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Opinion
Immigration Reform and Workers’ Rights
Any worthwhile overhaul will have to attack the systemic abuses of immigrant labor.
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Business Day
Despite Aid, Borrowers Still Face Foreclosure
Thousands of homeowners who received help on their second mortgage are still facing foreclosure on their first mortgage, according to housing advocates.
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Health
For Traumatized Caregivers, Therapy Helps
Therapists said they often encountered symptoms of trauma among caregivers, even though research documenting this phenomenon is scarce.
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Opinion
To Fight India, We Fought Ourselves
At the heart of Pakistan’s troubles is the celebration of the militant. And the need of the hour, of the year, of the generation, is peace.
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Opinion
Helping Hands?
Helping the Deaf around the world is good, but it would be better in their sign language.
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U.S.
Governors Fall Away in G.O.P. Fight Against More Medicaid
After vigorous lobbying by the health industry, seven Republican governors are moving to accept federal funds under the health care law to add medical coverage for more low-income people.
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N.Y. / Region
Teachers’ Union Sues Over State’s Tax Cap
New York State United Teachers filed a lawsuit asserting that a property tax cap, one of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s signature measures, interferes with local control of schools.
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Fashion & Style
Rallying for the Elephants
At the Explorers Club, a gathering of animal lovers view a documentary showing the plight of African elephants.
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Technology
A Digital Update to Those Old Family Photo Albums
Apps on iOS and Android devices offer ways to modify, view and share photographs.
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Opinion
Why Taxes Have to Go Up
Without new revenues, safe and sane deficit reduction is impossible.
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N.Y. / Region
Court Temporarily Halts Plan to Close a Brooklyn Hospital
Plans by the State University of New York’s board to close Long Island College Hospital have been stopped by a judge after hospital workers filed a complaint.
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Opinion
The Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax
If our goal is to get Americans to drive less and use more fuel-efficient vehicles, and to reduce air pollution and the emission of greenhouse gases, gas prices need to be even higher.
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N.Y. / Region
$500 Million Chasm Opens in Proposed State Budget
Washington has changed the way it plans to reimburse New York State for the care of people with developmental disabilities.
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World
Pastoral Uruguay Yields a Crop of Digital Yetis and Adventures
The country may be better known for its flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, but attention is shifting to its growing start-ups that are engineering video games.
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Arts
Photographic Artifacts of Black Civil War Troops
Images and artifacts pertaining to the experience of African-American troops in the Civil War are being spotlighted in current and coming museum exhibitions and auctions.
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Health
Living With Cancer: Arrivals and Departures
Perhaps we should gestate during endings, as we do during beginnings. Like hatchings, the dispatchings caused by cancer give people like me a final trimester, more or less, in which we can labor to forgive and be forgiven.
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Opinion
What Gov. Cuomo’s Budget Needs
A distressing hole is one of several concerns about the $142 billion state package for the 2013-14 fiscal year.
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World
French Family Kidnapped in Cameroon
The family, including four children, was seized in the north, the second hostage-taking in the region in four days.
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U.S.
A Foot or More of Snow Slams Midwest States
A windy storm brought most travel to a crawl in parts of Kansas and Missouri, where emergencies were declared.
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Business Day
Economic Data Points To a Steady Fed Policy
Signs of a tepid economy support the argument that the Federal Reserve should maintain its monetary plan of buying bonds.
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There is no travel back in time. I would rather make new memories.
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World
Would You Halve Your Meat Consumption to Save the Environment?
A new study says our hunger for meat does even more environmental damage than we thought and scientists say there’s a relatively painless way you can help.
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Health
Depression May Stifle Shingles Vaccine Response
Adults with untreated depression who received the shingles vaccine mounted a relatively weak immune response compared with their healthy age-matched peers, or to those taking antidepressants.
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Project XO, one laptop per child.
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Arts
Photographic Artifacts of Black Civil War Troops
Images and artifacts pertaining to the experience of African-American troops in the Civil War are being spotlighted in current and coming museum exhibitions and auctions.
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Science
National Parks on a Precipice
Absent a Congressional compromise to avert budget cuts, services will be significantly reduced starting March 1, park retirees warn.
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N.Y. / Region
Brooklyn Construction Company Shortchanged Workers, Prosecutors Say
The SM&B Construction Company defrauded the School Construction Authority by paying workers far less than they were obligated to, the authorities said.
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Books
Scholar Finds Flaws in Work by Archenemy of Comics
A recent study of the materials Dr. Fredric Wertham used to write “Seduction of the Innocent” suggests that he misrepresented his research and falsified his results.
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