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  • 12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY July 31, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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    • 826 1 LAST SUPPER AT THE WORLD’S GREATEST RESTAURANT the finer life MEET THE MAN WHO PAID S$141,000 FORA BOTTLE OF WINE the finer life 6 I USED TO HAVE MONEY, NOW I HAVE TEENS parent to parent 10 WHEN A WOMAN MAKES IT BIG, IT’S HARDER FOR HER MAN TO ACCEPT
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  • 1547 2  -  The National Library’s Rare Materials Collection offers a rare glimpse into the earliest days of Singapore’s history, and Paul Gilfeather was lucky enough to be offered a peek sundayspecial paul gilfeather principal correspondent todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg High above Singapore’s Central Business District, there is a secret room. With virtual anonymity
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  • 1386 4 Raised on a farm, Nanyang Technological University president Bertil Andersson is equally at home in the company of the world’s top researchers or pushing the ecological cause, Lin Yanqin discovers the perspectives He has sat on the committee that awarded the Nobel
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  • 1139 6  -  Meet Christian Vanneque, the man who paid US$117,000 for the world’s most valuable bottle of white wine, an 1811 Chateau d’Yquem thefinerlife don mendoza todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg To say that Christian Vanneque loves a good bottle of wine would be a glaring understatement. The 62-year-old is after all
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  • 1251 7 The world’s greatest restaurant closed for good yesterday after a final dinner for staff families. Graham Boynton was lucky to snag a table recently for the meal of a lifetime THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Ihave just finished my three welcome drinks at El Bulli. A caipirinha
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  • 962 8  -  Now owner of a heritage house, this Nyonya’s journey to revive her traditional culture began with a pair of beaded slippers faceinthecrowd phylicia lee todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg There are some experts who believe the Peranakan culture will be extinct in a hundred years. Not, however, if Bebe
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  • 768 10  -  parenttoparent phil callaway Phil Callaway is a best-selling author and popular speaker who was in town earlier this month for the Singapore Parenting Congress 2011. Visit him at www.laughagain.org. When our children were small, we prayed they’d stop screaming and sleep
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  • 606 11  -  When a woman receives overwhelming recognition or fame, it’s often harder for the man to accept it joyfully speakeasy georgina chang Georgina Chang is senior creative director of987FM and Lush 99.5. I’ve always striven to be successful in whatever I do. Sadly, it doesn’t happen every
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 231 12 BLOOMBERG NEW YORK The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has begun a probe into News Corp, as investigators evaluate whether United States charges can be brought over claims that its employees hacked into a rival’s website and sought access to phone records
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    • 92 12 AP Conservative Muslims held a peaceful rally in Indonesia’s capital yesterday to demand the government outlaw an Islamic sect they consider heretical. Nearly 1,500 white-robed protesters gathering days after a court sentenced 12 men to jail for lynching three Ahmadiyah sect members marched through the streets
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    • 451 12 AGENCIES WASHINGTON The Senate Democrats killed a Republican House debt Bill on Friday night, less than two hours after it squeaked through the House, moving lawmakers and the White House into a pressure-filled weekend to compromise over debt legislation required to avoid a first-ever
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    • 106 12 BLOOMBERG Gold futures rose to a record of US$1,637.50 (s$ 1, 970.57) an ounce on demand for an investment haven amid mounting concerns on the US debt impasse and signs of a faltering economy. Gold futures for December delivery rose US$15,
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    • 278 13  -  WAYNE CHAN waynechan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Work has begun on South-east Asia’s first ecological corridor, Eco-Link@BKE, to connect Singapore’s two biggest nature reserves across the expressway. The hourglass-shaped S$17-million EcoLink@BKE is part of Singapore’s efforts to conserve biodiversity in its urban landscape, and
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    • 354 13 MUMBAI Indian police on Friday arrested four officials of Singapore-based online survey company Speak Asia, including its chief operating officer in India, Tarak Vimlendu Bajpai, on charges of duping investors across India of 13 billion rupees (S$354 million), the Indian Express reported
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    • 50 13 President S R Nathan (centre), Patron of the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC), presenting a cheque to Mr David Wong from Methodist Welfare Services, one of the club’s beneficiaries, at the SICC May Day Charity Gala Dinner 2011. PHOTO BY SYAFIQAH HAMID PHOTO BY SYAFIQAH HAMID
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    • 173 13 AP HANOI Vietnam is evacuating nearly 300,000 people from northern coastal areas in preparation for Tropical Storm Nock-ten, which left a path of destruction in the Philippines. Disaster official Nguyen Xuan Hung of central Nghe An province says provincial authorities have begun evacuating 13,500
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    • 108 13 TOKYO About 400,000 residents have been advised to evacuate Japan’s North-east Niigata and Fukushima prefectures due to torrential rain, China’s Xinhua news agency reported, citing a local media report. Two men have been killed and five others missing in the region, Kyodo News reported.
