Today, 29 April 2012

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    12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY April 29, 2012 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 072/02/2012
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      751 1 GOURMET SUMMIT BOSS GIVES BACK face in the crowd 10 TURN OVER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY selected for Copyright 2012 The New York Times Sunday, april 29, 2012 A Publication of MediaCorp MICA (P) 041/07/2011 Articles news analysIs Setting Boundaries for Tech Giants By QUENTIN HARDY mistake.”
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      9 1 Growing up Jumabhoy the st regis perspectives 8 9
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    1890 2  -  Blood, sweat, sleeplessness and tears a group of teenagers are laying it all on the line in chase of Olympic diving dreams. Over the course of a year, photojournalist Ooi Boon Keong tracks the revival of a sport that gets little recognition here Sunday special photos and
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      329 5 Over 938 Units Sold! Best-selling project in 2012 tun i •> Final retease of Sky Patio units with panoramic Waterway view jli.’tTi »S3WUkM«n*^*j 9 i V ’Wr o II ij 1 t p. m Sky Patios: where the high life meets the good life. A new coastal Sky Patio living
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    Lock icon Her window to the past
    1547 8 Born into a famous business family, Naseem Mimi Somjee was taught to love the heritage of old Singapore. She talks to Lin Yanqin of the feud that drove her to take her furniture business WTP in earnest, and of surviving breast cancer the perspectives Sitting
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    Lock icon A taste for this town
    1017 10  -  He’s gone from orchestrating meal services to entire gourmet summits. Peter Knipp believes in giving back to the adopted homeland that gave him the big breaks faceinthecrowd sheralyn tay todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg It was with not a little trepidation that I sat down for my interview with
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  • HOT NEWS
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      Lock icon KL protest ends in violence
      851 11 Police unleash tear gas; organiser Bersih says it lost control of crowd KUALA LUMPUR As the Malaysian police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water yesterday on demonstrators, protest organiser Bersih admitted it lost control of the tens of thousands on the streets when protesters failed
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      Free expression online – up to a point
      634 13  - Free expression online up to a point Early intervention better, before emotions get inflamed and it gets hard to calm people down: DPM Teo TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It is easy to call for the Internet and social media to be open and free from regulation but when someone “dear
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      Lock icon A run through nature at Jurong Lake, for a cause
      331 13 SINGAPORE With about 120 bird species having been spotted at the Jurong Lakeside area including the rare Ruddy Kingfisher and Grey-headed Fish Eagle Jurong Lake Park, when developed, will feature plenty of nature spaces and trails to support its rich
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      10KM-RACE TITLE SPONSOR MEDIACORP INVITES ALL TO ‘RUN WITH ME’
      204 13 MediaCorp is the main sponsor for this year’s Jurong Lake Run, held on Sunday, July 8. The broadcaster is the title sponsor of the 10km Competitive Run, which has been named “RUN WITH ME”, MediaCorp 10km run. It is one
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      Lock icon He volunteered to serve NS
      368 14  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE He was then a Permanent Resident, but Mr Han Dong (picture) voluntarily signed up for National Service (NS), simply because he felt that it was the “natural thing to do”. “It wasn’t because I wanted to get citizenship,” the 23-year-old National
      PHOTO COURTESY HAN DONG  -  368 words
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      FATIMAH LATEEF TO CHAIR INTEGRATION COUNCIL
      120 14 The 15 members of the newly-formed People’s Association Integration Council will include one representative from each Group Representation Constituency. Associate Professor Fatimah Lateef, MP for Marine Parade GRC, will chair the council, which aims to give greater focus and strategic direction to Singapore’s efforts
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      Programme to help patients deal with COPD
      226 14  -  BERTRAND TEO SINGAPORE To help patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) access the services they need easily and in an appropriate setting, a new programme has been set up to customise and coordinate treatment across different care providers. Jurong Health Services yesterday
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      Lock icon Satellite photos show N Korea may be preparing for nuke test
      212 14 AP WASHINGTON New satellite imagery appears to show a train of mining carts and other preparations under way at North Korea’s nuclear test site but there is no indication of when a detonation might take place. Early this month,
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      Lock icon European investors keen on Myanmar: EU chief
      208 14 REUTERS YANGON European Union Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton was in Myanmar yesterday to open a “new chapter” of relations following an easing of sanctions that could prompt a surge of investor interest in the long-isolated state. Her visit is the most high-profile
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      Lock icon Pro-Assad Syrian media hit back at UN
