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The millions of people who fol-low Kim Kardashian West and hersisters on social media have be-come accustomed to seeing thempraise everything from fat-burn-ing tea to gummy vitamins forhealthier hair.

“Ever since I started taking two@sugarbearhair a day, my hairhas been fuller and stronger thanever!! Even with all the heat andbleaching I do to it!” Khloé Kar-dashian posted on Instagram thismonth.

But in the last week, closewatchers of the sisters’ accountsmay have noticed a small additionto those laudatory messagesabout the latest miracle product:

“#ad.”For marketers contending with

consumers who use ad blockersonline and have cut the cord totheir TVs in favor of streamingservices, social media has becomea way to reach an elusive audi-ence. Brands such as Jack in theBox and Red Bull have provedwilling to pay thousands of dollarsper social media mention to peo-ple like the Kardashians and otherso-called influencers who com-mand big, loyal followings onservices like Instagram, Snapchatand YouTube.

These mentions, however, areoften presented as testimonials

Endorsed by a Kardashian,But Is It Love or Just an Ad?

By SAPNA MAHESHWARI

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In its latest move to quell out-rage over its price increases, themaker of the EpiPen has resortedto an unusual tactic — introducinga generic version of its own prod-uct.

The company, Mylan, said onMonday that the generic EpiPenwould be identical to the existingproduct, which is used to treat se-vere allergic reactions. But it willhave a wholesale list price of $300for a pack of two, half the price ofthe brand-name EpiPen.

The raging debate over EpiPenpricing has offered a surprisinglywide window into the complicatedworld of prescription drug pric-ing, in which powerful drug com-panies, pharmacy benefit manag-ers, insurers and federal healthprograms all play major roles.However, the system remainsopaque.

Last week, the company an-nounced steps to increase the fi-nancial assistance for the brandedEpiPen, for both commercially in-sured and uninsured patients.Those measures, however, did notstem the public furor, in part be-cause the company kept the listprice the same. So now, the com-

pany will essentially sell the sameproduct under two names at twoprice points, in competition witheach other.

The new move did not mollifycritics, either. Some noted thateven at $300, the generic wouldstill be triple the price of theEpiPen in 2007, when Mylan ac-quired the product and begansteadily raising its price. The in-creases have accelerated in re-cent years. Even the generic, ex-pected to be available in severalweeks, should provide a nice prof-it to Mylan because its manufac-turing costs are believed to be farless than $300.

Several consumer advocacygroups, unhappy with Mylan’shandling of the drug’s pricing,said that on Tuesday they woulddeliver petitions signed by over600,000 people to the company’sAmerican corporate headquar-ters in Canonsburg, Pa. In addi-tion, the House Committee onOversight and Government Re-form said that it had started an in-vestigation and had asked thecompany for information aboutthe product.

Mylan Tries to Silence Outrage By Offering a Generic EpiPen

By ANDREW POLLACK

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From the roof of a building nearthe Atlantic Terminal transit hubin Brooklyn, the formerly expan-sive views of Manhattan are nowblocked by a rising forest of tow-ers, radiating off Flatbush Ave-nue. The sign for Junior’s restau-rant, once impossible to miss, canbe glimpsed only between the newconstruction.

There are 19 residential towerseither under construction or re-cently completed along the 10-block section of Flatbush stretch-ing from Barclays Center north toMyrtle Avenue. When all of themare finished, they will have addedmore than 6,500 apartments —overwhelmingly rentals — to New

York City’s housing stock. An-other four buildings on Myrtle Av-enue will add almost 1,000 moreunits.

There are so many new apart-ments in the neighborhood —roughly one-fifth of all rental unitsexpected to become available inthe city in 2016 and 2017, accordingto Nancy Packes Data Services, aresearch firm — that the Brooklynrental market seems poised tozoom right past boom, to glut.

“The market is saturated,” saidSofia Estevez, executive vicepresident at the developer TF Cor-nerstone, which will begin offer-ing apartments in a 25-story, 714-

Rental Glut Feared as TowersCrowd the Brooklyn Skyline

By CHARLES V. BAGLI

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The actor, who turned eccentricity into comedy in films like“Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” was 83. Page B9.

Gene Wilder, Comic of the Neurotic, Is Dead

Hillary Clinton’s advisers aretalking to Donald J. Trump’sghostwriter of “The Art of theDeal,” seeking insights about Mr.Trump’s deepest insecurities asthey devise strategies to needleand undermine him in four weeksat the first presidential debate, themost anticipated in a generation.

Her team is also getting advicefrom psychology experts to helpcreate a personality profile of Mr.Trump to gauge how he may re-spond to attacks and deal with awoman as his sole adversary onthe debate stage.

They are undertaking a foren-sic-style analysis of Mr. Trump’sperformances in the Republicanprimary debates, catalogingstrengths and weaknesses as wellas trigger points that caused himto lash out in less-than-presiden-tial ways.

As Mrs. Clinton pores over thisvoluminous research with her de-bate team, most recently for sev-eral hours on Friday, and her aidescontinue searching for someonewho can rattle her as a Trumpstand-in during mock debates, Mr.Trump is taking the opposite tack.Though he spent hours with hisdebate team the last two Sundays,the sessions were more free-wheeling than focused, and he canbarely conceal his disdain for la-borious and theatrical practicesessions.

