By MATTHEW POWER
THERE are few places on the planet more appropriate to contemplate a sea journey than at the Miraflores Locks, on the western end of the Panama Canal. It is a balmy March evening, and the red tropical sun hangs low over the jungle-covered hills. At eye level a container ship slides silently […]
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By ANTHONY DePALMA and DAVID STABA
They were some of the Cold War’s first warriors. Now they say they are among its last casualties, coping with cancers that may be linked to their work in Buffalo-area factories that made components for nuclear weapons half a century ago.
It took decades for the federal […]
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By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
CASTIGLIONE DI CERVIA, Italy — Panic was spreading this August through this tidy village of 2,000 as one person after another fell ill with weeks of high fever, exhaustion and excruciating bone pain, just as most of Italy was enjoying Ferragosto, its most important summer holiday.
“At one point, I simply couldn’t stand […]
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By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL
“Information,” the apostles of cyberspace have been singing for more than a decade, “wants to be free.” Well, maybe your information does. But in late November, the social networking Web site Facebook discovered that many of its 58 million members don’t feel that way. On social networks, people can exchange photos, […]
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By MICHAEL CIEPLY
LOS ANGELES
TIME was, a movie studio could pack up a picture and all of its assorted bloopers, alternate takes and other odds and ends as soon as the production staff was done with them, and ship them off to the salt mine. Literally.
Having figured out that really big money comes from reselling […]
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By SETH SCHIESEL
FOR gamers 2006 was all about the introduction of Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo’s Wii systems; there weren’t many great games released. This year, by contrast, has delivered one fabulous interactive entertainment experience after another. Even without Grand Theft Auto IV, which was delayed until next year, 2007 has witnessed the strongest […]
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