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Science
By NICHOLAS WADE | Jun 27, 2013
The genome is 10 times as old as any retrieved so
far, and scientists now say that DNA should be recoverable from animals
that lived a million years ago.
Horses;
Genetics and Heredity;
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid);
Paleontology;
Research;
No Jurassic Park then.
My understanding was that the horse was not a riding animal five thousand years ago. This time line may need adjustment.
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Your Money
By TARA SIEGEL BERNARD | Jun 27, 2013
Married gay couples in states that recognize
their unions will gain access to more than 1,000 federal benefits, but
how couples in other states will fare is less clear.
Personal Finances;
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil
Unions and Domestic Partnerships;
Federal Taxes (US);
Divorce, Separations and Annulments;
Income Tax;
Health Insurance and Managed Care;
Social Security (US);
Defense of Marriage Act (1996);
The fight is over.
We will have years of litigation getting the GOP to back down.
It takes on the order of a millennium for the Roman Church to admit error.
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World
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW | Jun 27, 2013
For some Beijing parents, picking a high school
for their children is a high-stakes dilemma full of trade-offs and
questions about how Western and how Chinese they want their offspring to
be.
Education;
Education (Secondary);
Private and Sectarian Schools;
Chinese Language;
The children must acquire a culture.
If they are to live in China, it should be Chinese.
China is no longer imperial. The merchant rather than the mandarin.
Hong Kong knows it better than most.
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World
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, NICHOLAS KULISH and LYDIA POLGREEN | Jun 27, 2013
President Obama’s aspirations for changing Africa
have been strained by mounting security threats, spotty human rights
records and by his notable absence from the continent where his father
was born.
United States
International Relations;
Human Rights and Human Rights Violations;
War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity;
His handlers have not done the job expected of them.
Mandela is dying.
He must go to South Africa.
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Business Day
By STEPHEN CASTLE and DOREEN CARVAJAL | Jun 27, 2013
Investigators have uncovered thousands of schemes
involving counterfeit or adulterated food, some on an industrial scale
and in developed countries.
Food;
Counterfeit Merchandise;
Frauds and Swindling;
Labeling and Labels;
Food Contamination and Poisoning;
Regulation and Deregulation of
Industry;
Regulation and inspection. Serial numbers and enforcement.
Caught and registered is more important than punished.
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N.Y. / Region
By KIRK SEMPLE | Jun 26, 2013
A Peruvian woman says she was entrapped in a life
of involuntary servitude in the New Jersey suburbs, forced to work as
many as 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for little or no compensation.
Human Trafficking;
Immigration and Emigration;
Forced Labor;
Wages and Salaries;
Working Hours;
Labor and Jobs;
Suits and Litigation (Civil);
Domestic Service;
Good luck to her.
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Business Day
By CATHERINE RAMPELL | Jun 27, 2013
Many companies providing support services are
cutting employees as work vanishes after federal spending was trimmed by
$85 billion on March 1.
Federal Budget (US);
Layoffs and Job Reductions;
Government Procurement;
Defense Contracts;
United States Defense and
Military Forces; United
States Economy; Small
Business;
Vote, vote your interest.
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Health
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR | Jun 26, 2013
Sugary foods and drinks, white bread and other
processed carbohydrates appear to stimulate parts of the brain involved
in hunger, craving and reward, which may explain why they might drive
some people to overeat.
Brain;
Carbohydrates;
Desserts;
Obesity; Weight;
Sugar is toxic.
Complex carbs are less toxic.
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Business Day
By STANLEY REED | Jun 27, 2013
Developers of an Azeri natural gas field have decided to build a pipeline to Europe that would end in Italy rather than Austria.
Pipelines;
International Trade and World Market;
Natural Gas;
Competition with the Russians.
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Business Day
By REUTERS | Jun 27, 2013
The revision lowered an initial estimate of a 2.4
percent expansion of the gross domestic product, with most of the
change attributed to slower growth in consumer spending.
United States Economy;
Gross Domestic Product;
Consumer Behavior;
Economic Conditions and
Trends;
The Heritage Foundation is wrong.
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N.Y. / Region
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER | Jun 25, 2013
The city’s Transportation Department plans to
install in the subways and on sidewalks a network of direction-oriented
maps to help visitors, and even New Yorkers, find their way.
Maps;
Transit Systems;
Travel and Vacations;
Many cannot read a map. Many cannot read.
It is still a good idea.
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N.Y. / Region
By E. C. GOGOLAK | Jun 25, 2013
The workers were each fined $2,000 and retired
from New York City’s Sanitation Department rather than face potential
disciplinary action for running afoul of departmental policy.
Waste Materials and
Disposal; Bribery and
Kickbacks; Conflicts of
Interest;
A sad situation. Corruption starts small.
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Opinion
By MARK BITTMAN | Jun 25, 2013
The real heroes in the world of food are those who work to improve the kind of low-input agriculture on which most people rely.
Food;
Genetic Engineering;
World Food Prize;
Perhaps the problem is that the poor of the world are not part of the money economy. The "Green Revolution" and Monsanto are part of the moneyed world. Local "Green" markets bring truck farming back into the moneyed cycle.
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Real Estate
By JULIE CRESWELL | Jun 26, 2013
Chinese investors have been buying marquee
commercial properties in New York and other American cities, in many
cases encouraged and aided by the Chinese government.
Real Estate
(Commercial); Foreign
Investments; Economic
Conditions and Trends;
Dollars are in surplus in China.
Marquee realestate provides better returns than treasury bonds.
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Opinion
By JOE NOCERA | Jun 27, 2013
Congress has a plan to put them out of business once and for all. Then what?
