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Health
For First Time, Baby Cured of H.I.V., Doctors Say
If further study shows the procedure works in other infants, it could lead to more aggressive treatment of babies infected at birth and a sharp reduction in the number of children living with H.I.V.
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N.Y. / Region
After 24 Years, Awaiting End to the Silence
New York City has yet to explain what led to the wrongful convictions of five teenagers in the Central Park jogger case.
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Opinion
The Feminization of Farming
Women are producing ever more food, but not reaping enough gains.
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.A Stealth Tax Subsidy for Business Faces New Scrutiny
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH and LOUISE STORY
Tax-exempt bonds, targeted for elimination in the 1980s, have not only
endured, but grown, in what amounts to a large corporate giveaway
costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Opinion
Bloody Sunday, Revisited
Marching in Selma, in 1965 and again this week, in the struggle for voting rights.
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Opinion
Main Street Gets the Gun News From Washington
Hope is fading fast for a ban on the type of bullet-spraying assault rifle that took the lives of 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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Opinion
Bleeding the Borrower Dry
Regulators need to crack down on payday lenders’ raiding checking accounts.
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World
Spill in China Underlines Environmental Concerns
A conflict over a recent chemical spill at a factory has drawn attention to growing problems with environmental degradation and officials’ reluctance to take on polluters.
There are and will be a great many sick and dying Chinese.
I would like to sell small hand powered reverse osmosis filtration units there. They are made for lifeboat service.
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Opinion
Helping Homeless Veterans
An official with the Doe Fund calls for more assistance for women who suffered trauma in the military.
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Fashion & Style
Bright Lights, Big City (Redux)
Gavin Doyle went from fresh-faced kid to night-life fixture in the time it took the doorman to lift the velvet rope.
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Arts
A Museum’s Games Are Not on Pedestals
The 14 video games the Museum of Modern Art acquired in November are on display in a new installation.
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U.S.
As Hacking Against U.S. Rises, Experts Try to Pin Down Motive
Motives for a cyberattack, which could range from industrial spying to disabling the power grid, remain obscure.
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Business Day
Where Should I Invest Invest My Marketing Dollars?
The owner of a kitchen and bathroom remodeling company asks where he should put his marketing dollars. Social media? Google AdWords? Or print and radio?Is Answering Your Customers’ Questions the Best Marketing Strategy?
By YOU'RE THE BOSS EDITORS
Why don’t more businesses do what worked for Marcus Sheridan?
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Books
The Sound of Silence
Katherine Bouton explores the experience, and the science, of hearing loss.
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Opinion
Francis Lieber and the Law of War
The German immigrant who defined the modern rules of fighting.
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World
Long Border, Endless Struggle
Is the United States-Mexican border better secured than it used to be? Answering this question is complex, much like the 1,954-mile boundary itself.
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Opinion
Stubbing Out Cigarettes for Good
We’ve done a good job of reducing smoking rates. Now it’s time to finish the job.
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N.Y. / Region
Jane C. Wright, Pioneering Oncologist, Dies at 93
As a black woman, Dr. Wright was an unusual presence in medical institutions, but she said she never felt she was a victim of racial prejudice.
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Business Day
Rise Reported in Factories and Consumer Confidence
Several statistical reports pointed to a broadly strengthening economy in spite of scheduled government spending cuts and tax increases.
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Health
In Medical First, a Baby With H.I.V. Is Deemed Cured
Glad to see.
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Opinion
Sustainable Seafood - Seas Optional
Fisheries experts discuss ways to sustain seafood harvests as human numbers and appetites surge.
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N.Y. / Region
After 24 Years, Awaiting End to the Silence
Law enforcement likes to win.
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Technology
New Openness From Chinese Telecom Giant
Huawei, like many Chinese companies, has offered scant access to its decision makers. But now the company has begun accommodating demands for greater transparency as it goes after Western markets.
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Opinion
The Feminization of Farming
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
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Opinion
Bleeding the Borrower Dry
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Opinion
Helping Homeless Veterans
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U.S.
G.O.P. Clings to One Thing It Agrees On: Spending Cuts
As many Republicans soften their stance on social issues, including same-sex marriage and immigration, the only issue truly uniting the party is a commitment to shrinking government.
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Technology
Q&A: Making a Phone-to-PC Bluetooth Connection
If both devices are properly equipped, you should be able to connect your smartphone and your Windows 7 computer with Bluetooth link to share files.
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Business Day
Rise Reported in Factories and Consumer Confidence
Recovery in U.S. Is Lifting Profits, but Not Adding Jobs
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Experts estimate so-called budget sequestration could cost the country
about 700,000 jobs, but Wall Street doesn’t expect the cuts to
substantially alter corporate profits or threaten stock markets.
