Today, 6 September 2014, Afternoon Edition

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  • 15 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2014 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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  • 59 1 Olympic champion Nathan Adrian (picture) of the United States was one of the stand-out performers at the first Singapore Swim Stars at the Sports Hub’s OCBC Aquatic Centre last night. He won the men’s 50m and 100m freestyle, while Australia’s Melanie Schlanger clinched the women’s 50m
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  • 929 1  -  Wildlife Reserves unveils vision of integrated hub that boosts conservation, education efforts SINGAPORE TOURISM BOARD ‘STILL WORKING ON DEVELOPMENT PLANS’ JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY LAURA PHILOMIN SINGAPORE —An integrated conservation hub, an educational and research destination, as well as a spectacular
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    • 202 1 S’PORE SHOULD SEE THE PLEDGEAS A PRINCIPLE BACKED BY LAW, NOT JUST AN ASPIRATION, AND IMPROVE CONDITIONS FOR ALL VOICES 10 0 www.LEGOLAND.my ftf HOT NEWS 12 Bukit Timah nature reserve sees late rush before it closes JOY FANG joyfangz@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —An integrated conservation hub, an educational and research destination,
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  • hot news
    • 571 2  -  STB, NParks to guide planned redevelopment of area so it is sustainable for environment ORGANISATIONS WELCOME GOVT’S DECISION TO SEEK THEIR ADVICE XUE JIANYUE xuejianyue@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE In response to the Government’s plans to redevelop Mandai, nature groups yesterday called
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    • 652 4  -  AVA to take action against contractor, as modified trap did not receive its approval FIRM ‘FAILED TO MONITOR TRAP, REMOVE DOG’ NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The deadly use of a modified dog trap by an Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA)
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    • 481 4  -  KOK XING HUI SINGAPORE —Instead of calling up or visiting childcare centres, parents can now register their children at the centres via a centralised online system that allows them to check for vacancies across hundreds of licensed childcare centres here. Among other
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    • 594 6 Military, political campaign could serve as model for combating extremist groups ‘NO CONTAINMENT POLICY’ FOR THE GROUP, SAYS KERRY THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWPORT WALES) —The United States government yesterday said America and its allies had formed a coalition to
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    • 437 6 AGENCIES Even while Kiev and Moscowbacked rebels agreed on a ceasefire after months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) leaders yesterday approved plans to create a rapid response force aimed at countering Russian aggression. NATO Secretary-General Anders
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    • 476 6 AGENCIES NEW DELHI —Australia and India have reached an agreement over civil nuclear cooperation, which opens the door for uranium sales to the South Asian nation as it battles power shortages. “I welcome our conclusion of a bilateral civil nuclear agreement, which will support
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    • 650 7 142,000 non-farm jobs created last month the smallest increase in eight months AGENCIES WASHINGTON —Job growth in the United States plunged unexpectedly last month and more Americans gave up the hunt for work, giving a cautious Federal Reserve more reasons
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    • 167 5 INVITES D, I r_ D3 .'S’, v5 THE SOIREE OF GLIB AND GLAM Of style and substance, the DJ Invites party on 20 August 2014 saw the gathering of MediaCorp radio talents who were glammed up for a fantastic night out with clients and partners. Held at ME@OUE, the evening
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  • voices
    • 376 10  -  FROM DUDLEY AU I read the commentary “What the Pledge should mean today” (Sept 2), and recalled Mr Lee Kuan Yew, then Minister Mentor, saying in Parliament in 2009 that the assumption of equal treatment for all races was false and flawed.
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    • 205 10  -  FROM DESMOND TAN Director, Department of Public Cleanliness, National Environment Agency The National Environment Agency (NEA) thanks Mr Lee Chin Koon, director of Leng Yan General Services and Supplier, for his suggestion of issuing cleaning business licences automatically to Clean Mark- accredited companies.
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    • 208 10  -  FROM TUNG YUI FAI Brigadier-General (NS), Chairman, Organising Committee, SAFRA Singapore Bay Run Army Half Marathon 2014 We refer to Mr Lim Poh Seng’s letter “S’poreans need to learn race etiquette” (Sept 2). We are glad that he and many other participants
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    • 313 10  -  FROM JOLOVAN WHAM Executive Director, Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics While the cleaning accreditation scheme’s S$1,000 basic salary requirement will increase the incomes of Singaporean cleaners, the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME) is concerned that migrant workers have been left out.
