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LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Nov 13, 2014

Christmas dinner made easy; a new take on breakfast; classic French cuisine

Christmas dinner made easy
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 10, 2014

U.S. officials hope new HealthCare.gov avoids last year's problems

U.S. officials planned to unveil an improved health care insurance website on Sunday they hope will allow the second enrollment period under President Barack Obama's health reform plan to avoid the technical meltdown that plagued its launch last year.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 1, 2014

New U.S. rockets to include launch-escape systems

Heeding a lesson from history, designers of a new generation of U.S. rockets will include escape systems to give crew members a fighting chance of surviving launch accidents such as the one that felled an unmanned Orbital Sciences Antares rocket on Tuesday.
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 25, 2014

Suga downplays conflict involving new trade chief's Tepco stake

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga brushed aside concerns Friday about the new trade and industry minister's 600-share stake in Tokyo Electric Power Co. and said that the government guidelines in place to protect Cabinet ministers from conflicts of interest would be followed.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 24, 2014

China criticizes new U.S. missile defense radar in Kyoto

The United States is damaging stability in the Asia-Pacific region by positioning a missile defense radar in Japan, according to an official in Beijing.
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CULTURE / Film
Oct 22, 2014

Winter's Tale (New York Fuyu Monogatari)

Director: Akiva Goldsman Language: English
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Oct 22, 2014

Another island nation, idolized and imitated: Jamaica and I

Only in my 30s did I learn that I, too, had roots, or at least branches aside from my mother's, which only extended to some cotton plantation south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Oct 21, 2014

Italy gives army troops a new job: grow cheap medical marijuana

Italy legalized marijuana for medical use last year, but the high cost of buying legal pot in a pharmacy meant few people signed up. Now, the government has found a solution: Get the army to grow it.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 15, 2014

New 'Poodle' Internet threat is found, but it is not as menacing as Heartbleed or Shellshock

Three Google researchers have uncovered a security bug in widely used Internet encryption technology that they say could allow hackers to take over accounts for email, banking and other services in what they have dubbed a "Poodle" attack.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 14, 2014

U.S. forces confront new threat in Ebola

At Fort Campbell in Kentucky, spouses of U.S. soldiers headed to Liberia seem to be lingering just a bit longer than usual after predeployment briefings, hungry for information about Ebola.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 11, 2014

Bernd Haag: 'Learn a new language and start to think global'

Name: Bernd HaagAge: 52
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Oct 10, 2014

New center in Nagoya helps young patients deal with head injuries

A new facility for people with traumatic brain injuries has opened in Nakagawa Ward, Nagoya, to offer the kind of care that, say, traffic accident victims often need.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2014

Airline cleanup crews walk off job at LaGuardia over Ebola concerns, insufficient protection

About 200 airline cabin cleaners walked off the job at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Thursday to protest what they say is a lack of sufficient protection from exposure to Ebola for workers whose jobs include cleaning up vomit and bathrooms.
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2014

New Japan-U.S. defense guidelines will stress global reach

Japan and the United States released an interim report Wednesday on revising their bilateral defense cooperation guidelines by the year's end, in which they call for more global military cooperation between the two countries that will "benefit the (Asia-Pacific) region and beyond."
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2014

New anti-Semitism in Germany isn't the same

It's not the old-style, neo-Nazi anti-Semites who are trying to burn down synagogues or calling the Jews out to fight these days, as they have a problem with the currently dominant strain of anti-Semitism — its carriers have darker skin.
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BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2014

Billionaire Mikitani builds new Tokyo house as luxury prices gain

Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, Japan's fourth-richest man, is building a house in central Tokyo that is estimated to cost at least ¥2.3 billion, underscoring a shortage in the city's luxury housing market.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 27, 2014

New York scientists unveil 'invisibility cloak' to rival Harry Potter's

Watch out Harry Potter, you are not the only wizard with an invisibility cloak.
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JAPAN
Sep 24, 2014

Tsukuba University climbs to 13th in global new university rankings

The University of Tsukuba has been rated the 13th best new university worldwide, in a ranking that compares the merits of such institutions set up within the past 50 years.
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WORLD
Sep 21, 2014

Iraqi Christians fly to new life in France after escaping Islamic State

On a warm evening at Irbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan, some 150 mostly Christian refugees anxiously waited to flee their homeland aboard a French government plane.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years