President’s Drive for Carbon Pricing Fails to Win at Home
Date: 28 September 2014
By CORAL DAVENPORT
Coral DAVENPORT
News analysis; United States is missing from World Bank declaration calling on all nations to enact laws forcing industries to pay for carbon emissions that scientists say are the leading cause of global warming; declaration, signed by 74 countries and more than 1,000 businesses, notes that governments can either directly tax carbon pollution or create market-based cap-and-trade systems, which force companies to buy government-issued pollution.
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Advocates for News Media to Meet Turkish Officials
Date: 28 September 2014
By RICK GLADSTONE
Rick GLADSTONE
International delegation representing two leading press-freedom advocacy groups are scheduled to meet in Turkey with Turkish officials, possibly including Pres Recep Tayyip Erdogan, about harassment and persecution of foreign and domestic journalists whose reporting is deemed hostile or unfair by the government.
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Judges on the Campaign Trail
Date: 28 September 2014
By ADAM LIPTAK
Adam LIPTAK
News analysis by Adam Liptak examines question of whether judicial elections corrupt courts' impartiality; notes that Supreme Court is set to determine whether to hear case about judges personally soliciting campaign donations.
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Building an Ark for the Anthropocene
Date: 28 September 2014
By JIM ROBBINS
Jim ROBBINS
News analysis by Jim Robbins; governments, scientists and nonprofits are trying to build modern version of Noah's ark in order to protect Earth's species, which has raised complex questions about which species to save and how.
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Object Lessons in History
Date: 28 September 2014
By SAM ROBERTS
Sam ROBERTS
News analysis by Sam Roberts; success of BBC book and radio series called A History of the World in 100 Objects, and similar ventures, points to fact that history is popular and that objects seems to be emerging as history's lingua franca.
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When It All Comes Down to Blurbs
Date: 28 September 2014
By KATE ZERNIKE
Kate ZERNIKE
Sheila Weller discusses the fallout from her latest book The News Sorority, about Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Christiane Amanpour; says she intended the book to show how newswomen used ambition, intelligence and iron work ethic, as well as their looks, to break through walls in the male-dominated world of broadcast news.
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News of Nike’s Profit Lifts the Dow
Date: 27 September 2014
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Good economic and corporate news helps stock market stage a rebound at end of turbulent week of trading.
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