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    12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY April 8, 2012 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 072/02/2012
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      19 1 TURNOVER FORTHE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Renovation nightmares sunday special 2-4 Kabuki: Behind the facade photo essay 8-9
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      37 1 SHE DIDN’T WANT TO MOVE TO A LOCAL SCHOOL AT FIRST face in the crowd 10 1ST NATIONAL GAMES TO KICK OFF IN HEARTLANDS hot news 11 SAINTS ALUMNI SET TO JOIN RUGBY PREMIER LEAGUE sports 22
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      40 1 FIGHTER JET CRASHES INTO US APARTMENT COMPLEX hot news 11 CHINESE TEEN SOLD KIDNEY FOR IPAD, IPHONE hot news 12 LANDMARK TALKS WITH MYANMAR REBELS hot news 13 Audi Singapore MD burns rubber at Sepang the st regis perspectives 6-7
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    Lock icon Dream homes, renovation nightmare
    1406 2  -  Renovating your home can be an exercise in sheer frustration, with grouses against contractors the second-most common complaints the consumer watchdog receives. Is regulation needed? Sunday special cheow xin yi todaysunday@mediacorp. com.sg Months after they renovated their Pasir Ris house, Ms Wong Siow Yuen and her
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      146 2 (Ml Q 'Ll] 35 YEARS OF BEST-LOVED FLAVOURS CHICKEN CRISPERS® -J WHEN YOU'RE AS PASSIONATE ABOUT MOUTHWATERING FOOD AS WE ARE, IT'S NO WONDER SO MANY PEOPLE FALL FOR YOU. FOR 35 YEARS. CHILI'S HAS BEEN SERVING UP THE INCREDIBLE FLAVOURS YOUR HEART DESIRES. FROM OUR FALL-OFF-THE-BONE TENDER BABY BACK
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    Lock icon Complaints about contractors
    95 3 CASE Failure to honour Such as not adhering to promises or disappearing halfway through the job Unsatisfactory services Shoddy or incomplete workmanship Defective goods Such as floor tiles popping or cracked sink Misleading claims Such as failing to highlight hidden costs, or claiming an issue is major
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    Lock icon There should be rules to weed out ‘cowboy’ contractors
    738 4  -  CHEOW XIN YI Is an industry that has grown more notorious in recent years for shoddy workmanship and inconsistent standards, badly in need of some form of regulation? CASE executive director Seah Seng Choon says one way that homeowners can, in
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    CASE tips on dealing with contractors
    154 4 Check licences, accreditation and credentials of firms. (List of accredited CaseTrust contractors: www.case.org. sg/casetrust4.htm) Request quotations from more than one design firm. Go through with designer the proposed designs and project schedules. Vet thoroughly the colour schemes, materials and dimensions and not just the
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    Lock icon To rque of the town
    1396 6 He’s a petrolhead with a need for speed. Yet Audi Singapore MD Re in hold Carl tells Aaron De Silva the luxury carmaker is no longer just about selling wheels but a brand that’s into high fashion, sports and the arts the perspectives Reinhold Carl
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    Staging kabuki
    177 8 What goes into the making of this traditional Japanese dance-drama? Photographer Don Wong follows a visiting troupe behind the scenes of a performance of The Masseur and The Thief last month at the School Of The Arts Singapore 1 Veteran kabuki dresser Yuki Mori (left) helps performer Suzimo
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    Lock icon Going native
    934 10  -  Becoming a Singapore citizen at age 15 was just the first step. Beatriz Naguiat, who transferred from an international school to a local one, had to learn what it meant to truly fit in faceinthecrowd yu pei fern todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Beatriz Naguiat was enjoying teenage life at the United
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Have fun, but not at others’ expense: DPM Teo
      203 11  -  S RAMESH SINGAPORE Organisations that want to be creative must be mindful of the values of the races and religions in Singapore, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean yesterday. He was responding to a question
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      Lock icon S’pore heartlands set to get sporty
      364 11  -  More than 1,000 teams expected to participate in first Singapore National Games S RAMESH rameshs@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Sports is moving into the heartlands in a big way to help build community ties, with the inaugural Singapore National Games (SNG) to kick off in September. Preparations
