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U.S.
Iowa Town’s Vote Delivers Rebuke to Kochs’ Group
All three incumbents who ran won their races in Coralville, Iowa, on Tuesday, despite being targeted by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity over the town’s debt.
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Opinion
Bloomberg, Champion of the Poor
Usually depicted as a champion of the rich, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg also started a bold antipoverty program.
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Opinion
Video: The Animated Life of A. R. Wallace
This paper-puppet animation celebrates the life of Alfred Russel Wallace, who is co-credited with Charles Darwin for the theory of natural selection.
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World
Swiss Report Supports Theory Arafat Was Poisoned
A forensics report said that taking into account analytical limitations, its findings “moderately support the proposition” that Yasir Arafat’s death was the consequence of polonium poisoning.
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U.S.
Growing Endowments Change Colleges’ Investment Strategy
After years of increasing, alternative investments like private equity and venture capital funds fell from 54 percent of assets to 47 percent of college endowments.
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World
Shrinking Numbers and Growing Persecution Threaten Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan
Most Hindus and Sikhs in Afghanistan are anxious about their prospects after American troops withdraw from the country at the end of 2014.
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Sports
New Baseball to Be Used
The N.C.A.A. cleared the way for teams to start using a new baseball in 2015 in hopes of increasing the number of runs scored.
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N.Y. / Region
In New York City’s Sharp Left Turn, Questions of Just How Far
Bill de Blasio, the mayor-elect, is a liberal Democrat, as are the newly elected public advocate and city comptroller.
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Science
More Asteroid Strikes Are Likely, Scientists Say
In new research, a team of scientists is suggesting that the Earth is vulnerable to asteroid strikes as often as every decade or two.
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Business Day
Error Creates Deals Too Good to Be True on Walmart’s Site
There were deals like an $11 kayak and a $9 projector, and while Walmart blamed a technical error, it did not say whether it would honor the deals.
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Science
Making Robots More Like Us
In a shift away from robots made to perform in factories, designers are putting the “human” into humanoids so that they can safely interact in public.
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Fashion & Style
In ‘The Counselor,’ Fashions and Furnishings Play a Pivotal Role
The director Ridley Scott’s new film derives much of its visual punch from a mash-up of refinement and vulgarity.
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Dining & Wine
A Party Is Icing on the Cake
A visual guide to making almond birthday cake with sherry-lemon buttercream.
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Sports
Hockey History, as Documented by Prime Minister
Stephen J. Harper, the Canadian prime minister, took nine years to research, write and publish “A Great Game,” a new addition to the great volume of hockey books produced by Canada.
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Books
Solemn Panorama of Battle
Joe Sacco’s latest book, “The Great War,” is a 24-foot-long panoramic pen-and-ink imagining of the first day of World War I’s bloody Battle of the Somme.
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Education
Robots or Aliens as Parents? Colleges Gauge Applicants’ Creativity
More universities are including offbeat essay topics on students’ admissions applications to separate the highly creative from the highly ordinary.
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Business Day
BAE to Stop Building Ships at Historic British Site
Britain’s biggest military contractor, BAE Systems, is closing down its shipbuilding yards in Portsmouth, and cutting nearly 1,800 jobs in England and Scotland.
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Sports
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