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Most E-mailed news on 15 September 2009 |
Op-Ed Columnist: Boy, Oh, Boy
Joe Wilson?s outburst in Congress revealed one thing: Some people just can?t believe a black man is president and will never accept it.
Your Money: Seven New Rules for the First-Time Home Buyer
Stretch financially to buy your first house, so-called experts used to say. No more. A damaged financial system requires new strategies.
Op-Ed Columnist: Get Real on Health Care
The main difference on health care between France and the United States is not ideological but a question of efficiency. Unfortunately, stereotypes cloud the discussion.
Is Happiness Catching?
Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler say your friends ? and even your friends? friends ? can make you quit smoking, eat too much or get happy. A look inside the emerging science of social contagion.
Grrr, Sniff, Arf
A cognitive scientist leads a tour of the sensations and thought processes of dogs.
Habitats: Meow Spoken Here
Tammy Cross lives with a rotating cast of rescued kittens in a 450-square-foot one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side. ?This is the nursery,? Tammy Cross said of her apartment, where she rescues kittens for adoption.
Judge Rejects Settlement Over Merrill Bonuses
A judge said a $33 million settlement over Merrill Lynch bonuses ?does not comport with the most elementary notions of justice and morality.?
Toxic Waters: Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering
In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But most polluters have escaped punishment.
U.S. Cost-Saving Policy Forces New Kidney Transplant
Medicare stops paying for anti-rejection drugs after 36 months, one of several anomalies that many in Congress hope to cure with this year?s health care bill.
Subway Riders Are Greeted by a Blast of Sol LeWitt Color
With its 250 jewel-toned tiles spanning 53 feet, LeWitt?s ?Whirls and Twirls (MTA)? provides a surprising visual jolt for the subway commuters at Columbus Circle.
Op-Ed Columnist: The Body Count at Home
About as many people who were killed on 9/11 die every two months because of our failure to provide universal insurance ? and yet many members of Congress want us to do nothing?
Books of The Times: Fasten Your Seat Belts, There?s Code to Crack
?The Lost Symbol,? Dan Brown?s overdue follow-up to ?Angels & Demons? and ?The Da Vinci Code,? brings sexy back to a genre that had been left for dead.
Ad Shift Throws Blogs a Business Lifeline
Blog networks like Gawker are reporting ad revenue is up this year, even as their glossy competition suffers.
The New Israel Lobby
At work in J Street?s offices in Washington, from left: Isaac Luria, campaigns director; Rachel Lerner; Daniel Kohl; Jeremy Ben-Ami.Can J Street ? and the Obama administration ? change Washington?s Middle East policy?
Op-Ed Contributors: The Recession?s Racial Divide
The economic downturn feels more like a depression and not a recession to many black families.
Unsettled: Resolve of West Bank Settlers May Have Limits
Ideological settlers are unlikely to engage in organized armed conflict with the Israeli military, as some fear, because their beliefs make them hesitant to turn against their own.
Remarkable Creatures: In a Shark?s Tooth, a New Family Tree
The great white shark, with its serrated teeth, was thought to have evolved from the ancient megalodon. New clues suggest a different ancestor.Great whites, most experts now believe, are not descended from a megatoothed megashark, but from a more modest relative of mako sharks.
A Promising Life, Ended in a Lab Basement
A body found in the wall of a science building at Yale has been identified as that of Annie Le, a 24-year-old graduate student who had been missing since last Tuesday.
Op-Ed Contributor: Big Food vs. Big Insurance
The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care.
Same Old Hope: This Bubble Is Different
Risk-taking behavior is beginning to gain traction again as investors look for double-digit returns from the next big thing.
Norman Borlaug, Plant Scientist Who Fought Famine, Dies at 95
A Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Borlaug developed high-yielding crop varieties that helped to avert famines worldwide.
Treece Journal: Welcome to Our Town. Wish We Weren?t Here.
Kansas officials are pushing for federal buyouts for the residents of Treece, which is on land contaminated from mining, after buyouts emptied a nearby town.
Unboxed: Wall Street?s Math Wizards Forgot a Few Variables
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, many experts want formulas for risk that look at human behavior and how it can change rapidly.
Explorer: In Texas, Seeing the West as It Was
The untamed West in all its cranky, craggy, dusty, arid majesty seems to have been frozen in time at Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
Mind: When a Parent?s ?I Love You? Means ?Do as I Say?
Evidence is now available about the mainstream thinking on the disciplining of children.
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