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      Lock icon Navy jet crashes into US apartment complex
      378 11 AP VIRGINIA BEACH Zooming along at 270kph in a fighter jet carrying volatile fuel, two Navy pilots faced nothing but bad choices when their aircraft malfunctioned over Virginia’s most populated city. Somehow, however, the student pilot, his instructor and everyone on the ground
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      Lock icon Teen sells kidney to buy iPhone, iPad
      403 12 AP BEIJING The authorities have indicted five people in central China for involvement in illegal organ trading after a teenager sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and an iPad. The case has prompted an outpour of concern that not enough
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      Lock icon Images show North Korea near to launch
      282 12 AP SEOUL North Korea may have moved the first stage of a rocket to a launch stand, indicating it is on schedule for a controversial midApril launch, according to a new analysis of satellite images. The satellite photos show an apparent completion of
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      Lock icon Now you can use gloves with your touchscreen
      264 12  -  ALVINA SOH SINGAPORE Keeping your winter gloves on while using a touchscreen device is now possible, thanks to a pair of touchscreen sensitive gloves designed by four students from the National University of Singapore. Touchscreens rely on detecting the electrical charge in
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      Lock icon CHINESE ARTEFACTS WORTH S$4M STOLEN FROM MUSEUM
      105 12 AP Two Chinese artefacts with an estimated combined value of £2 million (S$4 million) have been stolen from Durham University’s Oriental Museum, said the British police yesterday. The Durham police said that two men and a woman from the West Midlands area have
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      Lock icon IRAN CAN PRODUCE NUCLEAR WEAPONS: LAWMAKER
      115 12 AP Iran has the knowledge and scientific capability to produce nuclear weapons but will never do so, a prominent lawmaker said. Mr Gholamreza Mesbahi Moghadam said Iran can easily produce the highly enriched uranium used to build atomic bombs but it is not Tehran’s
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      Lock icon Myanmar President holds landmark talks with rebels
      368 13 REUTERS YANGON Myanmar’s President had a landmark meeting yesterday with one of the country’s biggest ethnic rebel groups, a mediator said, marking one of the biggest steps taken by a government seeking “everlasting peace” after decades of hostilities. President Thein Sein told a
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      Lock icon The new US Ambassador to Myanmar?
      95 13 BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON The US government has nominated Mr Derek Mitchell (picture), the State Department special envoy to Myanmar, as the first US Ambassador to the country since 1990, the Financial Times reported, without saying where it got information. The appointment, which the newspaper said
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      What’s taught in school vs what industry needs
      514 14  -  CHEOW XIN YI xinyi@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE They may hire the cream of the crop of graduates in India, but during his visits to some globally competitive companies in India, Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam found that these companies still took pains to set
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      Lock icon IKEA France admits unethical practices in spying probe
      208 14 REUTERS PARIS The management of IKEA in France, where workers have sued the company for allegedly spying on employees, admitted on Friday to activities contravening its ethical standards and pledged to put a stop to them. Police searched the French headquarters of
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      Lock icon Ng Eng Hen visits Idaho detachment
      159 14 SINGAPORE Minister for Defence Ng Eng Hen visited the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Peace Carvin V F-15SG fighter detachment at the Mountain Home Air Force Base (MHAFB) in Idaho yesterday, as part of his introductory visit to the United States. The PC
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      They designed scheme for maids – but may not get to run it
      264 14  - They designed scheme for maids but may not get to run it SAIFULBAHRI ISMAIL SINGAPORE The non-profit organisation which had designed and spearheaded a programme to help maids cope with living and working in Singapore may not be able to run the programme when it is launched later this year.
