Today, 25 September 2011

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    12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY September 25, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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      786 1 MERCER’S WONG SU-YEN ON MUSIC AND LEADERS the st regis perspectives 6 COMPLAINTS AGAINST DOCS UP 58% hot news 12 UBS CEO OSWALD GRUEBEL QUITS hot news 12 Vettel for the win says Leonard Thomas Alonso could surprise says Ian De Cotta Formula 1 Pages 14 17 sunday special 2
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      108 1 Circle of life Little gems, good eats along the Circle Line route sunday special 2 4 Sunday, September 25, 2011 MICA (P) 041/07/2011 Articles selected for A Publication of MediaCorp Copyright 2011 The New York Times Israelis and Palestinians view the green Line differently. a Palestinian herds goats near Israeli
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    Lock icon A circle of life
    3693 2  -  sundayspecial With the Circle Line opening fully on Oct 8, there are a multitude of gems to discover and explore in the industrial and HDB heartlands and parks within walking distance of the MRT stations. Today on Sunday sets out to give you a taste and
    PHOTO URA; PHOTOS BY CHEOW XIN YI, SYAFIQAH HAMID AND ERNEST CHUA  -  3,693 words
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    Lock icon It’s not all about the plan
    1159 6 Being open to what might come along has landed Mercer (ASEAN) MD and senior partner Wong Su-Yen in unexpected but rewarding places, as Lin Yanqin finds out the perspectives At age three she was playing the piano, and she dabbled in composing tunes and
    PHOTOS BY DON WONG  -  1,159 words
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    Lock icon Growing up Lladro
    668 8  -  When you are a scion of Spanish porcelain sculpture craftsmen, creativity runs through your veins thefinerlife annette tan todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Growing up, a young Angeles Lladro (right) was always surrounded by beautiful porcelain sculptures. They are, after all, her heritage. The daughter of Juan Lladro, one of the
    PHOTOS BY DON WONG, COURTESY LLADRO  -  668 words
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      38 8 Together with MENDAK1 The achievements of our students at Anugerah MENDAKI cum Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award 2011 Logy an ter our mehstte- ammu mendaki. orgy. &g toy mewy they U&t of amend recipients MENDAKI 4 roGjr^cR
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    Lock icon Strangers on a plane
    832 10  -  Talk is tyranny when you’re stuck next to a motormouth in the sky speakeasy phin wong phin wong features editor todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg I could feel his shifty little eyes darting back and forth in my direction before the man in the seat next to me actually turned
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    Lock icon Doing the write thing
    941 10  -  faceinthecrowd phylicia lee phylicia Is my child happy? Why can’t my mum understand me? Questions like these plague every child and parent, which is why, at age 15, Nicholas Chan (picture) has written a book to help teenagers and parents understand each other better so he
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon Putin set to run for President
      223 12 AP MOSCOW Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday proposed former President Vladimir Putin as presidential candidate for 2012, almost certainly guaranteeing Mr Putin’s return to office four years after he was legally forced to step aside. Mr Medvedev made the proposal in an address to
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      Lock icon Gruebel resigns as CEO of UBS
      527 12 AGENCIES ZURICH Mr Oswald Gruebel has resigned from UBS as its chief executive officer, ending days of speculation about whether he could retain his position following the latest scandal to hit Switzerland’s biggest bank. Mr Gruebel, 67, leaves as the Zurichbased bank and regulators
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      Lock icon Man fires at guard before papal Mass
      228 12 ERFURT A man was arrested yesterday for shooting a security guard with an air rifle in Germany ahead of a Mass to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said there was “no worry” in the papal entourage and the
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      58% increase in complaints filed against doctors: SMC
      389 12  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) has reported a 58-per-cent jump in the number of complaints filed against doctors last year from the year before, the council said at the second Physician’s Pledge Affirmation Ceremony yesterday. The numbers come
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      Lock icon A FIGHT AGAINST EXTREMISM
