binding, lays out
thestepsrequiredonlyforthelift-
ingofUnitedNationssanctions.It
has no legal consequence on the
sanctions imposed by the United
States and the European Union.
The European Union also ap-
proved the Iran nuclear deal on
Monday, putting in motion the
lifting of its own sanctions, which
include prohibitions on the pur-
chase of Iranian oil. Europe will
continue to prohibit the export of
ballistic missile technology and
sanctionsrelatedtohumanrights.
Diplomats have warned that if
Congress refuses to lift American
penalties against Iran, the Irani-
ans may renege on their commit-
ments as well, which could result
in a collapse of the entire deal.
The resolution takes effect in
90 days, a time frame negotiat-
ed in Vienna to allow Congress,
where members have expressed
strong distrust of the agreement,
toreviewit.PresidentObamahas
vowed to veto a congressional re-
jection of the nuclear accord.
The resolution will not com-
pletely lift all Council restrictions
on Iran. It maintains an arms em-
bargo, and sets up a panel to re-
view the import of sensitive tech-
nology on a case-by-case basis.
It also sets up a way to renew
sanctionsifIrandoesnotabideby
its commitments. In the event of
an unresolved dispute over Iran’s
enrichment activities, the United
Nations sanctions snap back au-
tomaticallyafter30days.Toavoid
the sanctions renewal requires a
vote of the Council — giving skep-
tics, namely the United States, an
opportunity to veto it.
Obama’s critics in Congress,
includingatleasttwoseniorDem-
ocrats, objected to the Council
vote’s taking place before Con-
gress has had a chance to debate
the accord.
The United States ambassa-
dor, Samantha Power, speaking
immediately after the vote, told
the Council that sanctions relief
would start only when Iran “ver-
ifiably” met its obligations under
the deal. “We have a responsibili-
ty to test diplomacy,” she said.
SOMINI SENGUPTA
Bloodshed Marks
Push for Power
By Burundi Chief
U.N. Moves to Lift Iran Sanctions After Deal
DEM ALTAN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Turks marched
in solidarity
with victims
of a suicide
bombing in
a town near
Syria on
Monday.
INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 2
3. SPARTANBURG, S.C. — The
victory — the removal of the Con-
federate battle flag from South
Carolina’s State House grounds
—waslessthanaweekold.Butas
theRev.M.KeithMcDanielSr.sat
at his desk last Tuesday morning,
he had already moved on to the
more substantive challenges fac-
ing African-Americans here.
“That flag is simply a start;
that’s all it is,” said McDaniel,
the pastor of the Macedonia Mis-
sionary Baptist Church, a pre-
dominantly black congregation
of about 1,300 people. He recited
problems of poverty, inadequate
housing and joblessness. He add-
ed:“ThatflagcomingdowninCo-
lumbia,whatisitdoingforthem?”
With the lowering of the battle
flag, black South Carolinians are
wondering whether this moment
might augur a new, more coop-
erative political tone that could
helpthestatebegintoaddressthe
longstanding racial disparities in
income, education, health care
and quality of life.
A handful of black leaders are
indulging in an unbridled opti-
mism after South Carolinians of
all races rallied to condemn the
massacre of nine black church-
goers in Charleston and after a
bipartisan coalition of lawmakers
voted to take down the divisive
battle flag.
“The flag is just part of it,” Rep.
Robert L. Brown, a black Demo-
crat, said, invoking the notion of a
SouthCarolinathatforonceoffers
“prosperity for all.” He added: “I
think it’s going to happen.’’
But there is a reservoir of skep-
ticism about where the state
stands on race.
“There are signs of progress,
but it still saddens my heart be-
cause we haven’t progressed
enough,” said Sheila Henderson,
a 50-year-old Navy veteran and a
native of South Carolina. “You’d
think we would have come a lot
fartherinregardstorelations.But
we haven’t.” ALAN BLINDER
and RICHARD FAUSSET
Jeb Bush, who entered the 2016
presidential campaign vowing
to wage war on a bloated and
self-serving Washington estab-
lishment,outlinedawide-ranging
plan on Monday to rein in the size
of the federal government and
curb the influence of lobbyists
who live off it.
Portrayinghimselfasapolitical
outsider, Bush called for a 10 per-
cent reduction in the federal work
force, an immediate hiring freeze,
a constitutional amendment re-
quiring a balanced budget and
a six-year waiting period before
members of Congress can lobby
on Capitol Hill.
“We need to help politicians
rediscover life outside of Wash-
ington,” Bush said at a speech in
Tallahassee, Fla., where he was
governor for eight years. “Which
— who knows? — might even be a
pleasant surprise for them.”
His proposals amounted to a
pointed rebuttal to his rivals for
the Republican nomination, who
have questioned the depth of his
conservatism, and an assault on
the culture of Congress.
“The overspending, the over-
reaching, the arrogance, and the
sheer incompetence in that city
— these problems have been with
ussolongthattheyaresometimes
acceptedasfactsoflife,”Bushsaid.
“But a president should never ac-
ceptthem,andIwillnot. (NYT)
Asalittlegirl,ifHillaryRodham
forgottoscrewthecapbackonthe
toothpaste, her father would toss
the tube out the bathroom win-
dow. She’d scurry around in the
snow-covered evergreen bushes
outside their suburban Chicago
home to find it and return inside
tobrushherteeth,reminded,once
again,ofoneofHughE.Rodham’s
many rules.
When she lagged behind in her
fourth-grademathclass,Rodham
would wake his daughter at dawn
to grill her on multiplication ta-
bles. When she brought home an
A, he would sneer: “You must go
to a pretty easy school.”
Clinton has made the struggles
of her mother, Dorothy Rodham,
a central part of her 2016 cam-
paign’s message. But her father,
whom Clinton rarely talks about
publicly, exerted an equally pow-
erful,ifsometimesbruising,influ-
ence on the woman who wants to
becomethefirstfemalepresident.
The brusque son of an En-
glish immigrant and a coal min-
er’s daughter in Scranton, Pa.,
Rodham, for most of his life, har-
bored prejudices against blacks,
Catholics and anyone else not like
him. He hurled biting sarcasm at
hiswifeandhisonlydaughterand
spanked, at times excessively,
his three children to keep them
in line, according to interviews
with friends and a review of doc-
uments, Clinton’s writings and
former President Bill Clinton’s
memoir.
“Byallaccountshewaskindofa
tough customer,” said Lissa Mus-
catine, a longtime friend and ad-
viser to Clinton. “Hard-working,
believed in no free rides, believed
youhadtoearnwhatyou’regoing
to get, believed his kids could al-
ways do better.”
