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Opinion
By LINDA GREENHOUSE | Oct 1st 2014
Will Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. preside over a conservative
majority, become a beleaguered dissenter or migrate to the center of a
new spectrum?
Appointments and Executive Changes
Important but unknown. It has been a busy decade.
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Automobiles
By BENJAMIN PRESTON | Oct 1st 2014
Honda begins sale of its refreshed 2015 CR-V crossover; E.P.A.
downgrades fuel economy rating on 2013-14 Mercedes-Benz C300 4-matic
sedans.
Automobiles; Telephones and Telecommunications
More time on the road.
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World
By CHRIS BUCKLEY | Oct 1st 2014
Scott Moore, an expert on China’s water policies, discusses why
the Chinese government has committed so much money and effort to the
South-North Water Diversion Project, which will carry water from the
Yangtze River and its tributaries and channel it to northern China,
where water shortages are worsening.
Floods; Hydraulic Fracturing; Rivers; Water; Water Pollution
It is feasible.
I wonder if it is properly scaled.
The Chinese are as clever at engineering as any.
Water for fracking is finite. It will not be a big worry.
Environmental impact may be greater than thought.
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Business Day
By EDUARDO PORTER | Oct 1st 2014
If global corporations can continue to evade taxation, the burden
of government financing could fall disproportionately on ordinary
workers.
Tax Shelters; Corporate Taxes; Taxation; Tax Evasion; Labor and Jobs; Corporations
The tax code is adjustable.
It can be changed as required.
Eduardo Porter's patrons may scream but they must pay or move.
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Fashion & Style
By BEE SHAPIRO | Oct 1st 2014
Unafraid of color Charli XCX, the English pop star, favors dark eyes and bold lips.
Beauty (Concept); Cosmetics and Toiletries; Skin; Hair
Your choice.
Clean is good.
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U.S.
By AMY CHOZICK | Sep 30th 2014
Democrats face tough challenges in a state that is drifting right.
Their popular governor must leave office because of term limits, and
outside interests loom larger in a race that may determine control of
the Senate.
Midterm Elections (2014); Series; Elections, Senate
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/senate-update-dont-take-these-poll-results-at-face-value/
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N.Y. / Region
By CHARLES V. BAGLI | Oct 1st 2014
Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to pay $110 million for the
property that cost $2.4 billion to build and closed a month ago.
Casinos
Board room fights.
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Business Day
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Oct 1st 2014
The result, which brings the endowment’s value to $9.2 billion,
compares with the 20.2 percent return for the Ivy League leader so far,
Yale.
Endowments; Stocks and Bonds; Colleges and Universities
ok
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Opinion
By BRENDAN JONES | Oct 1st 2014
A Senate candidate boasts of a “frostbit” ear and “helmet hair.”
Midterm Elections (2014); United States Politics and Government; Political Advertising; Elections, Senate
We will know how Alaska voted
when the returns come in.
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Sports
By LYNN ZINSER | Oct 1st 2014
The move leaves two remaining candidates to host the 2022 Winter Games: Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Olympic Games; Olympic Games (2022)
The I.O.C. may have to try again.
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Arts
By STEPHEN HEYMAN | Oct 1st 2014
A look at the four main fashion weeks around the world in New York, London, Milan and Paris.
New York Fashion Week; Paris Fashion Week; Milan Fashion Week; London Fashion Week
I seem to be less and less conscious of clothing.
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Business Day
By AARON M. KESSLER | Oct 1st 2014
The automaker’s sales volume gained 19 percent and retail sales to
individual consumers rose 17 percent compared with a year ago.
Automobiles; Sports Utility Vehicles and Light Trucks
The one percent are doing well.
Liar loans for cars help the numbers.
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Opinion
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | Sep 30th 2014
The strategy of “containment” this go-round is not what it was during the Cold War.
Palestinians; Cold War Era
Thomas Friedman is not thinking.
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Opinion
By RONALD PIANA | Sep 30th 2014
Why is it so hard to get pain relief in the developing world?
Pain-Relieving Drugs; Morphine; Third World and Developing Countries; Human Rights and Human Rights Violations; Cancer; Pain
Push Methadone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methadone
"Methadone is listed under Schedule I of the Single Convention On
Narcotic Drugs 1961 and is regulated in the same basic fashion as
morphine in most countries as a result."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_Drugs
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U.S.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR | Sep 30th 2014
The program is aimed at helping to discourage many children from
making a long, dangerous trek across Mexico in an attempt to cross into
the United States and join their parents.
Illegal Immigration; Children and Childhood; Refugees and Displaced Persons
The plan will not have an effect.
The refugee children are running from abuse.
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Sports
By VIV BERNSTEIN | Sep 29th 2014
In his first news conference since his car struck and killed Kevin
Ward Jr. in an Aug. 9 race, Stewart said he never considered quitting
Nascar.
Growing in public is not easy.
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Arts
By RANDY KENNEDY | Oct 1st 2014
Founded 86 years ago in Brooklyn as the Clay Club, a
little-visited European-style kunsthalle that’s now in Long Island City
has undergone a renovation that will make it more of a museum.
Art; Museums; Restoration and Renovation; Sculpture
Collectors.
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World
By DECLAN WALSH and AZAM AHMED | Sep 30th 2014
Self interest wins another round.
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U.S.
By JULIA PRESTON | Sep 30th 2014
The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it
would provide $9 million over two years for lawyers to represent
unaccompanied minors in their deportation cases.
Illegal Immigration; Deportation; Immigration and Emigration; Legal Profession
$3,460 for the defense of each child.
The bill will be more than $200,000,000. next year.
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Science
By PAM BELLUCK | Oct 1st 2014
In a program offering sexually active teenagers in St. Louis free
birth control, pregnancy and abortion rates were less than a quarter of
those of such teenagers nationally,
Pregnancy and Childbirth; Teenage Pregnancy; Birth Control and Family Planning; Poverty; Women and Girls; Youth
This looks like a good thing to do.
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