      76 13 Thousands of Muslims were gathered at a rally in London yesterday to fight extremism and promote a moderate, inclusive version of Islam. The event’s organisers, Minhaj-ul-Quran International, said some 12,000 Muslims were expected at Wembley Arena. The event was broadcast live to dozens of countries. The
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      Lock icon European govts, ECB must team up: Geithner
      234 13 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON United States Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said European nations, need to “escalate” their actions so that they do not “leave the central banking carrying too much of the burden of responding to a crisis”. It is essential for European governments to
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      Lock icon US Senate rejects spending Bill over disaster aid
      217 13 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The United States Congress is at an impasse over a federal spending Bill amid a partisan dispute on funding for disaster assistance, escalating a fight that threatens a shutdown of government operations at the end of the month. The Senate
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      Lock icon NORTH WEST CDC RAISES S$1.2M FOR THE NEEDY
      135 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The North West Community Development Council (CDC) has raised S$1.2 million to help needy families in the district, in a pre-emptive measure against an impending economic downturn. Launching the fund yesterday, Mayor Teo Ho Pin said: “For those who are
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      Lock icon A NETWORK FOR NATURE LOVERS
      155 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA The National Parks Board (NParks) is starting a network forSingaporeans keen on nature conservation. Individuals, community groups and organisations can sign up to take part in nature awareness activities like photography and bird watching. Called Community in Nature (CIN), there will also be
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      Lock icon PM PLEDGES NO ISLAMIC LAW IN MALAYSIA
      89 13 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak yesterday vowed the federal government will staunchly block any attempts to enforce Islamic law, or hudud, ending a budding debate that has pitted non-Muslim parties against their Muslim allies ahead of elections. The Islamic code
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      Lock icon MORE THOROUGH TESTING FOR JAPANESE RICE
      91 13 REUTERS Japan found the first case of rice with radioactive materials far exceeding a government-set level for a preliminary test of pre-harvested crop, requiring thorough inspection of the rice to be harvested from the region, the farm ministry said on Friday. It said radioactive
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      Lock icon UN nuclear body meeting ends in disunity
      193 13 REUTERS ENNA The United Nations (UN) atomic agency ended its annual member state meeting in disunity yesterday, with delegates unable to adopt a resolution on a policy area central to its work in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Two Western diplomats accused
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      Lock icon NASA SATELLITE FALLS TO EARTH
      70 13 REUTERS A 6-tonne NASA science satellite (picture) plunged to earth yesterday, but where any debris ended up was not immediately clear. Canada, Africa and Australia had been named as possible sites for touchdown of debris from the tour-bus-sized satellite. In its re-entry to earth, the
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  • SPORTS
    • SINGTEL SINGAPORE GP Formula 1
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        Lock icon Vettel's 'liquid', and set to reign in S'pore
        747 14  -  German could seal another world title tonight after a commanding display in qualifying FORMULA 1 2011 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix COMMENTARY LEONARD THOMAS leonard@mediacorp.com.sg Leonard Thomas is sports editor at Today. In his autobiography Life, The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards describes the
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        Lock icon Vettel's fast, but Alonso's in love with Marina Bay
        554 15  -  Spaniard is a two-time winner here and could even surprise from fifth on the grid FORMULA 1 2011 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix COMMENTARY IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg Ian De Cotta is F1 correspondent at Today. On the tough streets of Marina
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        STARTING GRID
        46 15 1st Sebastian Vettel RED BULL 2nd MarkWebber RED BULL 3rd Jenson Button MCLAREN 4th Lewis Hamilton MCLAREN 5th Fernando Alonso FERRARI 6th Felipe Massa FERRARI 7th Nico Rosberg MERCEDES 8th Michael Schumacher MERCEDES 9th Adrian Sutil FORCE INDIA 10th Paul Di Resta FORCE INDIA
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        Lock icon The Singapore Sling makes Senna wary
