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Science
DNA Buried 7,000 Centuries Is Retrieved
The genome is 10 times as old as any retrieved so far, and scientists now say that DNA should be recoverable from animals that lived a million years ago.
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Your Money
How the Court’s Ruling Will Affect Same-Sex Spouses
Married gay couples in states that recognize their unions will gain access to more than 1,000 federal benefits, but how couples in other states will fare is less clear.
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World
In China, Losing Sleep Over Choice of Schools
For some Beijing parents, picking a high school for their children is a high-stakes dilemma full of trade-offs and questions about how Western and how Chinese they want their offspring to be.
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World
Rare Visit Underscores Tangles in Obama’s Ties to Africa
President Obama’s aspirations for changing Africa have been strained by mounting security threats, spotty human rights records and by his notable absence from the continent where his father was born.
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Business Day
Counterfeit Food More Widespread Than Suspected
Investigators have uncovered thousands of schemes involving counterfeit or adulterated food, some on an industrial scale and in developed countries.
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N.Y. / Region
Housekeeper in New Jersey Accuses Peruvian Diplomat of Human Trafficking
A Peruvian woman says she was entrapped in a life of involuntary servitude in the New Jersey suburbs, forced to work as many as 16 hours a day, 7 days a week for little or no compensation.
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Business Day
Mandatory Federal Cuts Hurt Private Sector, Too
Many companies providing support services are cutting employees as work vanishes after federal spending was trimmed by $85 billion on March 1.
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Health
How Carbs Can Trigger Food Cravings
Sugary foods and drinks, white bread and other processed carbohydrates appear to stimulate parts of the brain involved in hunger, craving and reward, which may explain why they might drive some people to overeat.
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Business Day
Azerbaijan Gas to Take a Southern Route
Developers of an Azeri natural gas field have decided to build a pipeline to Europe that would end in Italy rather than Austria.
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Business Day
G.D.P. Estimate Lowered To 1.8% for First Quarter
The revision lowered an initial estimate of a 2.4 percent expansion of the gross domestic product, with most of the change attributed to slower growth in consumer spending.
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N.Y. / Region
Lost? New York Pedestrian Maps Are Coming
The city’s Transportation Department plans to install in the subways and on sidewalks a network of direction-oriented maps to help visitors, and even New Yorkers, find their way.
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N.Y. / Region
2 Garbagemen Leave Jobs After Taking Tips of $5
The workers were each fined $2,000 and retired from New York City’s Sanitation Department rather than face potential disciplinary action for running afoul of departmental policy.
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Opinion
The True Deservers of a Food Prize
The real heroes in the world of food are those who work to improve the kind of low-input agriculture on which most people rely.
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Real Estate
Chinese Investors Pursue U.S. Property Deals
Chinese investors have been buying marquee commercial properties in New York and other American cities, in many cases encouraged and aided by the Chinese government.
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Opinion
The End of Fannie and Freddie?
Congress has a plan to put them out of business once and for all. Then what?
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Business Day
Same-Sex Marriage and Personal Finances: Further Reading
A roundup of past coverage from the Bucks blog and elsewhere in The Times about the particular financial issues facing same-sex couples.
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Style
Can Baby-Making Really Wait?
Maybe the real statistics regarding the odds of becoming pregnant after 35 are more optimistic than we realized—but if you’re among those who don’t conceive easily, that’s cold comfort.
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World
A Stakeout Grinds On in Airport Limbo
The airport transit area where Edward J. Snowden is believed to be planning his next move is being patrolled by people hoping to get a glimpse of him.
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Autos
Wheelies: The Let's Sit Down and Talk Edition
N.H.T.S.A. will sit down with critics of its handling of the Chrysler recall, and New York legislators table a bill that could affect Tesla’s business in the state.
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Opinion
Summer Discontents — and More to Come?
What will the world look like if 4 billion people ever turn against the current political systems?
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Technology
Don't Forget the Small Ideas That Make a Difference
Not every useful product has to be a big deal. From a replacement charging cable to suction cups that help prop your gadgets, the little stuff can still be important.
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Opinion
Kerry Proposes U.S.-India Push on Carbon and Climate
Secretary of State John Kerry keeps the pressure on India to join in efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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Booming
A Son of the Holocaust Buys German
For years, a battle between the need to fill the holes in the family narrative during World War II and a duty to keep silent.
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Science
Studying Tumors Differently, in Hopes of Outsmarting Them
To understand why drug resistance often causes targeted cancer therapies to fail, geneticists have teamed up with mathematicians to create detailed models of cancer.
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Technology
Silicon Valley Luminaries Bet on Clinkle, a Payments Start-Up
Clinkle, a new stealthy mobile payments start-up, has raised $25 million, hoping to succeed where so many other efforts have fizzled by inventing a practical way to replace credit cards with smartphones.
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Business Day
Business Venture, and Friendship, Sours After Insider Conviction
A year after being convicted of insider trading, Rajat Gupta is embroiled in a dispute over a private equity fund he helped found.
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Health
Life, Interrupted: Unkept Resolutions
When I learned I had cancer at the age of 22, my life and my resolution-making were interrupted. There was no time or space to stress over something as small as a three-day juice cleanse or a daily exercise program. Surviving my next cycle of chemotherapy became my singular concern.
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N.Y. / Region
2 Garbagemen Leave Jobs After Taking Tips of $5
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Health
The Gulf Between Doctors and Nurse Practitioners
Nurse practitioners believe that they can lead primary care practices and admit patients to a hospital and that they deserve to earn the same amount as doctors for the same work. Physicians disagree.
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