Today, 12 December 2015

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      Lock icon Cliffhanger in Paris, but France positive a climate deal is within reach
      1155 2 TALKS EXTENDED A DAY PAST DEADLINE AGENCIES PARIS Efforts to craft a historic global accord to combat climate change stumbled yesterday, with China and many other nations refusing to yield ground over how —or even whether to share
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      Lock icon A sweeping, but quiet, effort to save world’s forests
      1029 4 THE NEW YORK TIMES PARIS The climate deal being negotiated at the talks is meant to begin a transformation of the world’s energy systems, but it has another goal that has received far less attention: A sweeping effort to save the
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      Lock icon M’sian opposition slams PM’s racial ‘scare tactics’
      649 5 Pointed response to Najib’s claim that only UMNO fights for Malays AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR —Malaysia’s opposition pact Pakatan Harapan has slammed Prime Minister Najib Razak for his remarks at this week’s UMNO General Assembly where he accused the opposition pact of being anti-Islam
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      Lock icon Vanished billionaire leaves Fosun investors in the dark
      777 5 AGENCIES HONG KONG —What do you do when your most senior executive stops answering his phone? It is an experience Chinese companies are getting used to. Over the past year, senior figures at China Minsheng Banking, China Aircraft Leasing, and the brokerages
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      Lock icon HELPING HAND ON THE GROUND FOR FOREIGN WORKERS
      540 6  -  TOH EE MING As long-time Geylang resident Cai Yinzhou weaves his way through shadowy alleyways of his neighbourhood, this reporter steals a glimpse of a sarong-clad foreign worker lingering by the doorway, while a few Chinese nationals crouch by the pavement, their
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      190 3 WINDOW SAFETY DAYS JUN DEC A 0. 0. service 0 Building and Construction Message From: We shape a safe, high quality, sustainable and friendly built environment. 'Authority CHECK. CLEAN. CHANGE. A LITTLE EFFORT. A GREATER PEACE OF MIND. Falling windows can endanger public safety. Homeowners/ tenants may face a fine
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      31 6 VIDEO THE MAN BEHIND SINGAPORE’S ONLY BENGALILANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Scan the QR code or visit bit.ly/ banglarkantha VIDEO ENGLISH LESSONS FOR BURMESE DOMESTIC HELPERS Scan the QR code or visit bit.ly/ englishforburmese
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    • Article
      Raw-fish ban: Probes take time, have to be thorough
      320 8  -  FROM DEREK HO Director-General, Public Health, NEA PAUL CHIEW Group Director (Laboratories Group), AVA JEFFERY CUTTER Director, Communicable Diseases Division, MOH We refer to the letter “Raw-fish: Why long gap between health advisory and sales ban?” (Dec 1). On July 24,
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      Ride on local para athletes’ success at ASEAN Games
      212 8  -  FROM ALAN CHING The 8th ASEAN Para Games has been a success in many ways (“Para Games close on a high note for S’pore”; Dec 10). It has demonstrated the sporting abilities of people with disabilities and raised awareness of this
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    • Article
      Monitor heavy vehicle drivers who speed, are aggressive
      228 8  -  FROM JULIE LIM There are more serious problems besides motorists’ lack of awareness of road safety rules and the careless attitudes such as using mobile devices (“Motorists behave dangerously on the road despite knowing the risks: Survey”; Dec 4). Nowadays, I see
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      Safeguard whistle-blowers to save charities
      341 8  -  FROM AJITH NARAYANAN Mr Paul Chan’s letter “Charities Act should be enhanced in wake of CHC saga” (Dec 4) is timely and insightful. In the National Kidney Foundation saga, which preceded the City Harvest Church one, an errant charity was able to project a spotless
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      129 9 12-13 DECEMBER 2015 9AM 5PM CIVIL DEFENCE MRT SHELTER OPEN HOUSE FREE ADMISSION! LOCATIONS Tan Kah Kee —I You may frequent the MRT stations daily but do you know that some of these train stations are also Civil Defence Shelters? HIGHLIGHTS Guided tour to the Shelter Entrance Blast Door and
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  • world
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      Lock icon Polluted skies give China’s leaders a headache
      1155 12 GOVT’S ABILITY TO CLEAN UP ENVIRONMENT BEING QUESTIONED THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIJING Red has been considered the colour of prosperity and good fortune in China for centuries, and it is also the colour of the Communist Party. But, this week, the colour
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      Lock icon Sydney teenager in alleged terror plot denied bail
      695 13 AGENCIES SYDNEY A 15-year-old charged over a terror plot used coded text messages to try to avoid detection, an Australian court heard as he was denied bail yesterday over fears he could commit serious crimes. The teenager, who under Australian law cannot
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      97 13 SCHOOLOFTHE ARTSSINGAPORE We’re Looking for yoiMg creative writers! CoTupe-litga Primary b Cioit) stucje^ts Here's how: Write avy origihdl story Cup to 600 words} usihg of the prompts: i. Those IdZ.y crdZ.y hdZ.y dcjys ii. Thev\ woke up but it Wdsht a drecito in. This is whdt we we*t through Sevid
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      BHG Retail REIT ends debut day unchanged
