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Health
No Easy Choices on Breast Reconstruction
While a recent article by Angelina Jolie about her mastectomy and reconstruction raised awareness, it may have left the impression that the surgeries are quick and easy procedures, some doctors fear.
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Opinion
On Suicide, Does Density Disprove Durkheim?
Do state-by-state suicide numbers prove that communal ties don’t influence suicide rates?
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Health
V.A. Warns Aging Veterans Against 'Pension Poachers'
Questionable financial tactics are one reason for the enormous backlog of applications for a caregiving benefit, officials claim.
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Opinion
What Our Words Tell Us
Gradual shifts in language use over the centuries reflect tectonic shifts in culture.
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Opinion
The Outrageous Cost of a Gene Test
When we can sequence 20,000 genes for $1,000, why should it cost nearly $4,000 to analyze just two?
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Opinion
Kids (and Teachers) in Peril, From Oklahoma to Oregon
Why do communities fail to secure the buildings that house their children against momentous hazards?
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Opinion
There Was a Time When Ending Hunger Was a National Goal for Republicans and Democrats
Proposed cuts to food stamps are a sad retreat from American values.
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Business Day
A Season of Families, Vampires and Aliens
After a lackluster 2012-13 season, network television is relying on family related comedies and the supernatural to attract viewers.
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Business Day
New Drug May Help Some Asthmatics, Study Finds
The number of asthma attacks or other outbreaks of symptoms decreased by 87 percent in those getting the drug, Dupilumab, compared with those getting a placebo.
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U.S.
Arizona Law on Abortions Struck Down as Restrictive
The law made the procedure illegal if performed about 18 weeks after fertilization, earlier than the time recognized by Supreme Court precedents.
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Health
Can Statins Cut the Benefits of Exercise?
An important new study suggests that statins, the cholesterol-lowering medications that are the most prescribed drugs in the world, may block some of the fitness benefits of exercise, one of the surest ways to improve health.
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World
China: New Bird Flu Virus Is Controlled, Officials Say
The H7N9 virus appears under control in China largely through restrictions at bird markets, but it caused $6.5 billion in losses, United Nations experts said Tuesday.
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World
Muslims Linked to Riots Given Prison Terms in Myanmar
A prominent Muslim questioned why Muslims had been prosecuted when human rights groups agreed that most of the violence had been carried out by Buddhists.
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Science
Oyster Shells Are an Antacid to the Oceans
Decomposing oyster shells, made of calcium carbonate, act like an antacid pill and help generate alkalinity in the increasingly acidic oceans, a study finds.
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Business Day
Trash Burning, With a Clean-Energy Twist
Poland, pushed by E.U. directives to change the way it deals with waste, is adopting a Canadian technology that allows energy to be created through the burning of trash.
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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
Suburbs’ Share of Poor Has Grown Since 2000
The poverty rate in New York City and Newark declined over the last decade, but the suburbs have gotten poorer.
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Business Day
The Giant of Shareholders, Quietly Stirring
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions about companies in which it has stakes.
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Business Day
Sometimes, Customers Want You to Charge More
One parent told the owner of Thinking Caps, a tutoring company, that she would not be taken seriously until she raised her prices.
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Business Day
What’s ‘Pro-Business’?
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Technology
Q&A: Paying Extra for Phone Freedom
Skipping the carrier subsidy and paying full price for an unlocked smartphone may cost more up front, but frees up those who want to buy inexpensive local service plans when traveling internationally.
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Business Day
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
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N.Y. / Region
Suburbs’ Share of Poor Has Grown Since 2000
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Multimedia
Societal Ills Spike In Crisis-Stricken Greece
In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population — whose unemployment numbers are soaring — who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape.
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Opinion
Invitation to a Dialogue: Benefits of Talk Therapy
A psychiatrist says psychotherapy can be a potent treatment for serious mental illnesses. Readers are invited to reply.
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World
After Decades of Neglect, Pakistan Rusts in Its Tracks
A journey across Pakistan’s crumbling railway presents a picture of the country’s troubles: natural disasters and hardened insurgencies, abject poverty and feudal kleptocrats, and an economy near meltdown.
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World
Egypt: Security Forces Fire on Funeral
Egyptian officials say soldiers and police officers mistakenly fired on a Bedouin funeral in the Sinai Peninsula during a search for kidnapped security personnel.
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Opinion
China’s Brutal One-Child Policy
In China, the rich can pay a fine and have a second child. The poor face menstrual monitoring and state-mandated abortions.
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Opinion
The Civil War's Oratorical Wunderkind
The story of Anna Dickinson, a pro-war Quaker turned master of the political stump speech.
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U.S.
Seeing Transparency as a Burden
Lawmakers got to Austin in January promising all sorts of disclosures that would shine new light on conflicts and punish bad behavior. Much of that was jettisoned.
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Business Day
African-Americans See Debt Reduction as Top Priority
African-Americans have higher levels of debt, including student loan debt, a survey finds.
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Business Day
For the Word on the Street, Courts Call Up an Online Witness
Courts are looking to Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced Web site, as one way to define words on which a case may turn.
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