European finance ministers cut
Greece’s interest rates and gave it more time to pay back rescue
loans while dismissing for now calls for debt relief that may be
needed to keep the country afloat over the longer term.
This will not work.
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Business Day
Study Questions Tax Breaks' Effect on Retirement Savings
Every year, the government spends more than $100 billion on tax breaks to encourage Americans to save more for retirement. But a new study suggests such provisions may have little effect on the amount Americans save.
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Opinion
Exploring Urban Coastlines and Rising Seas
Drivers and implications of coastal losses in a warming world.“Is This the End?”
“Rising Seas, Vanishing Coastlines”
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Opinion
An 83-Second History of 20 Years of Climate Diplomacy
A short guide to a prolonged negotiation over how to limit the human influence on the earth's climate.
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Opinion
When ‘Grading’ Is Degrading
So far, education “reform” has given us little but re-segregation and the same dismal scores in math and science.
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World
Pressure Grows on Egyptian Leader After Judicial Decree
President Mohamed Morsi defended his decree, but his justice minister argued for a retreat to defuse an escalating battle between Egypt’s new Islamist leaders and its old government.
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Business Day
Anchors Quit on Air, but Reason Is Unclear
The co-anchors for WVII and WFVX in Bangor, Me., cited journalistic independence as the reason for quitting Tuesday, but the general manager of both stations said one of the two was to be fired.
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World
Divisive Election in Spain’s Catalonia Gives Win to Separatist Parties
The victory raised the likelihood that Spain’s most powerful economic region will hold an independence referendum that Madrid has vowed to block.
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Business Day
Health Insurance Exchanges May Be Too Small to Succeed
Paradoxically, an increase in competition among insurers may lead to higher reimbursements and health care spending, and thus higher premiums, particularly when the medical provider market is not very competitive, three economists write.
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World
Police Arrest Suspects in Tel Aviv Bus Blast, Including Israeli Citizen
An Arab with Israeli citizenship and several West Bank Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of carrying out the bus bombing in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, according to security officials.
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World
Pakistan Cuts Back on Cellphone Coverage
The government is suspending coverage in many cities this weekend, after a series of bomb attacks set off by cellphones.
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Business Day
Britain to Encourage Both Nuclear and Wind Power
The plan is intended to keep the government on track in meeting its goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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N.Y. / Region
Many Cemeteries Damaged, but Green-Wood Bore the Brunt of the Storm
Operators of other major cemeteries in New York reported downed trees and some structural damage, but nothing of the magnitude of Green-Wood's loss.
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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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World
France: Sarkozy Questioned Over Campaign Funds
Former President Nicolas Sarkozy was put under caution as a witness who could face charges related to accusations that his 2007 election campaign received illegal donations.
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Business Day
For Martha Stewart’s New Fans, Tattoos Meet Appliqué
Martha Stewart’s focus on artisanal products has attracted a cult following among 20- and 30-somethings who have begun their own businesses around crafts and food.
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Science
Effort to Curb Coolant Falters, Sometimes at Home
The United States has pressed poor countries to pick up the pace in eliminating the harmful HCFC-22, but it still has 140 million central air units running on the gas.
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Opinion
An Imperfect God
The "perfect" God that philosophers have tried and failed to establish is nowhere to be found. Not even in the Bible.
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Business Day
Hatching Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens at M.I.T.
Dr. Robert Langer’s lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on the front lines of turning discoveries into drugs and drug delivery systems.
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Health
Help by the Hour, or Less
Mission Healthcare in San Diego, Calif., decided that clients should be able to specify how much help they want in 15-minute increments.
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Health
Aiding the Doctor Who Feels Cancer's Toll
Doctors who care for the terminally ill may find themselves sharing their patients' pain and facing burnout from the stresses of their jobs..
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