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  • 12 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY May 13, 2012 www.todayonline.com MICA(P) 072/02/2012
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    • 777 1 TURNOVER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY selected for Copyright 2012 The New York Times Sunday, May 13, 2012 A Publication of MediaCorp MICA (P) 041/07/2011 Articles With More Pictures, Fewer Words A hologramlike projection of Tupac Shakur performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California
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    • 24 1 Turning the tables on Mother’s Day parent to parent 10 To succeed in business, shed your cultural blinkers the st regis perspectives 6 7
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  • 1146 2  -  They were kids struggling with physical disabilities, trouble learning at school or ‘gangster’ attitudes. Then came the day they got on a saddle and learnt, through equine therapy, how to take control of the reins of their own lives. Sunday special teo xuanwei todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg He used
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  • 1088 3  -  TEO XUANWEI THEY were among the most notorious in their school wont to play truant, hurl vulgarities at teachers and hide small weapons like blades in their pockets wherever they went. Last year, when the two Secondary 4 boys first visited
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    • 35 3 ALL ABOARDTHE EQUAL-ARK Get a QR code reader app from your smartphone’s app store and scan the code, or visit http://tdy.sg/equalark on your browser for video of Today’s visit to the Equestrian Assisted Learning programme.
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  • 1171 6  -  From the Venice Biennal to theGuggenheim Museum, Singaporean curator June Yap is crisscrossing the world in the name of art sans her scooter faceinthecrowd mayo martin todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg June Yap has been in New York for the past month and, if there’s one thing from home that
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    • 282 7 There's nothing (ike dining with 4 -faiivfous icon in Sydney Sydnty has an amazing food and wint sunt. And much of it comts with million dollar iritws. Dint harbour-sidt with i/itws of tht Sydnty Optra Houst or Sydnty Harbour Bridgt. Or, simply picnic in a city park or htad to
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  • 1339 8 He is an unusual sort of Frenchman, with a flair for Japanese and a doctorate from Tokyo. But, as IMD business school president Dominique Turpin tells Teo Xuanwei, he is a big believer in diversity and having humility in one’s culture the perspectives In swift, sure
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  • 711 10  -  Let’s turn the tables, not just this Sunday but every day parenttoparent lee seow ser todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Lee Seow Ser is a mother of two young boys. My family sometimes celebrates my brother’s birthday in conjunction with Mother’s Day as they fall just days apart. Thus, over the
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 212 11  -  MONICA KOTWANI SINGAPORE A new hawker centre at Bukit Panjang the first of the 10 new centres to be built over the next 10 years will be run by a social enterprise or cooperative, and the Government will decide on one by
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    • 498 11 Ahead of IPO, Singapore-based Facebook co-founder gives up US citizenship AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO Mr Eduardo Saverin (picture), the billionaire co-founder of Facebook, has renounced his United States citizenship before Facebook’s initial public offering stirring up a buzz over Americans who renounce their citizenship to
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    • 530 11  -  TEO XUANWEI xuanwei@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Nearly three years after Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin moved to Singapore, little is known about his life here, apart from the odd sighting of him often at nightclubs and parties. So highly does the 30-year-old guard his
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    • 288 12 SINGAPORE Some single mothers in Singapore got a treat ahead of Mother’s Day today, as events were held to recognise women who are raising their children by themselves. One hundred single mothers and their children went on a free ride on the Singapore Flyer
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    • 170 12 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Twitter users were warned by Britain’s top law officer that the Internet was not a law-free zone, and that he would not hesitate to take action over offending posts. Amid a slew of high-profile court cases involving postings made on
