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Business Day
A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city block.
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Opinion
Gunshots on Warm Spring Evenings
Gun violence wreaks havoc on a community. But it’s not just about blood and mayhem.
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U.S.
Urging Government Action on Water, Roads and Power in Texas
There is pressure late in the legislative session for action on financing roads, water projects and the state’s laboring power grid. Trouble is, they cost money.
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Technology
Drones Take Off in Silicon Valley
Even before American skies are open to commercially operated drones, a drone start-up called Airware plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $10.7 million in a financing round led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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N.Y. / Region
With Security, Trade Center Faces New Isolation
Planners and residents of Lower Manhattan imagined a new World Trade Center that would be integrated in the neighborhood, but now they fear that security measures will keep it isolated as ever.
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U.S.
As Obama Pushes Overhaul of Food Aid, Panels in Congress Favor Smaller Changes
After the Obama administration proposed moving the international food aid program out of the Agriculture Department, the Congressional Agriculture Committees took lesser actions.
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Opinion
Cascading Confessions
The revelations of two famous women help bring their diseases out of the shadows.
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Opinion
Cracking the Brand-New 1940 Census
A rich trove of archives and resources at the New York Public Library cross-references names and addresses with the long-awaited 1940 data, and the results are eye-opening.
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Fashion & Style
New Technology Opens Horizons at a Lesser Cost
3-D printing enables designers to turn their intricate ideas into reality.
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Business Day
Pills Tracked From Doctor to Patient to Aid Drug Marketing
Vast databases of patient and doctor information being used by drug makers let them know which medications physicians are prescribing and how they compare to colleagues.
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Opinion
A Team Approach to Get Students College Ready
A group called Blue Engine that places recent college graduates as full-time teaching assistants in a few public high schools is showing promising results.
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U.S.
A ‘Pandora’s Box of Problems’ From a Police Shooting and Drugs in a Utah Town
The district attorney describes chaos in West Valley City, where many cases have had to be dropped and the killing of a suspect is under inquiry.
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Business Day
New Accounting Proposal on Leasing Portends Big Changes
Proposed changes on reporting leases, backed by the International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the United States, are unlikely to satisfy many corporations.
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Health
No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet
Health experts for the government say there is no good reason for many Americans to keep sodium consumption below 2,300 milligrams a day, as national dietary guidelines advise.
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World
Why Indian Elites Like to Call Themselves 'Middle Class'
Policies for the so-called middle class end up benefiting the rich at the expense of the poor, the author argues.
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N.Y. / Region
16 Accused of Smuggling Cigarettes Worth Millions
Officials said the defendants profited by buying the goods in low-tax states in the South and selling them illegally in New York, avoiding the state’s high taxes.
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Opinion
The Other Climate Science Gap
A flurry of discussion about public misperception of climate scientists’ views misses another science perception gap.
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Opinion
Sales Taxes and the Internet
Rationality and fairness are the fundamental issues.
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U.S.
Urging Government Action on Water, Roads and Power in Texas
There is pressure late in the legislative session for action on financing roads, water projects and the state’s laboring power grid. Trouble is, they cost money.
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U.S.
As Obama Pushes Overhaul of Food Aid, Panels in Congress Favor Smaller Changes
After the Obama administration proposed moving the international food aid program out of the Agriculture Department, the Congressional Agriculture Committees took lesser actions.
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Opinion
Cascading Confessions
The revelations of two famous women help bring their diseases out of the shadows.
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Opinion
Cracking the Brand-New 1940 Census
A rich trove of archives and resources at the New York Public Library cross-references names and addresses with the long-awaited 1940 data, and the results are eye-opening.
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U.S.
A ‘Pandora’s Box of Problems’ From a Police Shooting and Drugs in a Utah Town
The district attorney describes chaos in West Valley City, where many cases have had to be dropped and the killing of a suspect is under inquiry.
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Business Day
New Accounting Proposal on Leasing Portends Big Changes
Proposed changes on reporting leases, backed by the International Accounting Standards Board and the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the United States, are unlikely to satisfy many corporations.
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Opinion
A Team Approach to Get Students College Ready
A group called Blue Engine that places recent college graduates as full-time teaching assistants in a few public high schools is showing promising results.
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Opinion
The Other Climate Science Gap
A flurry of discussion about public misperception of climate scientists’ views misses another science perception gap.
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Booming
A Slim Travel Budget, but Otherwise No Limits
Meri Murphy’s retirement travel choices may not be for everybody, but she has proved there are adventures galore on a limited budget.
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Opinion
A Lower Standard for Drunken Driving
There is good reason to lower the blood-alcohol level to 0.05, while taking separate steps to get the hard-core drinkers off the roads.
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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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Health
After the Denial Letter Arrives
What families can do if the V.A. rejects a veteran’s claim for caregiving benefits.
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Opinion
The Psychiatrist’s Manual, Analyzed
Psychiatrists respond to an editorial, a Sunday Review opinion essay and a news article.
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World
Science Tackles Mystery of the Teenage Brain
New research at Cambridge University will look into the changes in the brain that are responsible for and provide early warning of mental health problems.
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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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Opinion
Pension Predators
New York State was right to order an investigation of firms that advertise payments as advances, not high-cost loans, to pensioners.
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