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World
Seeking Asylum in Australia, Refugees Find a Policy in Flux
Accounts from some who have fled their countries for Australia describe dangerous sea voyages that can lead to deportment to Papua New Guinea and long waits for resettlement.
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Opinion
Religious Laws and Public Places
The American Civil Liberties Union says Hasidic Jews who want New York City to enforce religious restrictions in public accommodations cannot prevail.
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Health
How to Charge $546 for Six Liters of Saltwater
The tale of the IV bag shows how secrecy helps keep health care prices high: at every step from manufacturer to patient, there are confidential deals that obscure prices and profits.
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Business Day
The Charitable Deduction, Continued
Not all charitable giving is efficient or aimed where it is needed, and Congress should think about that as it contemplates tax reform, an economist writes.
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Technology
Needed at Microsoft: A Catch-Up Artist
For Steve Ballmer’s eventual successor, the challenges are many. Some of the same factors that helped Microsoft in the PC market are working against it as it tries to catch Google and Apple.
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World
Surveillance Revelations Shake U.S.-German Ties
The issue is prompting not just a debate about privacy and data protection, but also demands from German officials that the Berlin-Washington security partnership be put on a new footing.
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Business Day
Milk Powder Companies Tune In to Chinese Social Media Reports
Chatter about food safety scares spreads with lightning speed on the microblogging site Weibo, so companies are learning to keep constant track of their online brand reputations.
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Opinion
What Is Economics Good For?
See Krugman's counter:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/the-real-trouble-with-economics/
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Business Day
New Jobs! If Only It Were True
The United States Department of Agriculture often trumpets the numbers of jobs that are expected to result from loans. Whether these jobs are actually created is another question.
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Business Day
Leslie Land, a Food Writer Who Liked What Grew Nearby, Dies at 66
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Style
Fertility Diary: Hope Springs Eternal
Choosing “mini-IVF,” plus danish, over the conventional in vitro fertilization route.
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Opinion
Religious Laws and Public Places
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Opinion
The Plight of the Black P.O.W.
African-American soldiers captured during the Civil War faced harrowing, often deadly treatment at the hands of the Confederates.
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Business Day
A Holiday From Taxes, and Often From the Strings Attached
Tax policy experts are suspicious of tax holidays, and most experts question the effectiveness of attaching restrictions to such legislation. Many companies find a way around them.
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N.Y. / Region
Why Walk 30 Feet When You Can Text?
Metropolitan Diary: A motorcycle driver grew exasperated when a younger woman, not understanding him, told him to text her.
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Business Day
The Charitable Deduction, Continued
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Technology
'Revenge Porn' Could Be Criminal Offense in California
A few states are proposing to criminalize the practice of “revenge porn” with measures that pit the rights of victims against the right to free expression.
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Business Day
Indian Firm to Pay $2.6 Billion to Build Its Stake in African Gas Project
ONGC Videsh, a unit of the India’s state-run Oil and Natural Gas
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Autos
Wheelies: The Bye Bye Bus Edition
After 56 years, Volkswagen ends production of the Type 2 Kombi van in Brazil, and a gold-plated Cadillac that may have belonged to Liberace is headed for auction.
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World
At Least 5 Die as Train Derails in Mexico
A cargo train carrying at least 250 Central American migrants heading to the United States derailed Sunday in Southern Mexico, killing at least 5 people and injuring 16.Migrants tell of being threatened, extorted by gunmen before train crash that killed 6
(Christian Palma/ Associated Press ) - Shoes and clothing
lie next to a cargo train known as “the Beast,” after it derailed near
the town of Huimanguillo, southern Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. The
cargo train, carrying at least 250 Central American hitchhiking migrants
derailed in a remote region, killing at least five people and injuring
dozens, authorities said.
Many who had sneaked onto the train known as “The Beast” were thrown loose when eight of its 12 cars derailed as it hauled tons of metal junk through a remote, swampy stretch of southern Mexico, witnesses said. At least some of the dead were trapped because they had tied themselves on to avoid slipping as they rode between cars.
Hundreds squeeze together atop the train’s cars. Others ride between cars for lack of space, or to obtain shelter from wind and rain.
“Those are the ones who died,” Jose Hector Alfonso Pacheco, a 48-year-old Honduran, said in a shelter where Mexican authorities housed dozens of the estimated 250 migrants who were riding on the train.
Workers were still removing tons of wrecked railcars and junk with heavy equipment Monday but had found no additional victims by late in the day. At least five migrants suffered grave injuries, and dozens had less serious injuries.
Mexican authorities said the accident victims can stay in Mexico legally for a year and apply for citizenship if they want.
The dead migrants were between 19 and 58 years old. In an indication of why the toll wasn’t higher, authorities said the train was moving only at about 2 miles an hour when it derailed.
Survivors described themselves as having been kidnapped by armed men who were taking them to meet with their chief in the nearby city of Coatzacoalcos, presumably to arrange payments that would allow them to get across Mexico and into the U.S.
Agustin Sorto Ayala, a 22-year-old Honduran, said he saw seven men get on the last car near the town of Chontalpa and move from car to car with flashlights and pistols, telling the migrants that “we had to pay for a ‘guide,’ we had to pay ‘rent,’ and if we didn’t they wouldn’t let us get off the train.”
“They had us kidnapped, and when the train derailed, that’s how we got loose,” he said.
Mexican officials said they were investigating the cause of the crash. State authorities pointed to heavy rains softening the ground beneath the tracks as well as the possible pilfering of metal spikes and rail connectors from the tracks.
Duglas Javier Valdes Venegas, a 35-year-old migrant from Honduras, was trapped under a train car for five hours along with a cousin, who died at a hospital.
Valdes Venegas said from a hospital bed where he was being treated for broken bones that he was singing to his cousin so they wouldn’t fall asleep when the accident happened.
“When we didn’t have any songs left, the accident happened,” Valdes Venegas said.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the accident was a reminder of the dire conditions faced by migrants on the train.
Honduran and Guatemalan diplomats traveled to the area to help identify victims and make sure the injured were getting needed medical attention, the nations’ foreign officials said.
Honduran President Porfirio Lobo offered his condolences to the families of Hondurans who died in the accident through his Twitter account.
“I’m sorry about what happened in Mexico,” Lobo wrote. “Several Hondurans died in that train derailment.”"
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