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    • 164 14 AGENCIES China’s state news agency said 10 families of the victims of a high-speed train crash have agreed to accept compensation from the government. Xinhua reported yesterday that 10 families will get about US$142,000 (S$171,000) each for their relatives who died in the
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    • 183 14 AP The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the Prime Minister’s Labour Party, the police said yesterday. During a
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    • 152 14 AP Pakistan has placed new travel restrictions on American diplomats living in the country, a United States official said yesterday, in the latest sign of the breakdown in ties between Islamabad and Washington since the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Pakistan
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    • 129 14 THE NEW YORK TIMES Merck will cut about 13,000 jobs by the end of 2015, in addition to the 20,000 jobs it has shed since a merger in 2009, the pharmaceutical company said on Friday. About 35 to 40 per cent of the
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    • 104 14 Thousands of passengers were affected after dozens of flights were delayed at Sydney Airport yesterday because of a power outage. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that power was lost at the international terminal for about one-and-a-half hours, affecting security screening and check-in procedures,
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    • 92 14 Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean said Singapore needs to attract exceptionally able and committed leaders to contribute to Singapore’s safety and security, as leaders who can think ahead will be able to help the Home Team to
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    • Article, Illustration
      200 15 Last night, some 30,000 people got a sneak peek of the birthday bash on Aug 9 complete with a Chinook display during the ‘Defending Our Shores’ pre-parade segment. This year, the National Day Parade (NDP) show is anchored on the theme ‘Majulah! The Singapore Spirit!’ or Onward Singapore.
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    • 380 15 ANKARA Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan moved closer to controlling the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) second-biggest army as he replaces four top generals who quit in an unprecedented spate of resignations. The Prime Minister, re-elected last month to a
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  • SPORTS
    • 535 16 American superstar claims butterfly double and warns he’ll be better at the London Olympics AGENCIES SWIMMING 14th Fina World Championships SHANGHAI Without Milorad Cavic to challenge him, or Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps (picture) registered a comfortable win in the 100m butterfly at the swimming world
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    • 104 16 REUTERS Swimming’s world governing body Fina have approved a pilot project to look at the introduction of a biological passport in an effort to combat doping. It will allow testing officials to take a longitudinal study of an athlete’s blood profile. Variations in that profile
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    • 250 16 AP LONDON Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard will miss the start of the Barclays Premier League season after picking up an infection related to a troublesome groin injury that has sidelined him since March. Liverpool said yesterday the England midfielder has been admitted to hospital
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    • 92 16 AP Malaysia’s football federation apologised after Chelsea complained about anti-Semit-ic abuse directed at Israeli midfielder Yossi Benayoun during a preseason game. Benayoun was the first Israeli in recent memory to play in Muslim-majority Malaysia when he took the field on July 21. The Football Association of Malaysia
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    • 573 17 Arsenal boss Wenger leaves skipper out of Emirates Cup, citing a lack of focus AGENCIES LONDON It looks as if Arsenal skipper Cesc Fabregas is on his way out of the club. The Emirates Cup is taking place this weekend and Gunners boss Arsene Wenger
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    • 223 17 REUTERS RIO DE JANEIRO Pele continued his longrunning feud with Ricardo Teixeira when he was unveiled on Friday as the face of Brazil’s 2014 World Cup. The Brazilian FA chief had snubbed him ahead of this morning’s (Singapore time) draw for the qualifying
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    • 289 17 AP NEW YORK Now that the United States Soccer Federation’s (USFF) perennial coach-in-waiting finally has the job, Juergen Klinsmann (picture) will be expected to kickstart a stagnant men’s national team. The USSF hired Klinsmann on Friday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) a day
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    • 403 18  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A mugging in Italy in 2007 left doctors fearing she would never regain the concentration levels needed for an elite athlete. But Northern Ireland’s Madeline Perry has not only banished those fears, she’s proven she is fully capable of
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    • 331 18  -  Japanese outfit Albirex lift their first trophy in Singapore as Webb plays villain TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg 2011 LEAGUE CUP Hougang 0 Albirex 0 (Albirex win 5-4 on penalties) SINGAPORE For the third year running, the Singapore League Cup will stay in the hands of a foreign-based club. Last