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    • 301 12 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Millions of mothers in the United Kingdom who have chosen to take time off work will no longer be penalised once they are pensioners, Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has announced. At the moment, people who
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    • 268 13  -  SARA GROSSE SINGAPORE Regular spot checks for hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) will soon be extended to primary schools, with the new checks to be carried out by the Ministry of Education. Speaking at the sidelines of a spot check at an enrichment
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    • 147 13  -  TANYO-HINN SINGAPORE National football coach Radojko Avramovic has been hospitalised. The 62-year-old Serb was admitted to Changi General Hospital (CGH) after feeling unwell during yesterday’s Sam-sung-Chelsea FC youth football camp at Sports Planet East Coast, a community event which saw a total of 173
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    • 156 13 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A pre-dawn accident involving a Ferrari yesterday left one driver and a taxi passenger dead, and three others injured. The accident took place at the junction of Rochor Road and Victoria Street, and involved a taxi, the
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    • 103 14 AP The new 114.5-m-tall ArcelorMittal Orbit built for the London Olympics has divided art critics and the viewing public, but one thing visitors may agree on is that it won’t be a cheap trip up the £22.7 million (S$46 million) tower by artist Anish Kapoor. Entry fees
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    • 290 14 Latest cut comes after data shows sharper-than-expected slowdown REUTERS SHANGHAI China’s central bank yesterday cut the amount of cash that banks must hold as reserves, pumping out more funds that could be used for lending to head off sharper slowdown in the world’s
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    • 402 14 Repeated warnings of trouble were made to top executives THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Senior executives at JP Morgan were given repeated warnings about the controversial unit responsible for a shock US$2 billion (S$2.5 billion) trading loss at the bank. This was revealed
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    • 419 14 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH What was JP Morgan up to? The division in which the losses were made, the Chief Investment Office (CIO), is supposed to manage excess deposits the bank holds. As JP Morgan is considered a safe bank, having escaped the financial crisis
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    • 113 15 CHANNEL NEWSASIA A search and rescue mission is on for a diver who went missing while cleaning the hull of a large crude carrier. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) received the report at about 2.55pm yesterday. The diver
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    • 94 15 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong attended a night of song and dance celebrating the Indian New Year, called Rhythms in Unity, at Cheng San Community Club last night, saying that events like this can help young Indians understand their roots, give an opportunity for new citizens and
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    • 341 15  -  NG JING YNG jingyng@medicorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Hougang residents may be used to being represented by an Opposition voice, but People’s Action Party’s (PAP) byelection candidate Desmond Choo has assured that he would not be afraid to speak out against policies that do not serve the
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    • 138 16 AGENCIES Wealthy Australians could be forced to pay a new “millionaires’ tax” under a plan inspired by multi-billionaire Warren Buffett and United States President Barack Obama, to be put forward by unions attheirconference in Sydney next week. The Australian Council of Trade
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    • 107 16 BLOOMBERG A device that can be used as a “sonic weapon” will be deployed in London during the Olympic Games, the BBC reported, citing the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device can be used to
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    • 115 16 REUTERS Two fire bombs were thrown at the offices of Italy’s tax enforcement agency Equitalia in the port city of Livorno early yesterday, the police said, the latest in a string of attacks on one of crisis-hit Italy’s symbols of austerity. Firefighters were called in
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    • 105 16 AP A video posted online in the name of a shadowy militant group late on Friday claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Syrian capital this weekthat killed 55 people. In the video, a group calling itself the Al-Nusra Front said the bombing
