Today, 6 April 2013

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    • 478 2  -  American corporate leaders see Republic as a place where Govt is ‘rational, sober, competent’ INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WONG SIEW YING siewying@mediacorp.com.sg NEW YORK —Corporate leaders in the United States will be watching the long-term transformation of Singapore’s economy in the long-term, but Prime
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    • 290 4 AGENCIES WASHINGTON —Employers in the United States hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March in a sign of weaker growth in the world’s largest economy heading into spring, while the jobless rate fell slightly as more people left
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    • 594 4 New strain detected in pigeon samples Shanghai to close poultry markets from tomorrow BIRD FLU VIRUS AGENCIES SHANGHAI/HONG KONG China scrambled to contain the spread of a deadly new strain of bird flu yesterday, ordering the slaughter of birds in a local market as
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    • 402 4 AGENCIES HONG KONG —Hong Kong shares tumbled to a four-month low yesterday, pulled down by airline stocks as fears of a bird flu outbreak sparked a selloff, with investors wary of a repeat of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic that hit
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    • 468 6 PR leader will not contest in Perak, citing relationship, support of his hometown MALAYSIAN GENERAL ELECTION AGENCIES KUBANG SEMANG —The opposition Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR’s) de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, in a surprising move yesterday, said that he will defend his seat in
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    • 458 6 SINGAPORE The High Court yesterday granted an application by the Public Prosecutor to set aside convictions recorded against seven people between 1974 and 2007. The seven, who did not commit crimes, had criminal records against them, as their identities or NRICs had
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    • 371 7 SINGAPORE The registration exercise for admission to the Ministry of Education’s (MOE) pilot kindergartens next year will start on Monday and run until April 19. Registration for admission to MOE Kindergarten Dazhong and MOE Kindergarten Punggol View will be held from April
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    • 81 7 Navy serviceman Jason Chee, who lost both his legs and his left arm in a ship accident last year, has uploaded a recent photograph of himself wearing his uniform and giving a salute towards the camera, while recuperating in hospital. Mr Chee, 30, made the photo his
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    • 771 7 People, ideas and opportunities abound at Singapore Maritime Week 2013 to discuss relevant issues.” produced bythe TODAY SPECIAL PROJECTS TEAM Share and exchange ideas at Singapore Maritime Week (SMW) 2013, from April 7-12. Into its eighth year, SMW has grown in significance since its launch in 2006
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    • 1851 8  -  Populist or pragmatic? Whatever your perceptions of the PAP, the results of the recent Budget and White Paper debates have marked a turning point of sorts for Singapore’s ruling party NEWS FEATURE AMIR HUSSAIN amirhussain@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Some observers have described
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    • 296 7 Festival at CHIMES 5-7 April 2013 The Lawn Cl IIJMES presents The Singapore Flamenco Festival. Three fabulous clays of fun activities, concerts and performances for the whole family that centers around the powerful, century-old gypsy tradition of flamenco. The event hosts free public concerts, beginner classes, as well as popular
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  • saturday people
    • 1800 10  -  Call him Mr ‘Just Do It’ the man who wants to teach Singaporeans it’s okay to dream, by sending the first local into space ENTREPRENEUR AND INNOVATOR EUGENE NEUBRONNER eugenen@mediacorp.com.sg As a student, every year, without fail, he would win a school award for
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    • 31 10 Conscious that his side are not in blistering form, and aware their opponents have little to lose, Ferguson must demand composure and security rather than a glut of goals. ADRIAN CLARKE•27
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    • 356 13 I stand in the of my education It’s my choice Open House 20 April 2013, i2-5pm Kaplan City Campus Wilkie Edge I Like time, learning never stops. At Kaplan, we find ways for you to reinvent yourself. Partnering renowned University College Dublin in an extensive suite of degree programmes, we
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  • voices
    • 53 14 The article, “Hepatitis B: Most common cause of liver cancer here” (April 3), stated that about 70 per cent of the 12,000 cases of liver cancer seen at the Singapore General Hospital are related to Hepatitis B infection. This is incorrect. The figure should be 1,200 cases. We apologise
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    • 233 14  -  FROM JULIANA CHOW Director, Corporate Communications, Energy Market Authority In his letter, “Why did electricity tariffs rise when wholesale price had fallen?” (April 1), Mr Raymond Chiam asked why tariffs increased in the second quarter when wholesale prices fell in February.
