Today, 14 February 2015

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    17 1 TODAY TODAYONLI NE .COM WE SET YOU THINKING yVI bdiaCorp SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY 2015 MCI (P) 046/06/2014
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    Lock icon Opposition’s star dims after death of Nik Aziz
    2225 1  -  BY MOHAMED NAWAB MOHAMED OSMAN FOR TODAY Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman is assistant professor and coordinator of the Malaysia Programme at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Nanyang Technological University. SINGAPORE —Nik Aziz Nik Mat, the spiritual leader of the
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    Unanimous support in House for tougher standards on TCs
    1051 1  -  But calls from ministersfor WP to take action against managing agent go unanswered ‘A MATTER ON WHICH IT IS IMPORTANT FOR EACH MP TO TAKE A STAND EXPLICITLY’ NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —The two-day debate in Parliament on the accounting
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      34 1 MAKING ALL IMPORTANT FESTIVALS OF ALL FAITHS PUBLIC HOLIDAYS WOULD BE IMPRACTICAL: MANPOWER MINISTRY VOIC E S 12 SI NGAPORE 14 Telcos achieve nationwide outdoor 4G coverage ahead of schedule MORE REPORTS ON PAGES2-6
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      WP arrogant over lapses instead of being remorseful, says Khaw
      766 2  -  Minister urges Workers’ Party to recognise gravity of town council’s situation OPPOSITION’S ABILITY TO RUN NATION QUESTIONED KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Throughout the two-day debate on the audit findings on Alju-nied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC), the Workers’ Party (WP) has
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      WP’s pattern of deflection, denial betrays public trust, says Heng
      714 4  -  Minister accuses WPMPs of lack of transparency, avoiding residents’ queries, making empty promises to gain votes AHPETC CHARGED THE HIGHEST FEES AMONG TOWN COUNCILS NG JING YNG jingyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The Workers’ Party (WP) has betrayed the people’s trust by failing
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      Integrity, trust are the issues, not technical rules, Low told
      642 4 Yesterday, Mr Heng Swee Keat pressed Workers’Party chief Low Thia Khiang on whether the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) had overpaid its managing agent. Here are excerpts of the exchange: Mr Heng: I think the honourable member has not answered
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      Sharp exchange breaks out over AGO audits of govt bodies
      759 5  -  JOSEPHINE TEO, PNG ENG HUAT CLASH DURING DEBATE ON AHPETC AUDIT REPORT AMANDA LEE leeguiping@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A terse exchange broke out yesterday during the debate on the audit report of Aljunied-Hou-gang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) between Workers’ Party Member of
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      Managing agent’s staff not privy to tender process: Pritam Singh
      658 5  -  KELLY NG AND AMANDA LEE kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE The couple who own FMSS Solutions and Services (FMSS), the company appointed as Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council’s (AHPETC) managing agent, may hold top appointments in the town council, but they are not involved
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      WP criticised for making ‘flimsy’ excuses for AHPETC’s lapses
      719 6  -  Party carefully avoided assuring the House that no public funds under its care have been lost: Hri Kumar TOWN COUNCIL’S PROCESSES ‘WOULD NOT FIND THEIR PLACE EVEN IN THIRD-WORLD PARLIAMENT’ KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SING A PORE People’s Action Party parliamentarians came
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      Lock icon Stifling transport operators’ profits could lead to bigger fare hikes
      628 6  -  JOY FANG SINGAPORE —If the authorities were to stifle the public transport operators’ ability to make profits, it may take away the incentive for them to improve productivity and efficiency and eventually lead to larger increases in transport fares, said
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        Lock icon Leaders, ordinary Malaysians pay tribute to Tok Guru
        768 11 AGENCIES KUA L A LUMPUR Leaders from both sides of the political divide joined thousands of Malaysians yesterday in paying tribute and their last respects to former Kelantan Chief Minister Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, who was laid to rest in Kota
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      Gains of public office not plunder for the victors
      133 12  -  FROM LIM BOON TAN Political parties may come and go with each election, but the administrative staff of town councils should remain, employed on a permanent basis like civil servants in the Government, with all the support equipment and offices in
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      Impractical to make all key festivals public holidays
      542 12  -  FROM ALVIN LIM Divisional Director, Workplace Policy and Strategy Division, Ministry of Manpower We appreciate the perspectives shared by many Singaporeans on whether Thaipusam should be reinstated as a public holiday. As many have noted, it was a public holiday until 1968.