Presidential candidates often
turn to hard-knocks family sto-
ries to help them connect with
voters, but for years Clinton re-
frained from sharing a detailed
portrait of her childhood. In her
2016 campaign, she has shown
an increased willingness to talk
about her mother, a warm and
devoted parent who had been
abandoned by her own parents
andwhoworkedasahousekeeper
as a teenager before she met and
married Rodham.
But Clinton refers in only
oblique ways to her father.
If Mrs. Rodham, who raised
her daughter to be confident and
caring, is forming the emotional
core of Clinton’s 2016 campaign,
invoked as the inspiration behind
her decades of public service,
then Clinton’s father quietly rep-
resents the candidate’s combat-
ive,determinedandscrappyside.
The inspiration, friends said, that
toughened his daughter up to not
just withstand but embrace yet
another political battle.
“He was such a force in the
family, and there’s a lot of him in
Hillary,”saidLisaCaputo,afriend
and former White House press
aide who knew Rodham. “The
discipline, the tenacity, the work
ethic, a lot of that’s from him.”
AMY CHOZICK
Bush Vows to Curb Lobbying and Cut Size of Government
Flag Down, Black South Carolinians Turn to Uplift
Clinton Father’s Style Had a Powerful Impact
Menendez Fighting
Corruption Charges
Sen. Robert Menendez told a
federal judge on Monday that
corruption charges against him
should be thrown out because
prosecutors trampled on the
independence of Congress and
unfairly treated campaign do-
nations as crimes. In hundreds
of pages of court documents,
Menendez, D-N.J., provides an
aggressive response to his indict-
ment in April, in which the Jus-
tice Department accused him of
trading political favors for luxury
vacations, free airfare and cam-
paign donations. He was charged
alongside his longtime friend and
political benefactor, Salomon E.
Melgen, a wealthy Florida eye
surgeon. (NYT)
Failed Strut Doomed
Rocket, SpaceX Says
SpaceX suspects a 2-foot steel
strut snapped inside its rocket
and led to last month’s launch
accident. The company’s founder
and chief executive, Elon Musk,
said Monday that hundreds of
these struts had flown many
times before without any prob-
lem. But two minutes into the
June 28 launch, one of the struts
in the second stage of the un-
manned Falcon 9 rocket likely
broke loose. The strut was hold-
ing down a high-pressure helium
bottle in the liquid oxygen tank.
If the strut snapped as engineers
believe, according to Musk, the
bottle would have shot to the top
of the tank at high speed, doom-
ing the rocket. (AP)
State Owes Schools
Millions, Judge Says
Louisiana owes local public
schools $137 million because law-
makersdidnotproperlypasspre-
vious school funding formulas,
Judge Janice Clark ruled Mon-
day. Thirty school boards, nearly
half of Louisiana’s parish school
boards, claim in a lawsuit that
the Legislature did not meet re-
quirements for the formula used
in the 2013-14 budget year. The
boards argued that the last prop-
erly approved formula came in
2009 and that districts should be
paid through that method, which
included an inflation increase. A
lawyer for the state, said the deci-
sion would be appealed. (AP)
In Brief
NATIONAL TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 3
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Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6522 .3770
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China (Yuan) .1610 6.2095
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As top executives pushed sub-
ordinates to meet unachievable
financial targets, Toshiba, the
Japanese industrial giant, over-
stated its earnings by more than
$1.2 billion over the last seven
years, in what is emerging as one
ofthecountry’slargestcorporate
accounting scandals.
The discrepancies, detailed on
Monday in a report by a commit-
tee of independent experts hired
by the company to examine its
accounting practices, point to a
systematicproblemthatreached
the upper echelons of Toshiba.
HisaoTanaka,Toshiba’schiefex-
ecutive, and his predecessor, No-
rio Sasaki, who is the company’s
vice chairman, plan to announce
their resignations on Tuesday,
Japanese media reported.
Theproblems,thereportfound,
date back to the deep economic
slumpsetoffbythefinancialcrisis
in 2008. Managers across Toshi-
ba’s many divisions then began
taking accounting shortcuts to
meet increasingly difficult profit
goalsimposedbysuperiors.
The committee said the implic-
itpressurewasenoughtoprompt
managers to misreport earnings
from their divisions. It accused
Toshiba of breeding “a corporate
culture where it is impossible to
go against one’s bosses’ wishes.”
In some cases, the pressure
was more direct.
The committee said it discov-
ered“systematicinvolvement,in-
cludingbytopmanagement,with
the goal of intentionally inflating
theappearanceofnetprofits.”
Toshiba did not dispute the
findings, but said it would not
address them directly until Tues-
day. JONATHAN SOBLE
When an executive at one of
WallStreet’stopconsultingfirms
testified before Congress two
years ago, he stressed the impor-
tance of independence in review-
ing bank misdeeds, declaring, “If
we merely told our clients what
they want to hear, we would lose
credibility.”
Along-runningNewYorkState
investigation into potential con-
flictsofinterestatthefirm,Prom-
ontory Financial Group, is now
callingsomeofthatcredibilityin-
to question, according to lawyers
briefed on the matter. And state
authorities recently subpoenaed
several of the firm’s employees,
including the executive who tes-
tified before Congress.
The subpoenas from New
York’s financial regulator, the
latest step in a two-year inquiry,
require that at least six Prom-
ontory employees sit for deposi-
tions beginning on Tuesday, the
lawyers said. The development
signals that the investigation has
reached its final stages.
The scrutiny threatens the
reputation of Promontory, a firm
staffed with so many former fed-
eral officials that it is known as
Wall Street’s shadow regulator.
The consultant, whose founder
and chief executive, Eugene A.
Ludwig, is a onetime banking
regulator, occupies a position of
trust on Wall Street, providing
regulatorswithwhatissupposed
to be an impartial window into
misconduct like money launder-
ing and sanctions violations.
The investigation centers on
one such assignment Promonto-
ryperformedfortheBritishbank
Standard Chartered, which was
suspected of processing billions
of dollars on behalf of Iran. The
bankhiredPromontorytoreview
its transactions with Iranian en-
tities, as well as other sanctioned
countries,andreportthefindings
to regulators.
After reviewing drafts of the
report and internal emails, the
regulator has questioned wheth-
er Promontory helped obscure
some of the same misconduct
it was supposed to unearth, ac-
cording to lawyers briefed on the
investigation.BENPROTESSand
JESSICASILVER-GREENBERG
When Gawker posted a story
Thursday night about a married
male media executive’s futile at-
tempt to hire a gay escort, it was
hoping to create a scandal.
But this was not the scandal it
had in mind.
In the face of opprobrium
across the Internet, Gawker’s
founder, Nick Denton, voluntari-
ly took down the post on Friday,
an highly unusual step for the
12-year-old company.
