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A Texas Senate Bill Would Revise the State’s End-of-Life Procedure
Lawmakers are grappling over changes to state law that allows physicians to discontinue treatment they deem medically futile.
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U.S.
Klan Protests in Memphis Over Renaming of Three Parks
No violence was reported, and there were no arrests at the rally, which featured about 75 members.
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Business Day
We’re One Big Team, So Run Those Stairs
CrossFit, the workout fitness program, is viewed by some companies as a way to improve worker production and morale.
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Opinion
Drug-Sniffing Dogs and the Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court ruling on the use of police dogs wasn’t all that surprising, but how the vote went down sure was.
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Science
Yvonne Brill, a Pioneering Rocket Scientist, Dies at 88
In the early 1970s, Mrs. Brill invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.
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Education
Curious Grade for Teachers: Nearly All Pass
New teacher evaluation systems were intended to provide useful feedback and weed out weak performers, but the reluctance to set a high bar has led to scores that seem impossibly rosy.
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Sunday Review
America the Innovative?
As China becomes richer, is it destined to pass the United States as the world’s most inventive nation?
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Fashion & Style
How to Break Up With a 2-Year-Old
Single and 40, I met a man with a child I learned to love as my own. Breaking up was not what we had planned.
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World
Tunisian Protesters Join Lawmakers’ Call for Women’s Affairs Minister to Resign
The protesters accused the minister, Sihem Badi, of failing to stand up to the ruling Islamists. Calls for her resignation have increased since the recent rape of a 3-year-old girl at a nursery.
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World
In Brazil, Streets of Dancing Cars and Swagger
A subculture with roots in East Los Angeles is spreading in parts of Asia and Europe, and is raising eyebrows in South America’s largest city.
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Business Day
Freed From Its Cage, the Gentler Robot
New factory robots, designed to work and play well with others, no longer have to be fenced in to protect workers from accidents.
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Technology
Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy
Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show.
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Business Day
Riding Wave of Popularity, Craft Brewers Ask Congress for a Tax Cut
Hundreds of brewers went to Washington this week to seek aid that they said would help them brew more beer and hire more workers.
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Opinion
Our Inconsistent Ethical Instincts
We like to believe that our principles are rooted in conviction. But much research shows that they often prove to be finicky, inconsistent intuitions.
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Technology
An American Quilt of Privacy Laws, Incomplete
Europe and the United States are operating at far different speeds with respect to data privacy regulation. And that could be a stumbling block in future trade talks.
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Sports
Few Know How to Enter; Fewer Finish
Only 12 ultrarunners have completed the 100-mile Barkley Marathons, and those connected to this ultrasecret race hope a coming documentary does not alter its counterculture charm.
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N.Y. / Region
Relying on Hotel Rooms for Thousands Uprooted by Hurricane Sandy
City officials said those in hotels were mostly poor, with no home to return to or not enough income to qualify for available apartments.
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Fashion & Style
For a Holistic Lifestyle, Go to Aisle 2
Just as the Whole Foods Markets have helped make over Americans’ diets, the chain’s Whole Body shops are laying claim to their complexions.
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Business Day
Most Children’s Meals at Large Restaurant Chains Are Still Unhealthy, a Study Finds
A study of the nutritional quality of children’s meals at the nation’s largest chain restaurants showed little improvement in the last four years.
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Health
A Texas Senate Bill Would Revise the State’s End-of-Life Procedure
Lawmakers are grappling over changes to state law that allows physicians to discontinue treatment they deem medically futile.
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U.S.
Klan Protests in Memphis Over Renaming of Three Parks
No violence was reported, and there were no arrests at the rally, which featured about 75 members.
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Business Day
We’re One Big Team, So Run Those Stairs
CrossFit, the workout fitness program, is viewed by some companies as a way to improve worker production and morale.
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Opinion
Drug-Sniffing Dogs and the Fourth Amendment
The Supreme Court ruling on the use of police dogs wasn’t all that surprising, but how the vote went down sure was.