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  • singapore
    • 622 11  -  He also pleads guilty to sex act with 3 other minors andfaces more charges, including theft REPORT TO ASSESS IF ACCUSED IS SUITABLE FOR REFORMATIVE TRAINING NEO CHAI CHIN chaichin@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E He told lies to
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    • 430 11  -  PAUL LIM S I N G A P O R E Growing up, Mr S B Viknesan always had a certain bias against those who struggled with addiction problems. He labelled and dismissed them as “people who cannot kick their bad habits”. But
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    • 337 11 SINGAPORE An optometrist yesterday successfully appealed against his conviction of intentionally aiding two others to obtain bogus contact lenses. Mr Koh Peng Kiat was among seven people who were the first to face charges for the sale of counterfeit contact lenses in
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    • 407 12  -  SENIORS, HIKERS GET THEIR FILL BEFORE AREA CLOSES FROM SEPT 15 FOR TWO YEARS KHAIRUL AMRI khairulamri@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Since it was announced that Bukit Timah Nature Reserve would be closed from Sept 15 for about two years for restoration work,
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    • 30 12 TODAYONLINE TAKES A CLIMB TO THE TOP OF BUKIT TIMAH HILL Scan the QR code using the reader app on your smartphone, or you can visit tdy.sg/naturereserve for the video.
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    • 534 13 BROUGHT TO YOU BY Kidding around in Singapore Better early childhood options for a more family-friendly nation NEW! More Childcare Places Located near homes and offices Childcare Centres More Centres 20,000 more childcare places by 2017 Affordable Services Government subsidies to help with costs of early childhood services* *For children
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  • world
    • 504 14 COURT ORDERS INVESTIGATIONS TO BE REOPENED AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysia’s apex court yesterday ruled that the death of an opposition political aide in 2009 was caused by the act of “persons or persons unknown”, including the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission
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    • 440 14 REUTERS JAK ARTA —A plan by Indonesia’s next leader to raise fuel prices this year faces opposition within his coalition, party officials said, raising concern about whether he will have the political support to take such a contentious step during his
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    • 798 15 Other topics on crowded agenda include nuclear talks with Iran, Russia’s incursions into Ukraine THE NEW YORK TIMES WA SHINGTON —United States President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice is scheduled to make her first visit to Beijing this
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    • 442 15 AGENCIES BEIJING —Help wanted: Ancient Buddhist temple famed for its kung fu monks seeks media directors to build brand. English and social media skills required. Not necessary to be a monk, practise martial arts or eat vegetarian. This online ad placed by China’s
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  • business
    • 817 16  -  More locals rising to top ranks in such firms a trend that will contin ue as Republic draws more global companies LOCALS’ UNDERSTANDING OF REGIONAL MARKETS WOULD ‘BOOST ORGANISATION’S SUCCESS’ WONG WEI HAN wongweihan@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE As the Republic targets to expand its
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    • 354 16 REUTERS HONG KONG —Regional carrier Hong Kong Airlines International Holdings filed yesterday for the city’s first dualcurrency initial public offering (IPO), looking to tap a massive pool of yuan deposits held in local banks. The IPO represents a key milestone for Hong Kong, which
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    • 415 17  -  LEE YEN NEE S I N G A P O R E —Consumers here remained upbeat in August, even though the confidence level plunged from the previous month as the annual Great Singapore Sale boosted retail sales in July, an inaugural survey published
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    • 282 17 BLOOMBERG TOKYO —The Japanese government has given its clearest signal yet of concern about damage to Asia’s secondlargest economy from a higher sales tax, with the Finance Minister saying yesterday that a back-up plan for stimulus will be prepared. “The economy is
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    • 334 17 Mother Baby presents ilH lip Venue Retail Podium between Symbiosis and Connexis, Level 1 (above one-north MRT Station) This September, Mother Baby brings you an exdusive one-day only Mini-me Fiesta event at one-north, Fusionopolis retail podium between Symbiosis and Connexis towers. Meet two adorable My Little Pony mascots, and get
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    • 99 18 BOWLING OPPOSITION OVER THE SINGAPORE’S ASIAN GAMES KEGLERS READY TO HUNT FOR MEDALS IN INCHEON -PAGE 20 TOP ROW (from left): Cherie Tan, Shayna Ng, New Hui Fen, Daphne Tan, Jazreel Tan, Joey Yeo. BOTTOM ROW (from left): Justin Lim, Joel Tan, Keith Saw, Ng Chiew Pang, Javier Tan, Muhd
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    • 102 19 17 th fiS/ffff t/TCt-iECCl 2014 'LIVE' Off i 79 Sept Oct 17th Asian Games INCHEON 2014 /AediaCorp OFFICIAL BROADCASTER N/ V Opening Ceremony 19 Sept, 6:00pm 'LIVE' 'LIVE'Rctton Belt Daily 2:00pm 9:00pm Today at the Games Daily 9:00pm 10:00pm ii Derek Wong Smashing Shuttler V 1 I I ■> >
