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Most E-mailed news on 16 October 2009 |
Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending
Electronic book borrowing is a convenient way for libraries to remain relevant, but publishers are worried.
Op-Ed Contributor: Wall Street Smarts
A theory about why the financial system nearly collapsed seemed too simple to be true, but it was hard to find any flaws in it.
Op-Ed Columnist: Democrats and Schools
Education reform is the central front in the war on poverty, the civil rights issue of our time.
Small-Business Guide: Real-Life Lessons in Using Google AdWords
Keyword-driven ads can be an inexpensive way for entrepreneurs to publicize their products, but planning is everything.
When the Icing on the Cake Spells Disaster
Cake Wrecks, a blog and book, chronicles edible errors.Cake Wrecks, the popular blog and new book of the same name, celebrates the folly of professional confections gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Rethinking the Older Woman-Younger Man Relationship
Courteney Cox and Nick Zano in the ABC show ?Cougar Town.?Behind the unleashing of cougars in pop culture is what a growing number of sociologists say is a real demographic shift.
Rivals Pose Threat to New York Stock Exchange
Off-the-books private deals and upstart electronic markets are eclipsing the Big Board and New York itself.
So You Think You Know Pasta
Oretta Zanini De Vita claims Italians ate pasta long before Marco Polo?s voyage. Through hundreds of descriptions of pasta styles, the Italian food historian Oretta Zanini De Vita?s ?Encyclopedia of Pasta? places pasta in its social and historical context.
Holiday Travelers Who Wait to Book May Pay More
Last year?s last-minute deals aren?t likely to be repeated as airlines trim flight schedules and raise fares.
Patient Money: Nearly 65? Time for the Medicare Maze
Paul Gada, left, a financial consultant, worked with Joan and Don Thompson in Belleville, Ill.Medicare offers many coverage choices, but the selections made when enrolling could save you money in the long run.
A G.O.P. Agitator Not Named Palin
For Representative Michele Bachmann, an outsized celebrity, Americans adore her or they loathe her.
By Degrees: Curbing Emissions by Sealing Gas Leaks
Leaks from natural gas pipes are big contributors to climate change. Yet many solutions pay for themselves.
U.S. Math Tests Find Scant Gains Across New York
New York State?s fourth and eighth graders made no notable progress on federal math exams this year.
Op-Ed Contributor: To Beat the Taliban, Fight From Afar
The rise of terrorist attacks in Afghanistan should lead the United States to change its strategy.
Choosing a Policy to Cover What Medicare Doesn?t
Charles Masters, 67, a retired tool designer in Panama, N.Y., kept his former company?s supplementary plan, even though the premiums have risen.Consumer advocates urge retirees to find the health care plan that suits them when supplementing Medicare.
Doctor and Patient: How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors
Mindfulness meditation and getting ?in the zone? can help doctors to avoid burnout.
David Hockney?s Long Road Home
A transplanted artist left the pools of Southern California for the landscapes of his native Yorkshire.
Wounded Soldiers Return to Iraq, Seeking Solace
To get psychological closure, veterans are returning to scenes where they were maimed.
Making Shabby Chic, Again
Twenty years ago, when Rachel Ashwell started Shabby Chic, her enormous, squashy sofas catered to customers? recession-induced desire to hunker down.Back from bankruptcy, the furniture retailer Shabby Chic is betting that the big white sofa still has legs.
Architecture Review: Cool or Classic: Arts District Counterpoints
Together the new Dee and Charles Wyly Theater and the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House give Dallas the cultural stature it has long been craving.
Essay: The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
The core of the superconducting solenoid magnet at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.One of the most bizarre theories in all of science suggests a negative outcome for the superconducting supercollider in Switzerland.
To Retire in This Weak Market, the Magic Word Is ?Focus?
Bill and Susan Kuhn of Atkinson, N.H., replacing a screen door with glass. They have cut electric and heating bills.The stock market and home prices are down, but don?t feel that means you can?t retire. You just have to be creative.
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