Published: Feb 21, 2012
SOWETO, South Africa — Shortly after Michel Sidibé became executive director of the United Nations ’ AIDS prevention agency, a court in Senegal sentenced nine gay men, all AIDS educators, to eight years in prison for “unnatural acts.” In one of his first moves as the new chief of U.N.AIDS , Mr. Sidibe flew to Senegal
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Published: Feb 18, 2012
INTERNATIONAL An article last Saturday about new challenges to China’s long-standing policy of nonintervention misstated the amount of China’s foreign exchange reserves. It is $3.2 trillion, not $2.3 trillion. • Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about deliveries of humanitarian aid to Afghan refugee camps where
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON — China ’s next leader, Xi Jinping , may never have heard of American Superconductor Corporation before he arrived here Monday, but by the end of his visit United States officials hope to make the small Massachusetts wind-energy company an object lesson in the impact of Chinese trade secret theft on American business. Senator
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Published: Feb 15, 2012
WASHINGTON -- China's next leader, Xi Jinping, may never have heard of American Superconductor Corporation before he arrived here Monday, but by the end of his visit United States officials hope to make the small Massachusetts wind-energy company an object lesson in the impact of Chinese trade secret theft on American business. Senator John Kerry,
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Published: Feb 14, 2012
The top United Nations human rights official offered a grim appraisal of the Syrian conflict on Monday, accusing the government there of interpreting the repeated diplomatic failure to end the violence as a green light to escalate deadly attacks on its political opponents with indiscriminate brutality and ''overwhelming force'' over the past 10
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Published: Feb 12, 2012
PHILADELPHIA BETSEY STEVENSON and Justin Wolfers might sound like almost any upscale couple. They have impressive degrees and serious careers and the social markers that go with them. They have one child, but there are two strollers, a Bugaboo and a Bob baby jogger, parked in the front hall of their stylish home here. Their daughter, Matilda, who
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Published: Feb 11, 2012
To the Editor: Re ''Poisoned Politics of Keystone XL,'' by Joe Nocera (column, Feb. 7): Every pro-Keystone argument leaves out the same major facts: Tar sands oil is not intended for United States consumption, but for shipping to the highest bidder. The job projections were discovered to be highly inflated; State Department estimates barely break
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Published: Feb 05, 2012
SEATTLE -- This is the University of Washington's new math: 18 percent of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from Washington State. And that, according to the dean of admissions, is how low-income Washingtonians -- more than a quarter of the class -- get a free ride.
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Published: Jan 27, 2012
The Simpson-Bowles report wasn't just a policy document. For a few months, it expanded the national debate. Everybody seemed to realize that the country was beset by large challenges that could no longer be neglected: soaring debt, lagging growth, wage stagnation, family breakdown, political dysfunction. Suddenly, there was a sense of urgency.
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Published: Jan 26, 2012
He controls a global publishing empire, but few would call him bookish. His city is a hotbed of writers and critics, but when it comes to literature, he pleads ignorance. So it came as something of a plot twist last week when Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, visiting a high school English class in the Bronx, confessed that he was not averse to a spy
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