This may have helped quell
one controversy, but it created
another. On Monday morning,
the executive editor of Gawker
Media, Tommy Craggs, and the
editor of Gawker, Max Read, quit
inprotest.Theinflammatorypost
wasatthecenterofadebateover
journalisticintegrity,withCraggs
andReadsayingthatthedecision
to delete it, against their wishes,
constituted an unforgivable vio-
lation of the site’s editorial inde-
pendence. It made for a strange
spectacle — two editors standing
on principle in defense of such an
unsavory article.
Gawker, which is known for
nothingifnotfloutingtheconven-
tionsofgoodtaste,hasgenerated
plenty of controversy in the past.
Butthisscandalseemsespecially
ill-timed.
The company is about to move
into much larger and more ex-
pensive offices in Manhattan.
And Denton, who with his family
ownsabout68percentofGawker,
hasbeenhopingtosellaminority
stake in the company.
Maybemostsignificant,Gawk-
er faces a $100 million lawsuit
brought by Hulk Hogan, claim-
ing that the site violated his pri-
vacy by posting excerpts from
a videotape of him having sex
with a woman who was then the
wife of a friend of Hogan’s. The
latest scandal may not have a
material effect on the case, but
from at least a public-relations
standpoint, it’s not going to help
Gawker advance its image as
torch-bearer for the values of the
First Amendment.
For the moment, Gawker’s
editorial employees seem less
interested in debating the merits
of the initial post than in criticiz-
ingDenton’shandlingofit,andin
bemoaning the loss of two of the
company’smostadmirededitors.
“Nick has a long road ahead of
him in terms of gaining back the
trustofeditorialemployees,”said
Lacey Donohue, the executive
managing editor of Gawker Me-
dia, “if he ever does.”
JONATHAN MAHLER
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New York Escalates Investigation Into Promontory
Gawker Editors Quit After Article Is Removed
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Stocks on the Move
Stocks that moved substantially or trad-
ed heavily Monday:
Morgan Stanley, down 16 cents to
$40.04. The financial firm reported a
drop in second-quarter profit on higher
costs, but the results beat Wall Street
expectations.
CF Industries Holdings Inc., down
$3.92 to $65. The fertilizer maker said it
is in preliminary talks OCI NV on a poten-
tial deal involving some of that compa-
ny’s businesses.
Halliburton Co., up 73 cents to $40.72.
The provider of drilling services reported
better-than-expected second-quarter
profit and revenue.
Lennox International Inc., up $8.80 to
$116.39. The maker of furnaces and air
conditioners reported better-than-ex-
pected second-quarter profit.
Lockheed Martin Corp., up $3.95 to
$205.13. The defense contractor is ac-
quiring Sikorsky Aircraft for $9 billion.
PayPal Holdings Inc., up $2.08 to
$40.47. The payment service separated
from the e-commerce company eBay.
Hasbro Inc., up $4.90 to $83.15. The
toy maker reported a boost in fiscal
fourth-quarter profit and revenue, but
the results fell short of Wall Street fore-
casts. (AP)
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(100)
Analysts Say Statements May Hurt Cosby in Court
Buffalo Goes From Punchline to Powerhouse
New revelations about the sex-
ual behavior of Bill Cosby have
been gratifying to many of the
women who have accused him of
druggingandsexuallyassaulting
them.
The disclosures, from a deposi-
tionheprovidedina2005civilsuit,
have further altered the percep-
tion of Cosby. Once a beloved en-
tertainer and a paternal role mod-
el, Cosby in his own words offers
up a picture of himself as a serial
philanderer, who used his fame as
well as powerful drugs to pursue
and persuade young women to
havesexwithhim.
Yet the picture is much less
clear about whether the new in-
formation will lead to any legal
findings against Cosby. He cur-
rently faces two defamation cas-
es, in Massachusetts and in Cali-
fornia; a civil case in California;
and a criminal investigation into
a complaint brought by a woman
in Los Angeles.
Legal experts said the deposi-
tion, obtained by The New York
Times, which published excerpts
from it over the weekend, could
becomeausefulinstrumentinthe
currentlegalchallenges.Yetthey
also point out that the burden of
proof is high, and that it could be
difficult to bring new lawsuits
about incidents that happened
many years ago.
The deposition could have its
greatest ramifications in the case
of the two defamation suits, law-
yers said, if there are blatant in-
consistencies between what Cos-
by said publicly in recent months
incharacterizingthewomen’sac-
cusations, and what he admitted
to in his testimony.
“He could be in the cross hairs,”
said David S. Korzenik, a media
defense attorney in New York.
“If he admitted to statements in
thedepositionthatarebeingchal-
lengedinthedefamationcasethat
couldbeharmfultohisdefense.”
He added: “In that case it
would suggest that he was mak-
ing statements that were either
negligently or knowingly false.”
The difficulty for his accusers,
he said, is that they need to show
Cosby was deliberately being
false, even maliciously so.
Cosby is currently fighting
to have the defamation case
brought by three women in Mas-
sachusetts dismissed.
Joseph Cammarata, a lawyer
representing the women in the
case,saidthatifthejudgeallowed
thecasetogoforward,thedeposi-
tionwouldbecriticallyimportant
in the arguments.
A spokesman for Cosby, An-
drew Wyatt, declined to com-
ment. Cosby, 78, has consistently
denied the accusations and has
never been charged with a crime.
(NYT)
BUFFALO — Along a bend in
the Buffalo River here, an enor-
mous steel and concrete struc-
tureisrising,soontohouseoneof
the country’s largest solar panel
factories. Just to the south, in the
rotting guts of the old Bethlehem
SteelplantinLackawanna,where
a dozen wind turbines already
harness the energy blowing off
LakeErie,workersarepreparing
to install a big new solar array.
And in Lockport, to the north,
Yahoo expanded a data and cus-
tomerservicecenter,attractedby
the region’s cheap, clean power
generated by Niagara Falls.
After decades of providing the
punch line in jokes about snow-
storms and urban decline, Buf-
falo is suddenly experiencing
something new: an economic
turnaround,helpedbytheunlike-
ly sector of renewable energy.
The change here is so evident
that parents who once told their
children to seek their fortunes
elsewhere are telling them to
come back.
“They’re so excited,” said How-
ard Zemsky, who has worked on
economic development in the re-
gion and now oversees it for the
state.“They’dsay,‘Ilovemykids.
I wish they would stay. But I have
totellthemtogotofindthekindof
opportunityIwantthemtohave.’ ”
Now, he said, they are telling
their children, “You’ve got to
come back and see what’s hap-
peninghere.”Andtheyseemtobe
listening: The region, which lost
roughly a third of its population
of 20- to 40-year-olds over the last
40 years or so, is beginning to see
that group rebound for the first
time, Zemsky said.
