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Opinion
Family-Friendly Socialism and its Discontents
What Americans can learn from the consequences, good and bad, of France’s pro-family policies.
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Business Day
The Artificial Heart Is Getting a Bovine Boost
Fifteen years in development, a new artificial heart that is fashioned in part from cow tissue is soon to be tested in human patients.
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World
Hyderabad Debates Health Insurance Model As Public Hospitals Decay
As India’s public hospitals struggle with decaying infrastructure, Andhra Pradesh debates a populist health insurance program.
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Business Day
When an Executive Turns Buyout Adviser, Alarm Bells Go Off
In its bid to buy Gardner Denver, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts hired the company’s former chief, Barry Pennypacker, to provide advice, raising questions of fairness.
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Technology
The Pros and Cons of a Surveillance Society
As we prepare to enter a world of wearable, camera-equipped computers, do we want to live under a system that might ensure justice for all, yet privacy for none?
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World
Spain’s Slow-Moving Scandal Edges Closer to the Top
Allegations that Spain’s leadership has for years enriched itself with a secret slush fund are becoming harder to ignore, deepening the nation’s sense of distrust and disillusionment.
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Business Day
Baidu to Pay $1.9 Billion for Chinese App Store Operator
Baidu, China’s leading search engine company, said Tuesday it reached a preliminary deal to acquire 91 Wireless, a major mobile app developer and app store operator in China.
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Opinion
The E-Book Price-Fixing Conspiracy
Apple’s pact with publishers raised prices in the short term, but it also brought much-needed competition to the marketplace.
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Opinion
Further Protection for Antarctica
The United States and New Zealand have put forward excellent proposals to create two major marine reserves in Antarctica.
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Science
A High-Tech Menagerie
Even before cloning and genetic tinkering, scientists have long meddled with animals, and it appears the benefits may outweigh the ethical quandaries.
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Business Day
Why Barnes & Noble Is Good for Amazon
Having a bookstore in your neighborhood, as opposed to one that is bookmarked on your browser, is an invitation.
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Opinion
Men on the Threshold
“The Searchers,” a 1956 western starring John Wayne, provides a poignant motif for the challenge facing unemployed men today.
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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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Science
Can Plants Get Cancer?
Tumors in plants, unlike those in animals, do not metastasize and generally have external causes like damage or a fungus or bacterium.
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World
Court Ruling Deals a Blow to China’s Labor-Camp System
For some legal experts, the ruling provided more evidence that the Communist Party is preparing to modify a Mao-era extralegal judicial system that has become increasingly untenable.
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N.Y. / Region
Bloomberg’s Traffic Ideas: First the World, Then, Maybe, the City
The New York City mayor has been hindered from accomplishing many of his local goals, but has been successful in improving overseas transportation safety in places like India, Egypt and Brazil.
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Science
A Cholesterol Breakthrough and Sharp Sharks
Recent developments in health and science news. This week: a lizard preserved 23 million years in amber and NASA mulls another mission to Mars.
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N.Y. / Region
In the Business of Death, but Never Living in Fear of It
Richard J. Moylan reflected on his decades spent at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, where he is the president, and on the many souls who rest there.
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World
As Mystery Illness Stalks Its Young, India Intensifies Search for a Killer
A brain swelling that is infecting the country’s youth, throwing them into comas and killing seemingly healthy children, often within hours, has stumped the country’s physicians.
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