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    • 553 14 In the debate on how to have peaceful co-existence between pets, owners and neighbours, callers on Thursday’s episode of VoicesTODAY continued to share their ideas in the post-show online segment, as below. Ricky Yeo: A proposed code of responsible conduct for pet owners
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    • 305 14  -  FROM HAN YONG HOE Group Director (Development Control), Urban Redevelopment Authority We agree with Mr Michael Loh, in “Going Soho: What can’t owners do?” (April 2), that potential buyers should be made aware of the limitations on the development’s allowable use. He noted that Soho (small office/
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    • 457 15  -  FROM KENNETH CHIA HERN KENG As Our Singapore Conversation sweeps along and the Government acts to improve policies, a typical paradigm gap has appeared. For instance, a minister had to explain the increasing competition among nations to tertiary students when they asked for a
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    • 323 15  -  FROM NICHOLAS TOH WEI MING Dr William Wan raises pertinent points in the letter, “Graciousness fundamental to building a quality society” (April 3), that building a cohesive, quality society starts from within each citizen. The late philosopher Ronald Dworkin held such a view in his description
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  • singapore
    • 125 20 A road had to be closed in Sengkang yesterday for over three hours, after an SBS Transit bus ran over a road divider and a traffic light, blocking the flow of traffic. The accident took place at the junction of Sengkang East Way Road and
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    • 407 20  -  SUSTAINABLE LIVING TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Even if Singapore’s population size does grow to 6.9 million by 2030, the Republic can still be a highly liveable place provided efforts to explore ways to “take the stress out of the system” are stepped up
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    • 270 20  -  NEO CHAI CHIN SINGAPORE The three Lebanese football officials charged on Thursday with corruptly receiving gratification to fix a match will remain in remand while they await the next mention of their case. The prosecution said yesterday it will oppose bail for
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    • 406 21  -  KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A new programme centred on early diagnosis and intervention services for dementia will be available at four SingHealth polyclinics by the end of this year. Launched at the Singapore International Neurocognitive Symposium yesterday, the Cognitive Assessment
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    • 177 21 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE A mother tongue portal piloted in more than 90 schools in Singapore has received positive feedback, and the Ministry of Education (MOE) has plans to have it introduced to all schools from upper primary to junior college from
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    • 190 20 3 SAA GLOBAL EDUCATION The Education Arm of ICPAS ENROL FOR ACCA JULY 2013 ■i I UK WITHSAA-GE I am thankful to all SAA-GE lecturers for being there for me. I am grateful that they have stayed behind to answer my queries after classes.” iPreparatory Course for Association of Chartered
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  • world
    • 489 22 MALAYSIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR Ten years after leaving office, Dr Mahathir Mohamad and some of his old Cabinet colleagues have emerged in recent weeks as the face of ruling coalition party Barisan Nasional’s (BN) campaign to retain power in
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    • 400 22 AGENCIES PETALING JAYA Opposition party Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) appeared to have resolved their squabble over the Gelang Patah parliamentary seat with Democratic Action Party (DAP) when the PKR Johor chief broke his twoweek silence yesterday. Mr Chua Jui Meng
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    • 544 23 AGENCIES MOSCOW North Korea has asked foreign embassies in Pyongyang whether they have plans to evacuate staff, warning that it cannot guarantee their safety from the threat of conflict after April 10. The message to embassies came as tensions in the
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    • 238 23 AP MUMBAI A half-finished building that was being constructed illegally in a suburb of India’s financial capital has collapsed, killing 47 people and injuring more than 70 others, the police said yesterday. The building in the Mumbai suburb of Thane
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    • 317 23 THE NEW YORK TIMES JAK ARTA The ongoing religious and ethnic violence in Myanmar spread beyond the South-east Asian country’s borders yesterday, when a brawl broke out at an immigration centre in Indonesia between Muslim and Buddhist detainees, leaving eight people dead and 15
