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Published: Feb 21, 2012
A prominent environmental researcher, activist and blogger from California admitted Monday night that he had deceitfully obtained and distributed confidential internal materials from the Heartland Institute , a libertarian group based in Chicago devoted in part to questioning the reality of global warming . Peter H. Gleick, founder and president of

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Published: Feb 21, 2012
GENEVA — M.C. Escher, the Dutch graphic artist whose mind-bending prints straddle the boundaries between art and science, once observed that he felt “more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.” Historically, most watchmakers would have felt the same way. Horology for centuries has prized the science of

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Published: Feb 20, 2012
Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University , said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be

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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Leah Adine Edelman and Martín Esteban Strauch are to be married Sunday afternoon in Miami. Rabbi David H. Auerbach is to officiate at the Deering Estate at Cutler, an environmental, archaeological and historical preserve operated by Miami-Dade County, with Rabbi Mario Rojzman participating. The bride, 28, and the bridegroom, 26, received law

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Published: Feb 18, 2012
In a crucial step toward the ultimate approval of new  oil  drilling off the North Slope of Alaska, the Interior Department on Friday tentatively approved   Shell’s   plans  for responding to a potential spill in the frigid Arctic waters. Shell still needs to cross several more regulatory barriers before it will be

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Published: Feb 17, 2012
‘The Festival of the Vegetables’ Gingerbread men may run, and sugarplums dance, but vegetables in children’s stories tend to act like, well, vegetables. Even the beanstalk that carries Jack to the Giant is a supporting player. But broccoli, peas, asparagus and their fellows are beginning to have their moment. Far from vegetating,

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Published: Feb 12, 2012
Theater Ben Brantley Mom and Dad no doubt warned you, when you were begging to try out their sedan for the first time, that getting behind a wheel can be dangerous. But they probably didn't (or let's hope they didn't) anticipate the perils awaiting the heroine of ''HOW I LEARNED I DRIVE,'' Paula Vogel's funny, sad and lyrical play, which won both

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Published: Feb 10, 2012
'What Is Improvisation?' Matt Wilson has been known to drum with carrots, methodically running the mangled vegetables through a blender and drinking the results. (He calls the composition ''Martha the Juicer.'') He won't do that on Saturday, but he will use kitchen tools, and he and his band Arts and Crafts will certainly get cooking. Mr. Wilson,

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Published: Feb 07, 2012
Gianpiero Moretti, who designed a sleek, easy-to-grasp steering wheel that has improved the performance of championship racecar drivers for more than half a century -- though he himself had limited success behind the wheel in hundreds of races -- died on Jan. 13 in Milan. He was 71. The cause was cancer, said Marco Cattaneo, a friend and business

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Published: Feb 07, 2012
When scientists reported in 2009 that a little-known mouse retrovirus was present in a large number of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, suggesting a possible cause of the condition, the news made international headlines. For patients desperate for answers, many of them severely disabled for years, the finding from an obscure research center,

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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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