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Published: Feb 19, 2012
In the embryonic, ever evolving era of social media — when milestones come by the day, if not by the second — June 8, 2010, has secured a rightful place in history. That was the day Wael Ghonim, a 29-year-old Google marketing executive, was browsing Facebook in his home in Dubai and found a startling image: a photo­graph of a

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Published: Feb 14, 2012
MOSCOW -- The talk show topic of the day was: ''Putin or not Putin?'' As the host giddily explained, that title alone would have been ''unimaginable'' on any of Russia's major public-affairs shows even just six months ago, let alone on NTV, one of the three Kremlin-friendly television networks that dominate the news. His guest, Boris Nemtsov, an

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Published: Feb 12, 2012
WASHINGTON ON a Sunday in early December, Marcus Brauchli, the executive editor of The Washington Post, summoned some of the newspaper's most celebrated journalists to a lunch at his home, a red brick arts-and-crafts style in the suburb of Bethesda, Md. He asked his guests, who included the Pulitzer Prize winners Bob Woodward, Dana Priest, David

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Published: Feb 07, 2012
In the course of a century we've gone from Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the cranky millionaire who would allow paintings from his exceptional collection to be reproduced only in black and white -- he wanted viewers to understand that they weren't looking at the real thing -- to Charles Saatchi, the British megacollector who, by his own account, spends

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Published: Jan 27, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO -- The unlikely coalition of companies and consumer groups that last week helped quash antipiracy legislation on Capitol Hill is now weighing the future of what might be called lobbying 2.0. Can the Internet industry, along with legions of newly politicized Web users, be a new force in Washington? And if so, what else can they all

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Published: Jan 22, 2012
ASHLEY WARD, an aspiring idealist with waning faith in the world, was standing in the newsroom of her college paper at Humboldt State University in Northern California when a fellow student rushed in with startling news. Three thousand miles due east, on a tiny patch of Lower Manhattan, people were camping out to protest Wall Street, decrying its

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Published: Jan 22, 2012
ASHLEY WARD, an aspiring idealist with waning faith in the world, was standing in the newsroom of her college paper at Humboldt State University in Northern California when a fellow student rushed in with startling news. Three thousand miles due east, on a tiny patch of Lower Manhattan, people were camping out to protest Wall Street, decrying its

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Published: Jan 17, 2012
The New England Journal of Medicine marks its 200th anniversary this year with a timeline celebrating the scientific advances first described in its pages: the stethoscope (1816), the use of ether for anesthesia (1846), and disinfecting hands and instruments before surgery (1867), among others. For centuries, this is how science has operated --

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Published: Jan 13, 2012
NEW YORK -- The Internet is, of course, old hat. We are all getting used to social media, too -- your grandmother probably has a Facebook account, and every C.E.O. worth his salt, along with all the world's would-be revolutionaries, is on Twitter. Mobile, once the new thing, is now taken for granted as part of the world's hardware. In 2010, more

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Published: Dec 04, 2011
FOR the second year in a row, the Monday after Thanksgiving -- so-called Cyber Monday, when online retailers offer discounts to lure holiday shoppers -- was the biggest sales day of the year, totaling some $1.25 billion and overwhelming the sales figures racked up by brick-and-mortar stores three days before, on Black Friday, the former perennial

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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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