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    • 206 18  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE The Singapore Sports School’s under-14 boys were crowned champions of the football competition at the 14th Thailand Sports School Games in Suphanburi, Thailand, yesterday. They took on Khonkaen Sports School in the final and won 4-2 on penalties after
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    • 156 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH HONG KONG Four games; three countries; two weeks; a first piece of silverware and a goal for Fernando Torres. He even scored with his first touch. Chelsea ended their pre-season tour by winning the Asia Trophy, defeating Aston Villa 2-0 in the final. New
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    • 458 19 His mechanics go without sleep to get the Red Bull purring once again REUTERS FORMULA 1 Hungarian Grand Prix BUDAPEST Reigning Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel (picture) roared back to form with pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix yesterday, after his Red Bull mechanics
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    • 148 19 REUTERS WELLINGTON The All Blacks opened their Tri-Nations title defence with a 40-7 hammering of the injury-ravaged Springboks yesterday, falling just four points short of a record test victory over the South Africans. After a stop-start performance in their season-opening 60-14 win over
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    • 582 20 His friend Bell has only carried the bag on three PGA Tour events, but he did help Tiger in THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Everything is just talk until Tiger Woods actually shows up next week in Ohio for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, rested
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1145 21 SUNDAY TV LIANG PO PO THE MOVIE okto, 10pm Liang Po Po, a loveable 85-year-old granny, decides to leave the old folks’ home in search of a new life. Believing that she can still contribute to the good of the society, the determined old lady sets on a path where
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1800 22 TV LISTINGS CHANNEL CHANNEL CHANNEL MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 6.00AM Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Films Stars Asia 11.30 Asian Eat List NOON Under One Roof V 12.30PM Chemistry 1.00 Triple Nine II 2.00 The Middleman
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    • 1885 23 3.00PM Anjaraipetti II 3.30 Sathy Leelavathi 4.00 Take It Easy Vazhkai II 4.30 Mythilli 5.00 Nijangal 5.30 Primary Six 6.00 Vasantham Star 7.00 Gokulathil Seethai 7.30 Ethiroli 8.00 Vaira Nenjum 8.30 Tamil Seithi 9.00 Thulluvatho Elamei 9.30 Uncle Taxi IV 10.00 Oru Kaithiyin Diary 10.30 Star 11.00 Mohe Rang De
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  • ARTS & STYLES
    • 797 16  -  By DAVID ROONEY eljc;NV\u Jtjork elmcs It’s hard to conceive of too many narratives in which Saddam Hussein might emerge as a second-tier villain. But in “The Devil’s Double” he is portrayed as a man who at least operated
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    • 647 16  -  By STEVEN KURUTZ eljc Nc\it JJork elmcs Last year, Francois Perrin, an architect in Los Angeles, was approached with an intriguing proposition. Pierre-André Senizergues, a former professional skateboarder and the owner of a sportswear company, wanted a house in which every surface was
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    • 576 15  -  By JULIE JULIE BOSMAN El)c'SVxit JJork elmcii When Sammy Hagar appeared at Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Missouri, in March, it was not a typical book signing. The former Van Halen lead singer started sipping tequila as soon as the event began.
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    • 778 15  -  By DOROTHY SPEARS Sljc;NcUt JJork Shncs VENICE, California Life in the 21st century can feel like an infinite loop of security checkpoints, rolling luggage and brief electronic exchanges. At least it may to a constant traveler like the artist Doug Aitken, whose new video installation,
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 573 14  -  By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL EljcJs'cUt Jlork Smncs With its dark red and black stripes, spotted fins and long venomous black spikes, the lionfish seems better suited for horror films than consumption. But lionfish fritters and filets may be on American tables soon. An invasive species, the
      EljcJs'cUt Jlork Smncs; ERIK OLSEN/THE NEW YORK TIMES; BELOW, TY CACEK/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  573 words
    • 657 14  -  By JOHN TIERNEY Sljc Jfrut Jlork eimcs In the 1990s, seesaws and tall slides disappeared from city parks around America as playground equipment was deemed too risky. Now, researchers are questioning the value of safety-first playgrounds. Critics say these playgrounds may leave children with
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    • 818 13 NEWS ANALYSIS EljciXcUt Jlork Elmcs By GINA KOLATA To identify a cancer cell and reveal what drugs might kill it, scientists have been looking for collections of genes and molecules that form telltale patterns, or signatures. But there have been few
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    • 622 13  -  By KATHERINE BOUTON Sljc Jfrut Jlork Elmcs Two ring-tailed lemurs, perhaps a pair, perhaps just two guys out to enjoy the heat, sit side by side tilted back as if in beach chairs, their white bellies exposed, knees apart, feet splayed to catch every last
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  • BUSINESS OF GREEN
    • 795 12  -  In China, a Marriage Of Government and Markets Frays By KEITH BRADSHER El)c JsVlu JJork SElmcs YIYANG, China Balking at the high price of coal that fuels much of China’s electricity grid, the nation’s state-owned utility companies are defying government economic planners by deliberately reducing the amount
