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  • 12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY October 9, 2011 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 199/02/2011
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    • 566 1 KARIN TECH’S PHILIP NG: MILLIONS OUT OF ZEROS the st regis perspectives 6 THE CHILDREN OF CHINA’S ‘AIDS VILLAGES’ sunday special 2 SO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE PERANAKAN? speakeasy 10 KIDS GET AWAY WITH THE DARNEDEST THINGS parent to parent 10 A MIDDLE-CLASS MILLIONAIRE face in the crowd 9
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  • 1105 2  -  This past week we marked Children’s Day in Singapore. But in China, entire villages of children have been robbed of a normal childhood by HIV. We visit one of them. sundayspecial fung shin ern ern todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Fung Shin Ern is a Singaporean now living in
    PHOTOS BY FUNG SHIN ERN  -  1,105 words


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  • 1056 7 He knows his multi-million-dollar business down to every digit. And, as editor-at-large Conrad Raj finds out, Karin Technology executive chairman Philip Ng also loves his racehorses and mahjong the Philip Ng knows good wine and good food. But he knows the electronics business even better,
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  • 848 8  -  Famed as much for his wit as his signature minimalist expressions, architect Piero Lissoni embraces designs that are sensitive to the human form and scale thefinerlife aaron de silva todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Piero Lissoni (above) strides into the Dream Interiors showroom, the picture of Italian sophistication. He’s dressed in
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  • 1026 9  -  faceinthecrowd venessa lee venessa lee correspondent todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg When Mr Andrew Hallam (picture) was 19, he had an epiphany in between washing buses at a bus depot. On this summer job, he met a mechanic, who happened to be a millionaire, and who told him one could become a
    PHOTO BY OOI BOON KEONG  -  1,026 words

  • 746 10  -  speakeasy tabitha wang wang todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Tabitha Wang is proud to be Peranakan in all things apart from having the typical high forehead. Ever since the success of The Little Nyonya and the opening of the Peranakan Museum, I have noticed more and more
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  • 945 10  -  parenttoparent christopher toh todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Christopher Toh is the deputy features editor and a father of two, who has his wife to thank for his current state of sanity. Question: How big a liar can a parent be? Answer: Very big. Oh, you know
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 218 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan is confident that, with intelligent use of technology and a more informed public, the flood problem can be resolved. He said this when asked about the flood control preparations ahead of the wet season
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    • 365 12  -  NG LIAN CHEONG, HOE YEEN NIE liancheong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Ten more hawker centres will be built over the next decade to meet the community’s needs in new population centres, said Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Vivian Balakrishnan yesterday. Speaking to reporters during a
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    • 324 12 BLOOMBERG BANGKOK Thailand’s worst floods in more than half a century have reached a “crisis level” and threaten to swamp the capital, Bangkok, as early as next week, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said. “This will have a direct impact on Bangkok,” Ms
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    • 171 12 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE The Traffic Police will roll out unmarked patrol cars in addition to their normal fleet of marked cars to conduct enforcement patrols. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry,
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    • 273 13 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER KUANG Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has laughed off the opposition’s description of the country’s proposed RM232.8billion (S$95.8-billion) budget for next year as “unrealistic”, saying it is political suicide to table a budget he cannot implement. Mr Najib insisted the
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    • 136 13 AP JAKARTA The Indonesian police have arrested three Islamist militants wanted for allegedly plotting suicide attacks. National police spokesman Major-General Anton Bachrul Alam said that Heru Komarudin was arrested without a fight early yesterday in the capital, Jakarta. The 31-year-old was one of
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    • 132 13 AP The Polish police say they have arrested and charged two suspects in a series of bomb attacks at IKEA stores in Europe this year. The attacks, made with homemade bombs, occurred from May to last month in France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands
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    • 115 13 AP California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed a Bill banning the sale, trade and possession of shark’s fins to protect the world’s dwindling shark population. “The practice of cutting the fins of living sharks and dumping them back in the ocean
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    • 268 14 AP SEOUL Two United States soldiers have been accused of raping teenage girls in South Korea in separate incidents, prompting US military officials to apologise yesterday as they tried to ease growing public anger. Army Brigadier-General David Conboy, who supervises the US
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    • 182 14 REUTERS China announced yesterday plans to use subsidies and tax incentives to build two new economic zones in the far western region of Xinjiang to open up the landlocked west and boost trade with central and south Asian neighbours. In a detailed policy