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  • sports
    • 741 20  -  Bowling confident of continuing the tradition of delivering medals for Singapore at the Asian Games 12 GOLD MEDALS AT STAKE IN INCHEON PHILIP GOH Deputy Sports Editor philipgoh@med iacorp.com .sg S I N G A P O R E Twelve years have passed since Remy Ong
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    • 482 20  -  JEAN IAU Singapore— While many top golf and tennis names feel the annual calen­dars of their respective sports are too congested, Nathan Adrian and Me­lanie Schlanger believe swimming’s calendar can do with more meets. The pair were the stand­out per­formers at the
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    • 659 21 AP L AUSANNE —The evidence that could strip Qatar of the 2022 World Cup has landed at FIFA. The governing body of world football said yesterday that it had received three reports from ethics investigator Michael Garcia and his team after
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    • 641 21  -  GERMAN TO PICK UP A 4TH WIN OR BRITON A 6TH AT ITALIAN GRAND PRIX COMMENTARY BY IAN DE COTTA ian@mediacorp.com.sg The writer is senior F1 correspondent at TODAY. For the first time in six years, Ferrari have written off any chance
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    • 621 22 Swiss recovers from two sets down to reach semi-finals and stay on track for 18th Major title BERDYCH DEFEATED BY CILIC’S BOOMING SERVES REUTERS NE W YORK Roger Federer rolled back the years and pulled off a great escape by surviving
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    • 438 22  -  JEAN IAU SINGAPORE They will be without stalwarts such as Jean Ng and Charlene Porima, but retaining their crown remains a priority for hosts Singapore at the Mission Foods Asian Netball Championships, which starts this weekend at the OCBC Arena. Singapore begin the
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      • 574 24  -  IF A CAMPAIGN IS SUCCESSFUL, WHY IS THERE A NEED FOR ANOTHER? HON JING YI honjingyi@mediacorp.com.sg Raise your hands, dear reader, if you think we need more campaigns in Singapore. We didn’t think so. Even though most probably believe we don’t need to be told what to
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      • 682 24  -  TV dramas may just be the new campaign platform MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com. sg S ING A PORE In 2011, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) collaborated with MediaCorp TV Channel 8 to produce C.L.I.F., a hyper-realistic police procedural drama that also explored the private lives of law
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      • 548 25  -  Xiang Yun remembers lessons in courtesy, Rebecca Lim doesn’t MAY SEAH SINGAPORE Mascots are the easily recognisable faces of otherwise impersonal campaigns public characters that encouraged some of our most famous faces to share their toys, strive to do better and be the most courteous
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      • 974 26  -  A tale of national slogans, over-parenting and boogers MAY SEAH may@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE “I always move in,” sighed my colleague, who happens to share the same name as SMRT’s latest animated ambassador for better commuter behaviour, Move-In Martin. You have probably seen him MoveIn, not my colleague on posters
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      • 600 27  -  Here are some we’ve designed specially for those of us who need to be told what not to do TEXT BY HON JING YI SINGAPORE —We all need gentle reminders, sometimes, to move in a little, smell a little better and smile a little more in a
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    • family
      • 876 28 KIDS 12 AND BELOW CHARITY LANTERN WALK Take a moonlit walk with your favourite radio DJs. Proceeds for the event, organised by YES 93.3FM, Love 97.2FM and Capital 95.8FM, and sponsored by Chan Brothers Travel, go to O’Joy Care Services, which helps elderly in need. Participants can choose
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    • television
      • 327 29 Joo Won isn’t the only actor who has played a character on the autism spectrum well GOOD WORK SING A PORE One of the most challenging tasks for an actor must be to portray a differently-abled character faithfully and with sensitivity. In the Korean drama Good Doctor,
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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    • 26 29 Joan Rivers dies at 81 The acerbic comedienne and host of TV’s Fashion Police passed away after going into cardiac arrest during a medical procedure. http://tdy.sg/todayceleb
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 298 30 ON SATURDAY 9.00AM You And The Law With Keith De Souza 10.00 Road Trip With Keith De Souza And Daphne Lim 11.00 Sports Zone With Raj Kumar And 938LIVE Sports Desk NOON Hot In The City With Daphne Lim 7.00AM Asia Pop 40 With Dom Lau 10.00 Automated 2.00PM Weekends
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  • 1266 1  -  By NICK WINGFIELD INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SEATTLE A bewitching creature half woman, half deer battles a shaman and a sentient tree. Lightning bolts strike. Weapons explode. Nasty spells are cast. The video game Dota 2, like so many across the Internet, transports teams of players from their
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  • 2000 1  -  Israeli Transplant Brokers Prey on Poor Donors And Desperate Patients By KEVIN SACK INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY RAM AT GAN, Israel —Aside from the price tag of nearly $200,000, what was striking was just how easy it was for Ophira Dorin to buy a kidney. Two years ago, as