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  • business
    • 282 24 ENERGY MARKET SINGAPORE —Temasek Holdings has set up an energy company to tap Asia’s growing energy demand. Pavilion Energy will have an initial authorised capital of S$1 billion and should be operational by September. The company noted that as the region’s
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    • 214 24 AGENCIES S ING A POR E —Olam International, whose accounting methods were questioned by short-seller Carson Block, said yesterday it has dropped its defamation lawsuit against Mr Block and his research firm Muddy Waters after failing to serve the complaint. “While
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    • 491 24  -  CONRAD RAJ Editor-at-Large conrad@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It appears that local technology entrepreneurs have never had it so good. They are getting recognition from big companies like SingTel and Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) who are now willing to buy them for
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  • sports
    • 571 25  -  Teenager qualifies for SEA Games while breaking a string of national records IN POLE POSITION CHARLES ONG charlesongzc@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE— Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) student Chan Sheng Yao created local sporting history in the most impressive manner yesterday as he pole-vaulted his way to the
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    • 421 25  -  PHILIP GOH SINGAPORE —It has been more than four years since he last tasted victory on the Asian Tour but Lam Chih Bing (picture) is aware he would need to stay focused if he were to end that drought this weekend
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    • 540 26  -  Sundram tells his team to stay focused with season only at the halfway mark MALAYSIASUPER LEAGUE PHILIP GOH Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@med iacorp.com .sg SINGAPORE LionsXII head coach V Sundramoorthy describes it as “a good problem” that his team are top of the Malaysian
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    • 263 26  -  DAN GUEN CHIN SINGAPORE—Even before a ball has been kicked, Perak have already conceded that they would not be surprised if they end up another statistic on the LionsXII’s Jalan Besar Stadium hit-list. Since the start of the year’s Malaysian Super League (MSL)
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    • 331 26  -  CHARLES ONG S I N G A P O R E At times, they found the going tough and even had disagreements. While things within Dunman Secondary’s girls’ volleyball camp was not all rosy initially, the players eventually overcame their differences and rallied together
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    • 858 27  -  THE BIG MATCH MAN UNITED V MAN CITY COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke, TODAY’s EPL analyst, is a former Arsenal midfielder, who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for many publications worldwide. Pride andpoints-scoring are
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    • 290 27 AGENCIES M A N C H E S T E R Paolo Di Canio (picture) has endured a trying first week as Sunderland manager off the pitch and it will not get any easier tomorrow when his relega- tion-haunted team take on
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    • 382 28 DOPING AFTERMATH AGENCIES LONDON Lance Armstrong’s doping past has got him kicked out of the pool. Armstrong, who in January confessed to doping for each of his record seven Tour de France victories, was forced to withdraw yesterday morning (Singapore time) from this weekend’s Masters
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    • 37 28 Europa League Quarter-finals, first leg: Benfica 3 Newcastle 1, Chelsea 3 Rubin Kazan 1, Fenerbahce 2 Lazio 0, Tottenham 2 FC Basel 2 NBA Nets 90 Bulls 92, Nuggets 95 Mavericks 94, Thunder 10 Spurs 88
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
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    • 50 29 32 34 34 HEATSHOCKING HOWTO KEEP YOURPRODUCE LASTING LONGER GREAT MUSIC BEYONCE, LANA DEL REY ON GREAT GATSBY SOUNDTRACK ART HEAD NEW BOSS APPOINTED FOR THE NATIONAL ART GALLERY SINGAPORE SATURDAY, 6 APRIL 2013 DINING WITH A TWIST SAY ‘CHEERS’ TO A DELIGHTFUL CULINARY TAKE 33 PHOTO: MUSEO’S PASSIONFRUIT CACHACA
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    • cars
      • 618 30  -  A MAJOR REVAMP IS A HUGE SHOT IN THE ARM FOR THE POPULAR MERCEDES-BENZ E-CLASS DERRYN WONG features@mediacorp.com.sg BARCELONA (SPAIN) —With all this talk of rebellion (the recently-launched AClass), new niches (the CLA-Class) and bold design statements, it’s clear Mercedes-Benz is forging towards a younger buyer demographic. The
