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Mar 5, 2012

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Yoga championship in New York
Albany Times Union
(Piotr Redlinski/The New York Times) Joseph Encinia, the current worldasana champion demonstrates his skills after the performances at the ninth New York Regional and National Yoga Asana Championship at the Hudson Theater in New York, March 4, 2012.
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Complaint Box | Wrong-Way Runners
New York Times (blog)
By ERIKA DREIFUS Send your rant — no more than 500 words, please — to: complaintbox@nytimes.com, with a subject line of your last name, followed by “Complaint Box” and the topic. Detailed instructions are below. Maybe it's part of my firstborn, ...
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New York Times (blog)
City 'command centers': Better than Twitter?
Christian Science Monitor
The NY Times has a long piece about IBM's new business as it supplies "Command Centers" for mayors of cities around theworld. The article suggests that each Mayor seeks to be a benevolent leader (think of Ike during WW II) but that due to transaction ...
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Christian Science Monitor
March 5, 1946 | Winston Churchill Warns of Soviet “Iron Curtain”
New York Times (blog)
After being introduced by President Harry Truman, Churchill, the former prime minister of Britain and now the opposition leader, warned of the threat posed by the Soviet Union, a World War II ally of Britain and the United States. The New York Times ...
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New York Times (blog)
Erwin Frankel, Early World Music Promoter, Dies At 76
Billboard.biz
18 at the age of 76, according to the New York Times. His death stemmed from complications derived from a series of strokes, said his son Gideon. Frankel is perhaps best known for his one hour nightly radio show, titled "Music From Around The World," ...
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Super Tuesday coverage plans
Politico (blog)
The New York Times ... will host a mix of live and produced videos featuring Times reporters, Opinon columnists and newsroom editors on Super Tuesday. Segments will begin at 7 pm ET when the first polls close, and air at the top of every hour through ...
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The “Times,” It Ain't A'Changing
Commentary
Much to my surprise, on my return I found that the New York Times'seditorial page is still utterly predictable. The lead editorial this morning for instance, contains absolutely nothing new regarding drilling in the United States and US waters.
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Senator Schumer puts Android and iPhone in his privacy crosshairs
ITworld.com
A report that specific phone apps could do precisely that (and in fact were) surfaced in late February when the New York Times outed an iOS glitch that gave developers all-you-can-eat access to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users' video and photo ...
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Remembering Alex Webster, Giants Star and Coach
New York Times (blog)
Alex Webster was an important part of one of New York'slegendary teams, the Giants of the late '50s and early '60s. For the first time, pro football players became celebrities in the media and financial capital of the world.
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New York Times (blog)
Who Needs a Daily List of the World's Richest Billionaires?
New York Magazine
By Joe Coscarelli Have you ever woken up in the morning wishing it was that magical time of the year when Forbes ranks the world's billionaires by their net worth in a massive slideshow? Now you'll never have to wait again to stare at those...
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New York Magazine
Must-read iPad 3 predictions and rumors
MarketWatch (blog)
... on my iPads a long time ago because life's too short to be buzzed every time my sister beats me on Scramble from Zynga ZNGA /quotes/zigman/7720406 /quotes/nls/znga ZNGA and when the NYTimesNYT /quotes/zigman/235682 /quotes/nls/nyt NYT publishes an ...
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Sol Schiff, 'Mr. Table Tennis,' Dies at 94
New York Times
In a time when the game was a draw for street kids seeking recreation in church basements, school gyms and the local YMCA, Sol Schiff — a short, left-handed redhead — was more than a standout. In 1933, at 15, he won both the New York City junior ...
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Striking Oil, Artistically, in Midtown
New York Times (blog)
By DOROTHY SPEARS If it looks as if someone just struck oil in a vacant lot near Times Square, it may be a while before you see any evidence of Texas tea. The two 25-foot simulated oil pump jacks bobbing up and down at the southeast corner of 46th ...