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      More explanation needed on how CPF is sustainable, fair
      337 12  -  FROM KHOO HONG KHENG There has been much debate on the Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme and the recent announcement of more flexible withdrawal options. (“CPF: More choice, better security?”; Talking Point) Everyone, rich or poor, must try to plan for
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      Many working adults cannot clear loans by 55
      149 12  -  FROM SAMUEL CHIA LAM SOON I refer to the letter “For retirement security, pay off loans by age 55” (Feb 11). The objective to clear one’s loans by age 55 is idealistic. A person’s life journey, from the time he starts working
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  • singapore
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      Lock icon Unearthing early treasures
      97 14 An archaeological excavation the largest undertaken in Singapore being carried out at a site in front of the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall at Empress Place. So far, archaeologists have managed to haul up around 400kg of artefacts, some dating as far back as the 14th century.
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      Telcos achieve nationwide outdoor 4G coverage ahead of schedule
      579 14  -  SINGTEL LEADS THE PACK WITH OUTDOOR COVERAGE OF 99.41% TAN WEIZHEN weizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE All three telcos here have achieved significant nationwide outdoor 4G coverage, said a survey conducted by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) the results of which will help set
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      460 appeals to delay BTO flat key collection in past 5 years
      356 14  -  YVONNE LIM yvonnelimsy@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Of the 113,000 new Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat bookings made since 2010, 9 per cent of them, or 10,000 applicants, had failed to complete the purchase as of Jan 31 this year,
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      MHA sets out reasons for Thaipusam restrictions
      466 17 SINGAPORE There have been recent instances where individuals had refused to heed attempts by police officers to keep the peace during the Thaipusam foot procession, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said yesterday, in setting out why it imposes restrictions, including on the
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      Lock icon TODAY Shop to Win draw
      131 17 This week’s winner of the TODAY Shop to Win draw, Mr Halim Suciarto Tio, receiving his S$10,000 cheque from Ms Caroline Bone, marketing manager of MediaCorp Press. Mr Tio, who spent S$800 on a family package trip to Penang from AirAsia, said: ‘I am very
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  • world
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      Lock icon Intel bonus fuels surge in US’ Afghan raids
      699 18 American forces not only advisers, but involved in direct combat, say officials SPIKE AT ODDS WITH DECLARED END TO WASHINGTON’S ROLE IN WAR THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON As an October chill fell on the mountain passes that separate the militant havens
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      Lock icon 8m tonnes of plastic waste pollute oceans yearly: Study
      509 18 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK About eight million metric tonnes of plastic waste make their way into the world’s oceans each year and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the next decade unless nations take
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      Lock icon Indonesia’s war on graft sparks concern over innocent casualties
      995 19 Jailing of three businessmen triggers human rights criticism and investor anxiety about country’s business climate THE NEW YORK TIMES BANDUNG One is a telecommunications executive, another the former president-director of a state airline and the third a project manager for Chevron.
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      Lock icon UOB posts 1.7% profit rise on strong loan growth
      634 20  -  Bank is seeking to earn more in year aheadfrom existing customer base by providing other services Q4 NET PROFIT AT S$786M TAN WEIZHEN tanweizhen@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE United Overseas Bank (UOB), the smallest of Singapore’s three lenders, yesterday reported a 1.7 per cent
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      Lock icon Olam says weakening currencies wrecking bottom line
      466 20 AGENCIES SINGAPORE Olam International, the Singapore-based trading giant with food and commodity operations across 65 countries, said the global race to devalue currencies is wrecking its profit. At least 26 countries are currently weakening their currencies at the same time, chief executive Sunny
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      Lock icon 1MDB repays S$760m loan after Ananda Krishnan bailout
      617 21 Loan to lenders including Maybank comes six days before an extended deadline THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER K UA L A L U M P U R —Malaysia’s stateowned investment company 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) has settled a RM2 billion (S$759 million) loan due