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        378 31  -  SCOTT MARSH SINGAPORE At ports in Yokohama and Kobe recently, about 20 custom cars from some of Japan’s leading tuners were loaded onto a container ship. Their destination? Singapore. Their exact location? Unknown. Security around these unique, highly-prized cars is understandably tight but the public will be able
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        533 31  -  Mercedes-Benz introduce a twin-turbo V6 engine to see off the German competition MERCEDES-BENZ E 400 DERRYN WONG SINGAPORE —A surprise announcement at the E-Class debut was the unveiling of a new engine a 3.0l twin-turbo V6, which will eventually replace the current E 350 (which has a 3.5l
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    • food
      • Article, Illustration
        623 32  -  A suprisingly hot tip for preserving produce FOOD TIPS W WAYT GIBBS features@mediacorp.com.sg AP NEW YORK —Nothing is more frustrating than finding the perfect cucumber or head of lettuce at the farmers market, paying top-dollar for it, and then... tossing it out a week later when it
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      • 154 32 SINGAPORE —Opening at VivoCity in the third quarter of 2013, Jamie’s Italian Singapore will have the restaurant group’s former Head of Academy overseeing the daily proceedings. Relocating here just this year, executive chef Gary Clarke leaves his UKbased charge for the prospect of
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      • 495 33  -  Delicious drinks, decent food and a fabulous location if only Museo didn’t bank on all that novelty REVIEW: MUSEO ANNETTE TAN SINGAPORE It’s a good thing Museo is the sort of place designed for lingering, because it takes time to survey its rambling menu. There
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      • 280 33  -  BITE SIZED DON MENDOZA SINGAPORE Taking a cue from last year’s sellout success, Singapore’s largest gour- met food festival Savour returns next week (April 11 to 14) with an all-new lineup of lip-smacking, appetite-whet- ting exploits. And it has certainly grown: For a start, there’s
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      • 462 33  -  Quayside Fish Bar Bistro serves up some delightfully delicious takes REVIEW: QUAYSIDE FISH BAR BISTRO ANNETTE TAN SINGAPORE —An Aussie vibe permeates Quayside Fish Bar Bistro, from the airy dining room with wood and brick elements, to the fresh catch that it serves. Yet, there
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    • culture&lifestyle
      • 257 34 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —The setting may be the Roaring Twenties, but the soundtrack for Australian film director Baz Luhrmann’s take on classic novel The Great Gatsby is firmly 21st-century rap, pop and rock. Universal Music on Thursday released the track list for
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      • 487 34  -  Eugene Tan to head the National Art Gallery Singapore LEADING ART MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The international search for The National Art Gallery Singapore’s main man has ended up in Singapore’s backyard. Curator Eugene Tan, 41, has been appointed as director of the museum, which is
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      • 284 35 SINGAPORE —Reebonz celebrated its fourth anniversary on Thursday with the launch of the Reebonz Vintage Pre-own Luxury Collection. Held at Alkaff Mansion, the event was an elegant affair attended by many highprofile guests, including MediaCorp celebrities Paige Chua and Zhou Ying. Reebonz Vintage is the new initiative that
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      • 438 35 REUTERS LOS ANGELES —Renowned film critic, Roger Ebert, who was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and became an unlikely TV star while hosting a movie review show with fellow critic Gene Siskel, died in Chicago on Thursday, two days after he
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 36 Miscellaneous
    • 535 36 Toggle 6.00AM~ The~ Listening~ Project 8.00~ The~ Evolution~ of~ Andrew~ Andrews 10.00~ Divergence NOON~ Motherland 2.00PM~ Beyond~ The~ Steppes 4.00~ Bloody~ Money 6.00~ Last~ Affair 8.00~ CinemaWorld:~ The~ Hideout 9.30~ CinemaWorld:~ Almanya~ Willkommen~ in~ Deutschland 11.30~ CinemaWorld:~ Fata~ Morgana 1.05AM~ Bloody~ Money 2.30~ Last~ Affair 4.00~ Motherland THE EVOLUTION OF
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    • 172 36 TOGGLE-IT-FIRST Watch episodes on Toggle before they are shown on TV BREAK FREE The fate of four men becomes intertwined just three days before they are due to be released from prison. The story unfolds when one of them unexpectedly attempts suicide. MARRY ME Latching on to the increasing trend
