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Some Say New York City Health Ads Should Inspire, Not Scare5 February 2012, 8:07 pm
The city health department’s campaign to jolt New Yorkers out of their bad habits has drawn some criticism for its negative approach.
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On Education: Despite Focus on Data, Standards for Diploma May Still Lack Rigor5 February 2012, 8:07 pm
Grading instructions with sample answers suggest that the bar to pass the New York State English Regents exam is surprisingly low.
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Fraud Case Challenges Secrecy of Man’s Past as Criminal5 February 2012, 7:51 pm
A civil racketeering lawsuit was sealed because documents revealed that one of the principals had a criminal past and had helped prosecutors convict dangerous criminals.
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Lottery Numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut5 February 2012, 7:51 pm
Lottery Numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
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Metropolitan Diary: Metropolitan Diary — Fans of Dollar Coins and the Red Sox, and Other New York Tales5 February 2012, 7:41 pm
The decline of the dollar coin disappoints one admirer, and an out-of-town baseball cap leads to an encounter with a police officer and a poem dedicated to the G train.
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City Room: Colliding Continents Created the Rock Formation in a Children's Playground5 February 2012, 12:30 pm
We all know that our skyscrapers are built on bedrock, even if they have to reach down a way to find it. But not many of us know that a few bedrock outcrops are visible in mid-Manhattan.
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Sunday Routine | Nathan Englander: For Nathan Englander, Sunday Is a Day to Roam and Write5 February 2012, 9:12 am
For Nathan Englander, the novelist, short-story writer and soon-to-be playwright, Sundays are about spending quality time with his girlfriend and their puppy in Brooklyn.
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App City: A Smartphone Can Be a Ticket to Ride5 February 2012, 8:13 am
New York Waterway recently introduced an iPhone app that allows riders to use their smartphones as their tickets.
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Homeless Families, Cloaked in Normality5 February 2012, 2:07 am
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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The Neediest Cases: A Mother Grateful to Have a Key to Her Own Place5 February 2012, 1:20 am
Tiffany Tyler and her young son were once evicted by city marshals and lived in a shelter. Now that she has her own apartment, she is determined never to repeat the past.
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Syrian city shelled from dawn to dusk5 February 2012, 8:19 pm
After world leaders decried the U.N. Security Council's failure to pass a resolution on Syria, reports of violence surged once again in the besieged country.
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Explosion kills sons, husband of missing Utah woman5 February 2012, 6:59 pm
Josh Powell and his two sons died in a blast at Powell's Washington home, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said. Utah police previously had identified Powell as the lone "person of interest" in the disappearance of his wife Susan Powell-Cox in 2009.
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Gingrich's Southern revival strategy5 February 2012, 3:26 pm
Newt Gingrich said Sunday he is plotting a Southern revival, while Rick Santorum and Ron Paul seek stronger showings in upcoming caucuses to slow front-runner Mitt Romney's momentum after his second straight victory in the Republican presidential race.
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Egypt to charge 43 over NGOs5 February 2012, 3:03 pm
Forty-three people, including 19 Americans, face prosecution in an Egyptian criminal court on charges of illegal foreign funding as part of an ongoing crackdown on nongovernmental organizations, a prosecution spokesman said Sunday.
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Protests, anger mount in Cairo5 February 2012, 1:54 pm
Demonstrators clashed with police outside the interior ministry in Cairo on Sunday as anger mounts over a deadly stampede at a soccer match that killed dozens last week.
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Romney wins Nevada; Gingrich resets5 February 2012, 10:12 am
Mitt Romney rolls to victory in convincing fashion while Newt Gingrich says he has no intention of pulling out of the race.
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Opinion: Syria in for bloody stalemate5 February 2012, 8:45 am
With the UN Security Council sidelined due to vetoes by Russia and China, the Syrian crisis will remain a violent standoff, says Randa Slim.
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Why China, Russia won't condemn Syria5 February 2012, 6:57 am
Questions linger about the motivations of China and Russia, who vetoed a U.N. Security Council draft resoultion on Syria.
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Winter hammers Europe5 February 2012, 5:09 am
Power is out and roads are blocked in Italy. In England, Heathrow Airport had to cancel half its flights. The cold snap that began in late January has killed dozens.
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Romney's night4 February 2012, 11:53 pm
He may be a non-gambler, but Mitt Romney had a good night in Vegas. He left town as the night's big winner, capturing his second strong victory in a row.
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Vote for your favorite Super Bowl ad5 February 2012, 8:32 pm
There's no question that the Giants and the Patriots played some exciting football tonight, but what about the ads? Did you like the nostalgia of seeing Jerry Seinfeld's and the Soup Nazi's return, and Matthew Broderick echoing Ferris Bueller?...
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'Chronicle' tops 'Woman in Black' at box office5 February 2012, 3:21 pm
Teen boys with superpowers helped lift the movie box office to unexpected heights over Super Bowl weekend as the thriller "Chronicle" edged Daniel Radcliffe's haunted house movie "The Woman in Black."...
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Celeb real estate: Own Johnny Cash's home5 February 2012, 1:08 pm
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Good job news met with optimism, skepticism5 February 2012, 11:08 am
Month by month, the U.S. job market is regaining its health....
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Europe may shake up Wall Street's quiet week5 February 2012, 10:27 am
The debt crisis will again be top of investors' minds this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the domestic economic calendar. ...
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Boeing checks 787s for carbon fiber delamination4 February 2012, 11:28 pm
Boeing is inspecting its newest plane, the 787 Dreamliner for possible repairs to the carbon fiber composite structure of the plane. The issue involves a problem known as delamination....
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Companies with biggest bets on the Super Bowl4 February 2012, 10:14 am
A 30-second ad spot in this year’s Super Bowl costs an average of $3.5 million. But despite spending this much to reach such a massive audience at once, the results are rarely impressive....
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N.Y. foreclosure lawsuit could slow home seizures3 February 2012, 3:57 pm
Bankers struggling to deal with faulty foreclosure paperwork just got hit with another major headache. New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, recently tapped by President Obama to head a new task force to investigate mortgage fraud, sued three major U.S....
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Micron CEO Appleton dies in plane crash3 February 2012, 12:09 pm
By msnbc.com staff and wire Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of Micron Technology, has passed away in a small plane accident in Boise, Idaho, the company said Friday....
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Recovery is gathering speed, jobs data show3 February 2012, 10:57 am
The economy is like a flywheel — it takes a lot to get it going. But once it starts moving, it can pick up speed pretty quickly. Friday’s jobs report shows it’s accelerating....
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