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U.S.
Justices Take Case on Prayer at Town Board Meetings, and a Patent Dispute
A federal appeals court found that though the prayer at meetings in Greece, N.Y., could be given by members of all faiths and atheists, in practice almost all of the chaplains were Christian.
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World
Japan Cites Active Fault at a Reactor
The No. 2 reactor at Tsuruga now faces indefinite stoppage or likely decommissioning unless its operator provides new data on the fault.
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Health
Older Adults May Have Flu Protection
Age has its privileges, and a new study suggests that one of them may be immunity to some flu pandemics.
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Science
Mekong Mystery: Dwindling Fish
The harvest from Tonle Sap had almost doubled between 1940 and 1995, while the number of people fishing has quadrupled during that period, cutting the per-fisher catch in half.
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Science
In 1949, He Imagined an Age of Robots
“The Machine Age,” an essay written for The New York Times by Norbert Wiener, a visionary mathematician, languished for six decades in the M.I.T. archives, and now excerpts are being published.
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Style
Best Tool to Fight Childhood Obesity? Your Kitchen
Preparing food at home means eating better and lighter for most families. That doesn’t make it easy.
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Magazine
Behind the Cover Story: Michael Pollan on Why Bacteria Aren't the Enemy
The author of this week’s cover story answers questions on why we should go easy on the Purell, how owning a dog might be healthy and why we should be wary of antibiotics.
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N.Y. / Region
Rescue Team at a Beach Tries to Save the Summer
Park officials say dunes lost and other damage at Fort Tilden on the Rockaway Peninsula will prevent the beach’s opening before 2014, but some people who hold it dear hope to change that.
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U.S.
Farm Subsidy Recipient Backs Food Stamp Cuts
Representative Stephen Fincher, Republican of Tennessee, collected nearly $3.5 million in subsidies from 1999 to 2012, an environment group found.
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World
Rice Tainted With Cadmium Is Discovered in Southern China
Officials in Guangzhou said that nearly half of all rice tested at restaurants this year contained unsafe levels of the toxic metal.
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Opinion
Cutting Carbon Emissions
New York State’s top environmental official discusses a multistate program to fight climate change.
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Business Day
Engineers See a Path Out of Green Card Limbo
Born overseas and educated in the United States, workers in the heart of the tech industry are in a kind of suspension as the Senate considers the immigration bill.
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N.Y. / Region
Scrutiny of Silver Continues as Lopez Is Set to Resign
Despite Assemblyman Vito J. Lopez’s plans to resign over accusations of sexual harassment, questions about the Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, and his handling of the case are not over.
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Booming
Hobbes and Locke on the 6:13
“I may be in the minority, but I believe New Yorkers are an unusually civil group of people. It’s all the practice we get. So often, we are squeezed together into such tight spots, we have little alternative: Be civil or be squashed.”
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Opinion
Why Do I Teach?
We should judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates.
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Opinion
Cul-de-Sac Poverty
More poor Americans live in suburbs than in cities, but public policy hasn’t caught up to address their needs.
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Business Day
Austria Gives Ground on Banking Secrecy at Meeting of European Union Leaders
The European Union inched closer to uniform transparency as Austria agreed to adopt new rules for sharing account holders’ information under certain conditions.
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Opinion
Security at the Trade Center, as the Police Dept. Sees It
The New York Police Department takes issue with a front-page article, “With Security, Trade Center Faces New Isolation.”
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Opinion
Agricultural Research
Catherine Woteki, the Agriculture Department’s chief scientist, responds to articles about threats to our food supply and environment.
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Business Day
Germany Works to Ease High Youth Unemployment
The German finance and labor ministers signed agreements with their counterparts in Portugal and Spain this week, hoping to get young people into jobs.
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Business Day
The Changing Face of Community Colleges
A Century Foundation report shows a sharp increase in enrollment of lower-income, nonwhite students at community colleges, institutions that will do much to shape the economy.
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N.Y. / Region
Rescue Team at a Beach Tries to Save the Summer
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Opinion
Cutting Carbon Emissions
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Opinion
Why Do I Teach?
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Opinion
Cul-de-Sac Poverty
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Opinion
Agricultural Research
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U.S.
Texas: House Votes to Ban Medicaid Expansion
The Texas House passed a measure on Tuesday that would prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Obama’s health care law.
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N.Y. / Region
Gulliver Seeks Rental: The Newfound Fascination With Tiny Dwellings
Few are keen to crumple themselves and their belongings into a tiny apartment and call it home, yet the eagerness to explore these spaces seems to spread like a determined little wildfire.
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Science
New Research Tools Kick Up Dust in Archives
Advances in technology have transformed the methods of historians and other archival researchers, a change that carries both benefits and consequences.
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Real Estate
Project in Paris Reflects City’s Ambitions for the Suburbs
The 133-acre Clichy Batignolles, named for the adjoining neighborhoods in northwest Paris, will include offices, housing, a park and a court complex.
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World
Leading a Push for Clean Water
The involvement of women has been crucial to ensuring more reliable sources of drinking water in rural India.
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