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    • 596 37 Toggle 6.00~ Beyond~ The~ Steppes 8.00~ The~ Symmetry~ of~ Love 10.00~ Monster~ Camp NOON~ Jake’s~ Closet 2.00PM~ The~ Listening~ Project 4.00~ The~ Evolution~ of~ Andrew~ Andrews 6.00~ Divergence 8.00~ CinemaWorld:~ Black~ Bread 9.50~ CinemaWorld:~ Berlin~ 36 11.30~ CinemaWorld:~ The~ Corner~ Bistro 12.50AM~ The~ Symmetry~ of~ Love 2.20~ Jake’s~ Closet 4.00~
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    • 180 37 VIDEO ON DEMAND... Watch your favourite movies series anytime, anywhere MEET THE ROBINSONS Lewis is an orphan who dreams of finding a family. A mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson whisks him away to a world where anything is possible the future! FEB 29 Strange incidents happen to tollgate officer Ji
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
    • 1104 38 CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM The Two Of Us 8.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show X (HD5) 8.45 Just For Laughs Gags IX 9.00 S-League 2013 (Highlight Show) (HD5) 9.30 S-League 2013 (Matches) (HD5): Courts Young Lions Vs Woodlands Wellington 11.30 Films Stars Asia NOON Multisport M7 Adventure Series II (HD5) 12.30PM GP
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  • 896 1  -  InternatIonal Weekly By RANDY KENNEDY AS THE COMMERCIAL art world in America rides a boom, another kind of art world is beginning to assert itself. Known primarily as social practice, its practitioners freely blur the lines among object making, performance, political activism, community organizing, environmentalism
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  • 1211 1  -  InternatIonal Weekly By SOMINI SENGUPTA In a series of provocative experiments, a researcher has shown that despite how much people say they value their privacy, they tend to act inconsistently. Alessandro Acquisti, 40, a behavioral economist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has shown that, over all,
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 832 2  -  intelligenCe/roGer ROGER COHEN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY London Apologies do not bring back the dead but, as acts of national contrition, they can carry a powerful redemptive force and open new diplomatic avenues beyond intractable historical wounds. Israel’s apology to Turkey for “any errors
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    • 488 2  -  By JOHN TAGLIABUE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LOPPERSUM, the Netherlands Bert de Jong’s stately home will need about $500,000 to get backinto shape. The house, like thousands of others, was damaged during recent earthquakes that have shaken
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    • 747 3  -  By ISMA’IL KUSHKUSH THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY KHARTOUM, Sudan Sudan conjures images of war, instability, drought and poverty. All of those things exist here, often in tragic abundance. But lost in the narrative are the stories of the ancient kingdoms of Kush and Nubia
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    • 610 3  -  GAZA~ journAl By FARES AKRAM THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY GAZA Nader Abu Turki first gained a reputation as a confectioner while serving time as a prisoner in Israel. Having worked in a dessert shop in the West Bank before his
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    • 880 4  -  By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY QALYUBEYA, Egypt A fuel shortage has helped send food prices soaring. Electricity is blacking out even before the summer. And gas-line gunfights have killed at least five people and
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    • 554 4  -  LENS PETER CATAPANO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Parents who spent their own formative years with textbooks, pencils and typewriters can tell you that our technological age can be a confusing place to raise a child. But some things never change. Parents still want the
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    • 679 6  -  By VICTORIA BURNETT THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CAIBARIÉN, Cuba José Agustín Hernández may not be precisely the kind of New Man whom Che Guevara pictured shaping Cuban socialism. Ms. Hernández, 48, who identifies as a woman and goes by Adela, would
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    • 701 6  -  By SIMON ROMERO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SÃO PAULO, Brazil José Américo Crippa’s 1974 Chevrolet Monte Carlo boasts just about every feature that a lowrider should have, including dazzling chrome wheels, a sliding ragtop roof, a candy-apple red paint job and hydraulic
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 726 8  -  By JACK EWING THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY FRANKFURT Can a ship float and be underwater at the same time? If it has been financed by a European bank, the answer may be yes. A glut of ships, and slack demand for shipping
