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Technology
Searching Big Data for ‘Digital Smoke Signals’
The goal of a growing collection of scientists at universities, companies and nonprofit groups is to bring real-time monitoring and prediction to development and aid programs.
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Business Day
Goals Collide in Drilling Protests
Shale gas has given rise to great anxiety in Europe, but British protesters may be barking up the wrong tree this time.
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Health
The Health Tradeoffs of Entrepreneurship
Nationwide, entrepreneurs tend to eat more healthful foods and exercise more than other workers. But they also have more stress and are less likely to have health insurance.
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World
Fault Lines Laid Bare in Hong Kong
A schoolteacher's outburst at a demonstration has highlighted deep divisions in the city, over issues like freedom of speech and the need to accommodate Beijing's authority.
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Opinion
Fast-Food Fight
Strikes by fast-food workers demanding higher wages are sure to continue until corporate and political leaders listen, and act.
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Booming
How Should Gay Couples Fend Off Pressure to Marry?
Despite winning the right in some states to marry, not all gay couples want to. Not everyone accepts that.
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N.Y. / Region
Horace Mann Sues Insurers to Cover Abuse Liability
The Bronx private school rocked last year by allegations of sexual abuse is accusing three insurance companies of reneging on contracts to compensate their legal expenses.
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Opinion
Helping the Poor Go to Good Colleges
College presidents and child advocates respond to a front-page article.
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Science
A Family Consents to a Medical Gift, 62 Years Later
A deal was reached with the family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells became critical in research after her death from cancer in 1951.
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Opinion
Life Lessons From a Most Unlikely Duo
A tragedy brought a wealthy mother and a drug smuggler together in Colombia, and their story offers an inspiring lesson for others.
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Health
Poor Children Show a Decline in Obesity Rate
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first major government report to show a consistent pattern of decline for low-income children.
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World
Japan Stepping In to Help Clean Up Atomic Plant
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for intervention as concern grew over new contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific Ocean.
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Opinion
Radical Life Extension
The United States — and indeed the world — is straining under the weight of an aging population, and that strain is only expected to grow.http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/the-strange-power-of-really-bad-ideas-medicare-edition/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/life-expectancy-of-the-living-dead/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whites-in-us-is-shrinking.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/21/health/a-troubling-trend-in-life-expectancy.html?ref=us
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whites-in-us-is-shrinking.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/21/health/a-troubling-trend-in-life-expectancy.html?ref=us
Published: September 20, 2012
A Troubling Trend in Life Expectancy
The life expectancy of whites without a high
school degree has fallen in recent years. Among the least educated
Americans, white women have lost 5 years of life expectancy since 1990,
and white men have lost 3 years.
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Business Day
Not Banks, but Still Lending Money and Drawing Investors
The success of Lending Club, which links up borrowers with investors who are willing to make loans, has spawned imitators and venture capital backers that are looking for similar results.
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Business Day
Borrowing by Consumers Rose in June, Fed Reports
The Federal Reserve reported that American consumers increased their borrowing by $13.8 billion in June, mostly with auto and student loans.
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Opinion
The Scientism of Steven Pinker
In which an attempted rehabilitation of the term “scientism” actually vindicates scientism’s critics.
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Books
Still a Firebrand, 2,000 Years Later
“Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,” Reza Aslan’s new book, is based on both fact and speculation.
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Opinion
Fast-Food Fight
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N.Y. / Region
Horace Mann Sues Insurers to Cover Abuse Liability
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Business Day
Inequality and Opportunity
Two proposals by President Obama, expanded early-childhood education and vocational training, could have promise if well aimed, but need to go beyond partisan talking points, an economist writes.
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Opinion
The Primary Colors of Argentine Politics
Sunday’s election in Argentina is nothing more than a giant poll of the electorate.
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Opinion
From the Fire Hose: Arctic Methane, Scientists as Advocates, Vanishing Vaquita
A dip in the flow from the information fire hose snags updates on Arctic methane, fracking solutions and more.
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Business Day
Borrowing by Consumers Rose in June, Fed Reports
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Technology
Using ‘Do Not Track’ Options
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Opinion
Forced Drug Treatment
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Opinion
Abortion in America and Europe
A response to critics on the lessons of Europe’s abortion laws.
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Books
Still a Firebrand, 2,000 Years Later
“Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth,” Reza Aslan’s new book, is based on both fact and speculation.
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Opinion
Terrorism and the Embassies
The closing of American embassies after an Al Qaeda threat is reasonable, but it is not a long-term solution.
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