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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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Opinion
Freedom for California's Indians
The surprising story of bondage and freedom for California’s Native Americans.
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Technology
App Smart Extra: Dictionaries on the Go, Both Fancy and Simple
Looking up words on a mobile phone is easy, with a variety of apps that can help you with definitions, pronunciation, synonyms, even crossword puzzle questions.
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Business Day
A Nasty, Epic Real Estate Battle With Stakes 102 Stories High
A venomous public battle over a $5.2 billion proposal by the Empire State Building’s managing family will face a crucial legal test beginning on Monday.
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Business Day
Hammurabi's Code and U.S. Health Care
If society values doctors’ treatment of the rich and the poor equally, it should look at equity in the fees they receive for different patients, an economist writes.
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Style
The Play Date Gun Debate
Creating a non-political conversation around children and gun-safety.
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World
Departing French Envoy Has Frank Words on Afghanistan
At a farewell party for the French ambassador to Afghanistan, the guest of honor let the diplomatic mask slip to talk about the country’s future.
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Opinion
How to Build a Spoon
Manufacturing is making a comeback in Brooklyn. Have you seen the Spuni?
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U.S.
A Racial Divide Closes as Students Step Up
A week after a “white prom” was held in Wilcox County, Ga., the first integrated prom, organized by students, will take place.
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Magazine
Making Sense of an Infant’s Sudden Weakness
A 3-month-old loses her appetite, then her strength.
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Opinion
O'Connor Regrets Bush v. Gore
She said the Supreme Court probably “added to the problem at the end of the day” and “stirred up the public.”
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Technology
How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers
In industries where good talent can be hard to find, companies are using algorithms to scour the Web for recruits, and in the process, they are challenging some traditional notions of hiring.
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Business Day
Financiers' Charity Gala Goes the Way of Canapés
Ark, the children’s charity founded by the hedge fund manager Arpad A. Busson, is no longer holding its $15,500-a-ticket fund-raiser that had become an annual fixture for London’s top hedge fund managers and celebrities.
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Opinion
Public Sentiment About the Keystone Oil Pipeline
Readers respond to a column by Joe Nocera, who is in favor of the pipeline.
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World
The Beauty Market Resists Recession
Economic hard times have failed to dent the enthusiasm of Europeans for beauty treatments. But health experts are sounding alarms about potential health risks of some of those treatments.
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World
Israel: Military to Stop Using Shells Containing Phosphorus
The Israeli military said on Friday that it planned to remove shells containing phosphorus from active use within about a year.
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Business Day
Venture Capitalists Are Making Bigger Bets on Food Start-Ups
The ultimate goal of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, who funneled about $350 million into food projects last year, is to transform the food industry.
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U.S.
Spending Cuts Threaten to Delay Research, Obama Tells Scientists
Sequestration could hinder progress on federally sponsored research projects for two years, putting the United States at risk of falling behind in science, President Obama told the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.
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World
Search for Cuts Puts Portugal’s Schools on Chopping Block
A court ruling and continuing budgetary difficulties have left Portugal’s government to reduce spending where it can — including in its education system, already one of the weakest in Europe.
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
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Opinion
Freedom for California's Indians
The surprising story of bondage and freedom for California’s Native Americans.
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Business Day
Hammurabi's Code and U.S. Health Care
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Style
The Play Date Gun Debate
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Opinion
O'Connor Regrets Bush v. Gore
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Business Day
Financiers' Charity Gala Goes the Way of Canapés
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
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U.S.
New Suburban Dream Born of Asia and Southern California
While much of the current immigration debate in Congress has focused on Hispanics, Asians have become a dominant cultural force in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles.
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Business Day
Chinese Subsidies Under Scrutiny
The European Commission began an investigation into industry claims that Chinese makers of solar glass benefit from illegal subsidies.Monday, April 29, 2013
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Electric and Hybrid Vehicles; Electric Light and Power; Colleges and Universities;
Only a salesman could buy this story.
Power from an automotive system is about three times the cost of power from the grid.
The grid and the automobile have about the same fuel efficiency.
The grid uses the cheapest fuel available in a plant with long term financing at prime rate or better. The automobile uses motor fuel with all the costs and taxes attached to it in a system financed with short term consumer debt.
Just a really bad idea.
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U.S.
Ready (or Not?) for a Great Coming Shale Boom
Texans are feeling bullish about a new era in the oil industry — and giving some thought to whether they are ready for the growth it could bring.
