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  • 12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY June 19, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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    • 746 1 THE MARKET FOR ‘DALI SCULPTURES’ IS BOOMING BUT COLLECTORS, BEWARE the finer life 5 ON ONE SIDE, NORTH KOREA ON THE OTHER, ‘SingaporeCity’ sunday special PHIN WONG IS ON THE ROAD TO BECOMING A GRUMPY OLD MAN WITH CRAZY CATS speakeasy 12 Father figures Lim Soon Hock on being a
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  • 1129 2  -  What’s a Singapore developer doing building housing projects across the river from Asia’s current bogey state? Getting ready to ride the boom when North Korea finally opens up, that’s what sundayspecial conrad raj conrad raj editor-at-large todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Few would expect a
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  • 345 4  -  ‘Prices will go up even further once the new bridge which is just 400m from our project, linking North Korea is completed’ CONRAD RAJ NORTH Korea’s recent decision to establish a new economic zone near its border with China will surely
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    1049 5  -  The market for sculptures purportedly by Spain’s most famous surrealist is booming. But it’s collectors beware thefinerlife david leigh, elena borissova todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg THE GUARDIAN The late Salvador Dali, the surrealist Spanish artist notorious for commercial opportunism, might well have laughed and twirled his moustache at the latest dispute
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  • 1376 6 He may have scaled some significant business heights but it is clear that National Family Council head Lim Soon Hock holds only one job close to his heart, writes Crispina Robert the You can tell that a man means business when the first thing
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  • 1068 8  -  What made Thomas Vander Woude die for his son and would I do the same? parenttoparent jeffrey goldberg todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Jeffrey Goldberg is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own. BLOOMBERG The morning of Sept 8, 2008, was like most
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  • 1183 10  -  Boxing legend Syed Abdul Kadir over the years has been trainer, mentor and life coach in short, a surrogate father of sorts to hundreds of youths at his boxing gym faceinthecrowd ‘Some of the younger boys sometimes can’t afford to pay the fees. What am I
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  • 827 12  - It’s not me it’s you One curmudgeon’s tale of exasperation and redemption speakeasy phin wong phin wong features editor todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg I don’t go to the cinema very often. I love movies and I love watching them in cinemas I just don’t go very often. It’s not the overpriced popcorn that
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 294 13 SINGAPORE It is important to channel the passion and energy of animal lovers to resolve concerns about the treatment of animals, said Minister for Law and Foreign Affairs K Shanmugam. At the first-ever public forum in Singapore on animal welfare policies, Mr Shanmugam said:
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    • 346 13  -  EVELYN CHOO SINGAPORE —National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said he is considering moving away from the current practice of monthly launches of Build-to-Order (BTO) Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats to exploring ways to have larger combined launches. In the latest entry on his
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    • 209 13 KABUL (Afghanistan) President Hamid Karzai (picture) said yesterday that Afghanistan and the United States are engaged in peace talks with the Taliban, even as insurgents stormed a police station near the presidential palace (picture inset), killing three people. The brazen attack in
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    • 315 13 AP SEOUL South Korean marines fired rifles at a civilian jetliner making its descent to land, after mistaking it for a North Korean military aircraft, the airline said yesterday. The Asiana Airlines flight carrying 119 people from the Chinese city of Chengdu was
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    • 176 13 BLOOMBERG The price of new homes in China rose last month in 67 of the 70 cities monitored, as developers held off on reducing how much they charged while studying the effects of policies to control the property market. May
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    • 282 14 THE GUARDIAN RABAT Morocco’s king, Mohamed VI, has responded to the Arab spring by rewriting his country’s constitution and giving greater power to elected politicians but leaving him with a firm grip on security, the army and religious matters. The draft constitution,
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    • 104 14 The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and the Housing and Development Board (HDB) will release new parking coupons with a security watermark feature from tomorrow. The watermark feature, which is meant to deterforgery, will be in the form of a URA/ HDB logo imprinted
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    • 114 14 Police are investigating the case of a Chinese national who allegedly posted derogatory remarks about a Malay man on an Internet forum. In a statementyesterday, a police spokesman said: “In response to media queries, police confirm investigations are on-going. A male
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      68 14 More than 10,000 Singaporeans showed up yesterday at Hong Lim Park to form a giant pink dot as part of Pink Dot 2011. Organised by volunteers, one of the event’s aims is to engender an appreciation of Singapore’s diversity regardless of race, language, religion or sexual orientation.
