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Opinion
Justices on the Job
Are the current justices on the Supreme Court — all but one former federal appeals court judges — the right justices for the job we ask the court to do?
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Business Day
Sell a Business to Cover Retirement? Don’t Count on It
Many businesses simply cannot be sold and others end up being sold for far less than expected.
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World
Surprising Culprit in Ivory Smuggling: Ex-U.S. Official
David McNevin, who served as a defense attaché at the American Embassy in Nairobi, was stopped at an airport last month with a little less than two pounds of ivory.
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World
Apps Offer Chinese a Path to the Forbidden
Millions of young Chinese seem to be plunging enthusiastically into the world of social contact apps, often location-based and with a hookup element.
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Business Day
3 Former UBS Bankers Sentenced for Bid-Rigging
Three convicted former members of UBS’s municipal securities desk were sentenced for conspiring to defraud municipal bond issuers.
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Business Day
Drug Companies Promise More Data Transparency
Representatives of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies pledged to release detailed data about their drugs to outside researchers, signaling a shift for the industry.
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Opinion
High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics
How can DNA from an innocent person end up on a murder victim?
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Business Day
A Carbon Tax by Any Other Name
Australia is changing from a carbon tax system to a cap-and-trade system, a change in methodology but not necessarily in mission.
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Opinion
Living Apart Together
Readers discuss a timeless question in response to a column by Frank Bruni.
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Health
Australians Are Getting Fatter
Australia may be known for its rugged outdoor lifestyles but recent statistics suggest a different reality. Australia and its equally outdoorsy neighbor, New Zealand, are now two of the fattest countries in the developed world.
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Home & Garden
The Storm Erases, the Drawing Board Replaces
Two landscape designers give guidance on how to repair a landscape after destruction from a storm.
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Business Day
Polar Thaw Opens Shortcut for Russian Natural Gas
Now that the Northeast Passage is reliably open to commercial shipping, Russian energy companies are planning to ship directly to customers in China.
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U.S.
McConnell Campaign, Facing Woman as Challenger, Says It Won’t Shy From Issues
The Senate Republican leader will not only defend but also highlight his record to appeal to female voters in 2014, his team says.
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World
Garment Trade Wields Power in Bangladesh
As the industry has taken a bigger role in the country’s economy, the political influence of its trade group has soared.
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U.S.
In Cleveland, Killings Show Social Costs of Deterioration
The killings of three women near Cleveland exposed how a city that is proud of its downtown business revival and world-class cultural and medical institutions continues to harbor pockets of despair.
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Health
Black-White Divide Persists in Breast Cancer
Breast cancer survival is, over all, three years shorter for black women compared with white women, because they receive lower quality treatment and their cancer is more advanced when they first seek medical care, new research shows.
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Arts
The Plan to Swallow Midtown
Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for East Midtown, which would add giant new buildings without upgrading streets and subways, would only set New York City back.
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Travel
A QE2 Hotel May Ply the Waters
QE2 Holdings announced plans to convert the Queen Elizabeth 2, one of the world’s most storied ocean liners, into a floating hotel, most likely in Hong Kong or Singapore.
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Health
Don’t Shift Payments by Medicare, Panel Says
A group from the National Academy of Sciences said Congress should not create a “value index” to funnel Medicare money to areas that provide high-quality services at relatively low cost.
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U.S.
Judge Blocks North Dakota Abortion Restrictions
A federal judge issued an injunction against what would have been the most stringent limits on abortion in the country, calling them “invalid and unconstitutional.”
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Style
The Half-Life of the Divorced Parent
In the years since my divorce, I’ve grown used to our shared custody arrangement, but I’ve never fully accepted how estranged I’ve become from my daughters’ other life.
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Business Day
Drug Companies Promise More Data Transparency
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N.Y. / Region
Bloomberg Vetoes Measures for Police Monitor and Lawsuits
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, setting up possible override votes, rejected bills that he called “dangerous and irresponsible.”
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Business Day
Dell Considered Novel Tax Strategy in Buyout
Dell was presented with a twist on the practice of corporations moving overseas to take advantage of lower taxes but thought it would create image problems.
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Business Day
A Carbon Tax by Any Other Name
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World
Indonesia: 60 Missing in Sinking of Refugees’ Boat to Australia
A boat carrying as many as 170 people believed to be asylum seekers bound for Australia has sunk off the south coast of Indonesia, the Australian news media reported Wednesday.
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N.Y. / Region
The Real Beauty Within
Metropolitan Diary: A subway rider was silently noting a woman’s physical appearance, but her kindness showed what was more important.
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U.S.
Students Recall Special Schools Run Like Jails
Boarding schools that are part of a “tough love” network based in Utah are coming under fire for accusations that the troubled youth in their care were routinely abused.
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Opinion
Living Apart Together
Readers discuss a timeless question in response to a column by Frank Bruni.
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