      565 14  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com. sg SINGAPORE BHG Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in Singapore this year, closed unchanged on its debut yesterday from the offer price of S$0.80 after the underwriter emerged to support the market as
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      Lock icon Alibaba to buy South China Morning Post
      571 14 BLOOMBERG HONG KONG Alibaba Group Holding, the Chinese e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma, has agreed to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) and other affiliated media assets, as the Internet tycoon follows in the footsteps of American tech entrepreneur
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      S’pore’s corporate debt market up 13% amid low rates
      297 14 SINGAPORE The Republic’s corporate debt market surged last year despite uncertainties over the slowdown in Asia and the divergent monetary policies of major economies, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said yesterday. Total outstanding debt grew by 13 per cent last
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      Lock icon S’PORE FEEL THE UNDERDOG SPIRIT
      556 16  -  National Under-19 rugby team out to upset regional powerhouses COACH OPTIMISTIC HIS CHARGES CAN BEAT THE ODDS NOAH TAN noahtanyw@mediacorp.com.sg S I N G A P O R E —The goal for Singapore at the upcoming Asian Rugby Under-19 Championship is a simple one: Record
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      NETBALLERS LOOKING TO END YEAR ON A HIGH
      516 16  -  ADELENE WONG SINGAPORE In about three weeks, the curtains will finally fall on a very hectic and tiring year for the Singapore netball team. But before that happens, there is still the Mission Foods Nations Cup to compete in, starting tomorrow at
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      BIG-MATCH PREDICTIONS
      252 17 Man City vs Swansea I am still in shock that Swansea have sacked Garry Monk, a bright young manager who took them to a record points haul last season. In disarray off the pitch, they will not be able to cope with City on it. This should be
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      Lock icon UNITED FANS ENTITLED TO EXPECT MORE FROM VAN GAAL
      1107 17  -  COMMENTARY BY ADRIAN CLARKE sports@mediacorp.com.sg Adrian Clarke is a former Arsenal midfielder who has played at every level of the English game. Now an experienced sports journalist, he writes for many international publications. If there is anyone who knows that winning
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      Lock icon MARATHON HOLIDAYS IN KOREA A HIT WITH SINGAPORE RUNNERS
      1057 18  -  Jeju among popular destinations with more planned ADELENE WONG adelenewong@mediacorp.com.sg JEJU (SOUTH KOREA) Stephen Leong tightened the laces of his running shoes, adjusted his running vest, and tapped the pocket of his shorts to make sure his inhaler was still there.
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      40 19 THE LEXUS NEXUS IT’S COOL THAT THE NEW RX IS REMINISCENT OF A STAR WARS CHARACTER 22 GEARING UP FOR CHRISTMAS WHAT YOU SHOULD GET FOR THE PERSON WHO’S REALLY INTO CARS 24 SATURDAY, 12 DECEMBER 2015 PHOTO: TIERRA DESIGN
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        Lock icon A SENSE OF PLACE
        1670 20  -  SINGAPOREAN PERSPECTIVE FROMTHE PRESIDENT’S DESIGN AW RD WINN RS SERENE LIM serenelim@mediacorp.com.sg Perhaps it’s fitting that three architects two of them working with landscapes won the Designer Of The Year at the 10th edition of the resident’s Design Award (PDA) held last night. And that much
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        STATE OF THE ARTS
        177 21  -  MAYO MARTIN SINGAPORE After coming on board in October, The Substation’s new artistic director Alan Oei finally revealed plans to develop the arts centre into a “research and developmental space”. Also announced this week were the recipients of the annual President’s Design Award and the annual
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        Lock icon Tamil author JM Sali is this year’s SEA Write Awardee for Singapore
        251 21 SINGAPORE Tamil author JM Sali has been announced as this year’s recipient of the South-east Asian Writers Award (SEA Write Award) for Singapore, the National Book Development Council of Singapore announced in a media release. Sali, who also
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        SPACE IN ‘VADER’
        795 22  -  THE NEW LEXUS RX MAY HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH A CERTAIN VILLAIN FROM THE STAR WARS FRANCHISE, BUT IT’S A BETTER CAR FOR IT LUXURY WITH AN ATTITUDE LEOW JU-LEN todaycars@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Maybe Star Wars fever is starting to get to me, but the more I
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        ’Twas the night before Christmas
        681 24  -  Here are a few gift ideas for that special someone who’s mad about cars or always on the road FESTIVE GEAR DERRYN WONG todaycars@mediacorp.com.sg 1 FOR T H E DR I V E R W HO WANTS TO LEVEL UP BMWDRIVING EXPERIENCE From S$1,000 bmw.com
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        McLaren’s chief test driver is ‘made in Singapore’
        647 25  -  Meet Chris Goodwin, the man who managed Ayrton Senna’s nephew, competed in GT championships and makes McLaren’s supercars handle the way they do DEVELOPMENTAL DUTIES SHELDON TROLLOPE todaycars@mediacorp.com.sg FUJI SPEEDWAY Many may remember Chris Goodwin as one half of the team that
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        McLaren P1 production ends
        215 25 Petrolheads the world over are probably shedding a tear or two on the news that McLaren Automotive has completed the final production example of its P1 hybrid supercar. Production started in 2013 with the entire 375-car production run being sold before the first car was delivered.