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New York Times (blog)
An Ovation for the NYPD
New York Sun
While the editors of the New York Times were setting in type their editorial attacking the New York Police Department for spying on Muslims, Commissioner Kelly was getting a standing ovation from the alumni of Fordham University Law School.
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Meet Sam Schwartz
New York Times
IF you live in New York, commute to New York, or occasionally visit what Russell Shorto called the island at the center of theworld, you have experienced the indignity of our city's transportation hell. You have endured the screeching, flood-prone ...
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New York Times
Families of NY 9/11 victims want Congress to investigate treatment of ...
College Times
NEW YORK — Holding pictures of lost loved ones, relatives of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center stood outside the 9/11 Memorial's visitors center Sunday afternoon and called for congressional hearings on the ...
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The Unmade Bed Project, conceived by New York Sculptor Leah Poller, Reveals ...
Albany Times Union
For the first time, a major collection of images of slept-in beds minus the sleeper offers a vision of an under-represented intimate space where 1/3 of our lives is spent. How many slept-in beds does the average person see in a lifetime?
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UU's sexuality advocacy group fights for survival
uuworld.org
She was also quoted in a front-page article in The New York Times . She has faced off against Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly twice—in 2007 about the need for sexuality education for young children and again last month over the contraception issue.
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Nat Hentoff: Needed: A pervasive protector of human rights
The Daily Advance
But Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times has slipped into the infamous region more than 10 times to keep the world informed of Bashir's endless killings. Kristof does this at considerable personal danger, as he also reports from other devastatingly ...
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Bloomberg Not On Bloomberg Billionaires Index!
Gothamist
The biggest billionaire is Carlos Slim, the Mexican mobile phone mogul (and NY Times lender), whose net worth is $68.5 billion; number two on the list is Bill Gates ($62.4 billion) and Warren Buffett ($43.8 billion). And the richest European?
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Gothamist
Iceland's ex-PM tells court he is innocent
Ninemsn
A former prime minister of Iceland has rejected charges he failed to adequately protect his country's economy from financial shocks, as he took the stand in the first criminal trial of a world leader to result from the 2008 financial crisis.
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For Jewish Sabbath, Elevators That Do All the Work
New York Times
But instead of creeping up from the lobby one floor at a time, it shoots up to the penthouse and then works its way down. This arrangement gives the shortest ride up to those on the highest floors, who would have the toughest trek on the stairs.
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Kwentong Kapuso: I want to tell my grandkids where we came from
GMA News
An interesting time in my young life was when I got a job posing as an Eskimo at the Alaskan Pavilion in the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. Since my GPA was not up to speed, unlike most other Asian American kids, I jumped the gun and enlisted in the ...
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James Trager, Brought Facts to the Masses, Dies at 86
New York Times
... for the first time, were hired as bus conductors in Tokyo. The food book noted that 1633 was important as the year the physician James Hart's volume “Klinike” was published, alerting the world to the risks of sugar. The New York compilation began ...
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New York Times
Romney Makes Economic Pitch to Ohio Voters
New York Times (blog)
By ASHLEY PARKER Yana Paskova for The New YorkTimesMitt Romney taking a tour of Gregory Industries in Canton, Ohio, before delivering a speech at the plant. CANTON, Ohio — Standing in a guardrail manufacturing factory, Mitt Romney on Monday laid out ...
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New York Times (blog)
MLB 2012: A Local Look Around The Bigs
Albany Times Union (blog)
The Captain, Mr. November, has five World Series rings, is the New YorkYankees all-time leader, reached and surpassed the 3000 hit plateau in 2011. Currently, Jeter has 3088 hits. Jeter is a career .313 hitter, a 12-timeAll-Star and continues to rise ...
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Waiting for Redemption
CounterPunch
The New York Times and the fraud of “neutrality”: Lizzie Phelan lays it all out for you. The poor? Don't you see, it's their fault. Carl Ginsburg on how Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute sings for his supper. by LISA BARR In the ...
