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Grenade Attack Kills Thai Protester

1 hour 39 min ago
An anti-government protester was killed and at least 29 were injured in an attack against activists occupying the Government House in Bangkok, according to reports.

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Well: Mark Bittman’s Bad Kitchen

1 hour 39 min ago
Even celebrity chefs find themselves cooking in less-than-perfect kitchens.

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The New Old Age: Legally Responsible for Care

1 hour 39 min ago
In 30 states, adult children are legally responsible, on paper at least, to pay for food, clothing and medical care for indigent parents.

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Economix: Adam Smith, Disproved by Ants

1 hour 39 min ago
A new paper finds that ants that specialize are no more productive at their tasks than ants that don't.

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Rebels Used to Boots, Not Suits, Seek to Govern Congo

2 hours 38 min ago
As Congo rebel chief Laurent Nkunda seeks to refashion himself as a national political leader, it’s not clear if he has the professional staff beneath him to realize his ambitions.

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Shares Near 6-Year Low, With More Losses Feared

3 hours 17 min ago
As the stock market tumbled to its lowest level in nearly six years, traders and many others were asking the same question: Where is the bottom?

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Defiant Mayor Won’t Promise to Send Rebate

3 hours 22 min ago
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said a rebate promised to hundreds of thousands of homeowners was “up in the air.”

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Web Sites Wage Holiday Price Wars

3 hours 33 min ago
As deserted malls and department stores struggle to court consumers with steep discounts, an even more ferocious price war is being waged online.

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Discussions With Clintons as Obama Creates Team

3 hours 36 min ago
Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Penny Pritzker, a businesswoman, also emerged as cabinet contenders.

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Ex-Detainee’s Restrictions Will End

4 hours 7 min ago
Australian police said that they would stop restricting a former Guantanamo Bay detainee after he broke his long media silence to ask them to let him “get on with” his life.

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Japanese Are Irked by U.S. Interest in Pitcher

6 hours 4 min ago
As the first high-profile Japanese baseball prospect to spurn his nation’s leagues to entertain offers from the U.S., Junichi Tazawa has strained relations between leagues on two continents.

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Clive Barnes, Critic, Dies at 81

6 hours 9 min ago
As a critic in Britain and later for The New York Times, Mr. Barnes helped bring dance to a broad audience with an exuberant style.

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Book Prizes Awarded With Nod to History

6 hours 15 min ago
Annette Gordon-Reed won the National Book Award for nonfiction for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” while Peter Matthiessen won the fiction award for “Shadow Country.”

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Music Patron Is Convicted of Fraud

6 hours 30 min ago
A federal jury in Manhattan on Wednesday convicted Alberto W. Vilar on 12 counts of fraud.

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Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing

6 hours 35 min ago
Good news for worried parents: All those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to the MacArthur Foundation.

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After Losses, Pensions Ask For a Change

6 hours 42 min ago
Some of the nation’s biggest companies want Congress to roll back rules requiring them to put more money into pension funds.

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Iran Said to Have Nuclear Fuel for One Weapon

6 hours 48 min ago
Iran has produced enough nuclear material to make a single atom bomb, though it is unclear if the country has achieved the necessary technical advances to create a bomb.

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New York Police Fight With U.S. On Surveillance

7 hours 3 min ago
The New York Police Department wants the F.B.I. to loosen its approach to the electronic surveillance law.

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Blast at Thai Leader’s Office Kills One

7 hours 51 min ago
A grenade attack on protesters occupying the Thai prime minister’s office killed one person and wounded 29 in the first fatal assault at the compound since activists seized it.

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For Studio, Vampire Movie Is a Cinderella Story

7 hours 55 min ago
Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years.

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