The recovery — one that ap-
pears to have a surprising mo-
mentum after decades of unsuc-
cessful attempts at revitalization
— extends to more than clean
energy. A $1 billion commitment
of tax breaks and grants from
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and a
comprehensiveplanningprocess
havehelpedspurtherenaissance
and reduce the region’s unem-
ployment rate to 5.3 percent, the
lowestsince2007,accordingtothe
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Although some have criticized
the amount of grants, tax breaks
andotherincentivesthestatehas
offered through Cuomo’s $1 bil-
lion redevelopment plan and oth-
er programs, he said the results
had exceeded expectations.
The effort has capitalized on
the city’s unusual strengths in
renewable energy — think Niag-
araFalls—andtheinfrastructure
that was built to harness it.
“It’s always been a sort of ener-
gyhubfordifferenttechnologies,”
said Paul F. Curran, managing
director of BQ Energy, a renew-
able-energy developer that is
transformingtheformersteelmill
intoagreenpowerplant.“Wecan
put in more generation without
havingtobuildnewinfrastructure
—bigpowerlinesandthattypeof
thing—becausetheconventional
Rust Belt power is retiring. So we
can hop into the grid economical-
ly.” DIANECARDWELL
BRENDAN BANNON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Wind turbines,
near the
rotting guts
of the old
Bethlehem
steel plant in
Lackawanna,
already
harness the
energy blowing
off Lake Erie.
BUSINESS TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 5
6. Screamsareunmistakable,uni-
versally recognizable as distress
calls. A new study has found that
allhumanscreamsaremodulated
in a particular way.
“We asked ourselves what
makes a scream a scream,” said
DavidPoeppel,aneuroscientistat
NewYorkUniversityandtheMax
PlanckInstituteinFrankfurt,and
an author of the new study in Cur-
rent Biology. “It isn’t that it is al-
ways loud, high-pitched or shrill.”
He and his colleagues analyzed
screams in movies and those re-
corded in a laboratory. The scien-
tists found that all screams share
atraitcalledroughness,whichisa
measure of how fast the loudness
of a sound changes.
In normal speech, loudness
ranges between four and five
hertz; for screams, the range is
30 to 150 hertz. The researchers
also found that the roughness of
a scream serves as a measure of
how alarming the call is.
“Themoreroughnesstheyhave,
the more scary people ranked the
screams,”Poeppelsaid.
Inspired by these findings,
the researchers looked for other
sounds with roughness. The only
othersignalsresemblingscreams
in this way were alarms like those
on ambulances and fire engines.
“This wasn’t known when they
were designed, but it makes good
sense,” Poeppel said. “These are
sounds that are really precise,
obnoxious and attention-getting,
and that’s what you want.”
Theresearchersalsomonitored
brain activity in study subjects
using functional magnetic reso-
nance imaging as they listened to
screams and alarm signals.
Screams triggered increased
activity in the amygdala, a region
of the brain used for processing
and remembering fear. The more
roughnessascreamhad,themore
activity it generated in the amyg-
dala. SINDYA N. BHANOO
I was going to skip my daily
swim the other morning. I had
already walked three miles with
a friend and taken my dog to the
park for his exercise. I was really
tired, my back was
sore, I had a column
to write and lots to do
around the house.
But I knew from
past experience that
I would feel much better after
40 minutes of swimming laps.
So in I went. And, yes, I did feel
better — not just refreshed, but
more energetic, clearheaded
and better prepared than I would
have been otherwise to tackle the
day’s essentials.
Michelle Segar, who directs
the Sport, Health and Activity
Research and Policy Center
at the University of Michigan,
would say I had reframed my
exercise experience, making
it ever more likely that I would
continue to swim — even on days
when I didn’t feel like doing it —
because I viewed it as a positive,
restorative activity. Indeed,
exercise is something I do, not
because I have to or was told to,
but because I know it makes me
feel better.
Segar’sresearchhasshownthat
evenpeoplewhosaytheyhateto
exerciseorhaverepeatedlyfallen
offtheexercisewagoncanlearnto
enjoyitandstickwithit.
Though it seems counterintu-
itive, studies have shown that
people whose goals are weight
loss and better health tend to ex-
ercise the least.
Rather, immediate rewards
that enhance daily life — more
energy, a better mood, less stress
and more opportunity to connect
with friends and family — offer
far more motivation, Segar and
others have found.
“I like to think of physical ac-
tivity as a way to revitalize and
renew ourselves, as fuel to better
enjoy and succeed at what mat-
ters most,” she said.
KANAB, Utah — On a stormy
day in southern Utah last sum-
mer, the paleontologist Alan
Titus wandered from the
roadside, hot, wet and an-
noyed. A team from California
was supposed to assist him in
a ground survey of the craggy,
buggy badlands of Utah’s Grand
Staircase-Escalante National
Monument. But his colleagues
had bailed because of the lousy
weather.
His eyes scanned the flat
ground near Wahweap Creek,
about 200 yards from one of the
few roads that wind through the
Grand Staircase’s remote and
rugged1.9millionacres.Titushad
walkedthisareabeforeandfound
nothing.
This time, however, the skull
of an adult tyrannosaur peered
up at him. Nearby, Titus spotted
something else: a tyrannosaur
toe bone.
“It was the find of my lifetime,”
said Titus, a paleontologist with
theBureauofLandManagement.
Bu it’s just one of the many ex-
traordinary discoveries made
here. In the past 15 years. Titus
and his colleagues at the bureau
— along with the Natural History
Museum of Utah, the Denver Mu-
seum of Nature and Science and
hundreds of volunteers, interns
and researchers — have exca-
vated tens of thousands of fossils
from an extraordinary part of the
GrandStaircasemonumentcalled
theKaiparowitsPlateau,a50-mile-
long,high-elevationridge.
Among the animals discovered
here are 21 never-before-seen di-
nosaurs. Many are ceratopsids,
or horned-face dinosaurs, includ-
ing the
ornately
frilled Kos-
moceratops
richardsoni
(named after
Scott Rich-
ardson, a pale-
ontologist with
theBureauofLandManagement)
andNasutoceratopstitusi(named
after Titus), a herbivore with a
skull seven feet long, an oversize
noseandforward-facinghorns.
As many as four species of
horneddinosaurslivedhere77mil-
lion years ago — twice as many as
have been discovered at contem-
poraneoussitesinNorthAmerica,
said Scott Sampson, a paleontolo-
gistattheDenvermuseum.
Hadrosaurs, or duck-billed di-
nosaurs, are also common in the
Kaiparowits,andtwonewspecies
of tyrannosaurs have been found
ontheplateau:the12-foot-tallTer-
atophoneus currei (“monstrous
murderer”),whichdied75million
years ago; and Lythronax arg-
estes (“king of gore”), which at 81
million years old is the oldest true
tyrannosaurid known to science.
Thelargenumberofancientspe-
ciesdiscoveredintheKaiparowits
“is providing really strong evi-
dence that dinosaur communities
and species were very provincial
about 75 million years ago,” said
DavidEvans,apaleontologistwith
theRoyalOntarioMuseum.
