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Opinion
Sunday Dialogue: Can Suburbs Help Cities?
Readers discuss taking a regional approach to reviving Detroit.
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Real Estate
Real Estate Q & A
This week’s subjects include a rent-stabilized tenant being urged to buy; a proposal by co-op shareholders to renovate outdoor space; and a lawsuit over building flaws.
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Arts
A Star Philosopher Falls, and a Debate Over Sexism Is Set Off
The case of Colin McGinn, who had agreed to leave his post at the University of Miami after allegations of sexual harassment, has drawn scrutiny to the field.
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U.S.
G.O.P. Push to Slash Food Stamps Puts Farm Bill in Jeopardy
A plan by House leaders to cut $40 billion from the food stamp program threatens to derail efforts by the House and Senate to complete a farm bill before agriculture programs expire on Sept. 30.
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Sunday Review
Life in a Toxic Country
My wife and I worry about how China’s bad air and food will affect our child.
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Sunday Review
A Washington Riddle: What Is ‘Top Secret’?
The government is stumbling in its efforts to protects its secrets in the Internet age.
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Opinion
Public Pensions After Detroit
State and local governments should make prudent financial decisions without gutting retirement benefits.
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N.Y. / Region
Office Tower’s Owners May Profit From Plan to Allow Sale of Landmarks’ Air Rights
A Bloomberg administration plan to help pay for the preservation of aging structures also could be a boon to property developers.
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Autos
Wheelies: The Natural Gas Pickups Edition
Ford announced that it would offer natural gas-powered F-150s in 2014 and would also pay $17.4 million in federal fines over its recall for the Ford Escape.
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Fashion & Style
Breaking Free From the Nesting Doll
She could rescue him from a dead-end life. But was that a good reason to marry him?
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Technology
From North Korea With Love: a Tablet With No Internet Access
A tourist bought a North Korean tablet computing device and found it similar to other tablets, except for a lack of real Internet access. But it has “Angry Birds.”
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Opinion
Apes Need Vaccines, Too
Research on captive chimps can help save the lives not just of humans but also of wild chimps.
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Opinion
Addicted to Prayer
Prayer seems to have health benefits for people, even for atheists. But should everyone drop to their knees and pray?
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Business Day
TransCanada Plans Pipeline to East Coast
The $12 billion pipeline could move as many as 1.1 million barrels a day to New Brunswick, to serve a region that relies on imported crude oil for most of its supply.
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U.S.
Why Must Voting Be Be So Hard?
Despite the encouragement of those in politics and government, the act of registering and voting in Texas is no easy matter.
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Opinion
The Trauma of Being Alive
An undercurrent of injury and disaster runs through ordinary life.
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Business Day
Skyrocketing Numbers of Federal Workers on Forced Leave
This number of “involuntary part-timers” in the federal government jumped in July, to 199,000, nearly four times the number in recent years.
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Real Estate
Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue
The Upper East Side building, completed in 1910, is whitening its soiled terra-cotta base.
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Opinion
Public Pensions After Detroit
The same group who want to end Social Security want to steal the pension money.
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Style
IVF, Embryos and Choices
When my daughter asked if I chose whether to make her and her sister siblings, or twins, I lied before I thought. Because along with a lot of other choices I never thought I’d have, that was a choice.
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U.S.
Finally, Thousands of Old Rape-Evidence Kits Are to Be Tested
Thanks to an $11 million budget appropriation, thousands of evidence kits collected from sexual-assault victims in Texas can now be analyzed.
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Real Estate
Ring Around the Collar at 535 Park Avenue
The Upper East Side building, completed in 1910, is whitening its soiled terra-cotta base.
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Technology
Disruptions: Rather Than Time, Computers Might Become Panacea to Hurt
We might not be far away from a day when scientists can use computer-manipulation of the mind for a host of different things.
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Real Estate
Real Estate Q & A
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Style
IVF, Embryos and Choices
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Health
In Nursing Homes, an Epidemic of Poor Dental Hygiene
The lack of daily oral care in nursing facilities is almost universally overlooked, experts say, and studies suggest that it may contribute to pneumonia, a leading killer of institutionalized older people.
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World
A Day’s Toil in the Suicide Bombers’ Graveyard
Khwaja Naqib Ahmad lays claim to one of the toughest jobs in the Afghan capital — burying the unclaimed dead, including suicide bombers.
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Magazine
It’s a Buyer’s Market!
At farmers’ markets everywhere, now is the time to spend on whatever looks good.
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N.Y. / Region
More Complaints Than Proposed Solutions at Trial Over Police Searches
In the case considering the legality of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactic, lawyers who brought the suit were sure of the problem, but less sure about how to fix it.
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