      309 15 AGENCIES BEIRUT A Syrian state-run newspaper yesterday accused United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon of encouraging “terrorist” rebel attacks by focusing his criticism on the government. Other state media yesterday also reported that gunmen in inflatable dinghies attacked a military unit on Syria’s
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      Lock icon SAUDI CLOSES EMBASSY IN CAIRO FOLLOWING PROTESTS
      167 15 AP Saudi Arabia closed its Cairo embassy yesterday and recalled its ambassador following protests over a detained Egyptian human rights lawyer. The unexpected escalation followed days of protests by hundreds of Egyptians outside the Saudi Embassy in Cairo and consulates in other cities
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      Lock icon CHINA AND RUSSIA SIGN S$19 BILLION WORTH OF DEALS
      134 15 AP Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang has announced the signing of contracts between China and Russia worth a total of US$15 billion (S$18.6 billion). Speaking at a trade and investment forum in Moscow attended by hundreds of Chinese businessmen, Mr Li said
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      Lock icon US ‘TO CONSIDER SALE OF F-16 FIGHTER JETS TO TAIWAN’
      167 16 BLOOMBERG The Obama administration will give “serious consideration” to selling Taiwan new Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets, a White House official said yesterday. This creates a potential new flashpoint with China ahead of next week’s highlevel meetings between United States
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      Lock icon NO TECHNOLOGY BY HUAWEI, ZTE IN US NUCLEAR COMPLEX?
      151 16 REUTERS A congressional panel has approved a measuretoclearthe United States nuclear-weapons complex of technology produced by Chinese telecommunications companies accused of working closely with China’s government and military. If passed into law, the measure adopted on Thursday could be a fresh
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      Lock icon ROMANIAN GOVERNMENT FALLS IN NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE
      160 16 AP Romania’s government has fallen in a no-confidence vote, as opposition parties seized on public anger over biting austerity measures and corruption. In Bucharest, 235 lawmakers voted against Prime Minister Mihai Ungureanu on Friday, four more votes than needed. President Traian Basescu called for
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      Lock icon ESCAPED CHINA ACTIVIST ‘IN US PROTECTION’
      119 16 REUTERS Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is underthe United States’ protection in Beijing, following an audacious escape from 19 months of house arrest, a US-based group said yesterday, in a drama that threatens to ignite new tensions between the two governments. The US has
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      Lock icon US police surround bunker in hunt for suspected killer
      277 16 AP NORTH BEND Law officers hunting for an armed survivalist suspected of killing his wife and daughter surrounded an elaborate underground bunker (picture) in the woods of Washington state yesterday. The authorities pumped tear gas into the structure dug 6m into
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      Lock icon Kidney ‘recycled’ in US transplant case
      209 16 AP CHICAGO It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days, even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants. In what is believed to be the first documented case of its kind in the United States, a failing transplanted kidney was removed
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      Lock icon US Secret Service tightens rules for staff
      211 16 AP WASHINGTON No excessive drinking and no alcohol at all within 10 hours of working. Disreputable establishments are off limits, as is entertaining foreigners in hotel rooms. These are among the tightened conduct rules the United States Secret Service issued on Friday for
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  • SPORTS
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      Lock icon Wigan clip Magpies’ wings
      556 17 Martinez’s side trounce Newcastle to keep Premiership survival hopes alive AGENCIES ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP Wigan 4 Newcastle 0 WIGAN An early double from Victor Moses set Wigan Athletic on their way to yet another bigtime conquest as Roberto Martinez’s men gave their survival hopes a mighty boost
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      Lock icon Saints back in the big league
      379 17 AGENCIES ENGLISH CHAMPIONSHIP Southampton 4 Coventry 0 LONDON Only 20 minutes had elapsed at St Mary’s yesterday when this became a raucous promotion party rather than a game of football. Needing to beat Coventry City to secure their place in the Premier League, Southampton
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      Lock icon The title’s yours
      669 18 City manager Mancini insists United have the upper hand regardless of outcome of Manchester derby AGENCIES MANCHESTER Three weeks ago, it looked as though all was lost when a late Mikel Arteta goal condemned Manchester City to a 1 -0 defeat against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium,
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      Lock icon Guardiola not singing the Blues
      420 18 AGENCIES LONDON Pep Guardiola (picture) has insisted his decision to leave Barcelona was motivated by the need to ease pressure on himself and not a precursor to taking another coaching job. The 41-year-old announced on Friday his intention to step down at the end of
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      IRWIN’S TRIO AMONG FIRST 30 PICKED FOR THE CHANCE
      374 20  -  PHILIP GOH He came hoping for a chance to showcase his talents but ended up catching the eye of retired Manchester United star Denis Irwin, and was handed a ticket that could one day take him to the Theatre of Dreams.
