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Most E-mailed news on 13 June 2009 |
Op-Ed Columnist: The Big Hate
The rise of right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.
Books: The Girls of Summer
A survey of the season?s women?s fiction, from seriously ambitious novels to diverting beach-chair schlock.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Great Unwinding
Washington wants to move from a bubble economy to an investment economy, but finding the political strategy to do this is proving to be difficult.
All-Night Care for Dementia?s Restless Minds
Mabel Hernandez and her staff offer therapy for frail hands.A home for the aged in the Bronx offers a dusk-to-dawn drop-off program to help combat the night terrors that can strike people with dementia.
Op-Ed Columnist: This Time, We Won?t Scare
What one woman?s medical experience in Canada can teach the United States about health care reform.
Door to Door as Missionaries, Then as Salesmen
A security company is employing Mormons with experience cold-calling for their faith.
American Journeys | Navajo Nation: Where Navajo Tales, and Rugs, Are Woven
Navajo Nation, which spreads across 27,000 square miles of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, is a land of rust-colored rock, hiking trails and traditional crafts.
The TV Watch: Bob Hope?s Spirit, but No Cheesecake
Bob Hope, at left, in Vietnam in 1969. At right, Stephen Colbert this week in Iraq. Stephen Colbert?s four-day broadcast from Baghdad, sponsored by the U.S.O., was unexpectedly charming.
Look Who?s Shopping Goodwill
Grace Bello with a Marc by Marc Jacobs dress that she found at a Goodwill in Chelsea.Many Goodwill stores are courting the shoppers who scour high-end resale shops and department store sales racks for bargains.
36 Hours in Research Triangle, N.C.
The close-knit cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill occupy a happy place between slow-paced Southern charm and urban cool.
Venice Journal: City Known for Its Water Turns to Tap to Cut Trash
Officials are avidly promoting what was previously unthinkable: that Italians should drink tap water.
Poultry Is No. 1 Source of Outbreaks, Report Says
After poultry, leafy vegetables and fruits and nuts were the most commonly identified source of food poisoning in the United States in 2006.
Op-Ed Contributor: When Arrogance Takes the Bench
Many U.S. Supreme Court justices who were irascible, socially distant, personally isolated, arrogant or even downright mean produced the finest decisions.
Senate Approves Tight Regulation Over Cigarettes
The bill would give the F.D.A. the power to impose potentially strict new controls on tobacco products.
And Now, It?s Crunch Time for Timeshares
Prices are dropping and resorts are becoming more available, as owners try to escape the burden of fees and mortgages in a once-resilient market.
Movie Review | 'Food, Inc.': Meet Your New Farmer: Hungry Corporate Giant
?Food, Inc.? is an activist documentary about the big business of feeding Americans all the junk that multinational corporate money can buy.
As Wind Power Grows, a Push to Tear Down Dams
The rise of wind farms in the Pacific Northwest is seen by some as an opportunity to help save the wild salmon, by removing dams that have impeded their spawning.
Economic Scene: America?s Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making
In the debate about how the government racked up so much debt, there is enough blame to go around.
Art Review | 'Light of the Sufis': The Many Voices of Enlightenment
Many voices is what you find in an exquisite show called ?Light of the Sufis? in the newly reinstalled Islamic galleries at the Brooklyn Museum.
Simon & Schuster to Sell Digital Books on Scribd.com
The publisher said it would make about 5,000 titles available for purchase as the book industry sought alternatives to Amazon?s Kindle store.
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