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Most E-mailed news on 7 July 2009 |
Op-Ed Columnist: The Best Kids? Books Ever
Pry your kids away from the keyboard and the television, and give them a book. For ideas, here?s a summer reading list.
Incandescent Bulbs Return to the Cutting Edge
New energy standards are causing major innovation in incandescent light bulbs, a family of bulbs that some thought would not survive.
Op-Ed Columnist: HELP Is on the Way
Last week the budget office scored the proposed legislation from the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP). And the news was good. Yes, we can reform health care.
Op-Ed Columnist: Now, Sarah?s Folly
As Alaskans settled in to enjoy holiday salmon bakes and the post-solstice thaw, their governor had a solipsistic meltdown so strange it made Sparky Sanford look like a model of stability.
Street Farmer
Can Will Allen make the inner city the next front in the good-food movement?
Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93
Mr. McNamara helped lead the U.S. into the Vietnam war and spent the rest of his life wrestling with its moral consequences.
Op-Ed Contributor: Health Care?s Infectious Losses
With a few small steps, we would no longer have the suffering and death associated with infections acquired in hospitals and we would save tens of billions of dollars every year.
Op-Ed Columnist: A Journalist?s ?Actual Responsibility?
Once a decade or so, we journalists get undone, and our subject has its revenge, turning the tables and refusing to let us be. I confess that, out of Iran, I am bereft.
The Land and Words of Mary Oliver, the Bard of Provincetown
For venturing into a hidden but intensely alive corner of Cape Cod, there?s an insightful guidebook in the lyrical words of this poet.
The World: Farewell to an India I Hardly Knew
A Calcutta bus reflects confidence among Indians. Much has changed in a generation.An Indian-American reflects on six years in a country undergoing revolutionary social transformation.
Op-Ed Columnist: Sarah?s Straight Talk
The timing of Sarah Palin?s resignation was extremely peculiar. You?d have thought she didn?t want us to notice.
Choice Tables: Alive and Evolving: The Paris Bistro
Offering reliable and affordable food, the bistro choices are better than they have been in years.
Your Money: A Day to Tackle the Financial To-Do List
Taking time, 10 or 12 hours, to tackle ever-postponed money tasks and clear the books can be lucrative.
Rise of Web Video, Beyond 2-Minute Clips
Producers and advertisers are discovering that users, aided by the screen-filling video that faster Internet access allows, will watch longer videos online.
Piecing Together an Immigrant?s Life the U.S. Refused to See
The story of a detainee and his death, kept in official oblivion for three years, shows how 9/11 changed the stakes for those tangled in U.S. immigration laws.
China Locks Down Restive Region After Deadly Clashes
The Chinese government imposed curfews and sent armed police officers into neighborhoods after clashes between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese.
Op-Ed Columnist: Bernie Madoff Is No John Dillinger
In the context of our own Great Recession, Bernie Madoff?s old-fashioned Ponzi scheme was merely a one-off next to the esoteric (and often legal) heists by banks and bankers.
Ping: We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks?
Chegg.com, which rents textbooks to college students, says it had 2008 revenue of more than $10 million.
Swings in Price of Oil Hobble Forecasting
Government officials and analysts fear that the puzzling instability of oil prices could jeopardize a global recovery.
Editorial: Say No to Raw Cookie Dough
The Nestlé USA recall is another warning about the weakness of the nation?s food safety system and why Congress needs to fix it.
Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley
Public relations gurus are courting influential voices on services like Twitter to endorse new companies, Web sites or gadgets, perhaps forever altering their roles.
Editorial: Lessons for Failing Schools
Education Secretary Arne Duncan should focus his efforts on the relatively small number of schools that produce so many of the nation?s dropouts.
Independence Days: Al Franken and the Odd Politics of Minnesota
Al Franken?s hard-won victory raises the question: What is up with Minnesota politics, anyway?
The Rural Life: How the Thunder Sounds
A new lexicon to imagine the march of late-afternoon thunderstorms.
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