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Published: Feb 21, 2012
LONDON — Pinstripes with an edge of cool, surfaces smooth and metallic, and fashion show locations in a high rise building in London’s financial district — could it be that city slick is making a comeback? The London equivalent of Occupy Wall Street may have seen its tents dismantled. But in other ways, young fashion designers,

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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Shenneika Smith made a 3-pointer from the wing with eight seconds left to lift St. John’s to a 57-56 win over No. 2 Connecticut on Saturday night, bringing to a close the Huskies’ 99-game home winning streak. It was also UConn ’s first home loss to an unranked opponent in nearly 19 years. “It’s truly

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Published: Feb 19, 2012
A LITTLE over a year ago, Maine Huts & Trails opened its newest backcountry eco-lodge in the mountains of western Vacationland. Each of the lodges, now numbering three, has hot showers and private guesthouses and serves breakfasts and dinners prepared with locally sourced organic ingredients. Ditto the brown bag lunches. Connecting them is a

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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Jordan Morgan had 11 points and 11 rebounds, playing the all-American forward Jared Sullinger to a virtual stalemate as No. 17 Michigan beat No. 6 Ohio State , 56-51, on Saturday night to remain unbeaten at home. Trey Burke scored 17 points and Tim Hardaway Jr. added 13 for the Wolverines (20-7, 10-4 Big Ten), who improved to 15-0 at Crisler Center

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Published: Feb 16, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — The Yoda fountain greets you first, the little guy sagely standing sentry outside a former veterans hospital in the leafy acres of the Presidio. Inside there are a couple of Stormtroopers and the dark lord himself, Darth Vader. Around the corner E.T. is flying in his bicycle basket, over the head of Slimer, the green meanie

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Published: Feb 09, 2012
The most sweeping patent system changes in more than 50 years became law in September with enactment of the America Invents Act, which the White House has said will help turn inventions into businesses faster. Entrepreneurs and small-business owners who rely on the patent system to protect their intellectual property are just starting to understand

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Published: Feb 05, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO FOR barristers in 18th-century London, it was shoulder-grazing wigs. For the Mad men of 1950s New York, it was briefcases and fedoras. For the glass-ceiling-shattering women of the 1980s, it was shoulder pads. And for today's tech entrepreneurs in high-flying Silicon Valley, it is flamboyantly colored, audaciously patterned socks. In

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Published: Jan 30, 2012
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The connection between the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the iconic N.F.L. franchise it shares a city with goes back to the 1960s. As the story goes, Vince Lombardi, the legendary Packers coach, advised the university's first chancellor, Edward W. Weidner, to make men's soccer the signature athletic program rather than

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Published: Jan 29, 2012
PALO ALTO, Calif. IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg, the ones that the doomsayers proclaim -- with glee or dread -- will go the way of vinyl records. No, the engineers were

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Published: Jan 29, 2012
Skylar Diggins scored 24 points to help No. 2 Notre Dame beat host St. John's, 71-56, for its 18th straight victory. Devereaux Peters added 18 points, 15 rebounds, 5 blocks and 4 steals for Notre Dame (21-1, 8-0 Big East), which was coming off a 28-point blowout of No. 7 Tennessee on Monday. Da'Shena Stevens and Shenneika Smith each scored 10

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Mainland Chinese Flock to Hong Kong to Have Babies 23-Feb-2012

HONG KONG — For years, Hong Kongers have nursed complaints about the growing parade of visitors to their city from mainland China . The mainlanders spit, litter, jaywalk and cut in line, the locals grouse; they talk too loudly, eat on the subway and otherwise flout Hong Kong’s more refined standards of public behavior. Those are
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Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling 23-Feb-2012

CAIRO — Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs on Wednesday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar al-Assad . Among the scores of people that activist
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Campaigns Use ‘Microtargeting’ to Attract Supporters 21-Feb-2012

Political campaigns, which have borrowed tricks from Madison Avenue for decades, are now fully engaged on the latest technological frontier in advertising: aiming specific ads at potential supporters based on where they live, the Web sites they visit and their voting records. In recent primaries, two kinds of Republican voters have been seeing two
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Shares Close Down First Time in 4 Trading Days 23-Feb-2012

Stocks closed lower Wednesday for the first time in four trading days. Some investors worried about the details of a bailout deal reached for Greece on Tuesday. But analysts said investors were mostly in a holding pattern after seeing the market hit an important psychological mark. “The market is pausing for the next slew of good news,”
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Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling 23-Feb-2012

CAIRO — Syrian security forces shelled the central city of Homs on Wednesday, the 19th day of a bombardment that activists say has claimed the lives of hundreds of trapped civilians in one of the deadliest campaigns in nearly a year of violent repression by the government of President Bashar al-Assad . Among the scores of people that activist
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Two Seek to Claim Control of Field at G.O.P. Debate 23-Feb-2012

MESA, Ariz. — Mitt Romney called into question the fiscal conservative credentials of Rick Santorum in a fiercely combative debate on Wednesday evening, taking urgent steps to redefine Mr. Santorum while trying to reassert his command in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination. With the Arizona and Michigan primaries only six
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