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      1182 26 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg 6.00AM My Genie II 6.30 Easy Cooking 7 .00 Table Of Glory 9.00 Pleasant Goat And Big Big Wolf VI 9.30 Chicken Stew: Tales From The Salted Egg Temple 10.00 Magic Institute (HD) 10.30 Little Counsellor (HD) 11.00 It’s A Small World IV (HD) NOON Celeb
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      1160 27 CHANNEL CHANNEL tellchannel5@mediacorp.com.sg tellchannel8@mediacorp.com.sg CHANNEL 6.00AM The Records Challenge 7.00 Table Of Glory 8.00 Love 0°C 9.00 Cookie Master (Debut) 9.30 Doraemon TV Special 10.00 Super Family 2 (HD) 10.30 Little Detective (HD) 11.00 Tuesday Report: Flavours Of Life 11.30 Please Be My Guest! (HD) 12.30PM Astro Classic Golden Melody
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      334 28 ON SATURDAY 2.00PM TGI Saturday With Dafril Phua 5.00 987 HOME With Joakim Gomez 6.00 Say It With Music With Naomi Yeo 10.00 Automated 11.00 987 Anthems by Zouk And The AOS Collection DJs 6.00AM News Plus The Best Of Body Soul With Daniel Martin 10.00 News Plus Weekend Brunch
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      311 28 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 FREE LATEST CATCH-UP TV Watch episodes on Toggle after they are shown on TV. LIFE FEAR NOT (PG)
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    Lock icon Americans Unnerved Over Mass Shootings
    1109 1  -  By N. R. KLEINFIELD INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The killings are happening too often. At places you would never imagine. As a holiday party in San Bernardino, California, was added to the long list of mass shootings, a wide expanse of America’s populace finds itself engulfed in
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    Lock icon The Path to a Clean Planet
    1163 1  -  A Groundswell Is Developing for More Aggressive Action on Climate Change By JUSTIN GILLIS The New York Times INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The pledges made by countries at the climate change conference in Paris will inevitably fall short of what is needed. But many political leaders
    The New York Times INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; FROM LEFT, ERIK REFNER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; CARLOS BARRIA, VIA REUTERS; STUART PALLEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  1,163 words
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  • WORLD TRENDS
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      Lock icon In Turkish Case, Gollum Goes on Trial
      516 2  -  By KATIE ROGERS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY A Turkish man’s freedom may hang on a question put to a panel of “Lord of the Rings” experts: Is Gollum evil? More significantly, was it an insult to compare Turkey’s president to the
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; FRANCOIS MORI/ASSOCIATED PRESS; WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES AND MGM  -  516 words
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      Lock icon Sisi’s Relentless War on Reporters
      971 2  -  INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE/MONA ELTAHAWY THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Mona Eltahawy is the author of “Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution.” Send comments to intelligence@nytimes.com. These are grim times in Egypt. The country is still absorbing the news of the
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      Lock icon Secession Promises For Crimea Fall Short
      672 3  -  By IVAN NECHEPURENKO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SHCHYOLKINO, Crimea When residents in this typical Soviet factory town voted enthusiastically to secede from Ukraine and to become Russians, they thought the chaos and corruption that made daily life a struggle were a thing
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      Lock icon In Nigerians’ Daily Struggles, Abundant Fodder for Comic Relief
      634 3  -  By NORIMITSU ONISHI THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY LAGOS, Nigeria The thieves were having a field day, the comedian Ali Baba told an audience of lawyers. They stopped and robbed every passing car until a former governor came along. “They
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; GLENNA GORDON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  634 words
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      Lock icon U.S. Stands Out in World Over Shooting Deaths
      790 4  -  By KEVIN QUEALY and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Two campers were sleeping in Yosemite Valley in California this August when a tree branch snapped and fell on their tent, killing them both. “We don’t know what caused the
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      Lock icon Islamic State’s Promise of Statehood Falling Far Short
      787 5  -  By BEN HUBBARD THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY SANLIURFA, Turkey—After the Syrian government stopped paying him, a technician who had spent two decades pumping the country’s oil received an enticing offer: do the same work for the jihadists of the Islamic
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      Lock icon Amid Crises in Brazil, Focus Is on Politics
      684 6  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By SIMON ROMERO THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil’s economy has lost more than one million jobs this year in the most severe recession in decades. Families are mourning loved ones missing in the sludge released
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      Lock icon Afghans in Danger, Unable to Flee