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    • 184 14  -  SATISH CHENEY measures to investigate and to punish those (whose) actions aren’t in conformity with the standard operating procedures,” he said. Well-known women’s rights activist Marina Mahathir, who was also at the event, said Malaysians too are expecting an explanation.
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    • 148 14  -  HOE YEEN NIE A dinner was held yesterday to mark veteran opposition politician Chiam See Tong’s 27 years of contributions as the Member of Parliament for Potong Pasir. Organised by The Online Citizen (TOC), the dinner was attended by some 250 people including former
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    • 123 15 REUTERS More than 200 Chinese workers have returned home from Myanmar after separatist rebels attacked a hydropower plant in the northern border province of Kachin, state media in Myanmar said yesterday. It added that the Chinese ambassador had met Myanmar’s foreign
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    • 139 15 AP Video game developer SEGA says it has been hacked, making it the latest in a string of games companies to be attacked. The company sent an email to users of the SEGA Pass system on Friday to warn them that email addresses,
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    • 153 15 AP For the first time, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (picture) publicly attacked the leader she overthrew a year ago, Mr Kevin Rudd, in a move some analysts say is proof that her job is under threat. The attack came days after Mr Rudd,
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    • 109 15 REUTERS Police in southern China have arrested 19 people in connection with one of the worst outbreaks of civil unrest seen in the exportoriented Guangdong province in years, Chinese media reported on Friday. The authorities in Guangzhou said that they had arrested 19 people
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    • 92 15 BLOOMBERG Saudi Arabia executed an Indonesian woman in Mecca yesterday for killing a Saudi woman, the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing a statement from the Interior Ministry. Ruyati Saruna confessed to killing Khairiyah Majlad with a machete, the news service said. A
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    • 119 15 AP NATO accused Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi yesterday of using mosques and children’s parks as shields, saying the longtime ruler who lashed out against alliance airstrikes is the one “brutally attacking the Libyan people”. In a telephone call piped through loudspeakers to a few thousand
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    • 86 15 AP Floods and lightning killed at least eight people as heavy rains pounded southern China, destroying homes and blocking roads, official media said yesterday. Flooding from this month’s seasonal rains has already forced hundreds of thou- sands of people from their homes
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    • 113 15 BLOOMBERG GlaxoSmithKline, the United Kingdom’s biggest drugmaker, was ordered to recall an antibiotic on sale in China following similar moves in Taiwan and Hong Kong, after authorities detected an industrial plasticiser in the drug. China has halted sales of Augmentin, manufactured by
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  • SPORTS
    • 507 16  -  LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg BADMINTON Li-Ning Singapore Open 2011 SINGAPORE At 34, Danish shuttler Peter Gade readily admits that he is an “old man” in a sport dominated by speed, fitness and lightning quick reflexes. But the veteran warrior is still very much one
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    • 379 16  -  LOW LIN FHOONG Lin Dan has been involved in a few incidents in the past, and so has Indonesia’s starTaufik Hidayat. In an effort to minimise disputes over line calls, the Badminton World Federation (BWF) aim to implement a replay system
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    • Glorious day for Sin gapore sports
      • 509 16  -  SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@mediacorp.com.sg CANON LION CITY CUP Singapore under-15 4 Newcastle under-15 3 SINGAPORE It was a group of 15-year-olds that lit up the Singapore football scene in an otherwise dark 2010, putting on a rousing bronze-medal show at the inaugural Youth Olympic