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    • 636 8  -  By QUENTIN HARDY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY VANCOUVER, British Columbia Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code. But a powerful new type of computer that is about to
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    • 988 9  -  By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY For decades, South America was not seen as a very safe bet by many foreign real estate companies. Now developers like the Related Group of Florida, and Donald J. Trump, as well as
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    • 587 9  -  By QUENTIN HARDY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SAN FRANCISCO As is the case with many busy people, Delyn Simons’s life has become an open phone app of commingled corporate and personal information. “I’ve got Dropbox, Box, YouSendIt, Teambox, Google Drive,”
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 882 10  -  By MARY ROACH WAGENINGEN, the Netherlands In Food Valley, a cluster of universities and research facilities, nearly 15,000 scientists are dedicated to improving or, depending on your sentiments about processed food, compromising the quality of our meals. Here I am, in the Restaurant of the
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    • FINDINGS
      • 234 10  -  SINDYA N. BHANOO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The Falkland Islands wolf, long extinct, is the only land-based mammal native to the islands. European explorers in the 17th century were puzzled by the presence of this lone mammalian species, as was
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      • 241 10  -  NICHOLAS BAKALAR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Researchers report that a woman’s regular use of aspirin may decrease her risk of melanoma, the most serious kind of skin cancer. The study, published online in the journal Cancer, included 59,806 women ages 50
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      • 236 10  -  SINDYA N. BHANOO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY People who live on the Greek island of Ikaria are known to have remarkably high life expectancies, and researchers have been studying them carefully to learn why. Now a new report suggests that one reason
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    • 747 11  -  By HENRY FOUNTAIN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Using an eclectic mix of crowdsourced video, information from Google Earth and data from nuclear test-ban sensors, scientists have gotten a much more accurate picture of the small asteroid
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    • 523 11  -  By SEAN B. CARROLL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Perhaps no destination has inspired more great naturalists than Brazil. Charles Darwin first made landfall at Bahia in 1832; Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates arrived at Pará in 1848. Wallace
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  • AMERICANA
    • 878 12  -  By STEVEN KURUTZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY DETROIT —Allan Hill has an unwavering faith in Jesus and a slow startle response, traits that have served him well in his adopted home. For seven years, Mr. Hill, a 68-year- old semiretired
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    • 621 12  -  By ANNIE LOWREY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON Pearl Brady has a stable job with good benefits and holds two degrees, a bachelor’s and a master’s. But, she has no savings. “I’m in that extremely nervous category,” said
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    • 777 13  -  By IAN URBINA, CATHERINE RENTZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON On any given day, about 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the 50 largest detention facilities nationwide overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, according to new federal data.
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    • 725 13  -  By LYNNLEY BROWNING, JULIE CRESWELL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Known for its white-sand beaches and great rums, Puerto Rico hopes to stake a new claim: tax haven for the wealthy. Since the beginning of the year, the island has gone
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  • ARTS & DESIGN
    • 780 14  -  By LARRY ROHTER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY In his latest movie, “Everybody Has a Plan,” shot in and around Buenos Aires, Viggo Mortensen speaks only Spanish. In “In the House,” set in the suburbs of an unnamed city in
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    • 573 14  -  By CORINNA DA FONSECA-WOLLHEIM THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The din inside the Metropolitan Pavilion in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York recently was that of any trade fair, except for the snippets of classical violin music that wove in and out
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