        590 16  -  Renault’s Brazilian pilot happy tackling one of his ‘biggest FORMULA 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Jenson Button, the 2009 world champion, calls it the most demanding race on the 19-stop Formula 1 calendar. The Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix
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        Fans soak in petrol fumes, lap up music along Marina Bay
        368 16  -  PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The food and beverage outlets located all around the 5.073km Marina Bay street circuit were doing brisk business, and nearly 45,000 fans filled the Padang in between the third practice session and qualifying last night
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      Lock icon Torres sees red
      561 18 10-man Chelsea hammer Swansea but Spanish striker is talk of the town, again THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON One wonders if Fernando Torres can get any unluckier. The Spaniard scored a brilliant goal against Manchester United last Sunday, only to end the game with a remarkable miss that
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      Lock icon Super subs Balotelli, Milner win it for City
      499 18 AP MANCHESTER Manchester City had to labour for their 2-0 win over Everton yesterday, as late goals by substitutes Mario Balotelli and James Milner (picture) secured their fifth victory in six league matches this season. City’s victory ended a run of four
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      Lock icon France self-destruct at Eden Park
      513 19 Horrific defending by Les Bleus makes it easy for All Blacks AP AUCKLAND France missed tackle after tackle as New Zealand routed them in an emphatic 37-17 win in the Rugby World Cup, exacerbating claims that coach Marc Lievremont did not pick a good enough
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      Lock icon Scotland to 'meet fire with fire' against Argentina
      425 19 AGENCIES WELLINGTON For Argentina and Scotland, familiarity breeds respect. The teams will meet today for the sixth time in four years, this time in a Rugby World Cup match that is likely to determine which team will proceed to the knockout rounds.
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      757 21 SUNDAY TV 2011 FORMULA ONE SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX: FINAL RACE (Live) Channel 5, 7.30pm The scene is set. The drivers are ready. Who will win the only night race in the world tonight? Can Fernando Alonso win it for the third time on Singapore soil or will Sebastian Vettel
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      451 21 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE okto, 10pm In this drama of teenage angst and rebellion, three high school students who should lead idyllic lives in their stable, comfortable suburban families explode with a violence and sexuality that their parents cannot understand. Rebel Without A Cause rips the facade from the post-war
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      1902 22 TV LISTINGS MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY CHANNEL CHANNEL CHANNEL 6.00AM Unbeatable Banzuke 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Films Stars Asia 11.30 Lonely Planet Bluelist: Best In Asia NOON 80’s Rewind 12.30PM Spin II 1.00 Triple Nine IV 2.00 The Two
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  • THE WAY WE EAT
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      Lock icon Culinary Innovation Migrates to the North
      836 16  -  By JULIA MOSKIN Eljc Jfhu Jlork Shncs A new culinary movement has washed through the world’s top kitchens in the last five years, flowing not from Spain, France or the Mediterranean, but from Copenhagen, Stockholm and points as far north as Lapland. “I would
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      Lock icon Straight From the Garden, Originating an Ocean Away
      531 16  -  essay JOHN TIERNEY eljcJCcUt Jlork Stines The foods we consider local are results of a globalization process that began when Columbus landed in the New World. Suddenly all the continents were linked. What resulted, Charles C. Mann argues in his fascinating new
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      Lock icon Fresh, Local Produce, Grown Without Soil
      674 15  -  By GLENN COLLINS Sljc JfrUt Jlork Elmcs Michael Anthony admires the butter lettuce he has been buying for the last month so much that he invented a salad for it. In the dish he serves at Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan, the greens are the
      Sljc JfrUt Jlork Elmcs; STEWART CAIRNS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  674 words
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      Lock icon A Winemaker’s Journey of Chance
      700 15  -  By BARRY BEARAK Sljc JfrUt Jlork Elmcs STELLENBOSCH, South Africa When Ntsiki Biyela won a winemaking scholarship to Stellenbosch University in 1998, she was a curious choice. She had grown up in the undulating hills of Zululand, living in a village of huts and shacks.
