New York Times

Regents Raise College Tuition in California by 32 Percent

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 8:42pm
Facing steep cuts in state funding, the university system voted on Thursday to raise undergraduate fees.

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Exhibition Review | 'Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop': Flights of Mind, Brought to Life

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 7:58pm
The Discovery Times Square Exposition’s show actually brings you closer to understanding the real workshop of Leonardo: his mind.

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University Weighs Tighter Limits on Stem Cell Research

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 7:25pm
The University of Nebraska would be the first such institution to set stricter limits than what national or state law allows.

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Oprah Winfrey to End Her Talk Show

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 7:03pm
The media mogul will end her daytime talk show in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.

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Backlog of Flight Delays After Computer Problems

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 6:38pm
The delays came after the fourth major systemwide disruption attributed to a communications system that the F.A.A. put into service earlier this decade.

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Backlog of Flight Delays After Computer Problems

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 6:03pm
The delays came after the fourth major systemwide disruption attributed to a communications system that the F.A.A. put into service earlier this decade.

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City Building Agency May Farm Out Tests

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 5:50pm
After deficiencies were exposed last year, the agency is looking to private firms to run construction license exams.

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Karzai Sworn In for Second Term as Afghan President

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 5:18pm
In his inaugural address, President Hamid Karzai said that the Afghan Army should assume full control of the country’s security within five years.

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American Journeys | Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Alaska: A Place in Time, Not All Frozen

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 4:39pm
In Alaska, the Matanuska-Susitna Valley is home to a 27-mile glacier, an old gold-mining camp and a New Deal farming project.

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Sounds During Sleep Aid Memory, Study Finds

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 3:22pm
People who heard specific sounds while sleeping had enhanced memories upon awakening, researchers said.

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AOL to Cut Its Work Force by One-Third

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 3:06pm
AOL said on Thursday that about 2,500 jobs will be lost after it is spun off from Time Warner next month.

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Stocks Fall as Rising Dollar Lures Investors

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 2:48pm
The Dow industrials slid as the dollar strengthened and commodity prices fell.

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Who Fears a Free Mikhail Khodorkovsky?

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 11:27am
How did Russia’s richest oligarch become the last best hope of its human rights campaigners?

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Jeanne-Claude, Artist, Is Dead

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 11:22am
The artist Jeanne-Claude has died.

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Obama Takes Stern Tone on North Korea and Iran

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 11:16am
President Obama said the two nations risked further isolation if they did not rein in their nuclear ambitions.

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Senate Says Health Plan Will Cover Another 31 Million

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 11:08am
Senator Harry Reid put forward his version of the health care overhaul, promising it would reduce the deficit while covering most of the uninsured.

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High Tech Tries to Lift Veil on 18 ½ Tantalizing Minutes in Watergate

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 10:30am
The government will apply high technology to H. R. Haldeman’s handwritten notes in an effort to fill in the 18 ½-minute gap in the Watergate tapes.

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A Bullet Takes a Toll in the Bronx

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 9:05am
The lives of two young people with different interests and from different neighborhoods intersected with one bullet.

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O.E.C.D. Sees Bumpy Path to Recovery

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 8:26am
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Thursday delivered a cautious assessment of the global economy.

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Suicide Attack Is Pakistani City’s 7th in 2 Weeks

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 7:59am
Militants killed 17 outside a courthouse in Peshawar on Thursday, the seventh attack in two weeks in the city.

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