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    • 124 14 AP The United States ambassador to the Philippines has apologised for his recent statement that 40 per cent of male tourists visit the country for sex, a remark that angered some officials. Ambassador Harry Thomas sent a mobile phone text message to Philippine
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    • 120 14 AP Japan has grounded its F-15 fighters for the second time in three months after a fuel tank and parts of a mock missile fell off a jet on a training mission, officials said yesterday. Japan Air Self-Defense Force officials said that the flight suspension
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    • 85 14 More than 17,000 suspects were detained during a nationwide crackdown on illegal food production, gambling, drug trafficking and other offences, Chinese state media reported yesterday. According to Xinhua news agency, China’s Ministry of Public Security has shut down 7,165 venues used for illegal
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    • 263 14 REUTERS WASHINGTON President Barack Obama maintained his attack against congressional Republicans over his US$447-billion (S$581 -billion) jobs Bill yesterday, upping pressure before it faces a Senate vote next week. Repeating a warning to make them explain to the American people why they oppose
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    • 68 14 A young boy and his parents browsing through SMRT’s discount voucher booklet at a carnival held at Holland Village to celebrate the full opening of the Circle Line. Thousands of commuters visited Holland Village Circle Line Station and enjoyed special deals from merchants in
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    • 322 14 AGENCIES BEIJING China’s home prices dipped 0.03 per cent from a month earlier in September, the first decline in a year, said SouFun Holdings, the country’s biggest real estate website owner. In 100 cities tracked by SouFun, residential prices rose in 54
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    • 255 15  -  HOE YEEN NIE SINGAPORE Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said he expects recent housing measures to stabilise the market for new flats in four years. He also gave his assurance that the prices of new flats will remain affordable. Mr
      PHOTO BY DON WONG  -  255 words
    • 332 15  -  VIMITA MOHANDAS vimita@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The Health Ministry is looking at setting up more Community Health Centres to complement clinical care provided by general practitioners (GPs), as they play a bigger role in the care of the chronically ill. Currently, GPs look after 55 per cent
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    • 94 15 AP The director of Myanmar’s state censorship board has said his own department should be abolished to allow greater press freedom in the South-east Asian nation. Radio Free Asia cited Mr Tint Swe, director of the country’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department, as
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    • 153 15 One of the seven workers injured in a shipyard accident in the Philippines died in hospital late on Friday night. This brings the total number of deaths to six, after a steel structure fell on them in a shipyard owned by
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    • 259 15 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Some S$280,000 has been raised in this year’s Semakau Run, which will go towards supporting environmental and charitable groups. Yesterday’s run, which was flagged off at Semakau Landfill by Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, was the third consecutive
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    • 102 15 The Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall has re-opened after a year of redevelopment. All visitors will enjoy free entry from today till Oct 30. The revamped museum has five new galleries, new original artefacts on display, multimedia displays and a new storyline that focuses
      CHANNEL NEWSASIA; PHOTOS COURTESY THE NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD  -  102 words

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  • SPORTS
    • 621 16 England’s ace sees red and is vilified back home despite team qualifying for Euro 2012 REUTERS EURO 2012 QUALIFIER, GROUP G Montenegro 2 England 2 LONDON Wayne Rooney came under a barrage of criticism from British media yesterday after his red card in
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    • 223 16 AGENCIES Harry Redknapp believes Wayne Rooney’s red card against Montenegro could prove costly to England’s Euro 2012 campaign. The Manchester United striker was sent off in the 73rd minute in the 2-2 draw for a petulant kick out at Montenegro centre-back Miodrag Dzudovic. The draw was
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    • 253 16 REUTERS FOOTBALL 2014 World Cup qualifiers BUENOS AIRES Argentina lifted the gloom from a poor Copa America by routing Chile 4-1 in their opening 2014 World Cup qualifier on Friday (yesterday morning, Singapore time), while Uruguay also scored four to
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    • 586 17  -  70 private donors and corporations come forth to support STTA’s new initiative LOW LIN FHOONG linfhoong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Outside of football, the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) have arguably one of the best track records in raising funds. The national sports association (NSA) have banked
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    • 260 17  -  LOW LIN FHOONG It is going to be a hectic two months for women’s world No 4 Feng Tianwei. Singapore’s top table tennis star is pencilled in for the Volkswagen 2011 Women’s World Cup (Oct 28 to 30), the SEA Games in Indonesia (Nov 11-22)
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    • 392 17 REUTERS FORMULA 1 Japanese Grand Prix SUZUKA A 10,000km dash across two continents translated into a crucial 68cm for Sebastian Vettel (picture) at the Japanese Grand Prix yesterday. Red Bull, who like to boast that their energy drink
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    • Article, Illustration
      490 18 Les Bleus unrecognisable as they blitz the English to reach semi-finals REUTERS 2011 RUGBY WORLD CUP, QUARTER-FINAL England 12 France 19 WELLINGTON France showed once again why they are at their most dangerous when in apparent disarray by dumping England out of the 2011 Rugby World Cup yesterday.
