QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"If you’re shameless enough, you can sell anything."
RYAN HOLIDAY, a former marketer for American Apparel, who has remade himself as a spokesman for the ancient philosophy of Stoicism（ストア哲学）.

DECEMBER 08, 2016

（１）Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denialist（自制、否認者）, to Lead E.P.A.（経済連携協定）
Mr. Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, has been a key architect（主導者） of the legal battle against President Obama’s climate change policies.

（２）Donald Trump Picks John Kelly, Retired General, to Lead Homeland Security
General Kelly had a 40-year career in the Marine Corps. In 2010, one of his sons was killed while leading a platoon（小隊） in Afghanistan.

（３）Donald Trump Is Said to Intend to Keep a Stake（関与） in His Business
The president-elect is said to be considering turning over his company to his two adult sons, but planning to resist calls to divest.

（４）The Gadget Apocalypse（黙示録、啓示） Is Upon Us
Remember gadgets? They were wonderful, and now they’re no more.

（５）Heart-Rending（悲痛な） Testimony as Dylann Roof Trial Opens
Mr. Roof, 22, is accused of killing nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal（監督教派） Church in Charleston, S.C. He faces the death penalty.　　

（６）Interactive（相互作用の） Feature: ‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’
Inside President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal antidrug campaign in the Philippines, our photojournalist documented 57 homicide victims over 35 days.

（７）Grandiose Ideas for Inaugural Give Way to Tradition
A parade up Fifth Avenue? A helicopter ride to Washington from New York? Both are dismissed as unrealistic for Mr. Trump’s inaugural（就任演説）, especially given security concerns.

（８）‘The Intel on This Wasn’t 100%,’ Says Pizzeria Gunman
In an interview with The Times, a soft-spoken Edgar M. Welch described from jail his thoughts leading up to his decision to fire an assault rifle inside Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C.
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60-Second Civics: Episode 2728, Presidents and Enforcement of Supreme Court Decisions
Sometimes, presidents balk at having to enforce Supreme Court decisions.
Who has the authority to nominate Supreme Court justices?
a. The president
b. The Senate
c. The House of Representatives
d. Two-thirds of state legislatures
Good job! Choice a is correct.
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1,100 lb（ポンド）Egyptian woman, homebound（外出できない） for decades, set to fly to Mumbai for weight-loss surgery　　36歳のエジプト女性（体重500キロ！）
For more than two decades, Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty has not left her home in Egypt. But now the 36-year-old woman is set to travel 2,700 miles to Mumbai for potentially lifesaving surgery. Abd El Aty weighs about 1,100 pounds, according to her family. At that weight, Abd El Aty would be the heaviest woman alive by roughly 450 pounds, and close to the heaviest woman ever to live. (At her heaviest, Michigan woman Carol Yager weighed 1,189 pounds, according to a 1993 Associated Press report.)　米ミシガン州にも500キロを超えた女性がいた！　Muffazal Lakdawala, a bariatric（肥満学） surgeon at the Center for Obesity（肥満） and Digestive（消化） Surgery in Mumbai, will operate on Abd El Aty. The doctor has performed the most single-incision laparoscopic（腹腔鏡） surgeries (a minimally invasive procedure that relies on video cameras threaded into the body) in the world, according to his bio（経歴） on the medical center’s website. The Times of India reported that Lakdawala has operated on high-ranking Indian politicians, including two ministers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet.