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Sports
Rider Barred for Life
The former Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca was given a lifetime ban after a third doping offense.
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Science
In New Jersey Pines, Trouble Arrives on Six Legs
A beetle invasion of New Jersey’s Pinelands, said to be caused by global warming, has drawn little attention, and scientists say the state has been too slow in its response.
"Long ago, fires would have helped keep the forest more open, but they
have been suppressed across much of the country for a century to protect
life and property. That has left many forests in an overgrown,
unnatural condition.
Experience in the South has shown that such “overstocked stands,” as
foresters call them, are especially vulnerable to beetle attack because
the trees are too stressed fighting one another for light, water and
nutrients. Control of the pine beetle has been achieved there by
thinning the woods, leaving the remaining trees stronger."
Let it burn.
The ecology is fire based.
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Opinion
The Case for Filth
The only possible solution to the gender divide on housework is for everyone to do a lot less of it.
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Fashion & Style
But Who Am I Now?
Thanks to the ever-tightening web of the Patriot Act, it has become almost impossible for a woman to juggle two last names.
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N.Y. / Region
Christie Ally Resigning From Port Authority
After New Jersey lawmakers questioned whether lane closings on the George Washington Bridge in September were politically motivated, David Wildstein, who ordered them, said he would leave in January.
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Opinion
Sex and the Single Priest
There are hints that Pope Francis may take up the issue of a celibate, and lonely, clergy.
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Books
The Somme
In a wordless, 24-foot-long panorama, Joe Sacco illustrates the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
It is 97 years later. There are no survivors. Little was learned.
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World
Afghan Effort to Get Justice for Women Seems to Stall
The report, released by the United Nations, said years of intensive efforts by Afghan and international rights advocates have done little to increase prosecutions.
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N.Y. / Region
A Maniac Fights to Prove Murder by the Police
“Accidental Death of an Anarchist,” by Dario Fo, is based on a real event, a suspicious fall from the window of a Milan police station.
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World
Gang Members Said to Consider Blackmailing Toronto’s Mayor
Interviews and wiretaps suggested that Mayor Rob Ford regularly used drugs, the Toronto police wrote, and that dealers discussed blackmailing him.
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World
Nuns, Missing in Syria, Resurface in Video
The nuns, who had vanished from the ancient Aramaic-speaking town of Maaloula, said they had left with rebels to escape shelling.
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World
U.S. Teacher Gunned Down in Benghazi, Officials Say
Libyan security officials said they had yet to determine a motive for the killing, which came during a surge of assassinations and armed clashes in Benghazi.
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Science
An Older Buddha, and Disease Numbers Good and Bad
The World Health Organization increased its estimate of 2009 swine flu deaths, while researchers in Pittsburgh may have put a number on the cases of contagious disease prevented by vaccines.
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N.Y. / Region
New, Bigger and Bolder ‘T’ Logo Adorns a ‘Model Cab’ That Has an Uncertain Future
When a few Taxis of Tomorrow finally hit the streets of New York in October, they came with a much bolder logo as large as the wheels of the cabs themselves.
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Sports
Thursday’s Matchup: Texans (2-10) at Jaguars (3-9)
The Jaguars will probably win a home game for the first time in more than a year.
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Magazine
Video: Capturing America at Its Plainest
To create his large-format photographs of the Great Plains region, Andrew Moore chartered a two-person plane and attached his camera to the wing.O.K.
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Magazine
Life Along the 100th Meridian
The middle of the country is gorgeous from the air — and a very hard place on the ground.
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Opinion
The Rush for the Arctic's Riches
It is essential that tough constraints be placed on Arctic drilling and that steps be taken to reduce tensions in the region.
"None of this, however, is likely to deter other interested countries.
With the demand for oil at an all-time high and existing fields
incapable of satisfying global needs, the major energy firms are bound
to pursue every conceivable source of supply. It is essential, then,
that tough constraints be placed on Arctic drilling operations and that
steps be taken to reduce tensions in the area. Some progress has been
made by the Arctic Council, a consultative forum of Arctic nations. But
much remains unresolved.
One way to impose formal restraints would be to devise and adopt an
Arctic Treaty modeled on the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. Like that earlier
measure, an Arctic compact would delineate the region’s maritime
boundaries and establish limits on military activities. It could also
impose environmental protections and provide for the safe passage of
civilian vessels through Arctic waters. In the end, no extra measure of
oil and natural gas is worth the destruction of pristine wilderness or
the onset of an Arctic arms race."
There will be no treaty.
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Which set of cronies is in charge matters little.
I think they will not have a liberal and thoughtful government.
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Technology
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