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      Lock icon Romney attacks Obama on job growth
      430 15 But the neither-hot-nor-cold data leaves both men’s campaigns in limbo AGENCIES WASHINGTON Republican Mitt Romney has seized on the slowest reported jobs growth in five months, saying President Barack Obama’s economic policies have failed and “the President’s excuses have run out”. Mr Romney, seeking
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      Lock icon IN THE HOLY LAND
      89 15 Members of the Catholic clergy during a procession at the traditional Washing of the Feet ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Thousands of Christians gathered near the church for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray
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      Lock icon SATELLITE PHOTOS, VIOLENCE CAST DOUBT ON ASSAD’S CEASEFIRE INTENTIONS
      195 15 AP Syrian government shelling and offensives against rebel-held towns killed at least 53 civilians across the country yesterday, activists said, as the United States posted online satellite images of troop deployments that cast further doubt on whether the regime intends to
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      Lock icon New safety standards for Japan’s nuclear plants
      243 15 AP TOKYO Japan is setting stricter, clearer safety guidelines for nuclear power plants to ease public concern about restarting reactors idled after the disasters a year ago. The guidelines announced on Friday are more extensive than computer-simulated “stress tests” designed to estimate how
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      Lock icon CHINA DISSIDENT FANG LIZHI DIES
      165 15 AP Fang Lizhi, one of China’s best-known dissidents, has died in the United States, where he fled after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown. He was 76. Mr Fang’s friend and fellow US-based exiled dissident Wang Dan wrote on Facebook and Twitter: “I hope the Chinese people
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      Lock icon JAPAN, CHINA TO COORDINATE ON SUPPORT FOR IMF
      159 15 BLOOMBERG Japan and China will seek to coordinate on supporting the International Monetary Fund’s effort to contain Europe’s debt crisis, Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said. “Rather than make decisions independently, we’ve agreed to consult each other very closely” on financial contributions
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      263 13 Who Says You Can't Clock Your Personal Best Time At 55? There’s no limit as to what you can do when you set your mind to it whatever your age. Scientifically formulated Ensure® Life builds the nutrition foundation for you to keep living life to the fullest in the years
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Mata keeps Chelsea on course
      653 17 Spaniard’s last-gasp winner sinks unlucky Wigan THE GUARDIAN ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Chelsea 2 Wigan 1 LONDON The major riddle that Roberto Di Matteo must resolve over the coming weeks is: How can Barcelona be beaten? The only help he got with answering that here was: Not
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      Lock icon Suarez saves Reds’ blushes
      368 17 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Liverpool 1 Aston Villa 1 Luis Suarez’s (picture) late header prevented a fourth successive league defeat but it only served to paper over the cracks of another faltering Liverpool performance. The Reds went into the game on the back of six
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      Lock icon Black Cats deal Spurs more bad luck
      539 18 Draw moves London side back into third but rivals Arsenal can pounce AP ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Sunderland 0 Tottenham 0 SUNDERLAND Tottenham Hotspur missed a chance to strengthen their place in the Premier League’s top four after being held to a 0-0 draw at
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      Lock icon Pardew hails ‘electric’ Cisse
      481 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH NEWCASTLE Newcastle manager Alan Pardew says Papiss Cisse’s outstanding form should come as no surprise after watching the Senegal international fire his side to a 2-0 victory at Swansea that strengthens their bid to secure Champions League football. Cisse, 26, grabbed both goals
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      Lock icon The late show with Man United
      620 19 Ferguson says his club have historically stayed strong in the late season AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Man Utd vs QPR MANCHESTER Manchester United can take an eight-point lead in the race for the English Premiership crown if they defeat Queens Park Rangers tonight with Manchester
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      Lock icon Mancini fears the chop
      414 19 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Roberto Mancini admits he is not guaranteed to survive as Manchester City manager if he fails to deliver the Premier League trophy to the Etihad Stadium this season. The Italian has conceded that City’s title ambitions will be over if crosstown rivals
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      Lock icon An embarrassment to the game
      864 20  -  Tiger’s petulant display not befitting of his stature in golf TIM DAHLBERG Tim Dahlberg is a sports columnist for The Associated Press. AUGUSTA It’s a question we’ve all been asking since he wrecked his car and his marriage that night 30 months ago who is
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      Lock icon Couples stirs Masters romance
      443 20 AGENCIES GOLF 76th Masters AUGUSTA There is something about Fred Couples (picture) and Augusta National. The 52-year-old American won here 20 years ago, still the only Major title in his resume. He has come close a few times since and he might come close again in
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      Lock icon LionsXII roar again
      648 21  -  S’pore team survive Johor fightback and hostile crowd to stretch MSL lead DAN GUEN CHIN danguenchin@mediacorp.com.sg MALAYSIAN SUPER LEAGUE 2012 LionsXII 1 Johor FC 0 JOHOR BAHRU Another match, another win, and the growing stature of the LionsXII in the Malaysian Super League (MSL) is clear for
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      Lock icon Malaysian Shaaban leads shortened Handa Classic
      434 21  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg GOLF 2012 ISPS Handa Singapore Classic SINGAPORE A third consecutive day of thunderstorm and lightning has forced organisers of the ISPS Handa Singapore Classic to shorten the tournament to 54 holes. Final-round play has commenced at the US$400,000 (S$504,260) event at
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      Lock icon Saints alumni set for Premier League action
      567 22  -  St Andrew’s celebrate 150th anniversary with double win over RI TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Since 2004, the Jim Weir Cup has been a once-a-year opportunity for former rugby players from Saint Andrew’s School (SA) and Raffles Institution (RI) to play the sport competitively.
