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Science
To Help Light Up Africa, Many Drops in the Bucket
A type of crowdfunding in which investors can recover their principal is helping to fund solar power projects in Africa and Asia.
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Technology
The President Revives an Old Debate About Privacy
Are we safer if we give up a bit of privacy? President Obama's executive order on cybersecurity this week has resurrected the debate between privacy and security, which computer scientists, policy makers and civil liberties groups have been having for years.
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Style
The Motherlode Blogroll Needs Blogs
The Motherlode blogroll is coming back - and I'm looking for a few good blogs.
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N.Y. / Region
Sexual Harassment Case Against Lopez Sent to Legislature
State regulators who found ethics violations in the sexual harassment case against New York Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez have forwarded the matter to two ethics panels.
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World
Italy Jails Ex-Officials for Rendition
The cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was kidnapped in Milan as part of the American “extraordinary rendition” program and flown to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.
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Books
Read Any Good Web Sites Lately? Book Lovers Talk Online
The social media site goodreads.com is exploding in popularity as a platform for finding and sharing and, yes, marketing books.
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Arts
Richard Artschwager, Painter and Sculptor, Dies at 89
At a time when most artists worked in clearly determined styles, Mr. Artschwager slyly confounded the usual categories.
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U.S.
As Troops Leave, an Uncertain Future for U.S. Aid in Afghanistan
President Obama's announcement on Tuesday of his plan to draw down United States troops in Afghanistan over the next year puts new focus on the sustainability of aid programs in Afghanistan as the military presence there diminishes.
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N.Y. / Region
Weekly Police Briefing Offers Snapshot of Department and Its Leader
Aides to Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly deliver to him a vast report brimming with statistics and highlighting his preference for having facts at his fingertips.
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N.Y. / Region
Hoboken Mayor Seeks Storm Protection More Suitable for High-Rise Buildings
Mayor Dawn Zimmer says it is not possible to put an entire city on stilts. and is pushing federal and state officials to make Hoboken a test case for a new model of hurricane resilience.
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N.Y. / Region
LIPA Customers Are the Most Dissatisfied in the Country, a Study Says
A survey of utility customers, the first since Hurricane Sandy, shows that, as a group, businesses in the Northeast lost a lot of faith in their power providers last year.
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Arts
In Rare Case of Teamwork, Oxford and Cambridge Join to Try to Buy Ancient Jewish Archive
The universities are trying to raise a total of $1.9 million to buy the Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection.
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Opinion
Satellites Reveal Depletion of a Vital Middle East Water Supply
A satellite probes one of the planet's most turbulent regions and finds a new source of risk -- declining groundwater supplies
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Business Day
Asahi Sues 2 Private Equity Firms Over $1.3 Billion Deal
Asahi has accused two Asia-Pacific buyout firms of falsifying financial data when they sold New Zealand's Independent Liquor to the Japanese beermaker in 2011.
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Business Day
Chief of Italian Aerospace Company Held in Inquiry
The Finmeccanica chairman and chief executive, Giuseppe Orsi, was taken into custody for questioning in an inquiry involving alleged bribery in the sale of helicopters to India.
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Science
Mice Fall Short as Test Subjects for Humans’ Deadly Ills
Mice have been the species of choice in the study of human diseases, but a new paper offered evidence that the mouse model has been totally misleading for sepsis, burns and trauma.
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Opinion
The Media Is the Message
"A journalist is tasked with making money for those who hired him," says Russia's deputy minister of communications.
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Business Day
Finnish Nuclear Plant Won’t Open Until 2016
A failure to gain timely regulatory approval for the troubled reactor’s digital instrumentation and control equipment is one reason for the delay. The project is already four years overdue.
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Technology
In Tech, Does I.T. or Marketing Rule?
A new study finds that just 13 percent of companies enjoy strong, respectful relationships between information technology managers and the rest of the top brass. The strain is worst between marketing and tech, reflecting how much sales and corporate image have become digital businesses. Now, how to resolve the conflict?|
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