“I believe you can prep toomuch for those things,” Mr. Trumpsaid in an interview last week. “Itcan be dangerous. You can soundscripted or phony — like you’retrying to be someone you’re not.”

Rarely are debate preparationsas illuminating about the candi-dates as a debate itself, but Mrs.Clinton’s and Mr. Trump’s strik-ingly different approaches to theSept. 26 face-off are more reveal-ing about their egos and battle-field instincts than most other mo-ments in the campaign.

Mrs. Clinton, a deeply competi-tive debater, wants to crush Mr.Trump on live television, but notwith an avalanche of policy de-tails; she is searching for ways tobait him into making blunders. Mr.Trump, a supremely confident

CLINTON PILES UPRESEARCH IN BIDTO NEEDLE TRUMP

PLAN FOR FIRST DEBATE

G.O.P. Nominee Avoidsa ‘Scripted’ Tone by

Practicing Little

By PATRICK HEALYand MATT FLEGENHEIMER

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It was supposed to be a quiet,late-summer weekend on the ex-clusive shores of the Hamptons.But on Sunday, Huma Abedin, theclosest aide to Hillary Clinton, re-ceived devastating news.

After accompanying Mrs. Clin-ton to fund-raisers, Ms. Abedinlearned from her husband, Antho-ny D. Weiner, that The New YorkPost was about to report that hehad again exchanged lewd mes-sages with a woman on social me-dia: the sort of behavior that de-stroyed his congressional careerand 2013 mayoral campaign.

Only this time, the online indis-cretions included an image of Mr.Weiner’s crotch as he lay next tothe couple’s 4-year-old son.

Now, Mr. Weiner’s tawdry activ-ities may have claimed his mar-riage — Ms. Abedin told him thatshe wanted to separate — andhave cast another shadow on theadviser and confidante who hasbeen by Mrs.Clinton’s side forthe past two dec-ades. Ms. Abe-din was alreadya major figurethis summer incontroversiesover Mrs. Clin-ton’s handling ofclassified infor-mation as secretary of state andover ties between the Clinton fam-ily foundation and Mrs. Clinton’sState Department.

Mr. Weiner’s extramarital be-havior also threatens to remindvoters about the troubles in theClintons’ own marriage over thedecades, including Mrs. Clinton’smuch-debated decision to remainwith then-President Bill Clintonafter revelations of his relation-ship with Monica Lewinsky. Ms.Abedin’s choice to separate fromher husband evokes the debatesthat erupted over Mrs. Clinton’shandling of the Lewinsky affair, ascandal her campaign wants leftin the past.

Clinton advisers expressed on-ly sympathy for Ms. Abedin onMonday and said they were confi-dent Mr. Weiner’s actions wouldnot hurt Mrs. Clinton, who learnedabout them from Ms. Abedin andoffered support. But Mr. Weiner’sbehavior quickly became fodderfor Donald J. Trump, Mrs. Clin-ton’s Republican opponent in thepresidential race.

“Huma is making a very wise

Weiner’s Texts Cast ShadowOn Campaign

Wife, Top Clinton Aide,Decides to Separate

By AMY CHOZICKand PATRICK HEALY

Huma Abedin

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Italian Navy and nongovernment ships rescued thousands of migrants, most from Eritrea, on Monday off the coast of Libya.Overboard, to Safety

WASHINGTON — In the fouryears that he ran the RevolutionMuslim website out of his walk-upapartment in Flatbush, Brooklyn,Jesse Morton became one of themost prolific recruiters for AlQaeda, luring numerous Ameri-cans to the group’s violent ideol-ogy.

The men and women he in-spired through his online postsand tutorials were accused ofplots that included flying a re-mote-controlled plane strapped

with explosives into the Pentagonand trying to kill a Swedish car-toonist who satirized the ProphetMuhammad. One of his collabora-tors was killed in a drone strike inYemen, where he had joined AlQaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.Several are now fighting for the Is-lamic State.

“We were looking for the lions,”he said, explaining how he wouldoften recruit right outsidemosques, “and left them thelambs.”

Mr. Morton, 37, is now at theforefront of an experiment tocounter the pull of groups like theIslamic State and Al Qaeda. Aftera stint as an F.B.I. informant andhis release from prison last year,Mr. Morton has been hired as a fel-low at George Washington Uni-versity’s Program on Extremism,where he will research the veryideology he once spread.

Although countries like Britainhave for years been putting for-mer extremists to work in thinktanks to provide authentic voicesagainst radical ideology, Mr. Mor-ton is the first former jihadist tostep into this public a role in the

A Onetime Qaeda RecruiterTurns His Voice Against Jihad

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

Jesse Morton, 37, once ran theRevolution Muslim website.

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Across Mexico, fans held spontaneousvigils and celebrations to pay tribute tothe singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel,who died on Sunday. PAGE A4

INTERNATIONAL A4-10

His Songs in Their HeartsThe Affordable Care Act, which wassupposed to make it easy to shop forhealth insurance, faces a host of chal-lenges. The Upshot. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-8

Obstacles for Health LawMike Love’s “Good Vibrations,” a mem-oir by the Beach Boys frontman, blendsinsider anecdotes with accusatoryone-upmanship. A review. PAGE C1

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Surf Tunes and Score-Settling David Brooks PAGE A21

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A20-21

A project to keep water out of damagedbuildings at the devastated nuclearpower plant in Japan is ambitious. Andit may not work. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-6

Fukushima’s Wall of Ice