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    • 353 16 That’s how long Pioz, Spain’s most indebted village, will need THE DAILY TELEGRAPH PIOZ It is a village of only 3,800 residents, east of Madrid, promoted as a rural Spanish idyll with views of distant snowcapped mountains. But Pioz, a town in the Guadalajara
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    • 160 16 REUTERS TOKYO Japan will not impose mandatory restrictions on power consumption in parts of the country this summer, relying instead on voluntary saving measures following the shutting down of nuclear power reactors, the Yomiuri newspaper said yesterday. Kansai Electric Power, based in Osaka, western
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    • 227 16 AP CHICAGO A jury on Friday convicted Os-car-winner actress Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and seven-year-old nephew in what prosecutors described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. Ms Hudson, who expressed her undisguised disdain for William
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  • SPORTS
    • 643 17  -  Title now an uphill task for LionsXII as Sundram laments Hariss’ absence 2012 MALAYSIAN SUPER LEAGUE LionsXII 3 Kedah 3 PHILIP GOH philipgoh@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE It started with a bang but ended with a whimper. And after the LionsXII and Kedah served up a six-goal
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    • 532 17  -  COMMENTARY PHILIPGOH philipgoh@mediacorp. com.sg The writer is deputy sports editor at Today. Two days ago, Today reported that Albirex Niigata (Singapore) will pull out of the S-League next season, should the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) allow another Japanese club to join. The rebuttal
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    • 631 18 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Has the 2011-12 campaign been the greatest ever Premier League season? It’s hard to argue against it. First, you have to love a closing week in which the title race, Champions League and relegation battle all go down to the
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    • 723 18 Mancini insists his outfit deserve to win, Ferguson THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Manchester City may be about to win the battle for this season’s Premiership title, but Sir Alex Ferguson (picture) has insisted the war to dominate English football is far from over. The Manchester United
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    • 723 19 brushes aside talk of Premier League power shift AGENCIES MANCHESTER They may not boast the same pedigree as their neighbours, but if Manchester City go on to lift the English Premiership title today, then they fully deserved it, said their manager, Roberto Mancini (picture). City and Manchester
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    • 509 19 AGENCIES LONDON It has been an impressive campaign for Alan Pardew to lead unfancied Newcastle United to the brink of a top-four finish. The lowest the north-east-ern side can finish this season is fifth, but with the possibility of Champions League
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    • 523 20 But with home favourite Alonso third, McLaren ace expects tough fight for Spanish Grand Prix title AP BARCELONA McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton (picture) has hailed his performance in the qualifying session for today’s Spanish Grand Prix as one of his best. The Briton was fastest during Saturday’s
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    • 392 20 REUTERS PONTE VEDRA BEACH American Zach Johnson believes winning the US Masters in 2007 has helped him master the unforgiving TPC Sawgrass. The 36-year-old matched the best score of the day with a six-under-par 66 to surge into a three-way tie for the secondround lead
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    • 265 20 REUTERS Injury-hit Los Angeles Clippers are set to pay more attention to the Memphis Grizzlies’ Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph, as the duo led the visitors to a 90-88 win in Game Six of the Western Conference Playoffs at a
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    • 285 20 REUTERS World No 1 Novak Djokovic has taken a swipe at former ATP chief executive Adam Helfant over the new blue clay courts at the ongoing Madrid Masters. The Serb, who lost 7-6, 6-3 to compatriot Janko Tipsarevic in the quarter-finals
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    • 718 22  -  Swimmer Ong making the most of Japan stint in late bid to qualify for London TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Normally, Zach Ong would still be up and about at nine in the evening. However, when Today called the national swimmer, one of Singapore’s top backstroke specialists
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    • 246 22 AP LONDON A recent medical study has suggested high altitude training does not work for athletes’ medal chances at this year’s London Olympics. Many past studies have shown high altitude training works to increase athletes’ endurance by increasing the red blood cells, which