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N.Y. / Region
After 24 Years, Awaiting End to the Silence
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Opinion
The Feminization of Farming
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
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Opinion
Bloody Sunday, Revisited
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Business Day
Tips for Disputing Credit Report Errors
If you lose a dispute over negative information in your credit report, you can still include a short statement on the report explaining the circumstances.
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N.Y. / Region
Developing Education Initiatives for City's Young Mexican Immigrants
A foundation’s efforts are progressing, with 17 proposals for preliminary grants now under review.
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Style
Pregnant Without a Policy in Graduate School
Do graduate schools, in medicine or anything else, support pregnant students, or leave them at the mercy of individual instructors?
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Opinion
Bleeding the Borrower Dry
Regulators need to crack down on payday lenders’ raiding checking accounts.
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U.S.
Cuts to Achieve Goal for Deficit, but Toll Is High
The latest budget impasse ushered in a new round of austerity, with the nation facing reduced federal services, canceled contracts and layoffs from cuts that reduce projected deficits but could hamper the economy.The Fever Swamp of the Center, Continued
I love Jonathan Chait’s
phrase “the fever swamp of the center”; it really is true that
self-identified centrists are sounding crazier and crazier, as they try
to reconcile their fanatical devotion to the proposition that both
parties are equally at fault with the distressing reality that Obama
actually advocates the policies they claim to want. And today’s WaPo editorial on the sequester
takes the fever to a new pitch. The editorial admits that Obama is
calling for exactly the polices the WaPo wants, while Republicans are
off the deep end in refusing to consider any revenue; but the piece is
nonetheless written as a criticism of Obama, because
Oh, and I can’t help reacting to this:
So yes, interest payments are projected to rise, which is not great.
But even a decade from now, they’re expected to be no higher than they
were when Bush the Elder was in the White House — not particularly
astonishing in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the
1930s.
So it’s all there: hyperventilating about the deficit, together with an absolute determination to blame both sides equally no matter how unbalanced they really are. And as Chait, Greg Sargent, and others say, this refusal to hold the worse parties accountable is in itself an important source of our political dysfunction."
Mr. Obama has presented entitlement reform as something he would do grudgingly, as a favor to the opposition, when he should be explaining to the American people — and to his party — why it is an urgent national need.Oh, Barack, you’re telling me what I want to hear, but you don’t sound as if you mean it! Is this policy analysis, or a lovers’ quarrel?
Oh, and I can’t help reacting to this:
Interest alone will have risen from $224 billion this year to an astonishing $857 billion 10 years from now, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.Is $857 billion really astonishing? The American economy is huge, and interest costs are currently very low, so some perspective might be in order. Let’s look at interest as a percentage of GDP:
So it’s all there: hyperventilating about the deficit, together with an absolute determination to blame both sides equally no matter how unbalanced they really are. And as Chait, Greg Sargent, and others say, this refusal to hold the worse parties accountable is in itself an important source of our political dysfunction."
Cockroaches at the European Commission
I’ve written several times about cockroach ideas
in economics — ideas that you try to flush away, but keep coming back.
(Are cockroach ideas the same as zombie ideas? Not quite, I would say; I
think of cockroach ideas as misconceptions held because the people
holding them are just unaware of basic facts, while zombie ideas are
held by people who refuse to acknowledge contrary evidence).
Anyway, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard catches Olli Rehn with a cockroach:
The
amazing thing is the way men who know neither theory nor the history of
previous crises are utterly convinced that they know what to do in our
current crisis; and how their confidence in their prescriptions has been
unaffected by the fact that they have been wrong about everything so
far. Of course, what’s even more amazing is the fact that these men are
actually running things."
Anyway, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard catches Olli Rehn with a cockroach:
While the tone is changing, there is no sign yet of a retreat from fiscal belt-tightening. “Given that average debt exceeds 90pc of GDP in the EU, I don’t think there’s any room for manoeuvre to leave the path of budgetary consolidation,” said EU economics chief Olli Rehn.Ah yes, the old “when Keynes wrote in the 1930s, governments weren’t deep in debt the way they are now” claim. Been there, done that:
“We won’t solve our growth problems by piling new debt on top of our old debt,” he said. Defying his critics, Mr Rehn said John Maynard Keynes himself would not be a Keynesian today’s circumstances.
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U.S.
Michigan: Governor Expected to Rule on Detroit
Gov. Rick Snyder is expected to announce on Friday whether he believes Detroit’s finances are so bleak as to require an overhaul from a state-appointed emergency manager.
