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April 11, 2014, 7:42 pm
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  Hi, bakulaji! Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post – Claire Handscombe is an avid reader and reads using a variety of digital and print products. Because of her online reading habits, Handscombe says she sometimes scans novels while she’s reading, looking for keywords […]
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April 11, 2014, 7:52 pm
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SundayReview|Opinion Are Iran and Israel Trading Places? By ABBAS MILANI and ISRAEL WAISMEL-MANORAPRIL 11, 2014 Photo Credit Jasper Rietman STANFORD, Calif. — Although the Israeli and Iranian governments have been virtually at war with each other for decades, the two countries have much in common. Both are home to some of the oldest civilizations on […]
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April 12, 2014, 4:36 pm
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SundayReview|Editorial Doing China’s Bidding in Nepal By THE EDITORIAL BOARDAPRIL 12, 2014 A Human Rights Watch report released this month shows how far Nepal has gone in capitulating to Chinese pressure in cracking down on Tibetan residents and refugees. It details a long list of shameful actions against Tibetans in Nepal, including restrictions on their […]
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April 12, 2014, 4:41 pm
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Sunday Review The Strip April 13, 2014 — By Brian McFadden © 2014 The New York Times Company Revealed: George W. Bush ‘LIFTED all his portraits of world leaders from top Google image search results’ Bush has painted 24 images of world leaders that are part of an exhibition at his presidential library in Texas […]
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April 12, 2014, 5:02 pm
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SundayReview Max Levchin APRIL 12, 2014   Photo   Credit David Paul Morris/Bloomberg, via Getty Images Download By KATE MURPHY Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-born computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and Yelp. He is currently president of HVF (Hard Valuable Fun), which is a hybrid think tank/venture capital firm that focuses exclusively […]
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April 12, 2014, 5:11 pm
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SundayReview|Op-Ed Columnist A Wit for All Seasons APRIL 12, 2014 Maureen Dowd WASHINGTON — I DON’T remember much about being on Stephen Colbert’s show. It all passed in a blur of fear. I remember him coming into the makeup room to remind me that he was going to be in character as a jerk. I […]
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April 12, 2014, 5:36 pm
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Asia Pacific Coalition-Building Season in India By ELLEN BARRYAPRIL 12, 2014 Photo Supporters of Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, at a rally in Coimbatore, India. Ms. Jayaram has a reputation as mercurial, ruthless and domineering. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times COIMBATORE, India — As a potential political partner, the […]
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April 12, 2014, 8:27 pm
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Space Station Glitch Could Delay SpaceX Cargo Ship’s Launch By Alan Boyle NASA is weighing whether the failure of a backup electronics box for the International Space Station’s robotic arm system will force another postponement in SpaceX’s launch of a Dragon cargo ship. If the box can’t be revived, it would have to be replaced […]
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April 12, 2014, 9:05 pm
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India tops the world in content censorship, Facebook’s second transparency report shows #Facebook Reuters 0 By Shruti Dhapola /  12 Apr 2014 , 18:00 Facebook has released its second transparency report for government requests between July and December 2013.   The US had the most number of requests for user accounts, but India leads when […]
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April 13, 2014, 3:49 am
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Home> Technology Climate Panel Warns Emissions Rising, Blurs Reason BERLIN April 13, 2014 (AP) By KARL RITTER Associated Press   The U.N.’s expert panel on climate change on Sunday highlighted the disconnect between international goals to fight global warming and what is being done to attain them. Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases […]
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April 13, 2014, 4:03 am
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America’s least healthy cities Thomas C. Frohlich and Alexander E.M. Hess, 24/7 Wall St. 6:33 a.m. EDT April 13, 2014 (Photo: Thinkstock) SHARE 1 CONNECT 11 TWEETCOMMENTEMAILMORE There’s no doubt that great strides have been made in Americans’ health over the years. Americans smoke less, are more likely to be insured and live longer. However, […]
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April 13, 2014, 4:13 am
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IIP in negative zone may drag down the Indian economy BY admin | April 12, 2014 Mumbai: Industry seems to be disappointed with the latest reports. IIP in negative zone may drag down the Indian economy All the hopes of a turnaround in the economy seem to have been shattered. After some hopes of miracles, […]
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April 13, 2014, 8:52 am
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Dealing Drugs in Saudi Arabia Is a Very Stressful Business By Matthew Murphy Sep 4 2013 Afghan hash imported into Saudi Arabia. Photos courtesy of the interviewee “Abdullah” sounds nervous over the phone. He nearly didn’t want to talk to me in the first place, even though I’m not using his real name in this […]
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April 13, 2014, 1:54 pm
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Sunday, Apr 13, 2014 11:00 AM EST Sears is dying: What the ubiquitous store’s death says about America The middle class shrunk, American culture became atomized and a nation’s beloved department store was the casualty Edward McClelland Topics: Sears, department stores, store chain, The middle class, Editor’s Picks, Walmart, Target, suburbs, America, Business News, Politics […]
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April 13, 2014, 5:30 pm
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Four Blood Moons: Total Lunar Eclipse Series Not a Sign of Apocalypse Geoff Gaherty Starry Night Education   |   April 09, 2014 12:30pm ET There has been a lot of interest recently in an upcoming series of lunar eclipses that begins April 15. These are usually described as “four blood moons” and taken by some to […]
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April 13, 2014, 5:48 pm
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‘There is no Modi wave!’: Murli insists BJP surge is a party affair By Piyush Srivastava Published: 17:40 EST, 13 April 2014 | Updated: 17:40 EST, 13 April 2014 Murli Manohar Joshi said the wave of support for the BJP is “not a highly personalised thing” In yet another hint that the senior brigade of […]
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April 13, 2014, 6:02 pm
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Opinion » Comment April 12, 2014 Updated: April 12, 2014 00:51 IST The new BJP and the fringe Jehangir S. Pocha Comment (28)   · The Hindu Where Modi is the man rallying a nation to reach for the stars, the extreme fringe groups, by insisting on inserting the mandir issue into the BJP’s manifesto, want […]
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April 13, 2014, 11:03 pm
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Europe will now think twice before following Washington’s orders – Ex-CIA Officer Ray McGovern April 14, 2014 08:30 Ray McGovern (Paul Morigi / Getty Images for EPIX / AFP) Download video (215.96 MB) The Ukrainian crisis may have seen a flickering light at the end of the tunnel, as politicians from the great powers collided […]
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April 13, 2014, 11:18 pm
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Why the Sangh fears Modi The RSS acknowledges Modi’s indispensibility to the BJP’s bid for power. But it is uneasy with his personality cult. Written by Manjari Katju | April 14, 2014 8:57 am Narendra Modi RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s advisory, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, to the organisation’s cadres to stay detached […]
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April 13, 2014, 11:25 pm
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India News As Growth Slows in India, Rural Workers Have Fewer Incentives to Move to Cities Few Manufacturing Jobs and High Inflation, Combined With Rural Programs, Stall India’s Urbanization By Raymond Zhong and Saptarishi Dutta connect Updated April 13, 2014 10:43 p.m. ET MORKAHI, India—As a teenager, Ram Singh left this remote rural village and […]
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