Paleontologists working the
Kaiparowits hope their finds al-
so may shed light on the greatest
dinosaur mystery: their sudden
disappearance.
The Kaiparowits, Evans said,
“isreallyouronlyhigh-resolution
window into the time period lead-
ing up to and through the extinc-
tion of the dinosaurs and into the
age of mammals.”
Headded,“Thisisreallytheon-
lyplacewecanstudythecausesof
dinosaurextinctioninanydetail.”
JENNIFER PINKOWSKI
Aim for Fitness
Satisfaction, Now
Secret to What Makes a Scream a Good Scream
In Utah, a Land of Odd Beasts
PAUL ROGERS
LUKAS PANZARIN
The ornate Kosmoceratops
richardsoni, discovered at the
Kaiparowits Plateau.
Personal
Health
Jane
E. Brody
SCIENCE TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 6
7. A Capitalist Soul Rises in a City Refusing to Live in the Past
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Taking
a puff from a hookah and a sip from her beer,
Thuy Truong, a 29-year-old tech entrepre-
neur in a black cocktail dress, pondered the
question: What were her thoughts on the 40th
anniversary of the fall of Saigon?
“Forty years ago?” she yelled over the roar
of nightclub music. “Who cares!”
Four decades after the victory of Commu-
nist forces the soul of this city, still known
locally as Saigon, seems firmly planted in the
present. For the young and increasingly afflu-
ent, Saigon is a city that does not want to look
back, loves having fun and perhaps most of all
is voraciously capitalistic.
The apartment building where refugees
clambered up an outdoor staircase to board
a C.I.A. helicopter in a chaotic rooftop evac-
uation, a scene captured in an iconic photo-
graph, is now at the heart of a neighborhood
filled with luxury shops selling $1,000 Rimowa
suitcases and $2,000 Burberry suits.
A newly paved walkway runs down the
median of nearby Nguyen Hue Street, a mag-
net for teenagers on skateboards and in-line
skates who swoosh past a temporary display
of photographs honoring a deceased cadre
of the Communist Party. A statue of Ho Chi
Minh, the Communist revolutionary leader,
is sandwiched between a luxury hotel and a
refurbished French colonial building that will
soon house a Brooks Brothers store.
Two-thirds of the Vietnamese population
was born after the fall of Saigon and the reuni-
fication of Vietnam in 1975. Among the young
there is gratefulness that they are coming of
age now, when the country is at peace after
so many centuries of wars, occupation and
entanglements with foreign armies.
“I feel lucky that I was born a long time
after 1975,” said Thu Nghi, who at 22 has her
own company that buys, refurbishes and sells
homes. From a childhood of poverty and mis-
fortune, Thu Nghi parlayed a small trading
company into a thriving business, and now
owns four cars and numerous houses.
New money is everywhere in Saigon, the
former capital of South Vietnam, because all
the old money fled or was stripped away when
the Communist North won the war.
In the early years of a unified Vietnam, the
government pursued disastrous experiments
with collectivized farms and bans on private
enterprise. The country’s leaders changed
course in 1989, around the time the Soviet
Union collapsed, embracing the market
economy, a pillar of the very system they had
fought to defeat.
Since then, Saigon, a freewheeling bastion
of capitalism before 1975, has returned to its
roots with vigor.
Ralf Matteas, a Canadian who arrived in
Vietnam in 1993, remembers streets filled
with “nothing but bicycles.”
“If you saw a car you would actually stop
and stare at it,” he said.
Motorcycles have taken over the city
streets now, and often the sidewalks.
Ho Chi Minh City is a magnet for the young,
a place of opportunity and fun.
Luong Thi Hai Luyen, 29, came to Saigon
from her native Hanoi, the capital, to study for
a master’s degree and find a job.
“In Hanoi, we think about the future, saving
for the future,” she said. “Here they don’t
think about yesterday — or tomorrow. They
live in the moment.” THOMAS FULLER
ACROSS
1 Muscles that
may be sculpted,
informally
4 Japanese W.W. II
conquest
9 Eye of the tigre?
12 Noggin knocks
14 “Dido and ___”
(Purcell opera)
15 ___ Paulo, Brazil
16 *“Hawaii Five-O”
catchphrase
18 Popular gossip
website
19 Kind of
inspection
20 Rush
experienced
during a movie?
22 *Sarah Palin or
Glenn Beck, e.g.
24 Fleur-de-___
25 Title for Winston
Churchill
26 Shaving mishaps
28 Cheryl of
“Charlie’s
Angels”
32 Rom-___
34 Classic comics
character since
1941
35 *History channel
show frequently
set in Canada or
Alaska
38 Wrinkle-resistant
fabric
39 “Tosh.0”
segment, briefly
40 Inquires
41 Little Bighorn
victors
42 Apt rhyme of
“grab”
44 “… ’twas ___ a
dream of thee”:
Donne
45 *Structure built
from the ground
up?
52 Put another way
54 Like cooties
vis-à-vis almost
anything else
55 Italian time unit
56 “We have this
won” … or what
could be said
about each of the
first words of the
answers to the
starred clues
58 Bol. neighbor
59 Albert with
four Best Actor
nominations
60 New wave band
with the hit
“Whip It”
61 Toast choice
62 Nickname for
Theresa
63 Part of AARP:
Abbr.
DOWN
1 Prior’s superior
2 Frontiersman
who lent his
name to six U.S.
counties
3 Bride, in
Bologna
4 Sleep on it
5 Eel at a sushi
bar
6 Forename
meaning “born
again”
7 Wayne ___
(abode above
the Batcave)
8 Since
9 Big egg
producers
10 TV/movie lead
character whose
middle name is
Tiberius
11 Like tar pits
13 Bypass
14 Swiss sub?
17 Calculations
made while high,
for short?
21 Horse that’s
“My Friend” in
literature and
1950s TV
23 Took steps
26 Reactor-
overseeing org.
27 Cong. meeting
28 Tops
29 Brazilian fruit
export
30 Paper cutouts as
a decorative art
31 Sexologist with a
hit 1980s radio
show
33 Network that
aired “Jersey
Shore”
34 Gall
36 Losing tic-tac-toe
row
37 Thick skin
43 Name that
follows J. S. or
P. D. Q.
45 French composer
Erik
46 Grps.
47 Opposing votes
in the Bundestag
48 TV listings,
informally
49 Rome’s river
50 Get out of Dodge
51 Crop hazard
52 Surf sound
53 Schism
57 Org. that
opposes school
vouchers
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8. The New Era Begins With Cuba
Making the Highways Less Safe
Creativity Collective
As a Cuban flag was raised outside Cuba’s
diplomaticmissioninWashingtononMonday,
rancorous cries rang out from the crowd gath-
ered outside the stately limestone building.
