Digital Domain : By RANDALL STROSS
E-MAIL has become the bane of some people’s professional lives. Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering new Internet companies, last month stared balefully at his inbox, with 2,433 unread e-mail messages, not counting 721 messages awaiting his attention in Facebook.
Mr. Arrington might be tempted to purge his […]
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Barreling Along : By JAD MOUAWAD
Oil prices rose above $116 a barrel last week, setting another record for the world’s most indispensable energy commodity. What was striking about this latest milestone was what didn’t happen: there was no shortage of oil, no sudden embargo, no exporter turning off its spigot.
The weak dollar, worries about terrorism […]
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS : MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut landed on Saturday in northern Kazakhstan 260 miles off its mark and 20 minutes late, Russian space officials said. A spokesman for mission control, Valery Lyndin, said the crew — Yi So-yeon, a South Korean […]
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Idea Lab : By SCOTT L. MALCOMSON
In poor countries around the world, there’s money being made by cutting down forests. Should these countries be paid not to cut down their forests? Such a curious transfer of wealth may represent the next twist in the politics of climate change.
The beneficent capacity of trees to act as […]
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Close Reading : By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
BIG-TIME development has always been a rough-and-tumble world in New York. But in recent years, as government has ceded more and more power to private interests, developers have become magicians at negotiating their way through the byzantine public review process. Nowhere is this sleight of hand more visible than in […]
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Music : By ALAN LIGHT
Van Nuys, Calif.
A BAND of five middle-aged men was warming up for rehearsal in a cluttered one-room studio, bashing out an unadorned version of “Shake, Rattle and Roll.” Two men, both named Tom, stepped to the microphones to harmonize on the song’s chorus. The clean-shaven one, playing rhythm guitar, spends most […]
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