      PHOTOS BY WEE TECK HIAN, DARREN LIM (ST ANDREW’S SEC SCH)  -  567 words
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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      389 23 RUSH HOUR III Channel~5,~7.30pm~(PG: Action Violence) LAPD~Detective~James~Carter~(Chris~Tucker)~and~ Chief~Inspector~Lee~(Jackie~Chan)~are~back~with~the~ third~instalment~of~the~popular~action~comedy!~~ This~time,~they~rush~to~France~to~reach~a~French~ woman~with~knowledge~of~the~Triads’~secret~leaders~ in~order~to~protect~her~and~the~City~of~Lights.~ CHANNEL tellchannel5@ mediacorp.com.sg ~6.00AM~ Body~Beautiful ~6.30~ Generation~Ex ~7.00~ The~Martha~Stewart~Show~VI ~8.00~ The~Dr~Oz~Show ~9.00~ The~Ellen~DeGeneres~Show~IX ~10.00~ Major~League~Gaming~Weekly~ ~10.30~ America’s~Cup~Magazine~Television~Series:~ America’s~Cup~Uncovered ~11.00~ Top~Gear~XIII ~NOON~ Countdown~To~London ~12.30PM~ ISPS~Handa~Singapore~Classic~2012~(Live) ~4.30~ America’s~Funniest~Home~Videos~XXI~ ~5.00~ First~XI ~6.00~ Films~&~Stars~Asia ~6.30~ Anything~Goes ~7.00~ The~Simpsons~XXII ~7.30~ Rush~Hour~III~(PG: Action Violence)
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      76 23 KALAIGNAN Vasantham,~9pm Kalaignan ~is~a~1993~Tamil~thriller~film,~starring~ Kamal~Haasan,~Gur~Dutt,~Bindiya,~Sivaranjani,~~ Sindhuja~and~Nirmalamma. ON~STARHUB~CABLE~TV ON~SINGTEL~MIO~TV BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE ARSENAL VS MAN CITY (LIVE) mio~stadium~(HD)~(mio~TV~Ch~102),~9pm City~look~on~course~to~win~their~first~title~~ since~1968~but~will~have~to~get~past~a~resurgent~ Gunners~who~will~look~to~prove~that~money~ does~not~guarantee~success.~The~Gunners~will~~ be~looking~to~get~maximum~points~as~well~ in~their~quest~to~maintain~their~European~ ambitions~for~next~season~as~well. I GET THAT A LOT (Premiere) beTV~(StarHub~TV~Ch~525),~9pm Working~ordinary~jobs,~celebrities~confuse~ customers~who~cannot~decide~if~it~is~the~actual~ celebrity~or~an~astonishing~look-alike.~As~they~ continue~to~deny~their~true~identities,~various~ reactions~from~their~customers~elicit~exasperated~ and~hilarious~responses.~Celebrity~participants~ include~Heidi~Klum~working~at~a~pizza~parlour,~ and~Jessica~Simpson~as~a~computer~technician. THE SORCERER AND THE WHITE SNAKE Celestial~Movies~(mio~TV~Ch~52),~9pm~~ The~smash-hit~remake~of~Green Snake,~starring~ Charlene~Choi~and~Eva~Huang~as~beautiful~snake~ demons~who~venture~into~the~human~world,~
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    Lock icon Competing To Influence Myanmar
    809 1  -  By JANE PERLEZ 3l)c iNetaf JJark (times HSIPAW, Myanmar As Chinese workers bulldoze trenches into the orange soil across northern Myanmar for gas and oil pipelines to China, China’s largest energy conglomerate is paying cash for land and trees in the pipelines’ path, and building schools
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    Lock icon In India, the Business of Diplomacy
    1323 1  -  Industry Helps Open Doors to the World By JIM YARDLEY The New York Times Lahore, Pakistan FOR SIX DECADES, through three wars and a nuclear standoff, diplomats have tried, and failed, to improve relations between Pakistan and India. Now, the private sector is giving
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon In Syria, A Doomed System
      846 2  -  intelligenCe/roger ROGER COHEN El)c 'N'clu Jlork Ehncs London The confluence of the Syrian crisis and the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Bosnian war seems ominous. Once again a murderous dictator is doing his worst, a country is split along sectarian lines, the international
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      Lock icon Fighting Terrorism The French Way
      666 2  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By STEVEN ERLANGER El)c JCctu Jlork ehnes PARIS France and the United States have different notions of liberty, equality and fraternity, though the words look roughly the same in both languages. Methods of combating homegrown terrorism are also quite different, stemming from different
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      Lock icon Magazine Pairs Piety and Style
      611 3  -  Istanbul~journal By DAN BILEFSKY ®1)C JCetu Jlork State* ISTANBUL In a hyper-de-signed modernist loft here, a group of models posed coquettishly, their heads covered in brightly colored scarves. Except for the religious headgear, the shoot could have been for any glossy fashion magazine. But Ala—called
