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Opinion
Race to the Top
Brazil’s universities follow some of the most radical affirmative action measures in the West, but too little is done against inequality in its primary and secondary schools.
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U.S.
South Carolina: Sex Surgery Unnecessary, Lawsuit Alleges
A Southern legal advocacy group has claimed in a lawsuit that the State of South Carolina should not have surgically altered a 16-month-old child in its custody.
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N.Y. / Region
Lawyer Criticizes Brooklyn Prosecutor Over TV Show
A lawyer sought an injunction to prevent a CBS series about the office of the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, from including anything about his client, a landlord charged after a fatal fire.
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Opinion
Cyberbullied Businesses
A United Steelworkers official says the taxes on corporate profits sheltered in offshore no-tax havens could be used to fight cyberattacks from countries like China.
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N.Y. / Region
A Conflict Is Seen in a Review of a Detective’s Conduct
Some say the Brooklyn district attorney should step aside from its investigation of Louis Scarcella, a detective who has been accused of putting at least one innocent man in prison.
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Business Day
J.&J. Unit Phasing Out All-Metal Hip Devices
Johnson & Johnson faces a wave of lawsuits from patients who say they were injured when all-metal implants sold by the company failed.
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World
China: Refinery Proposal Draws Protests
More than 2,000 people in the southwestern city of Kunming unfurled banners and shouted, “Protest! Protest!” in a demonstration on Thursday against plans for a petroleum refinery.
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U.S.
Eclipsing D.C. in Home Stretch of Legislature
As the legislative session nears its end, lawmakers are getting better grades than their Congressional counterparts, at least in deportment.
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N.Y. / Region
A Politician's Disclosure Offers a Lesson in Eating Disorders
The experience of Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and mayoral candidate, illustrates why bulimia cannot be summed up simply as dieting taken to an extreme.
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U.S.
New Fracking Rules Proposed for U.S. Land
The proposal, which would allow some drilling fluids to be kept secret, did not please environmental advocates or the oil and gas industry.
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U.S.
States Urged to Cut Limit on Alcohol for Drivers
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that states reduce the allowable blood-alcohol content to 0.05 percent, instead of the current 0.08 percent.
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Health
No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet
Health experts for the government say there is no good reason for many Americans to keep sodium consumption below 2,300 milligrams a day, as national dietary guidelines advise.
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U.S.
A Focus on Border Security and Temporary Visas as Senators Return to Immigration
The Senate Judiciary Committee continued to plow through amendments to an immigration overhaul bill on Tuesday, revisiting border security provisions before moving on to measures related to temporary guest worker programs.
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N.Y. / Region
Judge Orders Extension of Hotel Program for Hurricane Sandy Evacuees
The ruling provides a reprieve from the May 31 deadline for about 900 people who remain in 45 hotels.
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World
Why Indian Elites Like to Call Themselves 'Middle Class'
Policies for the so-called middle class end up benefiting the rich at the expense of the poor, the author argues.
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N.Y. / Region
With Security, Trade Center Faces New Isolation
Planners and residents of Lower Manhattan imagined a new World Trade Center that would be integrated in the neighborhood, but now they fear that security measures will keep it isolated as ever.
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Technology
Drones Take Off in Silicon Valley
Even before American skies are open to commercially operated drones, a drone start-up called Airware plans to announce Wednesday that it has raised $10.7 million in a financing round led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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