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    • 241 18 AP The English were worried about which France would turn up fortheirWorld Cup quarter-final yesterday, with good reason. Their gravest fears were realised on Eden Park. Instead of a team in crisis, the familiar flash-and-dash France came out and stunned the Six Nations
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    • 397 18 REUTERS 2011 RUGBY WORLD CUP, QUARTER-FINAL Ireland 10 Wales 22 WELLINGTON Wales advanced to their first World Cup semi-finals in 24 years yesterday and for a country that has produced some of the finest rugby teams on the planet
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    • 570 19 Wallabies eager to get out onto the pitch, while Springboks claim Kiwi support AGENCIES 2011 RUGBY WORLD CUP, QUARTER-FINAL Australia vs S Africa WELLINGTON A single upset in pool play has pitted Australia against South Africa in the quarter-finals of the 2011 Rugby
      AGENCIES; PHOTOS: REUTERS, GETTY IMAGES  -  570 words
    • 245 19 REUTERS 2011 RUGBY WORLD CUP, QUARTER-FINAL New Zealand vs Argentina AUCKLAND All Blacks coach Graham Henry conceded for the first time on Friday what a huge mental and physical challenge it will now be for Richie McCaw just to make
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    • 456 19 THE NEW YORK TIMES GOLF Fry’s.com Open SAN MARTIN (California) The fog that delayed the start of Tiger Woods’ second round for more than two and half hours on Friday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) eventually lifted, and so did the gloom enveloping
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 757 21 MAMMA MIA! (TV Premiere, PG) Channel 5, 7.15pm A young woman about to be married wants her father to walk her down the aisle. But she discovers it could be any one of three men. So she invites all of them to the wedding without telling her mother, Donna. Starring
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    • 715 21 DORM okto, 10pm A young boy is transferred to a boarding school in the middle of the semester, making him feel lonely and abandoned. He learns of a story about a closed pool and the child who drowned in it a few years back. Does this have anything to do
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  • ARTS & STYLES
    • 800 16  -  By EDWARD WONG £()c Jfctu JJork Ehucs BEIJING When George Mallory made a trip to the gargantuan glaciers at the foot of Mount Everest in Tibet before his ill-fated attempt to climb the mountain, he took photographs and noted the splendor. “Here is a
      £()c Jfctu JJork Ehucs; PHOTOGRAPHS BY SHIHO FUKADA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  800 words
    • 640 16  -  By JULIE BOSMAN el)c JfcUt JJork Ehucs Years ago, Paulo Coelho, the 64-year-old Brazilian novelist, upended conventional wisdom by pirating his work, making it available online in countries where it was not easily found, using the argument that ideas should be disseminated free. More
      el)c JfcUt JJork Ehucs; VITTORIO ZUNINO CELOTTO/ GETTY IMAGES  -  640 words
    • 535 15  -  By SCOTT SAYARE Sljc ;NVut Jlork eimcii PARIS For years, they have been the showy accessories of the fashion-forward, urban 20-or-30-something set hipsters, that is from Brooklyn to San Francisco. They have long been fetishized, too, in Tokyo and London. It has taken
      Sljc ;NVut Jlork eimcii; VALERIO MEZZANOTT1 FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  535 words
    • 833 15  -  By JULIE BLOOM Sljc ;NVut Jjork eimcii Karen O, lead singer of the New York indie rock band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and her collaborators aim to create a new kind of genre-blending performance. The singer’s “Stop the Virgens,” an opera of sorts, is