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Science
Yvonne Brill, a Pioneering Rocket Scientist, Dies at 88
In the early 1970s, Mrs. Brill invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.
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Education
Curious Grade for Teachers: Nearly All Pass
New teacher evaluation systems were intended to provide useful feedback and weed out weak performers, but the reluctance to set a high bar has led to scores that seem impossibly rosy.
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Sunday Review
America the Innovative?
As China becomes richer, is it destined to pass the United States as the world’s most inventive nation?
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World
Tunisian Protesters Join Lawmakers’ Call for Women’s Affairs Minister to Resign
The protesters accused the minister, Sihem Badi, of failing to stand up to the ruling Islamists. Calls for her resignation have increased since the recent rape of a 3-year-old girl at a nursery.
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Fashion & Style
How to Break Up With a 2-Year-Old
Single and 40, I met a man with a child I learned to love as my own. Breaking up was not what we had planned.
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World
In Brazil, Streets of Dancing Cars and Swagger
A subculture with roots in East Los Angeles is spreading in parts of Asia and Europe, and is raising eyebrows in South America’s largest city.
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Business Day
Freed From Its Cage, the Gentler Robot
New factory robots, designed to work and play well with others, no longer have to be fenced in to protect workers from accidents.
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Technology
Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy
Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show.
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Business Day
Riding Wave of Popularity, Craft Brewers Ask Congress for a Tax Cut
Hundreds of brewers went to Washington this week to seek aid that they said would help them brew more beer and hire more workers.
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Opinion
Our Inconsistent Ethical Instincts
We like to believe that our principles are rooted in conviction. But much research shows that they often prove to be finicky, inconsistent intuitions.
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Technology
An American Quilt of Privacy Laws, Incomplete
Europe and the United States are operating at far different speeds with respect to data privacy regulation. And that could be a stumbling block in future trade talks.
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Sports
Few Know How to Enter; Fewer Finish
Only 12 ultrarunners have completed the 100-mile Barkley Marathons, and those connected to this ultrasecret race hope a coming documentary does not alter its counterculture charm.
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Fashion & Style
For a Holistic Lifestyle, Go to Aisle 2
Just as the Whole Foods Markets have helped make over Americans’ diets, the chain’s Whole Body shops are laying claim to their complexions.
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Opinion
Social Security, Present and Future
There are sensible ways to reform Social Security, but it is not driving the deficit.
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Business Day
Most Children’s Meals at Large Restaurant Chains Are Still Unhealthy, a Study Finds
A study of the nutritional quality of children’s meals at the nation’s largest chain restaurants showed little improvement in the last four years.
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Business Day
Investing as an Art Form, Not a Science
Bucks readers tell of their own experiences in spending and saving after they got their first jobs.
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Business Day
F.C.C. to Study Health Effects of Cellphone Radiation
The agency said it would seek comment from experts in a review of its standards for limiting exposure to the radio waves produced by mobile devices.
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U.S.
As Fracking Proliferates, So Do Wastewater Wells
Texas regulators may soon tighten the rules for the construction of wastewater disposal wells amid concerns about the possibility of accidents and groundwater contamination.
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U.S.
Zumba Instructor Admits to Running a Prostitution Ring
The instructor in Kennebunk, Me., pleaded guilty to using her studio as a front for a ring involving scores of men, including a former mayor, a high school hockey coach and a minister.
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Arts
The Sweet Spot: Pay to Play
David Carr and A.O. Scott talk about paywalls, what we download and what entertainment is worth.
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Arts
Thomas McEvilley, Critic and Defender of Non-Western Art, Dies at 73
Mr. McEvilley’s evisceration of a Museum of Modern Art show on “primitivism” in 1984 put curators on the defensive and changed the debate about multiculturalism in art.
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Business Day
Pay for Boards at Banks Soars Amid Cutbacks
Banks and compensation experts say the complexity of the business justifies the compensation, but critics say increased regulation has limited the boards’ jobs.
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Opinion
Resurrecting California’s Public Universities
More robust budgets, not online courses, are the best answer.
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