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Education
National Attention and Cash in Los Angeles School Vote
After years of trying to curb the power of school boards, some advocates of overhaul are backing board candidates in the hope that they will support their causes.
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Education
Texas: Plan Would Reverse Some Cuts in School Funds
State budget writers on Thursday approved a $1.4 billion increase for public education in the first clear signal that the new Legislature may pour money back into public schools.
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Opinion
Obama's 'All of the Above' Energy and Environment Nominees
President Obama’s cabinet choices on environment and energy reflect his middle-path approach to governing.
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N.Y. / Region
After 24 Years, Awaiting End to the Silence
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Opinion
The Feminization of Farming
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
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Opinion
Bloody Sunday, Revisited
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Business Day
Tips for Disputing Credit Report Errors
If you lose a dispute over negative information in your credit report, you can still include a short statement on the report explaining the circumstances.
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N.Y. / Region
Developing Education Initiatives for City's Young Mexican Immigrants
A foundation’s efforts are progressing, with 17 proposals for preliminary grants now under review.
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Style
Pregnant Without a Policy in Graduate School
Do graduate schools, in medicine or anything else, support pregnant students, or leave them at the mercy of individual instructors?
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Business Day
Elliott on Hess' Proposal: 'Incomplete' and Lacking 'Accountability'
Elliott Management, the hedge fund leading a proxy fight against Hess, said in a statement that the oil company’s recently unveiled plans to shake itself up don’t go far enough to address management problems.
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Business Day
When Software Vendors Take Their Time
The business group considered what, if anything, Ms. Parker could do to address the problem at this late stage.
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World
Prime Minister Promises to End Thailand’s Ivory Trade
The announcement adds pressure on China to halt its legal ivory trade, which experts say has helped fuel the highest rate of African elephant poaching in decades.
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Opinion
Obama's 'All of the Above' Energy and Environment Nominees
President Obama’s cabinet choices on environment and energy reflect his middle-path approach to governing.
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Technology
New Openness From Chinese Telecom Giant
Huawei, like many Chinese companies, has offered scant access to its decision makers. But now the company has begun accommodating demands for greater transparency as it goes after Western markets.
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The following tax-exempt fixed-income issues are scheduled for pricing this week.
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N.Y. / Region
Developing Education Initiatives for City's Young Mexican Immigrants
A foundation’s efforts are progressing, with 17 proposals for preliminary grants now under review.
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Fashion & Style
Bright Lights, Big City (Redux)
Gavin Doyle went from fresh-faced kid to night-life fixture in the time it took the doorman to lift the velvet rope.
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Arts
A Museum’s Games Are Not on Pedestals
The 14 video games the Museum of Modern Art acquired in November are on display in a new installation.
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U.S.
G.O.P. Clings to One Thing It Agrees On: Spending Cuts
As many Republicans soften their stance on social issues, including same-sex marriage and immigration, the only issue truly uniting the party is a commitment to shrinking government.
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Style
Pregnant Without a Policy in Graduate School
Do graduate schools, in medicine or anything else, support pregnant students, or leave them at the mercy of individual instructors?
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Opinion
Stubbing Out Cigarettes for Good
We’ve done a good job of reducing smoking rates. Now it’s time to finish the job.
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Business Day
When Software Vendors Take Their Time
The business group considered what, if anything, Ms. Parker could do to address the problem at this late stage.
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Opinion
Francis Lieber and the Law of War
The German immigrant who defined the modern rules of fighting.
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World
Prime Minister Promises to End Thailand’s Ivory Trade
The announcement adds pressure on China to halt its legal ivory trade, which experts say has helped fuel the highest rate of African elephant poaching in decades.
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Opinion
'Equality First, Guns Afterward'
Why many Boston blacks refused to join the famed 54th Massachusetts.
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Booming
Married 38 Years, and He Says She Is Never Wrong
Alison and Bob found common ground in college and say love and humor have kept them together for 38 years.
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Business Day
Elliott on Hess' Proposal: 'Incomplete' and Lacking 'Accountability'
Elliott Management, the hedge fund leading a proxy fight against Hess, said in a statement that the oil company’s recently unveiled plans to shake itself up don’t go far enough to address management problems.
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Technology
Q&A: Making a Phone-to-PC Bluetooth Connection
If both devices are properly equipped, you should be able to connect your smartphone and your Windows 7 computer with Bluetooth link to share files.
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Style
Research: A.D.H.D. Remains a Problem for Adults
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder doesn’t just “go away” in adulthood.
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Business
A Boy Saved by Oskar Schindler: Memoir Will Tell the Story
Leon Leyson was 10 when the Germans invaded Poland, but was saved, along with some members of his family, by Oskar Schindler, who employed them in his factories.
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