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      Lock icon Near Angkor Wat, a Community Centered on Learning
      605 4  -  By THOMAS FULLER Sljc JfcUt Jlork Eimcs SIEM REAP, Cambodia Millions of tourists come here every year to visit the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat, an influx that has helped transform a tranquil village into a thriving, cosmopolitan town with thumping nightlife
      Sljc JfcUt Jlork Eimcs; ADAM FERGUSON FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE  -  605 words
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      Lock icon Preserving a Region’s Historic Houses
      586 4  -  By EDWARD WONG ®1)C iXhu Jlork Stines XIDI, China In the spring, as rapeseed flowers bloom, this fertile swath of central China is transformed into a sea of yellow. In the summer, when rainstorms descend, the fields pulsate emerald green and canals brim with brown
      ®1)C iXhu Jlork Stines; GILLES SABRIE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  586 words
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      Lock icon Across Europe, the Ranks of the Working Poor Are Growing
      781 6  -  By LIZ ALDERMAN El)e Jfetu JJork ®t PARIS When Melissa Dos Santos leaves her job at the end of each day, she goes home to a tiny trailer in a campground 48 kilometers north of Paris, where scores of people
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      Lock icon Where to Park All Those Cars
      624 6  -  LENS TOM BRADY Eljc JfeUf JJork Elmcs Hoping for a prime parking spot, many of us have encountered the parked driver who takes forever to leave it. The person is struck by the urge to lounge in the driver’s seat, check and adjust all
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      Lock icon CORRECTION
      51 7 EI)C iNetu JJork Stones Because of an editing error, the caption accompanying last week’s article about the destruction of the Chaco Forest in Paraguay misidentified the tribe. The tribe is named the Totobiegosode, not the Esoi Chiquenoi. Mr. Chiquenoi is a member of the Totobiegosode, a subtribe of the
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      Lock icon Steadier Steps Toward Democracy in Africa
      756 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By ADAM NOSSITER Eljc Jfcut Jlork Stines DAKAR, Senegal After 50 years of independence, the path to democracy does not follow an obvious, straight line in this region, just as it did not in the West, where it was centuries in the
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      Lock icon In Brazil, the Arts Share in the Wealth
      816 8  -  By LARRY ROHTER ®1)C iXhu Jlork Stines SÃO PAULO, Brazil All over the world cultural organizations are tightening their budgets and paring back productions. But Danilo Miranda faces a different challenge, one that makes him the envy of his peers. As the
      ®1)C iXhu Jlork Stines; LALO DE ALMEIDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  816 words
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      60 3 IN 2005 THERE WERE A HANDFUL OF CHINESE BUSINESSES HERE. 18 2,100 NOW THERE ARE HUNDREDS-AND MORE ARE ARRIVING ALL THE TIME. TWO THIRDS OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION IS WITHIN EIGHT HOURS OF DUBAI. IT’S WHERE THE EMERGING AND DEVELOPED WORLDS MEET. WHEN YOU RU DUBAI MEANS BUS SEE THE
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Offices With Room To Roam
      840 10  -  By LAWRENCE W. CHEEK el)e JsVut JJork Elmcs SEATTLE Martha Choe’s ideal working space is a long, narrow table in the vast atrium of the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters. The table enjoys great swaths of daylight through 1,000 square meters of glass, and has
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      Lock icon General Motors Seeks A More Youthful Spin
      548 10  -  By AMY CHOZICK Eljc JfrUf JJork Elmcs DETROIT Ross Martin, 37, a former drummer in an alternative rock band, is the kind of figure who, in his Nike high tops and loosefitting jeans, would not attract a second glance in Brooklyn, where he
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      Lock icon Europe Woos China With Its Top Wines
      717 11  -  By ERIC PFANNER El)e Jfetu JJork Elmcs VERONA, Italy Long gone are the days when French soldiers or Italian farmhands were issued their daily ration of a liter of wine. Even the three-hour Parisian lunch, accompanied by a few glasses of red, white