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    • 483 12  -  By AUSTIN CONSIDINE S()c ;NcUt JJork SElmcs When the anchorman Howard Beale uttered his famous vituperations in the 1976 film “Network” (“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore! he was a grizzled, alcoholic veteran of the
      S()c ;NcUt JJork SElmcs; sTePhanie diani for The new York Times  -  483 words
    • 742 11  -  By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Sljc Jfctu Jlork Suites Those little boxes that usher cable signals and digital recording capacity into televisions have become the single largest electricity drain in many homes, with some typical home entertainment configurations eating more power than a new
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    • 807 11  -  essay DealB £k Srr KEVIN ROOSE ®lje Jlork Suites In the world of genre novels, leverage, not lawlessness, is this year’s favorite plot point. Three recent thrillers all set in the dark underbelly of the finance world and written by former financiers are bringing Wall Street
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  • THE WAY WE EAT
    • 808 10  -  By JULIA JULIA MOSKIN eljc Jfcto Jlcnk ehucs El Bulli, which has been the most influential restaurant in the world, served its last dinner on July 30. The next morning, Spain’s chefs woke up to a radically changed universe. In a single
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    • 487 10  -  By TARA PARKER-POPE ®(jc ;Nhu Jlork SJtme$ Is it simple lack of willpower that makes fatty foods irresistible, or are deeper forces at work? Intriguing new research suggests the latter. Scientists in California and Italy reported in July
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 956 8  -  By VIKAS BAJAJ El)e 'N'elu Jlork Smncs PUNE, India—When Ranjit Date returned to India 20 years ago after earning a doctorate in robotics from an American university, he hoped to help automate factory assembly lines in his home country. His company, Precision Automation
      El)e 'N'elu Jlork Smncs; KuNI TAKAHASHI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  956 words
    • 629 7  -  ANITA PATIL El)c JCctu JJork ehnes In our narcissistic bubble, everyone’s a critic and everyone’s a star. We think we can do it all, and we believe we’re always right. But what if the masses are wrong? What if the fewer the voices involved,
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    • 732 6  -  By DINA KRAFT EIk iNetu JJork Elmes TEL AVIV, Israel Jewish and Arab, straight and gay, secular and religious, the patients who come to Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv every day are united by a single hope: that medical science will bring
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    • 598 6  -  By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO She JsVut JJork Elmes SANTIAGO, Chile For Ana María Silva, what began as purchases of perfume and two pairs of shoes spiraled into a credit card nightmare, as her debt multiplied tenfold in
      She JsVut JJork Elmes; Victor ruiz caballero for the New York times  -  598 words
    • 833 4  -  By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN El)c iN'ctu Jjork Simcs DADAAB, Kenya The people start trudging in at dawn, more than a thousand every day, exhausted, sick and starving, materializing out of the thin desert air to take their places at the gates of the world’s
      El)c iN'ctu Jjork Simcs; TYLER HICKS/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  833 words
    • 516 4  -  By THOMAS FULLER Slje iXhit Jjork Simcs BANGKOK—Thailand has never advertised itself as a beacon for fugitives, but they seem to show up here in droves. Millions of tourists, most of them presumably without criminal records, travel to Thailand every year, drawn
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    • 655 3  -  By STEPHEN CASTLE Elje Jfclu Jlork Ehncs SOFIA, Bulgaria Arms pinned behind his back, Alexei “The Tractor” Petrov lay with his face pushed to the floor after heavily armed masked police commandos raided his home early last year. The police then hauled him
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    • 731 3  -  By LYDIA POLGREEN Elje Jfclu Jlork Ehncs NEW DELHI At least two prime ministers have spent a few nights behind its high walls. Its current occupants include three members of Parliament, a top bureaucrat and one of India’s richest men. In an unprecedented
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    • 732 2  -  news analYsis By JOHN F. BURNS Sljc iNctu J1 o rk ehncs LONDON It was the idyll carried in my backpack through nearly 40 years traveling the distant world: the gilded memories of the England where I grew up of all that the country
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    • 724 2  -  intelligenCe/YOANI intelligenCe/YOANI SáNchez Yoani Sánchez, who was awarded the 2008 Ortega y Gasset Prize for digitaljournalism, blogs at desdecuba.com/generaciony. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. eljcJsVut Jlork ehncs HAVANA The entrance no longer looks like the gray and dusty place of a year ago. Now the walls
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  • 941 1  -  By ANTHONY SHADID Slje 2s'c\u JJork Simes hAMA, syria In this city that bears the scars of one of the modern Middle east’s bloodiest episodes, the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad has begun to help syrians imagine life after dictatorship. Barricades of trash bins,
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  • 983 1  -  By STEVEN ERLANGER The New York Times OslO ThIs Is oNe of the most placid and pleasant capitals of europe, but oslo is a divided city. The west side is rich, safe and predominantly white; the east, poorer, less safe and populated by immigrants, many
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