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      Lock icon Management not my cup of tea: Irwin
      556 20  -  Former United star happy to admire Guardiola from afar TANYO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Pep Guardiola may be the most successful manager in Barcelona’s history and while many may envy his achievements 13 titles in four years retired Manchester United star Denis Irwin is not
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      Lock icon Fever-stricken Tao Li labours to victory
      165 20  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE National swim star Tao Li’s below-par form in her build-up to the 2012 London Olympics continued as she won the 100m butterfly final at the Singapore Swimming Association Grand Prix in a pedestrian 1min 02.10sec at the Singapore Sports School yesterday. However,
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      Lock icon Victory and a new mark for Chin Hui
      550 22  -  Sprinter eyes senior record after striking gold at SEA Youth Championships LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE For the past 12 months, sprinter Ng Chin Hui has been chasing more than just his rivals in the 400 metres. At last year’s South-east Asian
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      DOMINANT MARLINS CLINCH NSL CROWN
      245 22 A storming fourth quarter propelled the Nike Marlins to a successful defence of the FairPrice Foundation Netball Super League crown as they ran out 52-39 winners over the Blaze Dolphins in the Grand Final. At the Toa Payoh Sports Hall yesterday, the Dolphins led 14-10
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      Lock icon Agu sparkles in Johor friendly
      349 22  -  DAN GUEN CHIN DanGuenChin@mediacorp.comsg JOHOR BAHRU The LionsXII will leave for Kota Bharu for the top of the table clash against Kelantan in the Malaysian Super League (MSL) next Friday in great heart. Last night, they edged Johor FA 4-3 in a friendly at the
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
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      1230 23 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL III: SENIOR YEAR (PREMIERE) Channel 5, 6.45pm (Available in True HD on HD5) In the final instalment of the High School Musical series, seniors Troy, Gabriella and the rest of their gang have to face the prospect of separation once they graduate. With the help of their
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      136 24 5 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AS ECONOMY AND DEPENDENCE Of PE HE RISE OF CHIN ARAB UPRIS INGS IDIA'S STATE ELECTION REFRAMING AND REFOCUSING YOUR WORLDVIEW Join a panel of leading thinkers from Singapore’s top Think Tanks every month, as they define Asia’s stand on global events Panelists include: Moderator: Professor Tommy
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    Lock icon Setting Boundaries for Tech Giants
    793 1  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By QUENTIN HARDY The New York Times Back in 2004, as Google prepared to go public, Larry Page and Sergey Brin celebrated the maxim that was supposed to define their company: “Don’t be evil.” But these days, a lot of people at least
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    Lock icon Learning The Magic Of Disney
    1131 1  -  By BROOKS BARNES (Cl)c iN'clu JJork (Times Orlando, Florida Maryland teachers were instructed to engage children by crouching and speaking to them at eye level. Chevrolet dealers were taught to think in theater metaphors: onstage, where smiles greet potential buyers, and offstage, where sales representatives
    (Cl)c iN'clu JJork (Times; GARY BOGDON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  1,131 words
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon An Election About Economics
      845 2  -  INTELLIGENCE/ ROBERT KUTTNER Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and a senior fellow at Demos. His latest book is “A Presidency in Peril.” Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. S()c Jfctu Jlork Shucs Boston You might think that Mitt Romney, now the assured Republican nominee for
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      Lock icon A Shortage of Fuel Slows India’s Rise