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      Lock icon Knowing the Cost, Customers Set Price
      631 11  -  By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Eljc JfrUf JJork Elmcs P. T. Vineburghhas a sense of how much things should cost, and on a recent trip to the Boston jeweler Shreve, Crump Low, he was not afraidtosayso. “I know these things are significantly marked up,” Mr. Vineburgh,
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon The Curios In Science’s Cupboards
      620 12  -  By CORNELIA DEAN EIk JfrUt Jlork Ehucs In the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, when natural history was still called philosophy and most naturalists were amateurs, collectors would create what they called cabinets of curiosities accumulations of animal, vegetable, mineral and anthropological specimens to
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      793 12  -  By THEODORIC MEYER Slje Jfau Jlork Ehucs NEW HAVEN, Connecticut Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Daniel Field idolized John R. Horner, the paleontologist who helped inspire Michael Crichton’s novel “Jurassic Park” and won a MacArthur “genius award” in 1986. Now Mr. Field, a
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      Lock icon Intestinal Infections Become More Menacing
      887 13  -  By DENISE GRADY Elje JsVtu JJork Elmcs Gastrointestinal infections are killing more and more people and have become a particular threat to the elderly, according to new data released last month. Deaths from the infections in the United States more than doubled from 1999 to
      Elje JsVtu JJork Elmcs; JANICE HANEY CARR/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION  -  887 words
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      Lock icon A Professor’s Strategy To Catch Chess Cheats
      817 13  -  By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN Eljc JfrUf JJork Elmcs When it comes to cheating, chess might seem all but invulnerable. After all, the board and its pieces are there for all to see. But recent scandals have made it clear that cheating fueled by
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  • ONLINE
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      Lock icon Online Bargains Can Have Downsides
      784 14  -  By DOUGLAS QUENQUA Jfctu Jlork Ehncs How much is a $150 coupon worth? For Matt Sumell, the cost turned out to be one new relationship, as well as a little bit of pride. In January 2011, Mr. Sumell bought a $150 coupon for a romantic
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      Lock icon Social Seating on Planes Makes Skies Friendlier
      782 14  -  By NICOLA CLARK ®1)C JsVtu JJork Suites PARIS —The Dutch airline KLM has begun testing a program it calls Meet and Seat, allowing ticket-hold-ers to upload details from their Facebook or LinkedIn profiles and use the data to choose seatmates. “For at least
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      Lock icon For Today’s Savvy Web User, Blink of an Eye Is Too Slow
      570 15  -  By STEVE LOHR eljc Jfctu Jlork Elmcs Remember when you were willing to wait a few seconds for a computer to respond to a click on a Web site or a tap on a keyboard? These days, even
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      Lock icon The Way We Read in Digital Times
      893 15  -  ESSAY DWIGHT GARNER Slje iNVut Jlork Elmcs The case against electronic books has been made, and elegantly, by many people, including Nicholson Baker in The New Yorker a few years ago. Mr. Baker called Amazon’s Kindle, in a memorable putdown, “the Bowflex ofbookishness:
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  • ARTS & STYLES
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      Lock icon A Life’s Work Goes From Comic Books to Museum Walls
      854 16  -  By CAROL KINO el)c iNVut Jjork Sime^ OAKLAND, California It was a gloomy winter day, and the cartoonist Daniel Clowes was taking me on a tour of his neighborhood here, including a downbeat stretch that has served as a setting
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      Lock icon New Boy Bands Are Still Cute, but Edgier
      638 16  -  By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. el)c JsVtu Jlork Stines When One Direction became the first British group to top the Billboard 200 chart with its debut album a feat not even the Beatles or Coldplay could pull off many music fans caught
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