Mortgages;
Subprime Mortgage Crisis;
United States Politics and
Government;
The Treasury may have done the deed. Congress made it possible.
Putting them out of business would raise bank rates on home loans.
Moral hazard.
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Business Day
By BUCKS EDITORS | Jun 26, 2013
A roundup of past coverage from the Bucks blog
and elsewhere in The Times about the particular financial issues facing
same-sex couples.
Marriages;
Personal Finances;
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and
Domestic Partnerships;
Let us notice that the states that do not permit gay marriage do not deny
that gays may be married under federal law. All rights and benefits attached to the married under federal law are theirs.
The commerce clause applies.
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Style
By AMY KLEIN | Jun 25, 2013
Maybe the real statistics regarding the odds of
becoming pregnant after 35 are more optimistic than we realized—but if
you’re among those who don’t conceive easily, that’s cold comfort.
Fertility Drugs;
Infertility;
Parenting;
Pregnancy and Childbirth;
Women and Girls;
Not for long.
I will enjoy the attempt.
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World
By ANDREW ROTH and ELLEN BARRY | Jun 26, 2013
The airport transit area where Edward J. Snowden
is believed to be planning his next move is being patrolled by people
hoping to get a glimpse of him.
News and News Media;
Surveillance of Citizens by
Government; Classified
Information and State Secrets;
Fugitives;
Airports;
I just don't care.
I would rather know than wonder about the NSA.
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Autos
By BENJAMIN PRESTON | Jun 25, 2013
N.H.T.S.A. will sit down with critics of its
handling of the Chrysler recall, and New York legislators table a bill
that could affect Tesla’s business in the state.
Automobile Safety
Features and Defects;
Automobiles; Law and
Legislation; State
Legislatures;
Electric cars are viewed as competition by some.
The Ford 150 has become a boat.
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Opinion
By PAUL KENNEDY | Jun 27, 2013
What will the world look like if 4 billion people ever turn against the current political systems?
Politics and Government;
Poverty;
Economic Conditions and Trends;
Population;
Starving populations are not a danger. Pirates are a danger.
Only the healthiest escaped the potato famine.
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World
By MALAVIKA VYAWAHARE | Jun 27, 2013
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Technology
By DAVID POGUE | Jun 27, 2013
Not every useful product has to be a big deal.
From a replacement charging cable to suction cups that help prop your
gadgets, the little stuff can still be important.
Android (Operating
System); Computers and
the Internet; iPad;
Tablet Computers;
See a problem, solve a problem.
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Opinion
By ANDREW C. REVKIN | Jun 27, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry keeps the pressure on India to join in efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Air Pollution;
Alternative and Renewable Energy;
Carbon Dioxide;
Economic Conditions and Trends;
Floods;
Global Warming;
Greenhouse Gas Emissions;
A laudable effort. Success is doubtful.
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World
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR, NICHOLAS KULISH and LYDIA POLGREEN | Jun 27, 2013
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Business Day
By STEPHEN CASTLE and DOREEN CARVAJAL | Jun 27, 2013
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Booming
By HENRY ROZYCKI | Jun 27, 2013
For years, a battle between the need to fill the holes in the family narrative during World War II and a duty to keep silent.
World War II (1939-45);
Holocaust and the Nazi
Era; Families and Family
Life; Baby Boomers;
The motivations are questionable.
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N.Y. / Region
By KIRK SEMPLE | Jun 26, 2013
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Science
By CARL ZIMMER | Jun 27, 2013
To understand why drug resistance often causes
targeted cancer therapies to fail, geneticists have teamed up with
mathematicians to create detailed models of cancer.
Tumors;
Cancer;
Evolution (Biology);
Charge on. This is real progress.
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Health
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR | Jun 26, 2013
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Business Day
By CATHERINE RAMPELL | Jun 27, 2013
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World
By LUISITA LOPEZ TORREGROSA | Jun 27, 2013
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Business Day
By REUTERS | Jun 27, 2013
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Technology
By NICK WINGFIELD | Jun 27, 2013
Clinkle, a new stealthy mobile payments start-up,
has raised $25 million, hoping to succeed where so many other efforts
have fizzled by inventing a practical way to replace credit cards with
smartphones.
Credit Cards;
Mobile Commerce;
Smartphones;
Start-ups;
It is still debt.
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N.Y. / Region
By MATT FLEGENHEIMER | Jun 25, 2013
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Business Day
By ANITA RAGHAVAN | Jun 27, 2013
A year after being convicted of insider trading,
Rajat Gupta is embroiled in a dispute over a private equity fund he
helped found.
Friendship;
Insider Trading;
Private Equity;
Suits and Litigation (Civil);
A falling out among thieves.
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Health
By SULEIKA JAOUAD | Jun 27, 2013
When I learned I had cancer at the age of 22, my
life and my resolution-making were interrupted. There was no time or
space to stress over something as small as a three-day juice cleanse or a
daily exercise program. Surviving my next cycle of chemotherapy became
my singular concern.
Anxiety and Stress;
Cancer;
Chemotherapy;
Exercise;
Leukemia;
One step at a time. Some of the steps are small.
As soon as you can is best.
I will spend 6/29 - 6/30 sailing.
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N.Y. / Region
By E. C. GOGOLAK | Jun 25, 2013
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Health
By PAULINE CHEN, M.D. | Jun 27, 2013
Nurse practitioners believe that they can lead
primary care practices and admit patients to a hospital and that they
deserve to earn the same amount as doctors for the same work. Physicians
disagree.
Doctors;
Nursing and Nurses;
I think the AMA is nuts.
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Opinion
By MARK BITTMAN | Jun 25, 2013
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Opinion
By JOE NOCERA | Jun 27, 2013
Extended family duty 6/29 - 7/6
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