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Media Deals and Novels From One Busy Mind
New York Times
Then again, this office is in the Time Warner Center, where Mr. Olafsson does his day job as an executive vice president for international and corporate strategy at Time Warner. At 6 am on a recent Tuesday morning, before going to work, he had gotten ...
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9/11 families gather to oppose plan for unidentified remains
amNY
The families sued the city over the plan, hoping to make it solicit feedback from relatives, but the families lost and are now appealing the decision, reported The New York Times. "Since the very beginning, victims' family members have strongly ...
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McIlroy Holds Off Woods and Shows Who's No. 1
New York Times
1 in the world rankings at 21 years 6 months, McIlroy, 22, became the second youngest with his two-stroke victory Sunday at the Honda Classic at PGA National. “It was great to get the job done,” said McIlroy, who closed with a one-under-par 69 for a ...
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Too much police-press gossip: ex-Yard boss
Ninemsn
Stephenson resigned last year after it emerged that he was also linked with one of the scandal's suspects - News of the World executive Neil Wallis - whom he met for dinner or lunch at least half a dozen times. Wallis also served as one of Stephenson's ...
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Quran Copy Burning In Afghanistan And The US 'Exit' Strategy - Analysis
Eurasia Review
Enayat Najafizada And Rod Nordland, “Afghans Avenge Florida Koran Burning, Killing 12, The New YorkTimes,(1April2011), http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/world/asia/02afghanistan.html?pa ewanted=all. Accessed on 23 February 2012. 3.
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Bethel Motor Speedway Releases Action-Packed 2012 Schedule
WhoWon.com
by Tracy Chirico BETHEL, NY -- Racers and fans have all been patiently awaiting the release of the 2012 schedule for the quarter-mile asphalt oval at Bethel Motor Speedway. This week, the full schedule was released by the speedway office, ...
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Vladimir Putin elected president of Russia for third term amid fraud charges
New York Daily News
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A man walks past the screens showing the preliminary results of the presidential elections at the headquarters of Russian Central Election Commission in Moscow. Czar-in-the-making Vladimir Putin will keep his ...
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New York Daily News
Morning Buzz, March 5: Creating Robotic Fish - NYTimes.com
By By HANNAH MIET
What we're reading in The Times and elsewhere, including articles about aWorld War I veteran's photography exhibit and a decoy operation to catch iPhone thieves on the subway. ... [New York Post]. The lack of snow this winter has put a dent in the paychecks of city Sanitation Department workers, who are receiving less overtime. [Staten Island Real-Time News]. The public advocate, Bill de Blasio, said that releasing the names of cancer-stricken New York Police Department ...
City Room
Resource Efficiency is World's 6th Wave of Innovation
SustainableBusiness.com News. In the Sunday edition of the New York Times, Thomas Friedman illustrated the need for the world to turn to radically conserving resources after experiencing grid-locked traffic in Russia. This is just the ...
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In Din Over Iran, Echoes of Iraq War - News Analysis - NYTimes.com
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In Kingdom of Tabloids, Headlines for a Horse - New York Times
The loan of a retired police horse to a former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks ... Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking newsand headlines.
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James Murdoch Gives Up Role at British Unit - New York Times
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. ...tabloids at the center of the scandal, The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World.
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Murdoch Hacking Inquiry Expands to British Officials - NYTimes.com
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. ...and Mr. Murdoch's defunct News of the World, highlight the challenges to Mr. Murdoch ...
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President of Ecuador to Pardon Four in Libel Case - NYTimes.com
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Education News in Brief - NYTimes.com
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. ...emerges from the higher education system is a world-class graduate,” Mr. Byrne said.
www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/.../27iht-educbriefs27.html
Syria Says New Constitution Passed Overwhelmingly - NYTimes.com
Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. ... the civilians of the country has no credibility in the eyes of the world,” Mr. Hague said.
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U.N. Faults NATO and Libyan Authorities in Report - NYTimes.com
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Beheadings Raise Doubts That Taliban Have ... - New York Times
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