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N.Y. / Region
2 Senators Call for Inquiry Into Metro-North Disruption
The pressure from Charles E. Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut came as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said disruptions would go into this week.
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Opinion
Psychotherapy’s Image Problem
The profession needs to promote its empirically supported methods.
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Business Day
Intel and Sony Ambitions for Internet TV Services Meet Skepticism
Intel’s goal of introducing its OnCue service by the end of the year has been scrapped, and Sony, like Intel, has yet to announce deals to carry any channels.
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Multimedia/Photos
Trailer: Hers to Lose
Christine C. Quinn, the longtime front-runner in the New York City mayoral race, lost in the 2013 Democratic primary. This behind-the-scenes documentary captures the final month of her campaign.
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Dining & Wine
Marcella Hazan on Writing
The Times’s Mark Bittman visited the Italian chef and author in her home and asked her to tell the story of how she first started to write cookbooks.
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Opinion
Birth Control and a Boss’s Religious Views
There are no legal grounds to exempt private businesses from the contraception mandate in the health care law.
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N.Y. / Region
19 Are Charged in a Plot to Cheat on Commercial Driver’s License Tests
Would-be commercial drivers tapped into a network of cheaters who used secret codes to provide answers to test-takers in exam rooms.
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Great Homes and Destinations
Creating a Sanctuary for Spiritual Energy
The Dan family of Trinidad decided to follow Hindu architectural principals in building their home.
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Opinion
Federal Contractors, Low Wages
Workers who serve food and sell mementos in federal buildings want better pay. They deserve it.
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Technology
The iPhone 5s's Fingerprint Scanner Was Hacked, but I'm Not Worried
Yes, Apple’s Touch ID can be fooled — by a determined attacker with the time and resources to do it.
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Technology
A Surge in Growth for a New Kind of Online Course
Three major sites have emerged in the last couple of years to offer massive open online courses, greatly expanding the opportunity to take college classes.
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Home & Garden
What’s the Best Way to Give Our Shower a High-End Look?
Advice for repairing or redecorating a home before selling it.
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Opinion
Where Are You, Ban Ki-Moon?
If the U.N.’s member states really want more effective leadership, they should hire someone actually able to provide it.Various groups tried very hard to neuter the United Nations.
The wonder is that it works at all.
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Health
Easing a Difficult Passage
‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’ examines the struggles in caring for an aging parent, and facing a medical system that favors a reflexive postponing of death, no matter quality of life.
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Health
Global Spending to Fight AIDS Has Grown Slowly, Report Finds
Global financing to fight AIDS has remained essentially flat since the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report.
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Technology
Gaming With Chrome, and Bypassing Windows 8
Fans of the game Minecraft may be able to get it to play on a Google Chrome notebook, and how to go directly from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1
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Technology
Google Alters Search to Handle More Complex Queries
Google made one of the biggest-ever changes in its search engine, as part of a shift away from matching keywords on Web pages to understanding the meaning of search queries.
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Business Day
Breaking Up With ‘Breaking Bad’ Is Hard for Albuquerque
The popular series, which showcased Albuquerque’s grit and high-desert beauty, has helped the city become a star in its own right and given rise to an entire “Breaking Bad” economy.
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U.S.
Senate Action on Health Law Moves to Brink of Shutdown
The Senate is expected to reject decisively a House bill that would delay the full effect of President Obama’s health care law as a condition for keeping the government running.
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U.S.
Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll
Children shot accidentally — usually by other children — are collateral casualties of the accessibility of guns in America, their deaths at once heart-rending and eminently preventable.
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Sunday Review
How 5 Countries Could Become 14
Slowly, the map of the Middle East could be redrawn. An analysis by Robin Wright.
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World
Congo: Fighting Increases Number of Refugees
A United Nations report says the number of refugees fleeing the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo swelled by more than 350,000 in the past few months.
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Science
Hitting Pay Dirt on Mars
The first rock examined by Curiosity last year turns out to be an uncommon alkaline rock, with a tiny amount of water.
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Health
Unequal Pain Relief in the Emergency Room
Black and Hispanic children who go to an E.R. with stomach pain are less likely than white children to receive pain medication and more likely to spend long hours in the emergency room, a new study reports.
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Science
Astronaut and a Writer at the Movies
Watching the new film “Gravity” with the astronaut Michael J. Massimino, who flew missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope, gives insight into the film’s fidelities, and its flaws.
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Business Day
Boeing 787 Forced to Land Because of a Faulty System
The latest problem with the 787, run by LOT Polish Airlines, came a day after the Norwegian Air Shuttle grounded one of its 787s because of a hydraulic pump failure.
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World
Portuguese Voters Punish Leader’s Party for Austerity Policies
The Social Democratic Party, the main party in Portugal’s center-right coalition, suffered a heavy defeat in municipal elections over the weekend.
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World
Norway: New Coalition Tilts Right
The leader of Norway’s Conservative Party, Erna Solberg, said Monday that she was forming a right-wing minority government with the anti-immigration Progress Party.More pressure on the E.U.
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Business Day
An Ex-Trader, Now a Sociologist, Looks at the Changes in Goldman
“What Happened to Goldman Sachs” examines the bank’s evolution from an elite private partnership to a vast public corporation – and the effects of that transformation on its culture.
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Business Day
Former Xstrata Chief in New Mining Venture
The trading house Noble Group and the American private equity firm TPG Capital will each invest $500 million in a private mining venture led by Mick Davis, the former Xstrata chief executive who lost out in the Glencore takeover.
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Opinion
Federal Contractors, Low Wages
Workers who serve food and sell mementos in federal buildings want better pay. They deserve it.
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U.S.
Qaeda Plot Leak Has Undermined U.S. Intelligence
The disclosure in August of a terrorist plot by Al Qaeda has caused more damage to American counterterrorism efforts than the vast trove of data from Edward Snowden, the former N.S.A. consultant, analysts said.
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Arts
A Clear Ending to a Mysterious Beginning
After so many lugubrious turns, “Breaking Bad” came to an end on Sunday on an almost uplifting note. But perhaps the best thing about it was the series actually ended.
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U.S.
Government Near Broad Shutdown in Budget Impasse
The federal government teetered on the brink of its first shutdown in nearly two decades after last-minute moves by the House and Senate failed to break a bitter budget standoff over President Obama’s health care law.
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