      792 6  -  By ROD NORDLAND THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BAMIAN, Afghanistan This summer, a young newlywed couple watched as tens of thousands of their neighbors and countrymen made their way to Europe in the hopes of claiming asylum. Living under the threat of an
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; ANDREW QUILTY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  792 words
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
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      Lock icon Best Hackers Are Often Found Among Resourceful Argentines
      567 8  -  By NICOLE PERLROTH THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY BUENOS AIRES Thanks to the legacy of military rule and a culture of breaking rules of all sorts, Argentina has become one of the best places on earth to find people who could
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      Lock icon China Faces Choices As Currency Goes Global
      750 8  -  NEWS ANALYSIS By NEIL IRWIN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Officials at China’s finance ministry and central bank will now be the proud guardians of a “global reserve currency,” after a decision last month by the International Monetary Fund. But they will
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      Lock icon In a Deal Site’s Downfall, A Lesson for Unicorns
      730 9  -  By MIKE ISAAC and KATIE BENNER THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY WASHINGTON The first thing you see when walking into the headquarters of LivingSocial is row upon row of mostly empty desks, broken up by small street signs that employees
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      Lock icon IBM Rethinks Design Approach
      663 9  -  By STEVE LOHR THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Phil Gilbert is a tall man with a shaved head who wears cowboy boots and bluejeans to work hardly unusual these days, except he’s an executive at IBM, a company that still has a suit-and-tie reputation. Mr.
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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      Lock icon After Chernobyl, Life Finds a Way
      667 10  -  By GEORGE JOHNSON THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Among the empty houses of Zalesye, the last thing one would have expected to see was an inhabitant. But suddenly there she was. Striding from her cottage in heavy boots, Rosalia showed off her potato
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; YULI SOLSKEN; LEFT, SERGIY GASCHAK/ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  667 words
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      Lock icon The Moon’s Orbit, Cosmic Collisions, and Gold in the Earth’s Crust
      506 10  -  By KENNETH CHANG THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY The moon’s orbit is askew, and two planetary scientists believe that they have come up with a good reason. Their idea also explains why gold and platinum are found in
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      Lock icon Robotic Parking Baffles in U.S.
      742 11  -  By FRANCES ROBLES THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY MIAMI BEACH It seemed like the perfect night life accessory for the South Beach set an automated robotic parking garage where trendy clubgoers could park their Porsches with a futuristic touch of a button. Instead, cars
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; RYAN STONE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; BELOW, VIA CRESCENT HEIGHTS  -  742 words
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      Lock icon Saving the Penguins, One Date at a Time
      591 11  -  By CHRISTINA COOKE THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY GREENSBORO, North Carolina When the African penguins Derek and Geirfugl were given their own room last spring, keepers at the Greensboro Science Center questioned whether they liked each other enough to take the
      THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY; COLBY KATZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  591 words
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  • HEALTH & FITNESS
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      Lock icon Women Talking Openly About Menstruation
      683 12  -  By RONI CARYN RABIN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY My 18-year-old daughter knows exactly when it will be that time of the month. Since June, she’s been plugging the dates of her menstrual cycle into a popular period tracking app called Clue, and has
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      Lock icon Doing Too Much in Health Care
      754 12  -  By PAULA SPAN THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Over many years, the 77-year-old patient has managed to control his Type 2 diabetes, taking daily doses of a drug that reduces blood sugar. Like a lot of older people, he copes with multiple medical
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      Lock icon Regimen for Improving Brain Power as We Age
      559 13  -  By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Exercise is good for the brain. We know that. But most studies of exercise and brain health have focused on the effects of running, walking or other aerobic activities. Now a new experiment
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      Lock icon Vital Readings That Tend to Stray
      660 13  -  ESSAY GINA KOLATA THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY Measuring blood pressure seems straightforward. Stick your arm in a cuff for a few seconds, and there they are: two numbers, all the information you need to know whether you are in a healthy range
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