By KEVIN SACK
To keep the state’s landmark universal health coverage plan afloat, Massachusetts lawmakers are looking to tap an increasingly popular source of financing for health-related initiatives: tobacco taxes. If the state raises its tax by as much as $1 a pack, it will join New York — and possibly a number of other states […]
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Marathon Running : By LIZ ROBBINS
BOSTON — Magdalena Lewy Boulet could not hear the footsteps during the last of the 23 sun-kissed miles she had boldly run alone and in front at the women’s United States Olympic marathon trials. But she sensed that Deena Kastor was swiftly encroaching, a champion in waiting. Kastor had panicked […]
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Critics’ Choice : By THE NEW YORK TIMES
ASHLEE SIMPSON
“Bittersweet World”
(Geffen)
Cast as the daring rock rebel in the Simpson family reality-show empire, Ashlee Simpson is hardly less plastic than her nice-girl sister, Jessica. Her debacle of a “Saturday Night Live” appearance exposed her as a lip-syncher, and when she’s not singing about her rocker-girl independence, she’s […]
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By BONNIE TSUI
LAST summer, an exploratory group of five hikers walked among the majestic, jagged limestone peaks of Sutjeska National Park, eventually ascending to the top of 7,828-foot Maglic, the highest mountain in the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
There, they enjoyed views of Montenegro, then the newest nation in the world (it is now second […]
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By DOREEN CARVAJAL
PARIS — During their second strike in a week, journalists at Le Monde streamed out of the newspaper’s nine-story headquarters in ghostly masks and rumpled white T-shirts painted with numbers from 1 to 129.
The numerals, equivalent to nearly a quarter of the 600 employees, denoted the number of people management is seeking to […]
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By ANDREW POLLACK
Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.
In Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft drinks, snacks and other foods. Until now, […]
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