“Cuba without Castro!” a hoarse-voiced
manyelled.“LonglivesocialistCuba!”awom-
an hollered back.
Bitterly divergent views about the island’s
future will persist as Washington and Hava-
na embark on an era of cautious engagement
following the formal restoration of diplomatic
relations.Butthat’stobeexpectedinresponse
to such a historic and difficult change.
For more than five decades, the enmity be-
tween the United States and Cuba has domi-
nated the island’s politics, served as a pretext
for government repression and shaped the
lives of all Cubans in painful ways.
As enemies become uneasy but respectful
neighbors, the Cuban government is certain
tocomeunderpressurefromitscitizens.They
have long yearned for basic freedoms, like
being able to oppose the government without
fearandhaveaccesstotechnologythatallows
communication with the rest of the world.
Through careful diplomacy, the Obama ad-
ministrationhasdonemuchtosupportCubans
on the island and allow Cuban-Americans to
investinandreconnectwiththeirnativecoun-
try. Ultimately, Congress will need to lift the
trade embargo, a failed policy. There is grow-
ing support for bills that would dismantle key
parts of it by ending travel restrictions and al-
lowing more types of commerce.
“There is, after all, nothing to be lost — and
much to be gained — by encouraging travel
between our nations, the free flow of informa-
tion and ideas, the resumption of commerce
and the removal of obstacles that have made
it harder for families to visit their loved ones,”
Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday as
he hosted Bruno Rodríguez, Cuba’s foreign
minister, at the State Department.
The full normalization of relations between
the United States and Cuba will take years.
Issues that will be hard to resolve include the
disposition of American property the Cuban
government seized in the 1960s, and the fate of
the United States Navy base in Guantánamo
Bay, which the Cuban government considers
an illegally occupied territory.
At88,FidelCastrohasbecomeafaintvoicein
thelivesofCubans.HisbrotherPresidentRaúl
Castro,84,haspledgedtostepdownin2018.The
endoftheirreignwillbeatransformationalmo-
ment in that nation’s history. Until then, some
Cubans want to see a flood of foreign invest-
mentandaboomingprivatesector.Otherswor-
ry that a rapid economic transition will erode
thesocialistprinciplesthathaveofferedCubans
educationandhealthcaresuperiortothatavail-
able to millions of Latin Americans. Some are
eagerforamultipartypoliticalsystemwithreal
elections, while others would settle for a more
effective,lessintrusivegovernment.
These competing visions will eventually
have to be debated and resolved among Cu-
bans. In the meantime, altering the image of
the United States as an antagonistic neighbor
stands to help enormously.
Last month the House passed an appropri-
ations bill that would put bigger trucks with
overworked drivers behind the wheel on the
nation’s highways. If that weren’t irresponsi-
ble enough, the Senate is now considering leg-
islation that would allow trucking companies
tohire18-year-olddriversforinterstateroutes
and undermine safety on roads and railroads
in numerous other ways.
Even by the low standards of the current
Congress, these bills are egregious examples
of faithfully saying yes to everything industry
wants. The Senate is expected to take up its
disingenuouslynamedComprehensiveTrans-
portationandConsumerProtectionActof2015
thisweekaspartofalargerpackagethatreau-
thorizes federal agencies and programs.
Oneofthemeasure’sworstprovisionswould
lower the minimum age for interstate truck
driversto18,from21,inamisguidedattemptto
helptheindustryrecruitmoredrivers.Studies
show that young drivers are much more likely
tobeinvolvedinaccidentsthanotheradults.It
would be foolish to allow these inexperienced
drivers to drive long distances in large, heavy
trucks. A far better way to address a shortage
of drivers would be for the industry to raise
wages and improve working conditions.
Anotherprovisionwouldeviscerateruleson
how much rest truckers must get. Companies
would be allowed to seek exceptions from the
Department of Transportation’s rules govern-
ing hours of driving. Those regulations are
quite lenient because they allow truckers to
drive up to 60 hours in seven consecutive days
or70hoursineightdaysbeforegettingatleast
34 hours of rest. The House voted in June to
postpone those rules pending another study.
The Senate bill falls well short of addressing
issues raised by scandals involving defects in
General Motors’ ignition switches and Takata
airbags.Whileitwouldraisethemaximumfine
that the National Highway Traffic Safety Ad-
ministration can levy against automakers that
do not promptly disclose defects to $70 million
from $35 million, that increase is a pittance for
companiesthatmakebillionsinprofits.
During hearings about auto defects, law-
makers spoke forcefully about safety failures
and the need to make driving less dangerous.
This legislation does not come close to match-
ing their words. Unless this bill is fixed on the
Senate floor, it will lead to more accidents,
deaths and injuries on American roads.
When Dustin Yellin was 17 he dropped out
of high school. He clearly didn’t fit in. Plus he
wasn’t intellectually engaged.
He hitchhiked around New Zealand. He be-
cameanapprenticetoaphysicistwhobelieved
he could get free energy from space and who
performed experiments on Yellin involving
crystals, baths and hallucinogenic drugs.
When he was 18 Yellin hatched a plan. He
wouldgotoNewYork,becomeanartistandcre-
ate a place where painters, scientists, writers,
billionaires and other cool people could gather
to try to change the world. Yellin turns 40 this
week,andthat’smoreorlesswhathe’sdone.
Yellin is a successful artist with a staff of 23
and a studio in Brooklyn. Four years ago he
threw the vast bulk of his money (and more)
into buying a warehouse that was built as the
Pioneer Iron Works in 1866. The building now
hosts, well, a little bit of everything.
Artists work there in residencies averaging
three or four months. There’s a magazine, a
radio station, a film editing room and spaces
for scientists working on everything from
astrophysics to 3-D printing. There’s a cathe-
dral-likeexhibitionspace,classrooms,andlec-
ture programs featuring Nobel Prize-winning
physicists and other notables.
You can see different kinds of people doing
their art, or just hanging out. The first time I
went, a few months ago, a band was playing,
hundreds of intimidatingly hip young people
were talking, looking at sculpture or playing
with their kids in the gardens off to the side.
Yellin did this outside the system. He came
toNewYork,completelyignorantofthecanon
of art history. The city was his education.
Yellin started experimenting with layers of
resin and found he could draw in three dimen-
sions. He takes up to 50 sheets of glass, up to
six feet high, and stacks them together. Be-
tween the sheets he inserts hundreds of little
pictures, drawings and images clipped out of
magazines, art books and the like.
The effect is a complex three-dimensional
landscapeoftheunconscious.Theworksarein-
stantlybeautifulandabsorbinglycomplicated.
Yellin is a product of the highly distracted
Internet age. During the day he bounces be-
tween his studio and the Pioneer Works Cen-
ter, multitasking among sculptures, planning
a lecture series or helping edit the magazine.