      661 2  -  By VIKAS BAJAJ el)c Jfctu Jlork ehucs NELLORE, India India has long struggled to provide enough electricity to light its homes and power its industry. In recent years, the government and private sector sought to change that by building scores of new power
      el)c Jfctu Jlork ehucs; PRASHANTH VISHWANATHAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  661 words
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      Lock icon Shipwreck Discourages And Draws Tourists
      566 3  -  By GAIA PIANIGIANI SlK Jfctu Jlork Ehncs GIGLIO, Italy As the first tourists of the season cross the channel between the Tuscan mainland and the island of Giglio, the breathtaking view they are seeking is not of Giglio’s clear waters or its ochre and pink
      SlK Jfctu Jlork Ehncs; GIANNI CIPRIANO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  566 words
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      Lock icon Price Controls Vex Venezuelans
      817 3  -  By WILLIAM NEUMAN Sl)c Jfrtu Jlork Ehncs CARACAS, Venezuela Some Venezuelans arrange their calendars around the once-a-week deliveries made to government-subsi-dized stores, lining up before dawn to buy a single frozen chicken before the stock runs out. Or a couple of bags of flour. Or a
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      Lock icon Georgia Eyes City On a Bog
      712 4  -  By ELLEN BARRY Jlork Simcs ZUGDIDI, Georgia Since becoming president of Georgia in 20 04, Mikheil Saakashvili has based his leadership on one big idea after another: the dissolution of the notoriously corrupt traffic police; changing the country’s second language to English from Russian;
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      Lock icon In Russia, a Spate of Suicides Among the Young
      560 4  -  By GLENN KATES Jlork Simcs MOSCOW Russia has been hit with a wave of copycat teenage suicides so pronounced that President Dmitri A. Medvedev felt compelled to warn news media outlets against making too much of the deaths, for fear of
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      Lock icon Lone Innovators, Working Well With Others
      560 7  -  LENS KEVIN DELANEY El)e JCctu Jlcrk Ehncs Shy and nearly deaf, Thomas Edison toiled so obsessively in his New Jersey laboratory that his own family barely knew him. In the process he came to personify the myth of the lone genius, helping jump-start the
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      Lock icon Obama’s Power Lets Him Bypass Rivals
      867 7  -  By CHARLIE SAVAGE El)e iscXv Jlcrk Ehncs WASHINGTON As a senator and presidential candidate, Barack Obama criticized George W. Bush for flouting the role of Congress. And during his first two years as president, when Democrats controlled Congress, Mr. Obamalargely worked through the legislative
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      Lock icon In the Shadow of an Unpredictable Friend
      531 8  -  SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA JOURNAL By DAMIEN CAVE Sljc iNcUt Jjork Stmcs SANTIAGO XALITZINTLA, Mexico The night sky sparked bright; dust fell on the villagers. Popocatépetl, the monstrous volcano shadowing this tiny town, rumbled once again in April, spewing forth a cloud of ash and
      Sljc iNcUt Jjork Stmcs; MARCO UGARTE/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  531 words
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      Lock icon As a Defendant Bullies and Boasts, International Court Mulls Limits
      696 8  -  By MARLISE SIMONS Sljc iXcUt JJork Shncs THE HAGUE In the nine years since his arrival in The Hague on war-crimes charges, Vojislav Seselj, a Serbian politician, has often harangued judges and has taken pride in provoking and trying to
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Muslims Balance Faith and Finance
      902 10  -  By KEVIN ROOSE eljc JfeUt Jlork Elmcs Seen from a certain angle, Wall Street can look like a monolith a cohort of white males with Ivy League degrees and family connections. But as the Street adapts to greater regulation, lower profits and tighter costs, it
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      Lock icon The Press in China Offers Best News Cash Can Buy
      595 10  -  By DAVID BARBOZA eljc JfcUt Jlork Elmcs SHANGHAI China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news coverage. But it is more than willing to let flattering news about Western and Asian businesses appear in print and broadcast media if the