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon Exploiting Psychology Of Listening
      932 14  -  By GUY GUGLIOTTA ®(]c JJcUt Jlork 5Jtme$ LOS ANGELES A visitor led into the pitch-blackness of Chris Kyriakakis’s audio lab here at the University of Southern California to hear a recording would have no way to know how big the room was. At first the recording
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      Lock icon When the Tiniest Sounds Can Trigger Irrational Rage
      457 14  -  By JOYCE COHEN ®(]c JJcUt Jlork 5Jtme$ For people with misophonia, mealtime can be torture. The sounds of chewing, slurping and gurgling can send them into an instantaneous, blood-boiling rage. “The reaction is irrational,” said Adah Siganoff, 52, of Alpine, California yet
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      Lock icon From Just One Donor, Some 150 Offspring
      746 13  -  By JACQUELINE MROZ el)c JCcUt Jlork Sirncs Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings an extended family
      el)c JCcUt Jlork Sirncs; DAVID AHNTHOLZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  746 words
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      Lock icon Coveted Fin Imperils a Feared Predator
      585 13  -  By SANDRA BLAKESLEE eljc-Xctu Jlork ehucs One of nature’s oldest and most successful predators is in profound trouble. As Juliet Eilperin reports in her dismaying new book, “Demon Fish,” more than 73 million sharks are killed each year by fishermen who hack off their
      eljc-Xctu Jlork ehucs; JIM WILSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES; BELOW, DAVID ROYAL/MONTEREY COUNTY HERALD, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  585 words
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Investors In Tech Ignore Warnings
      844 12  -  By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Miguel Helft contributed reporting. E(k JfrUt Jlork Ehncs MENLO PARK, California The center of the technology universe is in a time warp, and times here are still flush. Even now, technology types in their 20s and 30s are spending a million-plus
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      Lock icon Two Banks, Two Tales of Crisis
      709 12  -  ESSAY STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF El)c Jfrtu Jlork Ehncs Three years ago this month, Bank of America leapt into the maelstrom and bought Merrill Lynch for about $50 billion. Early the next morning, Lehman Broth- ers announced its bankruptcy filing. Lehman soon sold its investment
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      Lock icon Armed Raids by Police Equal Business as Usual in Russia
      744 11  -  By ANDREW E. KRAMER OlgaSlobodchikova contributed reporting from Moscow. eljcJCcUt Jlork Ehucs MOSCOW Exxon Mobil, welcome to the world of the “masky show.” A day after Exxon, the American oil giant, struck a strategic alliance with Russia’s state-owned oil company,
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      Lock icon So Many Gadgets, So Many Aches
      469 11  -  essay PHYLLIS K0RKK1 Sljc Jlork Elmcs As people harness their bodies to use more electronic devices in more places, they may unknowingly be putting themselves at a greater risk of injury. Visit any airport waiting area, said Alan Hedge, an ergonomics professor at Cornell
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  • ARTS & STYLES
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      Lock icon Merging Layers, Merging Identities
      844 10  -  essay HOLLAND COTTER Sl)c JfcUt Jlork Ehncs The Museum of Modern Art in New York has never known quite what to do with Willem de Kooning. The artist, who painted both opulent abstractions and big, blowsy dames, resists easy branding. So the museum has largely neglected
      Sl)c JfcUt Jlork Ehncs; FRED R. CONRAD/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  844 words
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      Lock icon Desert Blues, Recorded On-Site Without Walls
      721 10  -  By LARRY ROHTER Sljc JfeUt Jlork Simcs In the language of the Tuareg nomads who for centuries have roamed the most remote reaches of the southern Sahara, “tinariwen” means “deserts.” But ever since the musical group of that name released its first CD in
