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N.Y. / Region
Ready Access to Plan B Pills in City Schools
Through a patchwork of nurses’ offices and independent clinics at New York City schools, girls can get free emergency contraceptives.
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Fashion & Style
A Masculine Silhouette, Tailored for Her
More untraditional fashion brands and style blogs are catering to female customers who dress and act in ways traditionally associated with men.
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Health
Anxiety Lingers Long After Cancer
A new analysis finds that within two years of a cancer diagnosis, the pervasiveness of depression in patients and their spouses tends to drop back to roughly the same levels as in the general population, only to be replaced by another mind-demon: anxiety, which can even intensify as time passes.
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World
Step Right Up, Kids, the Predator Is Ready
In Russia, land of the risk taker, circuses routinely allow children to have their picture taken with dangerous animals.
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World
Differences on Cybertheft Complicate China Talks
The Obama administration’s hopes of persuading Chinese leaders to crack down on the daily barrage of theft and espionage over the Internet are likely to be difficult.
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U.S.
Racial Makeup of Red and Blue America
In the House of Representative, districts represented by Democrats are, together, only slightly more than half white and nearly one quarter Hispanic. Republican districts are roughly three-quarters white, and only one in nine residents is Hispanic.
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Business Day
Computer Snag Limits Insurance Penalties on Smokers
A software glitch involving the new health care law may mean that some smokers won’t bear the full brunt of tobacco-user penalties that could have made their premiums much higher, at least for the first year.
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World
Brazil’s Workers Take to Streets in One-Day Strike
The “National Day of Struggle,” organized by labor unions and focusing on issues like wages and benefits, disrupted ports and blocked some highways essential to commerce.
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Health
Blaming the Patient, Then Asking Forgiveness
In a TED talk that has struck a chord with many, Dr. Peter Attia admitted to something he believes many doctors may be guilty of. The compassion for overweight patients often may not be as deep as it is for those who are sick for other reasons.
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U.S.
Mayor of San Diego Apologizes Over Treatment of Women
Mayor Bob Filner refused to resign in response to sexual harassment accusations leveled by prominent allies.
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Business Day
Law Spoils Tobacco’s Taste, Australians Say
Sales figures are not available to help determine the effectiveness of an Australian law requiring graphic images on cigarette packages. But some smokers swear there has been a change in the tobacco.
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Health
Depression Alters Young Brains
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers have found brain changes in preschool-age children with depression that are not apparent in their nondepressed peers.
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U.S.
Missouri Set Aside Too Much to Cover Cost of Disasters in 2011
Disasters cost the state $36 million, a lot less than the $150 million that Gov. Jay Nixon set aside. Legislative budget leaders said that the money was an unnecessary budget manipulation.
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Multimedia
The Sweet Sounds of Endangered Birds
Pivoting from combat photography to photographing song birds, David Guttenfelder contends that other species need a voice too.
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Science
Genetic Differences That Let Octopods Flourish
Hemocyanin, a protein that delivers oxygen to the tissues of octopods, has different genetic properties in different climates, researchers find.
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Opinion
My Life, Post Exposure
If the drugs worked, I would never know if I might have been infected with H.I.V. or not.
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Arts
Tower and Cell, Signifying Much More Than a Prison
The new National African American Museum for History and Culture has acquired two relics of the Angola penitentiary in Louisiana, which has historical roots in slavery.
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U.S.
Young Immigrants Stage Citizenship Ceremony at the Capitol
Four hundred young immigrants held their own version of a citizenship ceremony, as part of a campaign to push legislation through the House that would offer citizenship to millions of undocumented immigrants.
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Business Day
Diverging Debate at Fed on When to End Stimulus
Although more Fed officials want the bond-buying program to end sooner, Ben S. Bernanke, the central bank’s chairman, said the overall policy would remain unchanged.
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