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Opinion
When ‘Super PACs’ Become Lobbyists
Combining unlimited spending on elections with issue advocacy is a dangerous escalation.
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Business Day
Lundberg Farms Responds to Reader Comments
The only way forward, Tim Schultz, a third-generation Lundberg said, is to continue sharing information and conducting research into mitigation strategies.
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Health
Turning a Home Into a Hospital
The idea of hospice care in one's home is overwhelming, but it can bring its own rewards, too.
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Health
Weight Loss Surgery May Not Combat Diabetes Long-Term
Many obese Type 2 diabetics who undergo gastric bypass surgery do not experience a remission of diabetes, and of those that do, about a third redevelop diabetes within five years of their operation.
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Business Day
New Sources of Energy Sought for Britain's Future
A new energy bill is aimed at encouraging investment in new types of power to replace a generation of aging power plants. But experts and officials are split on how best to do this.
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Business Day
The Growing Burden of Payroll Taxes
Though they are regressive, payroll taxes have accounted for an increasing share of federal tax revenues in recent decades, and it is time to find alternatives, an economist writes.
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Health
New Efforts to Close Hospitals' Revolving Doors
Spurred by new financial penalties that Medicare started imposing in October on places with too many readmissions, hospitals are doing more outreach and intervention to make sure patients are following their discharge program.
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Health
Really? Breathing Exercises Can Relieve Asthma
Some exercises, like hyperventilation-reduction techniques and yoga breathing exercises, can help asthmatics, a comprehensive review finds.
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Style
How Children Subsidize 'Low, Low Prices'
Adolescents from households headed by a low-income worker are more likely to drop out of school, to be obese, and to take on adult roles too young.
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U.S.
Justice Dept. to Investigate the Police in Albuquerque
The investigation will focus on allegations that officers used excessive force — including unreasonable deadly force — when dealing with civilians.
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N.Y. / Region
Plan Would Provide Help to Contest Deportation Cases
A task force has recommended the creation of a network of legal service providers to represent low-income immigrants facing deportation in the New York area.
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U.S.
Educator Aided Others at Cheating, U.S. Charges
Prosecutors are investigating an educator who they say ran a test cheating ring in three Southern states for individuals who wanted to pass standardized teacher certification exams.
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Science
Bidding Farewell to the Jewel of the Lotus
The expedition is over. Now comes the analysis. If scientists can use the record of past mountain glaciation to determine how past climate changes have influenced mountain snowline altitudes, it will be easier to anticipate how rapidly the snowpack will diminish with future warming.
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Opinion
The Power of Failure
Taking a cue from Silicon Valley, nonprofits are learning to use their failures as an integral part of the process of innovation and, ultimately, progress.
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U.S.
Justices Consider Definition of Supervisor in Job Discrimination Case
The Supreme Court also cleared the way for further challenges to aspects of the health care law and rejected an appeal concerning the insanity defense.
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Opinion
Scottexalonia Rising
People are bored. They want to be cyberglobal and hyper-local, world citizens with the passports of microstates.
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U.S.
California Finds Economic Gloom Starting to Lift
After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence in its future, California is showing the first signs of a rebound.California is far from healthy. Things are some better than they were.
That can change.
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U.S.
States Want to Have Say During Talks Over Budget
With their states still recovering from the recession, governors say they fear that talks in Washington to avert the so-called fiscal cliff will actually lead to deep cuts.
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N.Y. / Region
The Mysterious Mr. Rechnitz
Joshua Rechnitz, the philanthropist who pledged to build a bicycling velodrome in Brooklyn Bridge Park, is planning to turn an abandoned powerhouse into artist studios.
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Books
Some Scholars Reject Dark Portrait of Jefferson
Henry Wiencek, author of a new book on Thomas Jefferson, fends off academic critics on several sides, even as his work gets glowing reviews from nonspecialists..
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