Vol. 36 No. 6 · 20 March 2014 pages 3-9 | 6216 words Putin’s Counter-Revolution James Meek reports from Ukraine The Russians and Ukrainians of the 1990s were able to temper regret at the collapse of the USSR with their own knowledge of the dismembered country’s shortcomings. A generation later, this is less and less […]
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Vol. 36 No. 7 · 3 April 2014 pages 19-21 | 3307 words Suspects into Collaborators Peter Neumann argues that Assad has himself to blame Three years ago, it was hard to find anything significant about Syria in books about al-Qaida. Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which many consider the definitive history of al-Qaida, contains […]
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bakulaji… Search All NYTimes.com Science Profiles in Science Focusing on Fruit Flies, Curiosity Takes Flight Zach Wise for The New York Times The Flight of the Fly: Michael Dickinson has spent his career studying how flies fly and researchers in his lab have invented new devices to investigate the complex feat of insect flight. […]
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Health secretary resigns after Obamacare launch woes By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:07pm EDT 7 Comments U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius prepares prior to testifying before the Senate Finance Committee hearing on the President’s budget proposal for FY2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Larry […]
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April 10, 2014 More Republicans See Health Care Stance as ‘Very Important’ to Midterm Vote Views of ACA Little Changed Following Enrollment Surge In looking ahead to this fall’s elections, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to view a candidate’s position on the Affordable Care Act as very important to their vote. A new national […]
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Fact Tank – Our Lives in Numbers April 8, 2014 On Equal Pay Day, key facts about the gender pay gap By Eileen Patten21 comments Today marks “Equal Pay Day,” the date that symbolizes how far into the new year the average American woman would have to work to earn what the average American […]
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Welcome, Sid Harth Putin’s Khanate How Moscow is Trying to Integrate Crimean Muslims By Robert D. Crews April 7, 2014 Ravil Gainutdin attends the assembly of Crimean Tatars, in Bakhchisaray, March 29, 2014. (Shamil Zhumatov / Courtesy Reuters) When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the annexation of Crimea on March 18, he highlighted the area’s […]
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Welcome, Sid Harth Home › Features › Snapshots The Real Trouble With Russia Moscow Might Have Violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty — Here’s How to Respond By Elbridge Colby April 7, 2014 Russian servicemen take part in a military parade rehearsal in Red Square, November 5, 2012. (Sergei Karpukhin / Courtesy Reuters) At the […]
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1 HR agoWorld West Divided in Bid To Curb Russia Over Crimea Some Countries Balk At Punitive Measures That Could Hurt Their Own Economies Finance ministers from leading industrialized countries considered escalating sanctions against Russia for its intervention in Ukraine, but concerns about potential damage to the European and global economies undermined their efforts. By […]
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Campaign Finance and the Nihilist Politics of Resignation Most Americans want to take money out of government but don’t think it’s possible. Here’s a plan for overcoming our defeatism. Lawrence Lessig Apr 10 2014, 7:00 AM ET 4 inShare More Jonathan Ernst/Reuters In the wake of the Supreme Court’s latest outrage, McCutcheon v. FEC, striking […]
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The Linking Dilemma: Google Has Left a Giant Mess for Us All Julie Joyce, April 6, 2014 45 Comments • SEO Evolution: Sell, Discover, Deliver & Report on Highly Converting Keywords by Krista LaRiviere, gShift broken-linkGoogle’s Link Schemes page is quite possibly one of the most critical pages on the internet if you plan on […]
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Laboratory-grown vaginas implanted in teenage girls Sexual organs grown in a laboratory have been successfully implanted into teenage girls with a rare genetic condition in the US Cells were grown in the laboratory before being placed on a biodegradable scaffold that was hand-sewn into the correct shape Photo: ALAMY By Telegraph Staff 6:00AM BST 11 […]
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Environment → Climate Change, Climate Desk, Religion, Science, Top Stories This Fish Crawled Out of the Water…and Into Creationists’ Nightmares Some 375 million years ago, Tiktaalik emerged onto land. Today, explains paleontologist Neil Shubin, we’re all walking around in modified fish bodies. —By Chris Mooney | Fri Apr. 11, 2014 3:00 AM PDT Tiktaalik roseae, […]
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Alibaba to acquire mapping company AutoNavi for $1.5B Hadley Malcolm, USA TODAY 11:02 a.m. EDT April 11, 2014 (Photo: CRAB HU EPA) Mapping and navigation firm AutoNavi has agreed to a $1.5 billion acquisition by China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Alibaba will pay $5.25 a share to AutoNavi stockholders, or $21 per […]
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Art & Design|Art Review Gathering of Gods From Places Long Forgotten In ‘Lost Kingdoms,’ National Treasures From Asian Countries By HOLLAND COTTERAPRIL 10, 2014 Slide Show: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/11/arts/design/in-lost-kingdoms-national-treasures-from-asian-countries.html#slideshow/100000002817560/100000002817562 View slide show|13 Photos ‘Lost Kingdoms’ Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times When the Metropolitan Museum of Art gives its all to an exhibition in terms of space, […]
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Fed-Up Eric Holder Rips Congress: ‘Unprecedented, Unwarranted, Ugly and Divisive’ By Mike Levine @mlevinereports Follow on Twitter Apr 10, 2014 11:09am A fed-up Attorney General Eric Holder is accusing congressional critics of launching “unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive” attacks on him and the Obama administration. During a speech to the National Action Network, a group […]
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Hang Narendra ‘maut ka saudagar’ Modi
Cong falls on Vajpayee to pour scorn on Narendra Modi PTI New Delhi, April 11, 2014 Pradhanmantri : Pradhanmantri on Godhra riots and Atal Bihari Vajpayee First Published: 14:15 IST(11/4/2014) | Last Updated: 14:24 IST(11/4/2014) In the midst of the poll heat, Congress has heaped praise on AB Vajpayee to attack Narendra Modi, asking how […]
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Sonia chose finance minister without consulting Manmohan, gave instructions on key files: Book TNN | Apr 12, 2014, 02.16 AM IST According to Baru, Congress MPs “did not see loyalty to the PM as a political necessity, nor did Dr Singh seek loyalty in the way. Sonia and her aides sought it.” NEW DELHI: After […]
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Modi, a Goddamned Liar
Comment is free Modinomics: do Narendra Modi’s economic claims add up? The BJP candidate may be leading India’s prime ministerial election polls, but his record, while good, doesn’t justify the hype Maitreesh Ghatak and Sanchari Roy theguardian.com, Thursday 13 March 2014 09.00 EDT Jump to comments (78) Narendra Modi’s stock is rising, but evidence for […]
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Japan News The Vatican’s Precious Manuscripts Go Online Japanese Tech Firm NTT Is Scanning the Ancient Texts in the Vatican Apostolic Library By Liam Moloney April 11, 2014 12:16 p.m. ET View Slideshow This copy of Homer’s Iliad in ancient Greek and Latin dates from the 15th century. VATICAN CITY — Almost 600 years after […]
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