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- François Simon, possibly the most feared and most read figure in France's culinary world, recently made his debut as a chef.
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- Despite threats and a brutal acid attack on several students two months ago, the Mirwais School for Girls is thriving.
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- A deal to restore Russian gas shipments to Europe seemed to be unraveling hours after it took effect.
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- A senior Pentagon official in the Bush administration said that interrogators had tortured a Guantánamo detainee.
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- As the conflict entered its 19th day, three rockets from Lebanon landed in Israel but caused no casualties.
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- As beleaguered as Hamas's military wing might seem after more than 900 Palestinian deaths and 18 days of fighting, Hamas figters say it is not broken.
8:28 AM ET 1/14/09
- An army of retailers are trying to make a bounty off of merchandise tied to Barack Obama's inauguration.
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- Even some of the bailout program's harshest critics acknowledge that things most likely would be even worse without it.
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- A close look at one bank's handling of its bailout money demonstrates the conflicting challenges that banks across the U.S. are confronting.
8:28 AM ET 1/14/09
- Citigroup is moving to dismantle large parts of its troubled financial empire, undoing the landmark merger that created the company a decade ago.
8:28 AM ET 1/14/09
- Hillary Rodham Clinton parried doubts about her husband's fund-raising and emerged from a confirmation hearing headed for approval as secretary of state.
8:28 AM ET 1/14/09
- Yahoo said that it had named Carol Bartz, the chairman and former chief executive of the software maker AutoDesk, as its new leader, succeeding its co-founder Jerry Yang.
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- A high-profile task force concluded that the sexual solicitation of children online is not a significant problem.
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- Timothy Geithner, the president-elect's choice for Treasury secretary, failed to pay more than $34,000 in taxes early this decade.
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- Rattner co-founded a private equity firm, the Quadrangle Group, and manages the blind trust of his longtime friend Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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- Activists groups and nongovernmental organizations have great potential to be useful to the Chinese government, but also make them accountable to the law.
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- 'Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas,' details how surprising discoveries are illuminating the sea, its immense impact on the planet and its habitability.
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- The company behind Botox plans to introduce the first U.S. government-approved drug for growing longer eyelashes.
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- The National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in fiction reading has reversed.
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- While most people might use the science of life to demystify death, the late theologian Richard John Neuhaus used death to mystify life.
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- A potential change of mood over Israel has been palpable for some time.
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- Even the most vicious form of humor can be improved by wit.
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- A bill to toughen a ban on toy weapons in Mexico is part of an effort to address the violence tied to drug traffickers.
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- Despite some suicides linked to the economic crisis, the vast majority of people can weather stinging loss without suffering any psychological wounds. Some even find a hidden opportunity.
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- The last-chance syndrome accounts for the otherwise inexplicable performance of some works of art observed on the auction scene from New York to Paris as the economic outlook kept darkening last fall.
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- Who will win and lose? Nobody knows, of course, but one observer makes his picks.
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- A United States Joint Forces Command report lists Mexico alongside Pakistan as states whose sudden collapse would pose grave threats to world stability.
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