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      • 467 17  -  TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg TRACK AND FIELD 6th SEA Junior Athletics C’ship JAKARTA Singapore’s track and field team enjoyed their best performance in the region’s top junior athletics meet, which ended here yesterday. The Republic finished the 6th South-east Asia (SEA) under-19 Junior Athletics Championship
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    • 126 17  -  SHAMIR OSMAN SINGAPORE Singapore’s hockey boys romped to a 12-0 win over Brunei in the Boys Under-18 Hockey Asia Cup yesterday at the Sengkang Stadium. The Singapore forward partnership proved effective, with skipper Silas Abdul Razak and Ashriq Ferdaus scoring a brace each. Singapore are drawn
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    • 165 18  -  SHAMIR OSMAN After four days of hearings spread over two weeks, clocking a total of 16 hours, the Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) disciplinary committee will convene again on Tuesday as they mull a verdict over the pre-match fracas involving Hougang United and Etoile
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    • 415 18 Modric says he wants to join Chelsea but Spurs adamant he’s not for sale THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy insists that Luka Modric is not for sale to Chelsea or anyone else “at any price” after the Croatian revealed yesterday that he wanted
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    • 621 19 Northern Irishman blitzes the Congressional course with a brilliant 66 to set a US Open AP GOLF US Open BETHESDA (Maryland) The golf course didn’t stand a chance. Neither did about 100 or so of the world’s best players, to say nothing of all those impressive entries
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    • 1171 21 SUNDAYTV FILMART: NOT WITHOUT YOU okto, 10pm Wu-Hsiung lives a simple life with his seven-year-old daughter in a fishing village in Kaohsiung. When she reaches schooling age, he has to struggle with the police department and the social workers for her custody. Driven by desperation, he fights for the right
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    • 1849 22 TV LISTINGS CHANNEL CHANNEL CHANNEL MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 6.00AM Ninja Warrior 6.30 Prime Time Morning 9.30 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.30 Style By Jury 11.00 Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 11.30 Films Stars Asia NOON Under One Roof III 12.30PM Moulmein High II 1.00 Triple Nine 2.00
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  • THE WAY WE EAT
    • 654 16  -  By JEFF GORDINIER eljc JCcUt JJork Suite* If there is one thing the dragon fruit has mastered, it’s the art of the Hollywood entrance. It’s not uncommon to hear a chorus of beguiled gasps when a dragon fruit also known as pitaya
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    • 768 16  -  By JOHN TIERNEY el)c JCctu Jlork elmcs Can technology build a better burger? Ten years ago, Daniel Boulud, the famed French chef, introduced the hamburger that food experts credit for the beginning of an international burger renaissance. Boulud’s delicacy, oddly enough, was the
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    • 634 15  -  By STEVEN RAICHLEN El)c iXcUt Jiork Smncs Ron Levy never intended to become a tandoor mogul. In fact, he had never heard of tandoors Indian clay cooking vessels until 1986, when a New York gallery exhibited his twometer pots, inspired by amphorae on
      El)c iXcUt Jiork Smncs; MAGGIE STEBER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  634 words
    • 697 15  -  By HAROLD McGEE Eljc'N'clu Jlork Smncs These days, salts come from all over the world, in many hues and crystal forms and textures. But this blizzard is borne on a whirlwind of obfuscatoryhype. Is it true that pure salt can have other flavors
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 810 14  -  By NATALIE ANGIER EljcJsVtu JJork Elmcs BALTIMORE Among multicellular creatures, jellyfish seem like the ultimate other. Where is the head, the matched sets of organs, the bilateral symmetry? Yet jellyfish, a diverse group of thousands of species of invertebrates found
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    • 548 14  -  By EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS Sljc Jfrut JJork Elmcs CHICAGO Martin Mireles says his mother was not happy with his tongue piercing: It didn’t fit his image as a former church youth leader. But as Mr. Mireles told her, it was for