      Sljc ;NVut Jjork eimcii; KK BARRETT; TOP, JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  833 words


  • EDUCATION
    • 699 14  -  By PATRICIA COHEN Sljc JCcUt Jlork ehnes Few battles in history have been more scrutinized than Gettysburg’s three blood-soaked days in July 1863, the turning point in the American Civil War. And still there were questions. What, for example, could General Robert E. Lee
      Sljc JCcUt Jlork ehnes; ANNE KELLY KNOWLES, WILL ROUSCH, CAITRIN ABSHERE AND OTHERS, WITH NATIONAL ARCHIVES, MARYLAND  -  699 words
    • 577 14  -  By D.D. GUTTENPLAN el)c JCcUt Jlork Ehncs LONDON After decades of healthy profits, the scholarly publishing industry now finds itself in the throes of a revolt led by the most unlikely campus revolutionaries: the librarians. Universities from Britain to California are refusing to renew their
      el)c JCcUt Jlork Ehncs; HAZEL THOMPSON FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE  -  577 words
    • 817 13  -  By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER el)e Jfcut jlork Elmcs NEW HAVEN, Connecticut When Keila Fong arrived at Yale University here, she had never given much thought to computer science. But then last year everyone on campus started talking about the film “The Social Network,” and she began to
      el)e Jfcut jlork Elmcs; MICHAEL STRAVATO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; Source: Computing Research Association  -  817 words
    • 533 13  -  By MIKI TANIKAWA el)e ?s>Ut jlork Elmcs TOKYO As a young sales manager at a leading Japanese department store company, Masayuki Miyake struggled to find the middle ground between frontline sales workers who did their best to please their customers and the
      el)e ?s>Ut jlork Elmcs; KAZUH1R0 YOKOZEKI FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE  -  533 words


  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 764 12  -  By PAM BELLUCK EI)C Jfctu JJork Ehucs A proven method for preventing H.I.V. in Africa is being implemented much more slowly than international health authorities recommended. Circumcision, which cuts men’s risk of infection by 60 percent or more, has been
      EI)C Jfctu JJork Ehucs; KARIN HATZOLD; Source: Pepfar; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  764 words
    • 482 12  -  By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD el)c Jfctu JJork Ehucs Color is coming to the formerly black-and-white Mesozoic world of dinosaurs and early birds. Not exactly high-definition color, and some formidable characters may show up in the same old drab and scaly wardrobes; they are dinosaurs, after
      el)c Jfctu JJork Ehucs; SCIENCE/AAAS  -  482 words
    • 570 11  -  essAy STEVE LOHR Eljc Jfelu Jlork ehncs For years, programmers have experimented with software that wrote news articles, typically for sports events, but these efforts had a formulaic, fill-in-the-blank style. They read as if a machine wrote them. But the clever code of Narrative Science,
      Eljc Jfelu Jlork ehncs; PETER WYNN THOMPSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  570 words
    • 802 11  -  By PATRICIA COHEN EljcJCcUt Jlork Ehncs An unusual coalition of scholars is urging colleagues to look up from the relatively recent swirl of bloody conflicts, global financial exchanges and technological wonders and gaze further back, toward humanity’s origins. Daniel Lord Smail, a
      EljcJCcUt Jlork Ehncs; M.C. STINER AND G. HARTMAN; LEFT, CLIVE GAMBLE  -  802 words


  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 789 10  -  By KEITH BRADSHER Eljc iXcUt JJork Elmcs HONG KONG As the American and European economies struggle and emerging markets like Brazil and India show new weaknesses, China may appear to be in better shape than most countries. But “better” is relative.
