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Health
Does Depression Contribute to Dementia?
A new study adds to evidence of a link between late-life depression and dementia.
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Health
Cancers Share Gene Patterns, Studies Affirm
Scientists have found the best evidence yet that cancer will increasingly be seen as a disease defined by its genetic fingerprint rather than by the organ where it originated.
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N.Y. / Region
U.S. Rules Bar Aid to Co-ops Hit by Sandy
Under FEMA’s policy, co-ops are considered businesses and therefore ineligible for federal disaster aid.
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Dining & Wine
A Ban on Some Italian Cured Meat Is Ending
Starting May 28, a number of cured products, including sought-after staples such as salami, will be available in the United States.
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Business Day
Safe Storage of Water? Go Underground
Experts are urging cities to build reservoirs below the ground, where the water cannot evaporate and many of the problems associated with above-ground storage can be avoided.
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Business Day
Boeing Moves to Upgrade Popular 777 Passenger Jet
An updated version of the jet, with lightweight carbon-composite wings and the potential to cut fuel usage by 20 percent, is being pitched to airlines and leasing companies.Boeing is continuing to operate. They have little choice.
The battery fix will bite them again. The sooner they have a dependable battery the sooner they will return to health.
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U.S.
Income Guarantee Swells Crop Insurance
The high costs of subsidized crop insurance were mostly a result of policies that paid farmers for declines in their income, not of poor crop yields.
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Home & Garden
One Big Workbench
Tinkering has moved out of the suburban garage and acquired a real-life social network.
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N.Y. / Region
With Initiative, Attorney General Focuses on New York’s Pets
Eric T. Schneiderman unveiled an animal protection campaign with two goals: reducing abuses in “puppy mills” and shutting down dogfighting rings.
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Booming
Abroad as Her Father Lay Dying
A colleague writes about one of the most difficult aspects of expat life.
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Real Estate
Douglas R. Lebda
Mr. Lebda is the chairman and chief executive of Tree.com, a public company based in Charlotte, N.C., and the parent of LendingTree.com.
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Health
When the Doctor Is Overweight
Patients see overweight doctors as less credible than “normal weight” doctors, a new study by Yale University researchers found.
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N.Y. / Region
Subway Delays Were Up in 2012, a Group Finds
The study, conducted by the Straphangers Campaign, focused on so-called controllable delays — problems associated with signals, switches and tracks, among other factors.
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Business Day
Measuring the Benefits of Tech Tools
Through history, economic statistics based on money haven’t captured the value of information technology.
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N.Y. / Region
Ethics Panel, Upset by Delay, Vows to Release Report on Lopez
The commission is frustrated that a prosecutor has blocked the release of its report on sexual harassment accusations against Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez.
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Opinion
Milestone Nears on Curve Charting the Human Imprint on the Atmosphere
A famous curve of carbon dioxide levels is close to passing a milestone.
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Business Day
Credit Eased for Stay-at-Home Spouses and Partners
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Opinion
Erasing History
In the age of the almighty search engine, do we have a right to be forgotten?
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Home & Garden
Tiling 102: The Bathroom Floor
Tackling a bathroom floor is not for those literally weak in the knees. Be ready to learn from mistakes (lots of them).
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Opinion
Exorbitant Prices for Leukemia Drugs
The revolt against unjustifiably high prices of cancer medications has been joined by more than 100 leukemia experts from more than 15 countries.
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Health
Air Pollution's Role in Heart Disease
Following more than 5,000 people in six cities and air pollution data, researchers found that the greater the level of air pollution, the greater the thickening of the carotid artery, a known risk for heart attack and stroke.
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Health
Life, Interrupted: All in a Day's Work
Dozens of chemotherapy treatments and one bone marrow transplant later, I wish I could say that I’ve mastered the art of not working.
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Business Day
Where the Raises Are: Trucking and Academia
Compensation growth has been relatively flat across the board in recent years. The biggest raises have been in transportation and higher education.
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N.Y. / Region
Ethics Panel, Upset by Delay, Vows to Release Report on Lopez
The commission is frustrated that a prosecutor has blocked the release of its report on sexual harassment accusations against Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez.
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Style
Lesson From Bangladesh: Cheap Children's Clothes Are Expensive
Cheap children’s clothes are a false economy, both individually and globally.
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Know better.
Money is the only thing we can abstractly measure.
What Edwardo Porter considers technological tools are pervasive.
There is no easy way to measure their impact.
Consider where we would be with the technology of 1950.
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Business Day
Glencore Completes Deal for Xstrata
Glencore International, the Swiss commodities trader, announced on Thursday that its merger with the mining giant Xstrata was complete and that shares in the newly combined company, called Glencore Xstrata, will start trading in London on Friday.
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Business Day
British Activists Press Tax Case Involving Goldman Sachs
At a hearing on Thursday, an activist group campaigning against tax avoidance programs is asking a court to review a deal struck in 2010 between Goldman Sachs and British tax authorities that allowed the firm to avoid as much as £20 million ($31 million) in interest on unpaid taxes.
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Health
The Problem of Breast Pain in Women Who Exercise
Researchers set out to examine the real-world consequences of being an active woman with sore breasts, an important quality of life issue that affects how, and how often, women work out.
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World
A Conversation With: Psychiatrist Dinesh Bhugra, Expert on Deviant Sexual Behavior
A psychiatrist on what drives certain people to sexually assault children.
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N.Y. / Region
Young Inmates Find a Voice Through Short Films
An inaugural class of about 40 female inmates at an alternative high school at Rikers participated in Tribeca Teaches, a program that instructs young people in schools how to make movies.
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Science
Spread of Hydrofracking Could Strain Water Resources in West, Study Finds
The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing could put pressure on already-stressed water resources from the suburbs of Fort Worth to western Colorado, according to a new report from a nonprofit group.
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Health
U.S. to Defend Age Limits on Morning-After Pill Sales
With its appeal of an order to make the most common next-day birth control pill available to all ages with no prescription, the Obama administration is returning to a charged political issue.
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Business Day
Credit Reports More Accurately Reflect Debts Discharged in Bankruptcy
Credit reporting bureaus have gotten better at updating their records in part because of developments related to a class-action lawsuit.
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Opinion
Links Between A.D.H.D. and Sleep
Readers in the health profession respond to a Sunday Review article.
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