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Published: Feb 22, 2012
STAMFORD, Conn. — The old Town Hall here, a Beaux-Arts building on the National Registry of Historic Places, has sat unused for 25 years, a victim of Stamford’s rapid growth in the 20th century. But the Town Hall will join the 21st-century economy, with the announcement this month that it would become an incubator for business start-ups

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Published: Feb 21, 2012
To the Editor: Re “ At 90, John Glenn Looks Back ” (Feb. 14): I think it is appropriate to praise John Glenn. He took chances in going into space. As a onetime engineer myself, however, I protest lauding astronauts before the engineers who got them into space and back home again. Someday I hope to see The New York Times acknowledge that

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Published: Feb 19, 2012
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Rick Ruzzamenti admits to being a tad impulsive. He traded his Catholicism for Buddhism in a revelatory flash. He married a Vietnamese woman he had only just met. And then a year ago, he decided in an instant to donate his left kidney to a stranger. In February 2011, the desk clerk at Mr. Ruzzamenti’s yoga studio

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Published: Feb 19, 2012
A man walks into a peep show. He has an excellent reason: he has just scuffed his shoe, which was costly, on the sidewalk. A flight of stairs and $5 later he is in a booth, facing a circular stage. The partition lifts. Before him sit four nearly naked women. The first is sheer perfection, the creature of his dreams. He barely has time to come to

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Published: Feb 17, 2012
Theater Approximate running times are in parentheses. Theaters are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of current productions, additional listings, showtimes and ticket information: nytimes.com/theater . Previews and Openings ‘Assistance’ (in previews; opens on Feb. 28) Occupy the stage! This satire by Leslye Headland (the

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Published: Feb 17, 2012
Movies Ratings and running times are in parentheses; foreign-language films have English subtitles. Full reviews of all current releases: nytimes.com/movies . ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ (PG, 1:47) The Belgian boy detective (Jamie Bell) and his dog, Snowy, get a motion-capture makeover in Steven Spielberg’s wildly overworked

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Published: Feb 14, 2012
In the winter of 1962, the nation needed a hero. Americans had yet to recover from the Soviet Union's launching of the first spacecraft, Sputnik, in October 1957 -- a rude jolt to our confidence as world leaders in all things technological. The space race was on. Soon after he took office in 1961, President John F. Kennedy had thrown down the

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Published: Feb 14, 2012
WHILE training for the International Space Station, I was constantly flying to Houston, Moscow, Tokyo, Montreal and Cologne. I used to joke that I had more Earth orbits sitting in coach class than in the space shuttle. I let my wife use my frequent flier miles to make up for the fact that I was gone so often. I was getting a ride to space, and I

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Published: Feb 14, 2012
THE best travel tip I know came from the Boy Scouts: be prepared. That covers a lot of ground (and, in this case, air), but it lacks specificity. So I thought I'd ask for tips from some of the travel experts who have appeared in this column in the 13 years I've been writing it. I'm also inviting readers to add their own tips for a follow-up column.

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Published: Feb 14, 2012
Layovers, canceled meetings or time before a flight home -- whatever the reason, business travelers may find themselves with a few hours to spare. Some use the time to catch up on e-mail or beat the BrickBreaker high scores on their BlackBerrys. But there is another option: exploring the local sights. And Web sites and smartphone applications have

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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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Shares Close Down First Time in 4 Trading Days 23-Feb-2012

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