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Technology
Video: Siri and Google Now, Meet Cortana
Molly Wood tests out mobile virtual assistants, including Microsoft’s Cortana, to see if Siri has met her match.
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Opinion
Sweden Turns Japanese
The sadomonetarists, with their gut dislike of low interest rates, have claimed another victim.
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World
Deadliest Day: Sherpas Bear Everest’s Risks
An avalanche that left at least 12 dead has focused attention on the Sherpas, skilled high-altitude climbers who put themselves at great risk for the foreign teams that pay them.
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World
Pro-Russian Insurgents Balk at Terms of Pact in Ukraine
A U.S.-backed deal to settle the crisis in eastern Ukraine fell flat but appeared to arrest, at least temporarily, the momentum of separatist unrest in the region.
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U.S.
50 Years Into the War on Poverty, Hardship Hits Back
A half-century after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared “war on poverty,” McDowell County, W.Va., is a sobering reminder of how much remains broken, in drearily familiar ways and utterly unexpected ones.
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N.Y. / Region
Video: Scuba Diving in Brooklyn
As part of an unusual internship, nine high school students work in a tropical reef, located at the end of the F subway line in Coney Island.
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N.Y. / Region
With Farm Robotics, the Cows Decide When It’s Milking Time
Farms in upstate New York and elsewhere are using automatic milkers that scan and map the underbellies of cows, extract the milk, and monitor its quality, without the use of human hands.
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Opinion
The Public Health Crisis Hiding in Our Food
A new British study shows many lives can be saved by cutting salt.
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Technology
Video: App Smart: Selfies
Kit Eaton dives into three apps that can take selfies to the next level.
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World
Video: Slovyansk Mourns 3 Killed at Checkpoint
Anger and questions swirled as residents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk buried three men killed in a gunfight at a roadblock on Sunday.
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U.S.
North Carolina Shows Strains Within G.O.P.
In North Carolina’s high-profile Republican primary for Senate, the divisions gripping the party nationally are playing out loudly and expensively.
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N.Y. / Region
The Toddler Who Survived, and the Cop Who Became Her Mom
As a baby, Christina Rivera survived a massacre in Brooklyn whose 10 victims included her mother. Police Officer Joanne Jaffe cared for her that night, the first link in a bond that led Ms. Jaffe to adopt Christina.
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World
Messages From Students on South Korean Ferry
Texts sent by Danwon High School students as their ferry began sinking on Wednesday morning express love, fear and despair.
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Opinion
Running Out of Time
There are years, not decades, left to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and American leadership is urgently needed.
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U.S.
Swim to Sea? These Salmon Are Catching a Lift
California’s drought has left rivers too shallow for salmon, so the government is trucking and barging them to the sea in the hope they will return.
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U.S.
Justice Stevens Suggests Solution for ‘Giant Step in the Wrong Direction’
In his new book, Justice John Paul Stevens proposes six amendments, one of which would address the Citizens United ruling on campaign finance.
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Sports
In a Hole, Golf Considers Digging a Wider One
The golf world has lost five million players in the last decade, spurring a growing revolution to create alternative forms of the game.
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Business Day
Goldman, Citi, UBS ... and a Guy in an Office
Paul J. Taubman has single-handedly accounted for $175 billion in deals over the last year, which has had Wall Street bankers buzzing with a mix of admiration and envy.
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We are quietly at war.
Perhaps a "phony war".
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