By DENNIS OVERBYE
More fighting in Iraq. Somalia in chaos. People in this country can’t afford their mortgages and in some places now they can’t even afford rice.
None of this nor the rest of the grimness on the front page today will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in federal court in […]
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Novelties
By ANNE EISENBERG
TIRED of hearing other people’s cellphone conversations? It may become worse. Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too, as they project them onto nearby walls or commuter-train seatbacks.
Pint-size digital projectors are in the works. These devices, when plugged into cellphones and portable media players, will let […]
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Suits
By ELIZABETH OLSON, ANDREW E. KRAMER, MICHELLE LEDER and PATRICK McGEEHAN
In a sign that Google’s status as the coolest place to work may be waning, the company has lost another high-ranking employee to the social networking site Facebook.
Ethan Beard, former director of social media at Google, has joined Facebook as director of business development. The […]
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The World
By WALT BOGDANICH
When cold medicine containing a poison made in China killed nearly 120 Panamanians in 2006 and early 2007, Americans could take some comfort in the belief that a similar epidemic could never happen here, not with one of the best drug regulatory systems in the world.
Then last spring, hundreds if not thousands […]
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By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and JONATHAN D. GLATER
NOBODY wins when a home enters foreclosure — neither the borrower, who is evicted, nor the lender, who takes a loss when the home is resold. That’s the conventional wisdom, anyway.
The reality is very different. Behind the scenes in these dramas, a small army of law firms and default […]
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Music By ALAN LIGHT
ATHENS, Ga.
ON the ground floor of a nondescript building, a few blocks from the University of Georgia campus here, sits a little room stuffed with instruments and decorated with Christmas lights, lava lamps, old concert posters and tacked-up 45s. R.E.M. started rehearsing in this space in 1985, and it looks as if […]
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