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    • 171 22  -  TAN YO-HINN A mere two pins was all that separated national bowler Shayna Ng from winning the 35th Canon Malaysia International Open yesterday. Ng, a gold medallist (women’s trios) at the 2010 Asian Games, lost 211-209 pinfalls to defending champion Zandra Aziela of Malaysia
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 388 23 CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC Channel~5,~7.30pm~(Channel 5 Premiere) (PG) Rebecca~Bloomwood,~a~Manhattan~shopaholic~whose~ buying~sprees~have~buried~her~in~immense~debt,~lands~a~ columnist~gig~dishing~out~financial~advice~in~this~comedy~ based~on~Sophie~Kinsella’s~series~of~best-selling~books.~ Starring~Isla~Fisher,~Hugh~Dancy~and~Krysten~Ritter. CHANNEL tellchannel5@ mediacorp.com.sg ~6.00AM~ Art~Of~Health ~6.30~ Real~Deal~For~A~Good~Deal ~7.00~ Seoul~Far~Seoul~Good ~7.30~ The~Martha~Stewart~Show~VI ~8.30~ The~Dr~Oz~Show~(PG) ~9.30~ The~Ellen~DeGeneres~Show~IX ~10.15~ Just~For~Laughs~Gags~IX ~10.30~ Major~League~Gaming~Weekly ~11.00~ America’s~Cup~Magazine~Television~Series ~11.30~ The~Contenders ~12.30PM~ Countdown~To~London ~1.00~ Live~To~Dance ~2.00~ White~Collar~(Finale) ~3.00~ Drop~Dead~Diva ~4.00~ Burn~Notice~III ~5.00~ First~XI ~6.00~ Films~&~Stars~Asia
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    • 91 23 UNDERCOVER BOSS USA II Channel~5,~10pm An~owner~of~the~Chicago~Cubs~goes~undercover~ inside~one~of~the~most~storied~franchises~in~all~of~ sports,~only~to~be~fired~on~his~second~day~after~ striking~out~as~a~maintenance~employee.~ ON~STARHUB~CABLE~TV ON~SINGTEL~MIO~TV BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE FINAL DAY (Live) mio~stadium~(HD)~(mio~TV~Ch~102-111),~10pm The~penultimate~game~of~the~season~for~all~the~ clubs.~Titles~could~be~won~or~lost,~with~clubs~ still~jostling~for~European~positions~and~another~ year~in~the~Premier~League.~Who~will~stay~and~ who~will~go~down?~(Available in High Definition) REAL CRIME: A FACE FROM THE PAST Crime~&~Investigation~Network~~ (StarHub~TV~Ch~403),~10pm The~story~of~the~police~manhunt~for~Kenneth~ Noye,~the~notorious~criminal~who~was~convicted~ of~fatally~stabbing~Stephen~Cameron.~This~ documentary~talks~to~the~officers~who~snared~ Noye~in~Spain~and~they~reveal,~for~the~first~time,~ details~of~the~audacious~secret~operation~which~ involved~Cameron’s~girlfriend,~Danielle~Cable. CHILEAN MINERS: 17 DAYS BURIED ALIVE History~(StarHub~TV~Ch~401),~8pm~ The~dramatic~story~of~33~Chilean~miners~facing~
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  • 621 1  -  ANITA PATIL (tljc NeUi llork (times A hologramlike projection of Tupac Shakur performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California to stunned fans and Facebook bought Instagram, the photo-sharing service, for $1 bil- lion last month. Meanwhile, the absence of a Pulitzer
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  • 1087 1  -  Climate Change Skeptics Look to the Sky for Salvation By JUSTIN GILLIS (El)e ;Nc\it Jlork Simcs Lamont, Oklahoma IT IS THE greatest remaining mystery in climate science: How will clouds change with global warming? Most scientists believe that clouds will probably have a neutral effect or
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 936 2  -  INTELLIGENCE/ BHUVANA ANAND BhuvanaAnand is the director of development and operations at the Centre for Civil Society, a research and educational organization in New Delhi. Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. el)c JCctu JEjork Sitnes New Delhi After the release of the latest round of data from
      el)c JCctu JEjork Sitnes; KUNI TAKAHASHI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  936 words
    • 626 2  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By WILLIAM J. BROAD El)c JCctu JEjork Sitnes From the start, the nuclear era seethed with sexual allusions. Military officers joked about the phallic symbolism of their big missiles and warheads and of emasculating the enemy. “Dr. Strangelove” mocked the idea with big
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    • 602 3  -  By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN ElK-NVut Jlcrk Smncs MOSCOW It was a rare sighting of Russia’s premier political couple, but in the end it only fueled the rampant questions about whether they are much of a couple at all anymore. Lyudmila A. Putin entered
      ElK-NVut Jlcrk Smncs; ALEXEI NIKOLSKY/RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  602 words
    • 794 3  -  By SIMON ROMERO JCcUt Jlcrk Ernies JACI PARANÁ, Brazil The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon’s largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who
      JCcUt Jlcrk Ernies; NOAH FRIEDMAN-RUDOVSKY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  794 words
    • 742 4  -  By ISABEL KERSHNER ®l)c iscXv Jlcrk Simcs RAMALLAH, West Bank Yousef Shayeb, 37, a Palestinian journalist from Ramallah, published an article in a Jordanian newspaper this year charging officials at the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Paris with corruption and espionage. In a recent
