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China »
- China Indicts Rio Tinto Staff on Bribery Charges (NY Times) 2 hours ago
- Editor Appeals Sentence in China (NY Times) 3 hours ago
- China Report Shows More Pollution in Waterways (NY Times) Feb 9, 2010
Pakistan, Officials said »
- Pakistan Is Said to Pursue Role in Afghan Talks With U.S. (NY Times) 14 hours ago
- Pakistani Military Retakes Key Town in Tribal Belt From Taliban (NY Times) Feb 9, 2010
- Gunmen Open Fire on Former Official in Pakistan (NY Times) Feb 8, 2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti »
- Man’s Story of Survival Four Weeks After Haiti Quake Confounds Doctors (NY Times) 20 hours ago
- Americans Jailed in Haiti Plead for Help From U.S. (NY Times) Feb 9, 2010
- Paperwork Hinders Airlifts of Haitian Children (NY Times) Feb 8, 2010
Barack Obama »
- From Right of Radio Dial, a Challenge to McCain (NY Times) 18 hours ago
- The House of Tranquillity (NY Times) Feb 9, 2010
- McChrystal tells Afghans U.S. not leaving yet (Reuters) Dec 4, 2009
Nuclear, Iran »
- U.S. Eyes Sanctions on Revolutionary Guards to Curb Iran’s Nuclear Plans (NY Times) 13 hours ago
- Germany Is Chastised for Stance on Nuclear Arms (NY Times) Feb 9, 2010
- Iran’s Two-Edged Bomb (NY Times) 22 hours ago
Names »
- Nigerian Parliament Names Acting President (NY Times) Feb 9, 2010
- Names of the Dead (NY Times) Feb 9, 2010
- Russia Names New Chief in Troubled Region (NY Times) Feb 8, 2010
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32 mins ago - The federal Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would take steps to more stringently regulate three of the most potent forms of medical radiation, including increasingly popular CT scans, some of which deliver the radiation equivalent of 400 chest X-rays. With the announcement, the F.D.A. puts its regulatory muscle behind a growing movement to make life-saving medical radiation both diagnostic and therapeutic safer. Last week, the leading radiation oncology association called for enhanced ... - 32 mins ago - Sana, Yemen I took part in a “qat chew” the other day at the home of a Yemeni official. Never done that before. Qat is the mildly hallucinogenic leaf drug that Yemeni men stuff in their cheek after work and sometimes during. My hosts insisted that qat actually makes your senses sharper and that you could chew and chisel the top of a mosque minaret at the same time. I quit after 15 minutes, but the Yemeni officials, lawmakers and businessmen I was with chewed on for three hours and they made a lot of sense ...
- 1 hour ago - Eva Longoria and Yo-Yo Ma have a common ancestor. It takes a long time and considerable patience to get to that surprise denouement of “Faces of America,” a four-part PBS series, beginning on Wednesday, about family roots by the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. And even with charming celebrities Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols and Queen Noor of Jordan are among the 12 whose genealogy is explored almost back to Paleolithic times the telling can at times be a little wearisome. But that is perhaps fitting ...
- 1 hour ago - NEW YORK — Now that the Obama administration is considering the idea, emanating from Kabul, that it might be worth talking to Taliban leaders, it seems worth remembering that in October 2001, as the United States was preparing to bomb Afghanistan and, presumably, capture Osama bin Laden, the Taliban themselves had offered to negotiate. Mr. bin Laden could be sent to some neutral third country, the Taliban said through emissaries in Pakistan, if the United States proved that he was guilty of the Sept. ...
- 1 hour ago - No one at the hospital noticed that Tina Bell-Jackman was dying. On the night of June 26, 2007, Ms. Bell-Jackman turned restlessly in her bed in Room 7 at Select Specialty Hospital of Kansas City, a small medical center that specializes in treating chronically ill patients. Ms. Bell-Jackman, a 46-year-old with diabetes, had been hospitalized at Select for five weeks, was increasingly agitated and could not speak because of a surgical hole in her throat. Her physicians had ordered the hospital to keep ...
- 2 hours ago - SHANGHAI A Chinese prosecutor handed down indictments on Wednesday against an Australian citizen and three Chinese employees of British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, charging them with accepting bribes and stealing trade secrets. The indictments, announced through Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, are the latest development in a case that began last summer when the four employees were detained on suspicion of stealing state secrets and harming China’s economic interests. China later backed ...
2 hours ago - COUPLES hoping to bring Valentine’s Day dinner to a satisfying conclusion may be tempted by the special menu offered by One if by Land, Two if by Sea in Manhattan and, in particular, the Black Forest dessert. It’s a chocolate pistachio brownie bar with chocolate meringue sticks, crème fraîche ice cream, cherry gel and sweet cherries. But beware! One study found that the scent of cherries significantly decreases sexual arousal in women. There is another issue with the Black Forest and the gazillions of ... - 3 hours ago - A literary editor sentenced by a Chinese court to five years in prison gave a defiant handwritten appeal to the court on Wednesday. The editor, Tan Zuoren, was sentenced by the court on Tuesday for subversion. The court said Mr. Tan faced the charges because of recent writings and a rally criticizing the government’s deadly suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were the reasons, but his supporters said the central government wanted to stop his investigation of fatal school collapses ...
- 3 hours ago - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia A court in Myanmar sentenced an American citizen on Wednesday to five years’ imprisonment and hard labor on charges of carrying a forged identity card and two other offenses. Nyi Nyi Aung, a naturalized American who has spent two decades campaigning for democracy in his native Myanmar, will be allowed to serve the three prison terms concurrently, cutting down the actual jail time to three years. Mr. Nyi Nyi Aung’s lawyers said they would appeal and human rights groups called the ...
- 3 hours ago - Far fewer children would get a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. “Binge eating disorder” and “hypersexuality” might become part of the everyday language. And the way many mental disorders are diagnosed and treated would be sharply revised. These are a few of the changes proposed on Tuesday by doctors charged with revising psychiatry’s encyclopedia of mental disorders, the guidebook that largely determines where society draws the line between normal and not normal, between eccentricity and illness, between ...