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  • sports
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      Lock icon NO PRICE HIKE FOR UK FANS — BUT THERE IS A CATCH
      954 22  - NO PRICE HIKE FOR UK FANS BUT THERE IS A CATCH PROVIDERS USING CARROT OF LEAGUE FOOTBALL TO HELP THEM ACHIEVE OTHER GOALS COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes
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      Lock icon DEAL WILL LET ENGLISH CLUBS ‘GET ANYONE THEY WANT’
      395 23 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON Arsene Wenger has predicted that the new £5.14 billion (S$10.7 billion) Premier League television deal will see even more foreign players move to England. The Arsenal manager declared that the staggering windfall awaiting English clubs from next
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      Lock icon REDS AIM TO SETTLE SCORE WITH PARDEW
      552 23  -  A CRACKING CUP-TIE COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of English football. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for publications around the world. Follow him on Twitter @adrianjclarke. Selhurst Park
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      Lock icon MOURINHO BACK TO HIS DEFAULT MODE
      624 24  -  MANAGER FOSTERING AN ‘US AGAINST THE WORLD’ MENTALITY AT CHELSEA COMMENTARY BY JASON BURT Jason Burt is The Daily Telegraph’s deputy football correspondent. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Jose Mourinho’s war with the media and the football authorities and war is the kind of word the
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      Lock icon CHELSEA NOT SPECIAL, WILL STUMBLE: NASRI
      416 24 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MANCHESTER Samir Nasri has launched an extraordinary attack on Chelsea, branding the Premier League leaders “not special at all”. Nasri, the Manchester City midfielder, has cranked up the tension in the title race with a tirade at Jose Mourinho’s squad and
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      Lock icon CASH BOOST FOR LOCAL SWIMMERS WHO BREAK RECORDS AT SNAG
      425 25  -  SSA SIGNS THREE-YEAR DEAL WITH SINGAPURA FINANCE ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Cash rewards will be awarded to those who set national or meet records at the next three Singapore National Age-Group (SNAG) Swimming Championships. Yesterday, the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA)
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      Lock icon S’POREANS IN AUSTRALIA KEEN TO HELP SAFUWAN
      386 25  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE Safuwan Baharudin (picture) will have 12 matches before the Australian Hyundai A-League season is up to convince Melbourne City to sign him on a permanent deal, but the Singaporean can count on a small but passionate group of supporters during
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      Lock icon AVERAGE FANS LEFT OUT OF NBA ALL-STAR PARTY
      1449 26 Most of the tickets for weekend’s main events are claimed by the league for distribution to broadcast and marketing partners NTIONAL BASKETBALL SSOCIATION LIMITED BY SIZE OF ITSVENUES THE NEW YORK TIMES new york city The NBA is doing just fine these
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      44 27 SATURDAY, 14 FEBRUARY 2015 HOW A GUY NAMED EUGENE BECAME BECCA D’BUS 28 ART REFLECTING LIFE WHY THE ART OF MEXICAN GREAT DIEGO RIVERA STILL MATTERS 29 NAVAL GAZING THE CAST GETS RIPPED IN AH BOYS TO MEN 3: FROGMEN 29 PHOTO: JASON HO
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        Lock icon LARGER THAN LIFE
        991 28  -  THE JOURNEY OF HOW ONE MAN BECAME DRAG QUEEN BECCA D’BUS MAYO MARTIN mayo@mediacorp.com.sg We had scheduled an appointment with Eugene Tan, but after three hours in TAB’s dressing room, loads of make-up, a purple wig and a leopard-head stuffed toy later, we found ourselves in the
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        Lock icon A true folk hero
        792 29  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE In the 1930s, New York City’s Rockefeller Center was ready to welcome an imposing set of murals by famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera until the project hit a snag. The central mural, titled Man At The Crossroads, included the image of Vladimir Lenin.
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        The Ah Boys are back in town
        671 29  -  GENEVIEVE LOH SINGAPORE Once a ga i n t he lad s from Ah Boys To Men will troop into cinemas, this time in Ah Boys To Men 3: Frogmen, Jack Neo’s latest instalment in the box-office hit franchise. This third chapter, made
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        STATE OF THE ARTS
        147 29  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE India got a taste of Peranakan culture as an exhibition by the Asian Civilisations Museum opened at the National Museum of New Delhi. Meanwhile, at home, an archaeological excavation is taking place right in front of the museum’s neighbour, Victoria Theatre and Concert
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      27 28 VIDEO FROM EUGENE TO BECCA Get a QR code Reader app for your smartphone and scan the QR code, or visit http://www. todayonline.com/ videos/makingqueen on your browser.