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 497 2  -  By CHOE SANG-HUN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY GWANGJU, South Korea After 250 South Korean high school students died in the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April, the artist Hong Sung-dam lashed out at a political and business elite he considers responsible
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    • 833 2  -  INTELLIGENCE/ POLA OLOIXARAC Pola Oloixarac is the author of “The Wild Theories” and “The Dark Constellations,” due out this year. Send comments to intelligence@ nytimes.com. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Buenos Aires Argentina has defaulted on its debt three times in the last 32 years,
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    • 804 3  -  By SCOTT SHANE, BEN HUBBARD THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The extremists who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq have riveted the world’s attention with their military prowess and unrestrained brutality. But Western intelligence services are also worried about their
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    • 650 3  -  By KATRIN BENNHOLD THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CAERNARFON, Wales Twm Morys was boiling carrots when he momentarily stopped to recite a 15th-century battle chant in Welsh. Beating out the guttural consonants with a stave on his floor, Mr. Morys, a poet, said it
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    • 663 4  -  LENS TOM BRADY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY When Thomas Jefferson declared “the pursuit of Happiness” an inalienable right in his draft of the American Declaration of Independence, he probably did not expect it to one day become an academic discipline. Scholars in
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; BORYANA KATSAROVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  663 words
    • 881 6  -  By ADAM NOSSITER, BEN C. SOLOMON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY KENEMA, Sierra Leone Josephine Finda Sellu lost 15 of her nurses to Ebola and thought about quitting herself. She did not. Ms. Sellu, the deputy nurse matron, is
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    • 641 6  -  RIO~ DE~ JANEIRO~ JOURNAL By SIMON ROMERO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY RIO DE JANEIRO Until just weeks ago, few Brazilians had even heard of the National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, much less followed the rarefied concepts being studied within. In the
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 860 8  -  By JENNY ANDERSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Bruce Mackenzie and Toby Ali were young bankers in the late 1990s, traversing Europe to pitch high-yield securities, otherwise known as junk bonds, to chief executives who mostly said no. “They
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    • 511 8  -  By BEN SISARIO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SoundCloud was the ubiquitous wild child of the digital music world. Without paying artists or record companies, it let people freely upload and stream any kind of audio, and musicians embraced it as a way
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 628 9  -  By STUART F. BROWN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Some of us can thank a cartoon character from the future, George Jetson, for instilling our longing. Students of aviation history might look for inspiration to the Autoplane prototype built in 1917 by the
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    • 733 9  -  By GEORGE JOHNSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Almost 20 years ago, in Bioastronomy News, two giants in the world of science argued over whether SETI —the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence had a chance of succeeding. Carl Sagan gave his standard answer.
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    • 800 10  -  By KENNETH CHANG THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The oceans, which make up more than 90 percent of the earth’s livable space, are full of almost invisible animals. To illustrate why, Dr. Sönke Johnsen, a professor of biology at
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PHOTOGRAPHS BY SÖNKE JOHNSEN/DUKE UNIVERSITY  -  800 words
    • 484 10  -  ESSAY FARHAD MANJOO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The world is on track to capture nearly a trillion photographs in 2014; yet with all those cameras everywhere, the crucial moment when an unarmed teenager was recently shot by a police officer in
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  • ONLINE
    • 705 11  -  By MARK SCOTT THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY STOCKHOLM Ready to check out online? Just enter your email address and a postal code to complete the purchase. The bill will be in the mail. That is the simple option offered to shoppers on
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    • 793 11  -  By NICK WINGFIELD THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The video in video games is suddenly a billion-dollar business. Video games have long been something people played. But in recent years, thanks in part to fast Internet access and multiplayer games, the games
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    • 834 12  -  NEWS~ ANALYSIS By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Anyone who has ever been online has witnessed, or been virtually hurt by, a mean comment. “If you’re going to be a blogger, if you’re going to tweet stuff, you better develop a
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