“I don’t worry about inspiration as much as
system overload,” he says.
Pioneer Works is a cohesive physical com-
munitybutinformalandpluralistic.Itisnotsi-
loed along disciplinary lines like a university.
On the contrary, artists, scientists and writers
are jammed together, encouraged to borrow
one another’s methodologies in pursuit of a
project that is both individual and common.
Yellin has created a new institution and
broughthislifetoacoherentpoint.Buthecan’t
sit still long enough to have patient conversa-
tionswiththegeniuseshe’sgathered.He’srac-
ingofftothenextthrill,acreatortoorestlessto
fully savor his living creation.
DAVID BROOKSE D I T O R I A L S O F T H E T I M E S
OPINION TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 8
9. Nuggets Send Guard
To Rockets in Deal
The Denver Nuggets traded
point guard Ty Lawson to the
Houston Rockets for a lot-
tery-protected first-round pick
in 2016 and cash considerations,
along with Nick Johnson, Kostas
Papanikolaou, Pablo Prigioni
and Joey Dorsey. The deal also
sends a 2017 second-round pick
to Houston. Lawson entered a
30-day residential alcohol treat-
ment program last week after his
second drunken-driving arrest.
He was a first-round pick by the
Timberwolves in 2009 before be-
ing traded to the Nuggets. (AP)
N.C.A.A. Revisions
The committee that puts to-
gether the field of 68 teams for the
Division I men’s basketball tour-
nament will have more flexibility
to set the First Four and give No.
2 seeds more favorable match-
ups, the N.C.A.A. announced
Monday. The Division I selection
committee will be allowed to
move every team up or down the
seed list, including the last four
at-large teams selected. Until
now, the last four teams had been
locked into the First Four. (AP)
In BriefJohnson Slams the Door on Bid for History
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland —
Justbefore8p.m.Monday,Jordan
Spieth wove his way through the
crowd around the 18th green at
the Old Course. “Zach!” Spieth
called, and a few seconds later he
wrapped Zach Johnson in a tight
embrace. This was supposed to
be Spieth’s
tournament,
Spieth’s week,
Spieth’s year.
But after a long
four rounds
over a long
five days at the
British Open,
Johnson’s eyes
were the ones
that were wet
with joyful
tears.
In the end,
Spieth came up
one shot shy of
Johnson, who
blistered the
ancient links
fora66tofinish
at 15 under par
before coolly
winning a three-man playoff over
Marc Leishman and Louis Oost-
huizen to claim the second major
of his career.
“You know, I never really
thought I’d win one,” said John-
son, the 2007 Masters champion.
“I’m a little bit in shock.”
Johnson was one of eight play-
ers to hold at least a share of the
lead in the final round, though
once he had completed his
eight-birdie, two-bogey perfor-
mance, he actually trailed Leish-
man by a stroke.
At that point, five players could
have won: Leishman, Johnson,
Spieth, Jason Day and Oosthui-
zen. But Leishman finished at 15
under as well.
The tension was far from over.
Day and Spieth were playing to-
gether, and they came to the last
hole hoping to get into the playoff,
too. Spieth had bogeyed the infa-
mous Road Hole and drove way
left off the 18th tee. His approach
spun back into the hollow short
of the green known as the Valley
of Sin. His putt rolled up, but was
always going wide. Day pitched
safely past the hole but then
stared in disbelief as his birdie
putt stopped short.
But if anyone was going to feel
as disappointed as
Spieth, it was Day. He
has nine top-10 finish-
es without a victory
in 20 career major
tournaments, and af-
ter watching his putt
stop a few rolls from
the cup, he cradled his
head in his hands.
“Ijustreallywantto
have that shot at im-
mortality,” Day said.
Instead it was John-
son, Leishman and, fi-
nally, Oosthuizen who
had that opportunity.
Oosthuizen made his
own six-foot birdie
putt on 18 to finish at
15underaswell.Inthe
four-hole aggregate
playoff, Leishman fell
behindafteradriveintoadivoton
No. 1 led to a long approach and a
three-putt bogey while Johnson
and Oosthuizen birdied.
Johnson separated himself
on No. 2 with another birdie putt
from 20 feet, and all three players
bogeyed the Road Hole. That left
Johnson with a one-shot lead as
they drove off No. 18, and after
Leishman made a par, Johnson
missed a birdie putt that would
have won it. He settled for par.
As Oosthuizen’s birdie putt slid
past, Johnson did not move at
first, his face glazed over as if he
could not believe what had hap-
pened. SAM BORDEN
WEATHER
High/low temperatures for the 21 hours ended at 4 p.m.
yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches)
for the 18 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday. Expected
conditions for today and tomorrow.
Weather conditions: C-clouds, F-fog, H-haze, I-ice,
PC-partly cloudy, R-rain, S-sun, Sh-showers, Sn-snow,
SS-snow showers, T-thunderstorms, Tr-trace, W-windy.