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      285 32 MediaCorp’s latest online TV service offers entertainment, lifestyle, information and news across multiple devices. Log on to www.toggle.sg or download the Toggle App now. E: English C: Chinese M: Malay T: Tamil VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL MOVIES ON DEMAND FREE Check out exclusive movies and series produced by Toggle anytime, anywhere
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    Lock icon THE COSTS OF CHEAPER OIL
    1045 1  -  Subsidies End Around Globe As Price Falls By CLIFFORD KRAUSS INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY In Saudi Arabia, drivers pay roughly 12 cents a liter to fill up their cars, and in Venezuela even less. Energy is so inexpensive in Kuwait and Qatar that residents chill their enormous
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    Lock icon Shortages and Health Care Crisis in Venezuela
    1114 1  -  By WILLIAM NEUMAN INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY CARACAS, Venezuela Mary Noriega heard there would be chicken. She hated being herded “like cattle,” she said, standing for hours in a line of more than 1,500 people hoping to buy food, as soldiers with side arms checked
    INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; MERIDITH KOHUT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; PHOTOGRAPHS BY MERIDITH KOHUT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  1,114 words
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      53 1 DRAWING ON RESERVES Russia outlines a prescription to bolster its ailing economy Page 4 INTELLIGENCE The truth of dealing with Russia. PAGE 2 ARTS DESIGN Björk’s heartbreak, as an album. PAGE 14 WORLD TRENDS A dispute over a bird in Pakistan. PAGE 6 MONEY BUSINESS A price tag for climate
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon Western Illusions Over Ukraine
      826 2  -  INTELLIGENCE ROGER COHEN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Munich The most difficult thing for a communist, it has been observed, is to predict the past. I was reminded of this as I listened to the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in full Soviet mode at
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; DOMINIQUE FAGET/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES  -  826 words
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      Lock icon Old-Time Matchmaker Keeps Up With Desire’s Shifts
      545 2  -  LISDOONVARNA JOURNAL By SALLY McGRANE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LISDOONVARNA, Ireland After 50-odd years in the business of romance, Willie Daly has seen priorities change. A horse farmer by trade, he is one of Ireland’s last traditional matchmakers, best known for
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; PAULO NUNES DOS SANTOS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  545 words
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      Lock icon A Return in Myanmar To What Sells: Heroin
      876 3  -  By THOMAS FULLER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BANG LAEM, Myanmar A decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and heroin jungle labs along its eastern border, the notorious Golden Triangle. Today, valley after valley is
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; THE NEW YORK TIMES; ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  876 words
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      Lock icon The Video Lyric Too Hot for India’s Film Censors to Handle: ‘Bombay’
      553 3  -  By ELLEN BARRY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY NEW DELHI—When he released his first music video, the Mum-bai-based musician Mihir Joshi understood that it would be reviewed by India’s Central Board of Film Certification for obscene or
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      Lock icon Russia Plans to Outlast The Economic Gloom
      692 4  -  By NEIL MacFARQUHAR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MOSCOW With oil prices down more than 50 percent in the past year, the ruble having lost more than half its value, a recession looming and the country already dipping into its reserve funds,
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      Lock icon Relief for Grumpy Travelers
      624 5  -  LENS NICOLE HILL THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Newark airport in New Jersey is trying to make more tolerable the worst part of flying: waiting for a flight at Newark airport. The efforts there are just one example of how airports are recognizing that the
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      Lock icon Royal Saudi Bird Hunts Anger Some in Pakistan
      651 6  -  By DECLAN WALSH Salman Masood contributed reportingfrom Pakistan. THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY For decades, royal Arab hunting expeditions have traveled to the far reaches of Pakistan in pursuit of the houbara bustard a waddling, migratory bird whose meat, they believe,
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      Lock icon Traffickers Lure Desperate Syrians
      747 6  -  By CEYLAN YEGINSU THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SIDE, Turkey He left his home in Syria over a year ago and set out more than a dozen times, he said, on ill-fated journeys to the promised lands of Western Europe. He never made it. In
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; AYMAN OGHANNA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  747 words
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      Lock icon Business Leaders Raise Alarms on Warming
      801 8  -  By BURT HELM THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The unusual collection of business and policy leaders in the Risky Business Project don’t agree on much, but they concur on one issue: Shifts in weather over the next few decades will probably cost companies
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      556 8  -  By RACHEL ABRAMS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY When toys are made for movies, they are usually intended for children. But with the worldwide premiere this month of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” many of the tie-ins to the film are for
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      668 9  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By DAVID LEONHARDT THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY For decades, the countries of Africa were the world’s economic laggards. But over the last decade, Africa’s per capita income has grown at a rate nearly identical to that of the rest of
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      Lock icon Superyacht Overhauls Revive a Port
      629 9  -  By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LA CIOTAT, France After divers checked the supporting mounts, a massive submerged boat elevator slowly raised the 600-metric-ton, 51-meter-long yacht M/Y Sky clear of the Mediterranean, gradually revealing its black matte hull. When the entire
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      Lock icon Studying Deer, and Migration, to Keep the Herd Moving
      821 10  -  By JAMES GORMAN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY THE RED DESERT, Wyoming As scientists and volunteers wait by the side of a gravel road here, a helicopter swoops down, carrying two blindfolded mule deer in slings. It hovers for a
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      502 10  -  By NICHOLAS WADE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Researchers have found a key that may unlock the only library of classical antiquity to survive along with its documents, raising the possibility of recovering vanished works of ancient Greek and Roman authors such
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      862 11  -  By KEN JOHNSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY If you want to know how museums are changing their philosophies and programs in a time of increasing financial pressure and the continuing rise of private museums, websites are the most visible and informative places to look.
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      692 11  -  By NICK BILTON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Mention “that French Guy” to teenagers today, and they will know exactly which French guy you are talking about. Jerome Jarre, they will tell you, is a 24-year-old who has become famous
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  • ARTS & DESIGN
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      Lock icon Broadening Classical’s Demographics
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