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Fashion & Style
Love, Light, Strength (and Glue)
When a mantra no longer helps to put the pieces back together, time and patience do.
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Opinion
Where Do Old Cellphones Go to Die?
E-waste is a growing toxic nightmare. And it’s not just a problem in developing countries.
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Business Day
To Fight Pandemics, Reward Research
An outbreak of avian flu in Asia raises questions about national preparedness for pandemics. A reward system for medical innovators would be a step in the right direction, an economist says.
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Business Day
Cross-Country Solar Plane Expedition Set for Takeoff
The Solar Impulse, a plane with the wingspan of a 747, is the creation of a Swiss team working on fuel-free flight.
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Health
Overweight Patients, Overweight Doctors: Readers Weigh In
There’s been much discussion this week on Well about weight in the doctor’s office. As usual, our readers had a lot to say.
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Opinion
A Child’s Wild Kingdom
Why do our kids still have imaginary animal friends, and does it matter how real the connection is?
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Business Day
Management, to the Barricades!
Bylaws amendments have been coming fast and furious as the CommonWealth REIT tries to fend off two big shareholders intent on change.
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Fashion & Style
Urban Gardening: An Appleseed With Attitude
Ron Finley is a crusader for planting vegetable gardens in urban areas.
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U.S.
State Sale of 100 Longhorns Stirs Debate, and Proposed Law, on the Breed’s Future
State Representative Charles Anderson has filed a bill to bar Texas Parks and Wildlife from further reducing the Big Bend herd.
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Business Day
Scrutiny Falls on a Pioneer at JPMorgan
Blythe Masters, who helped pioneer the use of credit derivatives, is cited in a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission document looking at the bank’s trading in the California and Michigan electricity markets.
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U.S.
Foreign Students to Face New Checks at U.S. Borders
The Department of Homeland Security ordered changes after finding that Azamat Tazhayakov, a friend of the surviving suspect in the Boston bombings, used a visa that should have been canceled.
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N.Y. / Region
Federal Suit Claims Police Distort Marijuana Searches to Create Misdemeanors
A lawsuit says that New York City police officers routinely stop black and Latino men without cause and then charge them with low-level misdemeanors when small amounts of marijuana are found.
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Education
Figuring Out How to Give Teachers Useful Feedback
While Texas legislators and educators agree that better methods are needed for teacher assessment, the question of tying evaluations to test scores is a sticking point.
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Opinion
Attention Deficit Drugs
Dr. Vivien Chan, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, responds to a news article about new rules on college campuses regarding the drugs.
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Business Day
A New Fed Thought for 'Too Big to Fail' Banks: Shrink Them
Daniel K. Tarullo, a governor at the Federal Reserve, described a measure aimed at requiring the biggest banks to hold extra capital. Many might prefer to become smaller banks instead.
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World
Financially Strapped Bharti Airtel Sells Stake to Qatar
India’s largest mobile phone company, by subscribers, has a huge debt load and has not turned a profit in Africa.
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U.S.
Showing Grass-Roots Support for Immigration Overhaul
The May Day gatherings were intended to show Congress that momentum is building in favor of a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.
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