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Industry Grows Aware of Threat From Climate Change

After a decade of damage to Coca-Cola’s balance sheet as weather threatened the ingredients for its drinks, the company has embraced the idea of climate change as an economically disruptive force.

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Fined Billions, JPMorgan Approves Raise for Its Chief

In a series of contentious meetings, JPMorgan Chase’s board voted to give Jamie Dimon a new pay package after his pay was cut in half last year, to $11.5 million.

Huge ‘Super PAC’ Is Moving Early to Back Clinton

Priorities USA Action, which played a pivotal role in President Obama’s re-election, formally aligned itself with Hillary Rodham Clinton’s undeclared presidential ambitions.

U.S. Willing to Hold Talks if Snowden Pleads Guilty

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. did not specify the guilty pleas the Justice Department would expect before it would open talks with Mr. Snowden’s lawyers.

An activist with the Berber flag. Protesters have occupied a hilltop above a silver mine for more than two years.
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Moroccans Take a Stand Against a Mine

Villagers have occupied a hilltop above a silver mine for more than two years to protest pollution and a mining company’s expropriation of precious water supplies.

Snowboarding Has a New Highflying Rival

Olympic freeskiers will compete in halfpipe and slopestyle, just as snowboarders do. The differences between the disciplines may be most apparent in the air.

A Push for Bank Access for Marijuana Businesses

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the government will offer rules to help the legal businesses gain access.

Study Finds U.S. Ill Equipped in Nuclear Detection

The report claims that detection abilities of U.S. agencies are “either inadequate, or more often, do not exist.”

Ukraine Cease-Fire Is Met With Reports of Brutality

As negotiations went on between opposition leaders and the president of Ukraine, a video surfaced of Berkut riot police officers stripping a protester naked.

U.S. Warns Against Business With Iran

The warning came as the Treasury settled with a European bank over allowing Iran to bypass sanctions.

Mars Rover Marks an Unexpected Anniversary

NASA’s Opportunity rover bounded to the surface of Mars for what was planned to be a three-month exploration, but 10 years later, it’s still there making discoveries.

End the Phone Data Sweeps

Why continue a program that invades privacy, violates the law, and doesn’t even work?

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Perverse Primaries

Sore-loser laws favor partisan extremists and disempower voters.

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36 Hours in Basel, Switzerland

From bars and boutiques to culture and cuisine, this small city near France and Germany offers plenty to pack into a weekend.

 

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If Your Car Could Talk, Would It Speak ‘Sensual Clarity’?

At the Detroit auto show, many companies restated or reset their design language, which distills and defines the shapes and forms that make car families recognizable.

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Carey Smith, on Becoming the Team’s ‘Hyperlink’

“I have an office, but most of the time I just walk around and try to determine if we’ve got any problems.”

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