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N.Y. / Region
Group Shows Covert Video of a Bronx Abortion Clinic
Live Action compared late-term abortion procedures in a Bronx center to those at the clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia doctor charged with killing viable fetuses.
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Opinion
Public Safety and the Mayor’s Race
A debate of six Democratic candidates running for mayor of New York City showed divisions on how much safety should be preserved and by whom.
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Technology
When Your Data Wanders to Places You’ve Never Been
Consumers don’t often realize that details they share in a survey or sweepstakes may be passed to other companies.
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U.S.
For the Undecided, Some Resources to Help Make a College Choice
In anticipation of the May 1 deadline of making a college choice, we present some recent resources from The New York Times to help students decide where to enroll.
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N.Y. / Region
Aide Details Offer to Repay Donors to Liu
Sharon Lee, an aide to John C. Liu, the New York City comptroller, testified that in 2011 she offered to reimburse contributions, but her lawyer said that ultimately she had not.
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Technology
App Smart Extra: Dictionaries on the Go, Both Fancy and Simple
Looking up words on a mobile phone is easy, with a variety of apps that can help you with definitions, pronunciation, synonyms, even crossword puzzle questions.
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Technology
Disruptions: Brain Computer Interfaces Inch Closer to Mainstream
Soon, we could be turning on the lights at home just by thinking about it, or sending an e-mail from our smartphone without even pulling the device from our pocket.
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Opinion
The Dark Side of Energy Independence
The current energy revolution will be a boon to America’s economy, but it will in no way allow the United States to turn its back on the rest of the world.
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Magazine
The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder
The doctors could address my symptoms. But they didn’t much care about my vanishing sense of self.
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Business Day
An Estate Plan for the Not-So-Wealthy
Bucks readers discuss their own experiences in dealing with estate planning.
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Opinion
A Look Into the Future of Midtown
Varied perspectives on the architect Robert A. M. Stern’s Op-Ed article against more construction.
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Health
Pastas of Spring
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Business Day
Twitter Speaks, Markets Listen, and Fears Rise
After a Twitter hoax caused the Dow to drop temporarily by 150 points, regulators are increasingly concerned about the combination of social media and high-frequency trading.
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Booming
My Happy Inflation Days
Inflation, interest rates, housing prices — whether high or low is good or bad has a lot to do with your stage in life.
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Business Day
In Two-Way Charging, Electric Cars Begin to Earn Money From the Grid
An experiment with two-way chargers allows consumers to power their cars and also send power back to their electric company.Electric and Hybrid Vehicles; Electric Light and Power; Colleges and Universities;
Only a salesman could buy this story.
Power from an automotive system is about three times the cost of power from the grid.
The grid and the automobile have about the same fuel efficiency.
The grid uses the cheapest fuel available in a plant with long term financing at prime rate or better. The automobile uses motor fuel with all the costs and taxes attached to it in a system financed with short term consumer debt.
Just a really bad idea.
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Business Day
A Nasty, Epic Real Estate Battle With Stakes 102 Stories High
A venomous public battle over a $5.2 billion proposal by the Empire State Building’s managing family will face a crucial legal test beginning on Monday.
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N.Y. / Region
Assemblyman Makes Plea Deal on Marijuana Possession
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U.S.
‘We Stand With You,’ Obama Tells Mourners at Texas Memorial
The president praised the courage of firefighters and others who responded after an explosion at a fertilizer plant last week.@9:21, 4/28/13
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Fashion & Style
Yes, I Really Am Bisexual. Deal With It.
I wasn’t looking to chronicle my romantic escapades. I was clarifying my identity.
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Booming
Why Do I Have Gout?
If you end up with an attack of gout, prepare yourself for a round of blame the victim.
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Business Day
Variations on a Gene, and Tools to Find Them
With new tools and tests on the market, doctors are now better prepared to sort through the genetic flaws that cause cells to become cancerous.
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U.S.
When One Man’s Game Is Also a Marauding Pest
Long a bane in the south, feral pigs are becoming common in the north, often having escaped from private shooting preserves, which are fighting efforts to ban them.
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Business Day
Loans Borrowed Against Pensions Squeeze Retirees
Pension advances, federal and state authorities say, are carefully disguised loans that carry interest rates that are often many times higher than those on credit cards.
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Opinion
Food Aid Reform
President Obama’s sensible proposals could feed millions more people worldwide, and they should be promptly enacted by Congress.
