Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York TimesA self-appointed citizens patrol that tries to protect women on Cairo’s streets spray-painted a youth for identification last month. CAIRO — The young activists lingered on the streets around Tahrir Square, scrutinizing the crowds of holiday revelers. Suddenly, they charged, pushing people aside and chasing down a young man. As the captive thrashed to get...
Nov
05
Fight Growing Over Online Royalties
Label: BusinessThe debate playing out in Washington has echoes of a presidential race. One side says businesses will suffer unless the government steps in to lower costs. The other accuses jet-set industrialists of a ploy that will cheat the middle class. These attacks, however, are not between candidates for the White House. They are being made in a battle over the obscure but increasingly vital issue...
Chelation Therapy Shows Slight Benefit in Heart Disease Clinical Trial
Label: HealthLOS ANGELES — To the surprise of many cardiologists, a controversial alternative therapy proved beneficial to people with heart disease, reducing the rate of death and cardiovascular problems in a clinical trial, researchers said on Sunday. The benefit of the treatment, known as chelation therapy, barely reached statistical significance, and there were questions about the reliability...
Chelation Therapy Shows Slight Benefit in Heart Disease Clinical Trial
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES — To the surprise of many cardiologists, a controversial alternative therapy proved beneficial to people with heart disease, reducing the rate of death and cardiovascular problems in a clinical trial, researchers said on Sunday. The benefit of the treatment, known as chelation therapy, barely reached statistical significance, and there were questions about the reliability...
Gadgetwise Blog: Q&A: Declining a Kindle's Special Offers
Label: TechnologyHow do I turn off the ads on my Kindle e-reader?If you purchased a Kindle labeled “With Special Offers,” you bought a model that was discounted because of the advertisements shown on the reader’s screen saver and along the bottom of the home screen. If you want to remove the ads, you can do so — but Amazon requires you to make up the price difference (usually $15 to $30, depending on the model) between...
Coptic Church Chooses Pope Who Rejects Politics
Label: WorldTara Todras-Whitehill for The New York TimesCoptic clergymen at a ceremony on Sunday for choosing a pope. CAIRO — A blindfolded 6-year-old reached into a glass bowl on Sunday to pick the first new Coptic pope in more than 40 years, a patriarch who promises a new era of integration for Egypt’s Christian minority as it grapples with a wave of sectarian violence, new Islamist domination of politics,...
Nov
04
Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Web Sites
Label: BusinessAnnie Tritt for The New York TimesJeffrey G. Katz, the chief executive of Wize Commerce, seen with employees. He says that about 60 percent of the traffic for the company’s Nextag comparison-shopping site comes from Google. In a geeky fire drill, engineers and outside consultants at Nextag scrambled to see if the problem was its own fault. Maybe some inadvertent change had prompted Google’s algorithm...
Opinion: Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do
Label: HealthHALLUCINATIONS are very startling and frightening: you suddenly see, or hear or smell something — something that is not there. Your immediate, bewildered feeling is, what is going on? Where is this coming from? The hallucination is convincingly real, produced by the same neural pathways as actual perception, and yet no one else seems to see it. And then you are forced to the conclusion that something...
Opinion: Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do
Label: LifestyleHALLUCINATIONS are very startling and frightening: you suddenly see, or hear or smell something — something that is not there. Your immediate, bewildered feeling is, what is going on? Where is this coming from? The hallucination is convincingly real, produced by the same neural pathways as actual perception, and yet no one else seems to see it. And then you are forced to the conclusion that something...
Benghazi Attack Raises Doubts About U.S. Abilities in Region
Label: WorldEsam Omran Al-Fetori/ReutersThe attack at the American Mission on Sept. 11, seen here, and an annex in Benghazi, Libya, points to a limitation in the capabilities of the American military command responsible for countries swept up in the Arab Spring. WASHINGTON — About three hours after the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack, the Pentagon issued an urgent call for an...
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