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Technology
Empty Shelves Signal Revival in Game Consoles
Those sales bolster the view that the console business is turning into a two-horse race, with Nintendo a distant third.
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Style
A Season for Resolution: Approaching an I.V.F. Deadline
If our final I.V.F. doesn’t work, if I enter 2014 still not pregnant, it’s time for Plan B (or C or D, or whatever letter we’re up to by now)."And I will repeat to myself a mantra from the holistic guru Louise Hay:
“All is well.
Everything is working out for my highest good.
Out of this situation only good will come.
I am safe.”
Happy holidays."
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Multimedia/Photos
Video: Times Minute | Post-Christmas Shopping
Also on the Minute, looking back at the top stories of 2013 including Detroit's bankruptcy and Lance Armstrong coming clean.
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World
Journalist Is Beaten in Latest Attack on Ukrainian Opposition
As protests continued, Tetyana Chornovol, who helped expose the opulence of the presidential compound, was brutally attacked outside Kiev, the capital.
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Real Estate
A Condo for Art Collectors
A new eight-unit condominium in West Chelsea designed with reinforced walls and ceiling lights.
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Business Day
Winning Veterans’ Trust, and Profiting From It
Older veterans are being coaxed into paying for services or investments and signing contracts that lock them into long-term living arrangements.
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World
Killing and Retaliation at Gaza-Israel Border Continue Violent Cycle
The deaths of an Israeli laborer and a Palestinian toddler were the latest in a growing wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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Business Day
In 2013: Rebounds, Traders and Rights
A look back at a year of change at Netflix and Exxon Mobil, the continuing insider trading case at SAC Capital Advisors and a bruising yet profitable year at Tesla Motors.Netflix has done the right thing. Exxon Mobil makes empty gestures.
SAC Capital is still guilty. Tesla will survive another year.
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U.S.
As Food Programs Are Cut, Deer Hunters Share the Bounty
With recent cuts to the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the contributions of hunters to a food program are needed more than ever by Texas food banks.
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U.S.
Mission Schools Opened World to Africans, but Left an Ambiguous Legacy
The potentially subversive nature of Christianity’s teachings found expression in the education of a generation of rebels against apartheid.
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World
A Civil Servant in Mexico Tests U.S. on Asylum
Mexican officials have become frustrated by a local official who has provided residents with letters describing their area’s drug violence to help them seek asylum in the United States.
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Science
Plants in Peril
Do plants feel pain? When a tree is pruned, for example, does it suffer?Why Did My Plant Die?Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
You walked too close. You trod on it.
You dropped a piece of sod on it.
You hoed it down. You weeded it.
You planted it the wrong way up.
You grew it in a yogurt cup
But you forgot to make a hole;
The soggy compost took its toll.
September storm. November drought.
It heaved in March, the roots popped out.
You watered it with herbicide.
You scattered bonemeal far and wide.
Attracting local omnivores,
Who ate your plant and stayed for more.
You left it baking in the sun
While you departed at a run
To find a spade, perhaps a trowel,
Meanwhile the plant threw in the towel.
You planted it with crown too high;
The soil washed off, that explains why.
Too high pH. It hated lime.
Alas it needs a gentler clime.
You left the root ball wrapped in plastic.
You broke the roots. They’re not elastic.
You walked too close. You trod on it.
You dropped a piece of sod on it.
You splashed the plant with mower oil.
You should do something to your soil.
Too rich. Too poor. Such wretched tilth.
Your soil is clay. Your soil is filth.
Your plant was eaten by a slug.
The growing point contained a bug.
These aphids are controlled by ants,
Who milk the juice, it kills the plants.
In early spring your garden’s mud.
You walked around! That’s not much good.
With heat and light you hurried it.
You worried it. You buried it.
The poor plant missed the mountain air:
No heat, no summer muggs up there.
You overfed it 10-10-10.
Forgot to water it again.
You hit it sharply with the hose.
You used a can without a rose.
Perhaps you sprinkled from above.
You should have talked to it with love.
The nursery mailed it without roots.
You killed it with those gardening boots.
You walked too close. You trod on it.
You dropped a piece of sod on it.
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World
Militia Leaders in Benghazi
A list of the militia leaders in Benghazi and the roles they played.I have paid no attention to Libya recently.
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Business Day
Reading Your Palm for Security’s Sake
The use of biometric scans for consumer identification is growing, but some experts are concerned about the data being hacked or misused.
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Opinion
More Hunger for the Poorest Americans
Instead of alleviating hunger, Congress is working on a farm bill that would actually reduce crucial food assistance.
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Fashion & Style
The Year in Fashion
Fashion in 2013: ironic moments, left-field surprises and a few artists who refused to be complacent.
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Opinion
‘Christmas Icon Reform’
Santa has gone too soft on kids, argues this animated Op-Doc, prompting the need for more frightening holiday icons like the German Krampus.
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Opinion
Mistaken Ruling on Contraception
A federal judge did not recognize that the threat to religious liberty comes from employers trying to impose their religious views on workers.
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Business Day
Economic Reports for the Week of Dec. 30
The consumer confidence survey for December will be released, Latvia will join the euro zone and Detroit will return to bankruptcy court.
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Opinion
Mr. de Blasio Picks His Speaker
Melissa Mark-Viverito, who is expected to be the next City Council speaker, insists that she will be independent and fearless. We’ll see.
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Multimedia/Photos
Video: Times Minute | Post-Christmas Shopping
Also on the Minute, looking back at the top stories of 2013 including Detroit's bankruptcy and Lance Armstrong coming clean.
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Real Estate
A Condo for Art Collectors
A new eight-unit condominium in West Chelsea designed with reinforced walls and ceiling lights.
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World
Journalist Is Beaten in Latest Attack on Ukrainian Opposition
As protests continued, Tetyana Chornovol, who helped expose the opulence of the presidential compound, was brutally attacked outside Kiev, the capital.
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Health
A.D.H.D. Experts Re-evaluate Study’s Zeal for Drugs
Some authors of a 1990s study worry that it oversold the long-term benefits of medication, discouraging important therapy.
"Most recently, a paper from the study said flatly that using any
treatment “does not predict functioning six to eight years later,”
leaving the study’s original question — which treatment does the most
good long-term? — largely unanswered.
“My belief based on the science is that symptom reduction is a good thing, but adding skill-building is a better thing,” said Stephen Hinshaw,
a psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of
the study researchers. “If you don’t provide skills-based training,
you’re doing the kid a disservice. I wish we had had a fairer test.”
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Business Day
In 2013: Rebounds, Traders and Rights
A look back at a year of change at Netflix and Exxon Mobil, the continuing insider trading case at SAC Capital Advisors and a bruising yet profitable year at Tesla Motors.
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Hunting will not carry our population.
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World
Militia Leaders in Benghazi
A list of the militia leaders in Benghazi and the roles they played.
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N.Y. / Region
Cost of Being Mayor? $650 Million, if He’s Rich
An analysis of Michael R. Bloomberg’s personal spending connected to his time and role as mayor found staggering totals on items from bagels to flights by private plane.
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N.Y. / Region
Turning the City’s Wheels in a New Direction
New York’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan, has helped reimagine the city’s streets and how pedestrians, cyclists and drivers use roads.
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Fashion & Style
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