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      227 9 Now on BlackBerry PlayBook Wi* 9 Today Commentary Lifestyle Movie Listings Photos Allegations by letter-writer unfounded, says Ministry of Manpower Accounts of Dr Goh captured in a book New Parliament to start on October 10 Norway PM to politicians; Think before you speak Follow us on Train crowding expected to
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon With Egypt, Turkey Is Envisioning an Axis of Political Power
      836 7  -  By ANTHONY SHADID eljcJsVut Jlork Sunes ANKARA, Turkey A newly assertive Turkey recently offered a vision of a starkly realigned Middle East, where the country’s former allies in Syria and Israel fall into deeper isolation, and a burgeoning alliance with
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      Lock icon Living With Purpose
      601 7  -  LENS ANITA PATIL Slje iNetu Jlork Sunes A housing slump may have altered the real estate market, but after an onslaught of floods, fires and recessions, our notions of what a home means have also changed. Calamities, both natural and manmade, have pushed some into living with
      Slje iNetu Jlork Sunes; TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  601 words
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      Lock icon In Italian Economy, Austerity Is Relative
      796 6  -  By RACHEL DONADIO El)c JsVut JJork Sunes COMITINI, Italy With only 960 residents and a handful of roads, this tiny village in southern Sicily does not appear to have major traffic problems. But that does not prevent it from having one full-time traffic officer
      El)c JsVut JJork Sunes; SANDRO SCALIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  796 words
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      Lock icon Rupture With Vatican Is Transforming Ireland
      664 6  -  news analysis By SARAH LYALL Eljc Jfcut JJork Sunes DUBLIN —Even as it remains preoccupied with its struggling economy, Ireland is in the midst of a profound transformation, as rapid as it is revolutionary: it is recalibrating its relationship to the Roman Catholic Church,
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      Lock icon In China, Bulldozers Combat Rural Influx of Migrant Workers
      696 4  -  By ANDREW JACOBS Shi Da contributed research. el)e JsVut Jlork Elmcs BEIJING Xie Zhenqing spent 12 years turning some ramshackle houses into Red Star, a low-cost school for 1,400 children of migrants from poor rural areas. It took just a few
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      Lock icon Chinese Tour Europe, but Shop in Paris
      568 4  -  By STEVEN ERLANGER Maïa de la Baume contributed reporting. el)e JsVtu Jlork Stines PARIS It was once the Americans, then the Japanese, then the Russians. Nowit’sthe Chinese. In recent months, Paris has been dominated by the Chinese, who have begun to travel abroad
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      Lock icon Corruption and Murder Plague India’s Health Push for Its Poor
      787 3  -  By LYDIA POLGREEN Hari Kumar contributed reporting. eljc iNhu llork Elmcs LUCKNOW, India The first doctor to die, a senior government health administrator, was shot on his morning walk last October. Six months later, his successor, a cardiologist, was shot
      eljc iNhu llork Elmcs; DANIEL ETTER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  787 words
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      Lock icon A Solution for the 21st Century
      883 2  -  intelligence/NADIM NADIM SHEHADI Nadim Shehadi is an associatefellow at Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. eljcJsVut JJork elmcii London Living through the Arab Spring has been overwhelming. It is difficult to absorb the fact that the
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      Lock icon Little Will to Halt Somalia’s Famine
      719 2  -  news analYsis By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN eljcJsVut JJork elmcii DOLO, Somalia Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? The United Nations’ warnings could not be clearer. A drought-induced famine is steadily creeping across Somalia and tens of thousands of people have
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      1900 5 AUTHOR, PUNDIT, LOVER OF LIFE theStRegisperspectithe St Regis perspectives 8-9 INn"” TODAY on Saturday I m Force She has a busy ocisocial life filled with lunches and dinners awith girlfriends, afamily and yes, iit is true, the go who want her attention. NOT JUST LUXURY TRAVEL BUTBUT BESPOKEhthe finer life
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