Increase Expected in Heavy Equipment Sales in China
Date: 13 March 2010
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Komatsu, the Japanese heavy equipment maker, said Friday it expected sales in China to rise by half as the country’s 10 percent growth rate drives demand for resources like coal.
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Graphic Books Best Sellers: Manga Making News
Date: 12 March 2010
By George Gene Gustines
George Gustines
Perched on top of the manga list is the latest volume of “Bleach,” a work that readers said the comic-book creator Nick Simmons plagiarized from for his own series, “Incarnate.”
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Good News, Comrades! Stalin Has a Job for You
Date: 13 March 2010
By Neil Genzlinger
Neil Genzlinger
“Lenin’s Embalmers” will teach you to beware those in seats of power who issue orders that carry the whiff of crazy.
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Fearing Drug Cartels, Reporters in Mexico Retreat
Date: 13 March 2010
By Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey
Attacks on the media along the border with the U.S. have resulted in what amounts to a news blackout.
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White Women Influencing Shift to Minority-Majority Nation
Date: 12 March 2010
By James Warren
James Warren
The American demographic may be changing faster than many realize because of a decline in the number of white women in their prime child-bearing years.
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Enforcement of Landscape Ordinance Comes at a Bad Time
Date: 12 March 2010
By Katie Fretland
Katie Fretland
Enforcement of a 1999 ordinance mandating decorative fencing has come at a time when many business owners can ill afford to pay because of the poor economy.
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Book Review Podcast: Jim Frederick and Luc Sante
Date: 12 March 2010
By Blake Wilson
Blake Wilson
This week, Jim Frederick, the author of “Black Hearts,” discusses an Iraqi tragedy; Luc Sante explains David Shields’s mind-bending manifesto, “Reality Hunger”; Motoko Rich has notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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Book Review Podcast: Jim Frederick and Luc Sante
Date: 12 March 2010
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
This week, Jim Frederick, the author of “Black Hearts,” discusses an Iraqi tragedy; Luc Sante explains David Shields’s mind-bending manifesto, “Reality Hunger”; Motoko Rich has notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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Abuse Scandal in Germany Edges Closer to Pope
Date: 12 March 2010
By Nicholas Kulish and Rachel Donadio
Nicholas Kulish
A church official acknowledged a German archdiocese made “serious mistakes” in reassigning an abusive priest during the pope’s tenure as its archbishop in the 1980s.
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What to Do With an Empty Storefront? A Makeshift Art Gallery
Date: 12 March 2010
By Kelly Kleiman
Kelly Kleiman
A growing number of landlords of vacant storefronts are allowing artists to use their window space until a tenant comes along.
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