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Philippines Declares Emergency After Violence

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Carlos H. Conde - Nov. 25 (News Report) - Two provinces in the troubled south of the Philippines were placed under emergency rule on Tuesday as authorities discovered more bodies of people who were abducted and slaughtered in violence tied to the country’s perennially violent election season.

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A Price War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-Mart

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Brad Stone, Stephanie Rosenbloom - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart’s long-term goal appears to be stopping Amazon from taking away its business.

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A Bing deal for Microsoft, News Corp.?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Tim Arango, Ashlee Vance - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Microsoft has been in early discussions about a pact to pay News Corp. to remove links to its news content from Google's search engine and display them exclusively on Microsoft's Bing. If such an arrangement came to pass, it would be a watershed moment in the history of the Internet, and set off a fierce debate over the future of content online.

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The Phantom Menace

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - The scare stories from Wall Street seem to be intimidating Washington from doing more to rescue the economy.

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Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrew Rice - Nov. 22 (Special Report) - Fearing food shortages, investors from wealthy countries are snapping up land in poor countries to grow food there. Is this development or exploitation?

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Who Created Major Hasan?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Robert Wright - Nov. 21 (Opinion) - seeing the fort hood shooting as an act of islamist terrorism is the first step toward seeing how misguided a hawkish approach to fighting terrorism has been.

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U.S. Fears Iraq Development Projects May Go to Waste

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Timothy Williams - Nov. 21 - After spending $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, the U.S. is concerned that Iraqis won’t be able to maintain the facilities once the Americans have left.

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Hacked E-mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrew C. Revkin - Nov. 21 (News Report) - The e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university will undoubtedly raise questions about the actions of some scientists.

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Democrats Press Ahead on Debate Before Health Vote

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By David M. Herszenhorn, Robert Pear - Nov. 21 - Senate Democrats made a case for legislation to revamp the nation’s health care system in a parade of floor speeches aimed at cementing party unity ahead of a first crucial vote.

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On the Hill: Legislative Pileup Looms in the Senate

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Carl Hulse - Nov. 21 (News Analysis) - While Republicans dispute that they are pure obstructionists, there is evidence to suggest that they are using their procedural power to slow even legislation and nominations that they know they have no chance of blocking. And in some cases, many Republicans do not truly expect to prevail.

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Students Continue to Protest California Tuition Increases

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Malia Wollan, Tamar Lewin - Nov. 20 (News Report) - The day after the University of California Board of Regents approved a 32 percent increase in fees that are the equivalent of tuition, protests continued on several campuses, with students occupying buildings at Santa Cruz and Berkeley. On the Berkeley campus, at least 40 students took over a classroom building, Wheeler Hall, barricading themselves on the second floor. Hundreds of students surrounded the building, huddled under umbrellas, tarps and plastic, chanting slogans like: “Fee hike! We strike!”

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An American Catastrophe

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Bob Herbert - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Detroit and its environs are suffering the agonies of the economic damned because of policies, crafted at the highest national and corporate levels, that resulted in the implosion of crucially important components of America’s manufacturing base. Those decisions have had a profound effect on the fortunes not just of Detroit, or even Michigan, but the entire U.S. economy.

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Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Gretchen Reynolds - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Thanks to improved research techniques and a growing understanding of the biochemistry and the genetics of thought itself, scientists are beginning to tease out how exercise remodels the brain, making it more stress-resistant.

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Talk of Plan B -- a Power Plant-Only Climate Bill -- Emerges in Senate

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Darren Samuelsohn - Nov. 18 (News Report) - While President Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill continue to focus on legislation covering greenhouse gas emissions across broad sections of the U.S. economy, a small bipartisan faction of Senate moderates is examining the idea of passing a bill that deals only with the heat-trapping emissions from power plants.

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Paying Extra for Green Power, and Getting Ads Instead

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Kate Galbraith - Nov. 17 (News Report) - The solicitations have been flooding people’s mailboxes lately: pay a bit more on your electricity bill for 100 percent clean wind power. Or, the fliers say, buy “green power certificates” to offset your global warming emissions.

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Gary Ginsberg, Adviser to Murdoch, to Step Down

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Tim Arango - Nov. 16 (News Report) - Gary Ginsberg, a close adviser to Rupert Murdoch for 11 years who often served as a liaison between the conservative Mr. Murdoch and the Democratic Party, will leave News Corporation at the end of the year....Mr. Ginsberg, a former lawyer in the Clinton White House, was hired in 1999 to be News Corporation’s director of communications. He was hired partly to refurbish the company’s image after a controversy in which Mr. Murdoch was said to have stopped publication of a book by Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, to curry favor with the Chinese government.

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