      Sljc Jfrut JJork Elmcs; STEVE KAGAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  548 words
    • 847 13  -  By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD EIkJscUi Jlork eimeii The language of ancient Mesopotamia and its Babylonian and Assyrian dialects remained unspoken for 2,000 years but had been preserved on clay tablets and in stone inscriptions deciphered over the last two centuries. Recently, a 21-volume dictionary
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    • 709 13  -  By BENEDICT CAREY SljciXcUt Jlork Stmcis For years students have been expected to learn the rules first the theorems, the order of operations, Newton’s laws then make a run at the problem list at the end of the chapter. Yet recent research
      SljciXcUt Jlork Stmcis; MICHAL CZERWONKA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  709 words


  • ARTS & STYLES
    • 682 12  -  By MELENA RYZIK EljcJCcUt Jlork Ehnes “There’s nothing like working with plastic!” said Marius Watz, a Norwegian-born artist. He was describing his experience with MakerBot, a new consumergrade, desktop-size 3-D printer. With some assembly and do-it-yourself tinkering, the MakerBot makes, or “prints,”
      EljcJCcUt Jlork Ehnes; LEFT AND RIGHT BOTTOM, MICHAEL APPLETON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; RIGHT TOP, ANGEL FRANCO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  682 words
    • 485 12  -  By ERIC WILSON Eljc Jfrtu Jlork Ehnes Whatever happened to clothes that were just clothes? Now there are toning shoes, gut-reducing underwear, parka drawstrings that double as earphones, and leggings laced with caffeine, supposedly to help slim your thighs. Clothes,
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    • 687 11  -  By BROOKS BARNES elji'iNVut Jlork Elmcs WEST HOLLYWOOD There is a lot at stake with “Green Lantern” at least for its star, Ryan Reynolds, and Warner Brothers. Until now Mr. Reynolds, 34, has been best known for light roles in romantic comedies like
      elji'iNVut Jlork Elmcs; KEVIN SCANLON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  687 words
    • 781 11  -  MICHAEL KIMMELMAN essay Sljc Jfrtu Jiork Elmcs DIYARBAKIR, Turkey Not so long ago playing Kurdish music over a loudspeaker into the streets here might have provoked the Turkish police. These days hun- dreds of CDs featuring Kurdish pop singers fill a long
      Sljc Jfrtu Jiork Elmcs; JODI HILTON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  781 words
    • 393 10  -  By CAROL KINO EljcJCcUt JJork elmcii Two years ago David Revere McFadden, chief curator of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, found himself thinking a lot about dioramas. He was installing a show that included work by Thomas Demand,
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    • Article, Illustration
      277 10 “Bibliothèque Avec le Souvenir d’Anna” (2004) SljcJfrUf JJork elmcii After a long career as a designer, illustrator and filmmaker, the French artist Charles Matton (who died at 77 in 2008) began creating his mysterious boxes in 1985. “It all started because Charles wanted to make realistic paintings of
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    • 270 10 “A New Life #1” (2011) eljcJCcUt JJork Stines Even as a child, Matthew Albanese said, “I always wanted to be a photographer, however it manifested itself.” Now a product photographer at Barneys, a men’s clothing store, he happened upon his creative bliss in 2008, while shooting gadgets for
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      216 10 “The Monkey” (2011) Sl)c JfrUf JJork Simcs Twenty years ago Didier Massard was a studio photographer in Paris who amused himself by shooting European landscapes in his spare time. Gradually he felt compelled to photograph more exotic locales, but only as they existed in his mind.” There were
      Sl)c JfrUf JJork Simcs; JULIE SAUL GALLERY, NEW YORK  -  216 words



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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 648 8  -  By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD EljcJCcUt Jjork Elmcs Those impenetrable plastic clamshell packages may become a welcome casualty of the difficult economy. When petroleum prices rose, first in 2008 and again this year, the cost of producing so-called clamshells and other plastic packages, which are
      EljcJCcUt Jjork Elmcs; ERIK S, LESSER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  648 words