      eljc JfcUt Jlork Elmcs; KEITH BEDFORD FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  595 words
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon An Increase in Retractions Is Plaguing Scholarly Journals
      823 11  -  By CARL ZIMMER Sljc ?fcUt Jlork Sinter In the fall of 2010, Dr. Ferric C. Fang, who is editor in chief of the journal Infection and Immunity, found that one of his authors had doctored several papers. “Prior to that time,” he
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      Lock icon On a Wild Hawaiian Island, A Fence Is Protecting Birds
      627 11  -  By CHRISTOPHER PALA Sljc ?fcUt Jlork Sinter KAENA POINT, Hawaii Before Polynesian settlers arrived here hundreds of years ago, Hawaii had more than 120 species of birds and no mammals to eat them. Land birds flourished in the absence of
      Sljc ?fcUt Jlork Sinter; CHRISTOPHER PALA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  627 words
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      Lock icon New Technology for Airline Efficiency
      775 12  -  By JAD MOUAWAD Sljc Jfau Jlork ehncs SEATTLE Captain Mike Adams demonstrated what the future will look like at airports as he pulled back on the throttles of his Boeing 737 flight simulator, setting the engines on idle to glide from his cruising altitude all
      Sljc Jfau Jlork ehncs; STUART ISETT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  775 words
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      Lock icon How Well, Or Poorly, Are We Fishing?
      586 12  -  ESSAY CORNELIA DEAN Sljc Jfau Jlork ehncs To hear some people tell it, the increasingly energetic and sophisticated fishing industry has left the world’s oceans a shambles, with species of cod, sharks, tuna and other fish hunted almost to extinction and vast stretches
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  • THE WAY WE EAT
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      Lock icon When Kitchen Gadgets Fail to Make Life Easier
      587 13  -  By WILLIAM GRIMES ®1)C Jfctu JJork Simcs Every kitchen has one. The ingenious asparagus peeler. The automatic paper-towel dispenser. The electric pepper grinder. These are the tools that Gail Simmons, the author of “Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life as a
      ®1)C Jfctu JJork Simcs; NATHAN WEBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; GRETCHEN ERTL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  587 words
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      Lock icon Tastes of Nostalgia Appeal to the Poles
      700 13  -  By JOANNA BERENDT ®1)C Jfctu JJork Simcss WARSAW The bartenders in white shirts and black bow ties served endless shots of vodka followed by platefuls of herring in oil, and the occasional kielbasa, on small white plates as the crowds eagerly downed their
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      Lock icon In Havana, Dining With Style
      526 14  -  By VICTORIA BURNETT El)c iN'ctu Jjork Shncs On a mild night not long ago, the unlighted street in the artsy Havana neighborhood of Vedado was quiet and filled with shadows. But at Le Chansonnier, chandeliers gleamed invitingly through the wrought-iron windows, and a low burble
      El)c iN'ctu Jjork Shncs; JOSE GOITIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  526 words
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      Lock icon High-End Food to Lure First-Class Fliers
      705 14  -  By JAD MOUAWAD Sljc iNcUt Jjork Shncs After years of belt-tightening, airlines are investing again to attract business passengers willing to pay a premium, and food is a big part of that effort. This includes devising new menus and even hiring celebrity chefs. The
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  • ARTS & STYLES
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      Lock icon Master of a Movement Inspires a Closely Guarded Movie
      753 15  -  By MICHAEL CIEPLY Eljc Jfcut JJork Sunes VALLEJO, California Somewhere in Los Angeles, Paul Thomas Anderson is now finishing what will be his sixth feature film. Fiercely protective of his process, he has declined to speak publicly about the movie. But
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