U.S. CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Albuquerque 89/ 64 0.04 86/ 65 T 91/ 65 T
Atlanta 93/ 74 0 93/ 73 PC 89/ 72 T
Boise 96/ 65 0 93/ 66 PC 87/ 62 T
Boston 91/ 70 0 85/ 69 PC 81/ 64 S
Buffalo 80/ 67 0 76/ 60 T 74/ 57 PC
Charlotte 98/ 73 0.08 96/ 72 T 93/ 70 PC
Chicago 84/ 63 Tr 79/ 61 S 81/ 65 S
Cleveland 84/ 66 0 76/ 62 T 76/ 60 S
Dallas-Ft. Worth 99/ 78 0 100/ 80 S 100/ 80 S
Denver 85/ 59 0.04 83/ 57 T 88/ 58 T
Detroit 85/ 61 0 79/ 60 S 79/ 59 S
Houston 96/ 77 0 97/ 79 S 97/ 78 S
Kansas City 87/ 71 0.28 81/ 63 PC 80/ 67 T
Los Angeles 83/ 74 0.30 82/ 67 PC 79/ 65 PC
Miami 90/ 80 0.06 90/ 78 T 91/ 78 T
Mpls.-St. Paul 79/ 71 0 81/ 62 S 83/ 65 PC
New York City 94/ 82 0.04 91/ 71 PC 84/ 68 S
Orlando 92/ 74 Tr 91/ 75 T 92/ 76 T
Philadelphia 94/ 81 0.05 93/ 72 PC 86/ 68 S
Phoenix 103/ 84 0 105/ 84 S 105/ 82 S
Salt Lake City 85/ 62 0.05 88/ 68 T 89/ 68 PC
San Francisco 76/ 68 0.08 72/ 59 PC 70/ 59 PC
Seattle 77/ 63 0 74/ 58 PC 73/ 58 C
St. Louis 83/ 73 0.56 83/ 66 PC 83/ 68 PC
Washington 95/ 82 0.05 92/ 72 PC 88/ 70 S
FOREIGN CITIES
Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Acapulco 90/ 77 0.08 87/ 76 PC 90/ 76 PC
Athens 97/ 79 0 95/ 77 S 90/ 75 S
Beijing 84/ 69 0.18 86/ 73 T 85/ 73 T
Berlin 75/ 57 0 81/ 61 T 82/ 62 PC
Buenos Aires 54/ 43 0 53/ 37 PC 59/ 41 S
Cairo 95/ 73 0 96/ 74 S 96/ 75 S
Cape Town 59/ 50 0 61/ 49 S 65/ 49 S
Dublin 70/ 54 0.17 64/ 47 Sh 62/ 46 Sh
Geneva 90/ 66 0 92/ 68 S 90/ 65 T
Hong Kong 84/ 82 0.47 89/ 81 T 89/ 80 T
Kingston 88/ 81 0 90/ 76 S 91/ 78 S
Lima 70/ 61 0 71/ 63 S 71/ 64 PC
London 73/ 57 0.01 75/ 58 PC 72/ 53 PC
Madrid 100/ 72 0 100/ 71 S 98/ 71 S
Mexico City 75/ 55 0.05 71/ 57 PC 73/ 54 PC
Montreal 81/ 66 0 76/ 58 T 74/ 57 PC
Moscow 64/ 52 0.06 66/ 54 Sh 70/ 56 Sh
Nassau 90/ 77 0 91/ 78 S 91/ 77 S
Paris 81/ 68 0 85/ 64 S 81/ 59 PC
Prague 77/ 61 0 86/ 65 T 91/ 68 PC
Rio de Janeiro 88/ 70 0 82/ 67 S 72/ 68 R
Rome 90/ 70 0 93/ 73 S 92/ 73 S
Santiago 57/ 32 0 63/ 36 PC 63/ 37 S
Stockholm 68/ 55 0.17 67/ 55 PC 69/ 55 PC
Sydney 61/ 48 0.02 65/ 48 S 65/ 48 PC
Tokyo 88/ 79 0 91/ 77 S 88/ 77 W
Toronto 82/ 63 0 77/ 57 S 74/ 54 PC
Vancouver 75/ 63 0 69/ 56 PC 69/ 56 C
Warsaw 73/ 63 0 80/ 63 T 84/ 63 PC
N.L. SCORES
MONDAY
Washington 7, Mets 2
Philadelphia 5, Tampa Bay 3
Cincinnati 5, Chicago Cubs 4
Atlanta 7, L.A. Dodgers 5
A.L. SCORES
MONDAY
L.A. Angels 11, Boston 1, 1st game
Detroit 5, Seattle 4
Pittsburgh 10, Kansas City 7
British Open
Zach Johnson*.............-15
Louis Oosthuizen.........-15
Marc Leishman............-15
Jason Day....................-14
Jordan Spieth...............-14
*Won in 4-hole playoff
Louis
Oosthuizen
Marc
Leishman
FACUNDO ARRIZABALAGA/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
Zach Johnson with the claret jug after
he won a four-hole playoff.
SPORTS TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 9
10. Spieth Tips His Cap While Keeping His Eyes on the Big Picture
St. Andrews, Scotland
The walk from the 18th green,
past the first tee, into the record-
ers’ office and up to an interview
stand took roughly 10 minutes,
time enough for Jor-
dan Spieth to swallow
his disappointment
and digest the lessons
from his heartbreak-
ing defeat at the British Open.
Spieth, who was trying to be-
come the first player since Ben
Hogan in 1953 to win the Masters,
the United States Open and the
British Open in the same year,
finished one stroke out of a three-
man playoff, won by Zach John-
son. After playing his way into
contention with a 66 in Sunday’s
third round, Spieth had said, “I
don’t want to place third.”
He didn’t. He closed with a
three-under 69 to tie for fourth, at
14 under, with his playing partner,
Jason Day. The finish had to gall
the competitor in Spieth.
“Although we came in wanting
to be two shots better than what
we finished, with everything
that went on this week and the
momentum we came in with, I’m
very pleased with the way we
battled,” Spieth said.
He was beaten, he said, “by
some special golf” from Johnson,
who closed with a 66; Marc Leish-
man, who played the last 36 holes
of regulation in 14 under; and
Louis Oosthuizen, who was two
strokes better than Spieth during
a chaotic second round that took
their wave more than a day and a
half to complete.
“That was some unbelievable
golf that was played by those
guys to get to 15 under in these
conditions,” he said.
When he reflects on the week’s
events, Spieth will rue the five
three-putts he made during the
second round, his double bogey
on the short par-3 eighth on Mon-
day and his cumulative effort on
the par-4 17th Road Hole, which
became his Sink Hole.
Spieth’sstrengthishisputting,
sohedidnotevenbothertrying
tosanitizethemesshemadeon
the174-yardeighthhole.Playing
histeeshotintoastiffwindand
stingingrain,Spiethhititroughly
120feetrightofthepin.Hisfirst
puttrolledpastthecupandoffthe
green.Heputtedupto4feet,then
missedhisbogeyattempttofall
threeshotsbehindtheleaders.
Of the 80 players who teed it up
Monday, 78 walked off the eighth
green with no worse than bogey.
“If you make bogey, you’re
still in,” Spieth said. “If you make
double bogey, it’s a very difficult
climb, and there’s absolutely
no reason to hit that putt off the
green.”
Spieth posted nine scores of bo-
gey or worse during the tourna-
ment, and six times he rebounded
with a birdie on the next hole,
including back-to-back birdies on
Nos. 9 and 10 Monday. He moved
into a tie for the lead at 15 under
when he drained a 30-foot curling
birdie putt on the par-4 16th.
But then the Road Hole swal-
lowed him. The hole was playing
495 yards into a howling wind and
heavy rain. After his drive, Spi-
eth said he had 240 yards to the
hole. He took his 3-iron, backed
off in midswing once because of
the wind, and then hit a low shot
that landed 15 yards short of the
green. He chipped to 6 feet and
missed the putt.
“That was as hard a par 4 as I
think we’ve played all year,” Spi-
eth said, “and just unfortunately
didn’t hit a very solid putt.”
With Johnson and Leishman at
15 under, Spieth knew he needed
a birdie on the par-4 18th. He
drove the ball almost to the right
edge of the first fairway and hit a
shot that reached the green but
rolled off into the Valley of Sin.
Using his putter, Spieth missed
what would have been his biggest
rebound birdie yet by inches.
After his interview session was
over, Spieth waited for Johnson to
finish the four-hole playoff. When
Johnson came off the course,
Spieth was one of the first to con-
gratulate him.
On Golf
Karen
Crouse
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