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World
For Indonesian Atheists, a Community of Support Amid Constant Fear
In predominantly Muslim Indonesia, where trumpeting one's disbelief in God can lead to abuse, ostracism and even prison, atheists find careful ways to build a community of support.
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N.Y. / Region
Feminist Editor Dies in Motorcycle Accident
Mary Thom, 68, a renowned intellectual in the women’s movement who worked at Ms. magazine, was killed on Friday in Yonkers.
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Opinion
An Earth Scientist Explores the Biggest Climate Threat: Fear
A veteran earth scientist pushes back against dystopian depictions of global warming and the human response.
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U.S.
In Speech to Planned Parenthood, Obama Criticizes New Abortion Laws
President Obama waded back into the nation’s volatile culture wars on Friday as he assailed conservatives who have sought to restrict access to abortion and contraception and promised women’s activists he would stand with them “fighting every step of the way.”
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N.Y. / Region
State Suspends Enrollment in Adult Care Plan Amid Fraud Concerns
Social adult day care centers in New York indirectly financed by Medicaid have been accused of luring seniors with cash, takeout food and casino visits.
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Magazine
Should I Report My Ex-Wife for Sleeping With Her Patient?
And does it matter if the main motivation is revenge?
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Business Day
Mobile Chargers Prepare for Their Day in the Sun
As solar technology gains in cost and efficiency, manufacturers are increasingly looking to enter the mobile device market with portable chargers.
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Business Day
From Power Plant to Civic Renewal Centerpiece
Ten to 15 percent of the nation’s coal-fired power plants could be retired over the next decade, and the size and location of such plants make them attractive for renovation.
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Opinion
Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit
Could what looks like A.D.H.D. be a sleep disorder in disguise?
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Business Day
Doctors Denounce Cancer Drug Prices of $100,000 a Year
More than 100 influential cancer specialists argued in a journal that some drug prices are unsustainable and perhaps even immoral.
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Your Money
Estate Planning Remains a Moving Target Under the New Tax Law
Even taxpayers who are exempt from the federal tax on estates under the American Taxpayer Relief Act would be wise to study how the law affects their estate planning.
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Business Day
By 2023, a Changed World in Energy
The year 2023 could find more use of solar power, wind and natural gas, and the United States could be a major oil exporter.
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Opinion
Diagnosing the Wrong Deficit
Could what looks like A.D.H.D. be a sleep disorder in disguise?
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Style
Months After Newtown, Sorting Boxes of Grief
My stepmother was killed in the Newtown shooting. My husband and I divorced after 10 years of marriage. I’m left with boxes of physical reminders of what used to be.
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Business Day
By 2023, a Changed World in Energy
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N.Y. / Region
Man Sentenced in Plan to Bomb Manhattan Synagogue
Mohamed Mamdouh, who was convicted under a state antiterrorism law, was given five years in prison for his role in a failed 2011 plot.
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U.S.
Lawmakers Take on Texas Truancy Laws
State senators passed a bill to change how school districts and courts handle truancy, which some say are unfair and overly punitive.
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Health
Ask Well: Do We Need to Stretch?
If stretching before exercise is of questionable benefit, is there any time that stretching is beneficial? The Phys Ed columnist Gretchen Reynolds responds to readers’ questions.
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Health
Pastas of Spring
To make a quick meal with spring vegetables, try one of these new pasta dishes from Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman
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N.Y. / Region
Assemblyman Makes Plea Deal on Marijuana Possession
Stephen M. Katz, a Republican from Mohegan Lake, N.Y., who was discovered with a small bag of marijuana when he was stopped for speeding, must complete 20 hours of community service and avoid reoffending.
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Technology
Disruptions: No Words, No Gestures, Just Your Brain as a Control Pad
Soon, we could be turning on the lights at home just by thinking about it, or sending an e-mail from our smartphone without even pulling the device from our pocket.
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World
U.S. General Sees Hope for Chinese Help on Korea
Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that talks yielded similar goals of limiting North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
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U.S.
States Push to Get the Most Out of Marijuana Taxes
Legislators will consider rates totaling up to 30 percent, hoping to pay for new laws without driving customers back to the black market.
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Business Day
The Next Nuclear Reactor May Arrive Hauled by a Truck
Small nuclear reactors, which are considered safer and cheaper than large plants, are winning fans among utilities and government officials.
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