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Cancer Center, in Suit, Claims Ex-Official Took Research
NYT - Most Emailed - 2 hours 48 min ago
The president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dr. Craig B. Thompson, is in a billion-dollar dispute with his former workplace over accusations that he walked away with research.
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Well: How Massage Heals Sore Muscles
NYT - Most Emailed - 2 hours 55 min ago
Researchers have found what happens to muscles when a masseur goes to work on them.
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The Long Run: For Ron Paul, a Distinctive Worldview of Long Standing
NYT - Most Emailed - 3 hours 48 min ago
Ron Paul’s political views are unusual, and, as a closer look at his life reveals, unusually constant, shaping not only his career in Congress but also how he has lived his life.
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Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
NYT - Most Emailed - 4 hours 46 min ago
After decades of decline, malls across the country are being redeveloped by communities and planners trying to forge new gathering places out of vast lots with empty buildings.
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Army Colonel Challenges Pentagon’s Afghanistan Reports
NYT - Most Emailed - 5 hours 7 min ago
After two deployments in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis says the Pentagon is not telling the whole truth about how the war there is going.
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College Benefactors Lead 'Philanthropy 50' Ranking of 2011's Top Donors
Chronicle - News Blogs - 6 hours 16 min ago
Nineteen of the donors gave to colleges, more than the number who supported any other cause, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
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As Business Programs Multiply Globally, Accreditors See New Markets
Chronicle - News Blogs - 7 hours 21 min ago
But some officials are wary of proposals to offer "M.B.A. lite."
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Op-Ed Columnist: Things Are Not O.K.
NYT - Most Emailed - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 05:15
The unemployment report was genuinely good, but there’s a downside: the calls to stop focusing on job creation.
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Pennsylvania Schools’ Funding Fight Pits District Against Charter
NYT - Most Emailed - Mon, 02/06/2012 - 02:30
The Chester Upland district’s fiscal woes – it is bordering on insolvency – are compounded by a charter school with which it shares its financing.
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Op-Ed Columnist: Mitt’s Muffled Soul
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 23:31
Romney’s Mormon faith is too central to his biography and identity to be swept to the side.
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Harvard Seeks to Jolt University Teaching
Chronicle - News Blogs - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 20:50
A conference kicks off a $40-million project dedicated to improving student learning, but old habits die hard, participants say.
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Harvard Seeks to Jolt Teaching
Chronicle - Daily News - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 20:50
A conference kicks off a $40-million project dedicated to improving student learning, but old habits die hard, participants say.
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Journeys: 100 Miles From Los Angeles, True Solitude on Santa Rosa Island
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 18:42
Just off the West Coast a refuge of untouched beaches, native foxes and camping with solar-heated showers.
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News Analysis: Europe Moves to Protect Online Privacy
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 16:17
How do different nations’ laws manage the multinational companies that now govern our digital lives?
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Opinion: The Death of the Cyberflâneur
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 16:16
Today’s Internet is a place for getting things done, pushing aside the cyberflâneur — the heir to the flâneur culture of 19th-century France.
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Opinion: Facebook Is Using You
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 16:15
Whether you can obtain a job, credit or insurance can be based on your digital doppelgänger — and you may never know why you’ve been turned down.
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International Students Pay Top Dollar at U.S. Colleges
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 14:03
At the University of Washington, 18 percent of the freshmen are foreigners, and each pays about three times as much as students from Washington State.
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Homeless Families, Cloaked in Normality
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 09:07
Of the record 40,000 people in New York City’s shelters, a growing number belong to seemingly ordinary families, rushing off to school and work, smartphones in hand.
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Opinion: Living Alone Means Being Social
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 07:39
Living alone can make it easier to be social.
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Mortgage Tornado Warning, Unheeded
NYT - Most Emailed - Sun, 02/05/2012 - 06:05
Inspired by a personal experience, a businessman began delving into the practices of the mortgage industry, including Fannie Mae. His findings have been prescient.
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