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    • 481 10  -  By EILENE EILENE ZIMMERMAN eljc'N'cUt JJork Suncs Q. As an older worker, you sometimes find it frustrating to work with and manage people in their 20s. Is it you or is it them? A. It’s both. With four generations in the workplace,
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    • 1894 9 AUTHOR, PUNDIT, LOVER OF LIFE theStRegisperspectithe St Regis perspectives 8-9 Today ij on Saturday n She has a busy ocisocial life filled with lunches and dinners awith girlfriends, afamily and yes, iit is true, the who want her attention. NOT JUST LUXURY TRAVEL BUTBUT BESPOKEhthe finer life 6 Hot News
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 568 8  -  LENS KEVIN DELANEY eljc Jfctu JJork Smncs “I think Ray has been happy for only three years in his life. And those were the three years before I was born.” So said Dave Davies about his brother, Kinks bandmate and lifelong sparring partner, Ray. The
      eljc Jfctu JJork Smncs; JUDITH PSZENICA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  568 words
    • 805 6  -  By NICHOLAS KULISH El)e iscXv Jlcrk Ehncs MADRID Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Indians cheer a rural activist on a hunger strike. Israel reels before the largest street demonstrations in its history. Enraged young people in Spain and Greece take over public squares
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    • 606 6  -  By ANTHONY SHADID, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK El)e JCctu Jlcrk Ehncs CAIRO —This year’s Arab revolts and revolutions have put activists marching under the banner of Islam on the verge of a reckoning decades in the making. And the prospect of
      El)e JCctu Jlcrk Ehncs; MOISES SAMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  606 words
    • 797 4  -  oPInIon ENRIQUE KRAUZE Enrique Krauze is the editor of the magazine Letras Libres. This article was translated by Hank Heifetz from the Spanish. El)c JCctu JJork Ehncs MEXICO CITY —Something amazing is happening in Mexico. A few weeks ago, a 14-bus caravan, which had been
      El)c JCctu JJork Ehncs; EDUARDO VERDUGO/ASSOC1ATED PRESS  -  797 words
    • 681 4  -  By ADAM NOSSITER EIk JCctu JJork ehnes DAKAR, Senegal A revolution led by rappers says something about a country’s politics or its music, or maybe both. In Senegal, the political mainstream appears stagnant and the musicians anything but, which explains why laid-back musicians
      EIk JCctu JJork ehnes; REBECCA BLACKWELL/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  681 words
    • 698 3  -  By SETH SETH MYDANS £l)c Jfrtu jjork Elmcs MOSCOW “Time to shove off” is the name of a Web site for people who are fed up with life in Russia, and it is becoming a catchphrase for those dismayed by the newly
      £l)c Jfrtu jjork Elmcs; YANA LAPIKOVA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, VIA AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES  -  698 words
    • 849 2  -  intelligenCe/erhard ERHARD STACKL Erhard Stackl is the former managing editor of Der Standard, Vienna, and the author of the book “1989 The Falling of Dictatorships.” Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. el)c JfcUf Jjjork ehucs Vienna Many experts are seeing Europe’s dream of an ever closer union in tatters
      el)c JfcUf Jjjork ehucs; MARKUS SCHREIBER/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  849 words
    • 522 2  -  seoul Journal By CHOE SANG-HUN el)c JfoUf JJork ehucs SEOUL, South Korea With his debts mounting and his wages barely enough to cover the interest, Im Hyun-seok decided he needed a new job. The former English tutor joined South Korea’s growing ranks of cameratoting bounty
      el)c JfoUf JJork ehucs; JEAN CHUNG FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE  -  522 words



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    • 184 5 Now on BlackBerry PlayBook Today Follow us on Train crowding expected to ease with full opening of Circle Line: Lui BY HETTY MUSFIRAH ABDUL KHAMID 02 AUG 2011 0600 HRS SINGAPORE Relief is heading the way of commuters with the opening of the western arc of the Circle Line on
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  • 2862 1  -  Trees Slow Warming but Are Feeling Its Effects By JUSTIN GILLIS The New York Times Wise RiveR, Montana The Trees sPANNINg many of the mountain sides of western Montana glow an earthy red, like a broadleaf forest at the beginning of autumn. But these trees
    The New York Times; PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMES; Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.; Global Carbon Project; THE NEW YORK TIMES; JOSH HANER/THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  2,862 words
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