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| A Critic of a Design Museum Will Lead It | | | Glenn Adamson, a researcher without the typical executive experience, wrote in 2011 that the museum he will soon lead has little more than indiscrimination to call its own. |
| Writing a book no-one saw on the shelf | | | Helen Wan was still a law school student when she noticed a pattern in books marketed toward Asian-American women like her -- none reflected the contemporary, ladder-climbing professionals she knew. |
| Mouse body clock study offers clues to possible jet lag cure | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found a genetic mechanism in mice that hampers their body clock's ability to adjust to changes in patterns of light and dark, and say their results could someday lead to the development of drugs to combat jet lag. |
| Legalization The Uruguay model | | | Views on marijuana are shifting, but nearly everywhere, it is too early to talk about substantive changes to drug policies. |
| Gareth Bale joins Real Madrid | | | Ending weeks of speculation, the Spanish football club completed one of the off-season's most anticipated transfers, signing English Premier League player Gareth Bale in a bumper deal. |
| Miley Cyrus twerks, stuns VMAs crowd | | | Lady Gaga has taken the MTV Video Music Awards stage covered in (fake) blood; wearing a dress made of meat and as her male alter-ego, Jo Calderone. |
| Secret world of teen cartel hitmen | | | A drug lord handed Rosalio Reta a gun and told him to kill a man tied up on the ground. Reta was only 13. Everything was different after that, Reta says. It was a lifestyle surrounded by death. |
| John McEnroe of 'chess on ice?' | | | He has overcome a fiery temper to become a champion in the world of curling -- a sport known as "chess on ice." Sweden's Niklas Edin is part of a younger generation with big dreams ahead of next year's Winter Olympics. |
| Report Drug epidemic in North Korea | | | North Korea's sanction-hit regime has long been accused of drug trafficking as a source of hard currency, but a new report claims drug producers are finding a ready market closer to home and that as many as two-thirds of North Koreans have used methamphetamines. |
| Exports key to U.S. success | | | Jan 19 - In an exclusive interview with Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt says that the American consumer is no longer the driver of the global economy and that high-tech exports are the key to future growth of the U.S. economy. |
| Qualcomm jumps into 'wearables' fray with Toq smartwatch | | | SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc has unveiled the Toq, a smartwatch that can play music and handle phone calls and messages, and said it would start selling the device in the fourth quarter, marking the chipmaker's entry into the emerging arena of wearable computing. |
| Budgets airlines mean business | | | Don't let the cute names like Vanilla Air and Peach fool you. Budget airlines are carrying a heavy load in Asia's travel industry. Why low-cost carriers mean the world to Asia |
| Senate panel reaches deal on military authorization for Syria | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said they reached an agreement on Tuesday on a draft authorization for the use of military force in Syria that was much narrower than the request made by President Barack Obama, paving the way for a vote by the committee on Wednesday. |
| Detroit defends contested swaps deal as key to city's survival | | | DETROIT (Reuters) - Detroit had no choice but to strike a deal with holders of interest-rate swaps contracts as the city scrambled to guarantee access to cash in the days before its bankruptcy filing, according to depositions by the city's emergency manager and a key financial adviser. |
| Ex-Nazi, 92, Goes on Trial in War Death | | | The prosecution of Siert Bruins, who served as a border guard in Adolf Hitlers elite Waffen-SS troops, is part of an effort in Germany to bring elderly former Nazis to justice before it is too late. |
| At the Critics Table | | | Restaurant critics for The Times discuss food, star ratings and tricks of the trade. |
| Bezos to Washington Post 'Don't be boring' | | | (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos, the soon-to-be owner of The Washington Post, does not plan to cut his way to profitability and says the only path to success is growth, according to an account in the... |
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