    • 689 8  -  By GRAHAM BOWLEY Sljc Jfrtu Jlork Elmcs Reva Medical, a maker of heart stents in San Diego, California, found little investor interest when it tried to go public last year, so it looked abroad, in this case the Australian stock exchange. “There
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    • 754 7  -  By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO EljcJCcUt JJork Elmcs MURANO, Italy The quasi-mo-nastic quiet of this lagoon island a short vaporetto ride from Venice has been broken intermittently in recent months by ear-splitting saws and the low grumble of heavy machinery. A wing of a late
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    • 534 7  -  By VERNE G. KOPYTOFF Sljc Jfrut JJork Elmcs SAN FRANCISCO A number of online storage companies are quickly gaining users and attention. People are saving Word documents, spreadsheets and photos in “the cloud,” a Web-based file cabinet accessible from any device
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 735 6  -  By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and DINA SALAH AMER eljc-NVut Jlork Shucs CAIRO —Egypt’s economy, whose inequities and lack of opportunities helped topple a government, has now ground to a virtual halt, further wounded by the revolution itself. The 18-day revolt stopped new
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    • 503 6  -  LONDON JOURNAL By SARAH LYALL £t)c Jfrut JJork Shucs LONDON In a rare move by a man who appears to despise few activities more than speaking to the news media, Prince Philip recently agreed to cooperate in the making of a television
      £t)c Jfrut JJork Shucs; AIDEN CRAWLEY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY  -  503 words
    • 739 5  -  intelligence/Mozn intelligence/Mozn hASSAn Mozn Hassan is the executive director ofNazrafor Feminist Studies in Cairo. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. el)c JCcUt Jlork ehucs Cairo One of the earliest and most important questions raised by the Egyptian revolution, and one that is still being asked, is this: Where
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    • 696 4  -  By VICTORIA BURNETT 5Jl)c Jfeu JEjork ehnes HAVANA Alejandrina Hernández packed only light clothes and a makeup bag when she flew here from Miami this spring. As always, she kept her baggage to a minimum. Her own baggage, that is. Ms. Hernández also brought
      5Jl)c Jfeu JEjork ehnes; JOSE GOITIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  696 words
    • 706 4  -  By ADAM NOSSITER 5Jl)c iNclu JEjork ehnes MALABO, Equatorial Guinea When it comes to human rights violations, Equatorial Guinea is one of the globe’s leaders. But for Africa’s fourth biggest oil exporter, this has not been a barrier to broad engagement by the United States,
      5Jl)c iNclu JEjork ehnes; TYLER HICKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  706 words
    • 838 3  -  By DAMIEN CAVE el)c?scur JJork elmcs MEXICO CITY At rush hour, two architects and a biologist stand on a footbridge over the highway that runs east and west through the center of this concrete cityscape. They are eager and young (the oldest,
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    • 434 3  -  B y ANDREW E. KRAMER £l)c Jfcut JJork elmcii MOSCOW Russia’s biggest retail bank is testing something that the old K.G.B. might have loved, an automated teller machine with a built-in lie detector intended to prevent consumer credit fraud. Consumers with no
      £l)c Jfcut JJork elmcii; OLEG NIKISHIN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  434 words
    • 601 2  -  By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, YASIR GHAZI eljc-NVut Jlork Stmcss BAGHDAD Deep below the workshops in Baghdad’s cramped, run-down jewelry district, unemployed men spend their days scouring the city’s sewer system for the one thing they say can bring them money: flakes of gold.
      eljc-NVut Jlork Stmcss; AYMAN OGHANNA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  601 words
    • 735 2  -  By ROD NORDLAND Sljc Jfrut Jlork Elmcs KABUL, Afghanistan Ghulam Hazrat should be a prime example for the peaceful reintegration of insurgents. Six months ago he was a Taliban commander in northern Kunduz Province. Now he and 10 of his followers are becoming police
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  • 1082 1  -  By NEIL MacFARQUHAR The New York Times Riyadh, Saudi Arabia AS oNe NATIoN after another has battled uprisings across the Arab world, the one major country spared is also its richest Saudi Arabia, where a fresh infusion of money has so far bought order. The kingdom
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