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    • 649 4  -  By KAREEM FAHIM EIkJsVut Jlcrk Ehnes CAIRO By the dusty factories at the end of the subway line, two day laborers emerged from the cars, dreading their return to life above ground. The subway had taken them in no time across the city, underneath the
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    • 980 6  -  By SABRINA TAVERNISE El)e JsVut Jlork Elmc‘1 STEUBENVILLE, Ohio For nearly three and a half years, a black family has occupied the White House, and much of the time what has been most remarkable about that fact is how unremarkable it has become
      El)e JsVut Jlork Elmc‘1; PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL McELROY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  980 words
    • 237 7 el)c ;\ctir JJork Sitncs To maintain a stable temperature, the earth must balance the incoming energy of sunlight with the outgoing energy of reflected light and radiated heat. Clouds alter the balance in several ways, with an overall cooling effect in today’s climate. Humans are adding greenhouse
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    • 739 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By NICHOLAS KULISH eljcJCcUt jjork Elmcs BERLIN I first took real notice of the Pirates last summer during the campaign for city elections in Berlin. In Germany, political advertising mostly takes the form of full-color head shots of the candidates hung on
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    • 732 8  -  By THOM SHANKER el)c?CcUT jjork Elmcs FORWARD OPERATING BASE MOCORON, Honduras The United States military has brought lessons from the past decade of conflict to the drug war being fought in the wilderness of Miskito Indian country, quietly constructing this remote base camp with
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  • BUSINESS TRAVEL
    • 759 10  -  By DAVID WALLIS eljcJsVtu JJork elmcs Peter Cochrane, a technology consultant, entrepreneur and blogger, usually unwinds on the train between his home in Ipswich, England, and London with a newspaper. But during a memorable trip in March 2006, neighboring
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    • 578 10  -  ESSAY SAM GROBART SljeJfau JJork elmcs Recently I noticed a man in an airport lounge with this technological array in front of him: A Windows 7-based tablet. A Bluetooth keyboard. A Bluetooth mouse. A USB hub. A USB drive attached to the
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    • 580 11  -  By JOHN HANC ®1)C Jfau Jlork Etmcs About five years ago, Richard Laermer, a public relations executive, had time to spare at Logan Airport in Boston. “I was milling around the terminal, and I noticed a place that had massage,” recalled Mr. Laermer, whose
      ®1)C Jfau Jlork Etmcs; KEVIN P. CASEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  580 words
    • 837 11  -  By DAVID WALLIS ®1)C JfeUf Jlork Etmcs The Web site of Chartis, a leading underwriter of kidnapping insurance, says: “Kidnapping is not a rare occurrence; it’s big business.” And it’s getting bigger. Kidnapping for ransom is on the rise in many countries, with business travelers
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 930 12  -  By NATALIE ANGIER Sljc iXctit JJork Sitncs CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts Seated in a monitoring room at the Harvard University Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Elizabeth S. Spelke, a cognitive psychologist, looked on as a boisterous 8-month-old girl was prepared to watch cartoons. The video clips featured
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    • 751 12  -  By YURIKO NAGANO el)c iXctit JJork ©hues TOKYO Toshiharu Ota, a rice farmer in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, survived the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster last year. But his fields were devastated by the salt deposits left behind when the tsunami’s
      el)c iXctit JJork ©hues; EVERETT KENNEDY BROWN/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY  -  751 words
    • 651 13  -  By ANNE EISENBERG el)c JCcUt Jlork Elmcs Think how convenient it would be if you could recharge electronic devices without ever having to plug them in or even take them out of your briefcase. The WiTricity Corporation in Watertown, Massachusetts, has developed
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    • 658 13  -  By ALANNA MITCHELL el)c JCctu Jlork Elmcs It may never be as well known as the Cretaceous extinction, the one that killed off the dinosaurs. Yet the much earlier Permian extinction 252 million years ago was by far the most catastrophic of the planet’s five
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  • LIVING: THE EC0 – LIFESTYLE
    • 720 14  -  By MICHAEL TORTORELLO el)c JCcUt Jjork Stmcs CORDES JUNCTION, Arizona It is an ultramodern compound rising above a desert canyon: an everunfinished city upon a hill. Occupying the middle of nowhere must have appealed to the students, architects and seekers
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