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Technology
Tech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill
Executives from Silicon Valley say that the Senate immigration bill imposes too much regulatory control over a company’s hiring of temporary foreign worker or laying off an American worker.
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World
'Cadmium Rice' Is China's Latest Food Scandal
As China absorbs the news that quite a bit of its rice contains too much of the toxic metal cadmium, the state-run media are advising people to diversify the geographical sources of their food, to reduce risk.
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U.S.
Criticism of Veterans Affairs Secretary Mounts Over Backlog in Claims
The secretary, Eric Shinseki, is being held accountable for his overwhelmed agency’s problems dealing with claims for disability compensation.
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Business Day
This Week in Small Business: Gordon Ramsay Calling!
The social media lessons from the latest Gordon Ramsay’ nightmare. Small-business confidence ticks up. The deficit problem is solved (for now). How to use a six-second video. Would you buy a point-of-sale system from Groupon?
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Technology
Disruptions: Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging
With a growing population of Americans over the age of 65, but a lack of trained home health care workers, more and more people could opt to hire robots to do the job.
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Booming
Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not
This Retro Report video lays out how limited scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong.
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N.Y. / Region
Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost?
Beach nourishment projects will restore shorelines but require expensive upkeep and affect ecosystems; federal taxpayers will foot the bill.
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Magazine
Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
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U.S.
Abortion Law in Arkansas Is Blocked by U.S. Judge
A ban on abortion at the 12th week of pregnancy is likely to be declared unconstitutional, a federal district judge said.
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Opinion
Cold War Malaise at Launch Control
The removal of 17 Air Force officers from watching over nuclear-tipped missiles is part of a bigger underlying problem.
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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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Movies
William Miles, Maker of Films About Black History, Dies at 82
Among other topics, Mr. Miles, who specialized in unearthing lost material about forgotten subjects, made films about the history of Harlem and a black regiment that fought in World War I.
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Business Day
Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future
A law school professor is on a permanent campaign to argue that the telecom and cable industry has been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and overcharge consumers.
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Business Day
The Giant of Shareholders, Quietly Stirring
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions about companies in which it has stakes.
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Health
Many Fronts in Fighting Obesity
Simply focusing on sugar will do little to quell the rising epidemic in the United States.
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U.S.
Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust
Parts of the vast High Plains Aquifer are so low that crops can’t be watered and bridges span arid stream beds.
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Business Day
Village Voice Loses 2 of Its Most Prominent Writers
Michael Musto, the paper’s gossip columnist, and Robert Sietsema, its restaurant reviewer, have left the paper, a week after the top editors resigned.
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Opinion
Before You Buy That T-Shirt
Do consumers have the power to change factory conditions abroad?
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Business Day
New Jobless Claims Rise, and Housing Starts Fall
Jobless claims rose sharply last week, while housing starts dropped in April and a gauge of underlying inflation indicated weak demand.
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World
'Cadmium Rice' Is China's Latest Food Scandal
As China absorbs the news that quite a bit of its rice contains too much of the toxic metal cadmium, the state-run media are advising people to diversify the geographical sources of their food, to reduce risk.
2
U.S.
Criticism of Veterans Affairs Secretary Mounts Over Backlog in Claims
The secretary, Eric Shinseki, is being held accountable for his overwhelmed agency’s problems dealing with claims for disability compensation.
3
Technology
Disruptions: Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Care for the Aging
With a growing population of Americans over the age of 65, but a lack of trained home health care workers, more and more people could opt to hire robots to do the job.
4
Booming
Revisiting the ‘Crack Babies’ Epidemic That Was Not
This Retro Report video lays out how limited scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong.
5
Business Day
This Week in Small Business: Gordon Ramsay Calling!
The social media lessons from the latest Gordon Ramsay’ nightmare. Small-business confidence ticks up. The deficit problem is solved (for now). How to use a six-second video. Would you buy a point-of-sale system from Groupon?
6
Technology
Tech Industry Pushes to Amend Immigration Bill
Executives from Silicon Valley say that the Senate immigration bill imposes too much regulatory control over a company’s hiring of temporary foreign worker or laying off an American worker.
7
N.Y. / Region
Rebuilding the Coastline, but at What Cost?
Beach nourishment projects will restore shorelines but require expensive upkeep and affect ecosystems; federal taxpayers will foot the bill.
8
Magazine
Some of My Best Friends Are Germs
Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
9
U.S.
Abortion Law in Arkansas Is Blocked by U.S. Judge
A ban on abortion at the 12th week of pregnancy is likely to be declared unconstitutional, a federal district judge said.
10
Opinion
Cold War Malaise at Launch Control
The removal of 17 Air Force officers from watching over nuclear-tipped missiles is part of a bigger underlying problem.
11
Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
12
Opinion
Who's Escaping Climate Change 'Mire and Muck'?
A radio show tries to find a route around conventional thinking on global warming.
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Business Day
Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future
A law school professor is on a permanent campaign to argue that the telecom and cable industry has been overtaken by monopolists who resist innovation and overcharge consumers.
15
Business Day
The Giant of Shareholders, Quietly Stirring
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions about companies in which it has stakes.
16
Health
Many Fronts in Fighting Obesity
Simply focusing on sugar will do little to quell the rising epidemic in the United States.
17
U.S.
Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust
Parts of the vast High Plains Aquifer are so low that crops can’t be watered and bridges span arid stream beds.
18
Movies
William Miles, Maker of Films About Black History, Dies at 82
Among other topics, Mr. Miles, who specialized in unearthing lost material about forgotten subjects, made films about the history of Harlem and a black regiment that fought in World War I.
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Business Day
Village Voice Loses 2 of Its Most Prominent Writers
Michael Musto, the paper’s gossip columnist, and Robert Sietsema, its restaurant reviewer, have left the paper, a week after the top editors resigned.
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