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NYTimes Most Emailed
- Becoming the Alpha Dog in Your Own Home
- Catching Tuna and Hanging On for the Ride
- Payback Time: Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government
- Op-Ed Contributor: How World War II Wasn’t Won
- Op-Ed Columnist: Advice From Grandma
- As Sewers Fill, Waste Poisons Waterways
- Liberty, Equality, Gastronomy: Paris via a 19th-Century Guide
Le Monde Europe
- Considéré dans le coma pendant 23 ans, le patient était en fait paralysé
- Climat : "Les négateurs du réchauffement ignorent les faits établis"
- Jean-Claude Juncker serait reconduit à la tête de l'Eurogroupe
- Nicola Cosentino, secrétaire d'Etat italien, est accusé de liens avec la Camorra
- Une explosion dans un dépôt de munitions russe fait huit morts
- Grippe A(H1N1) : à Metz, un centre de vaccination débordé
- Afghanistan : le Canada attend une relève sur le terrain
The Washington Post
- Obama Remarks on Math, Science and Technology Education
- Iraq's parliament approves amended election law
- Rise in stock ownership among lawmakers brings ethics concerns
- Public option at center of debate
- The ultimate crop rotation: Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia's farmlands
- The Monday Fix: Is Palin running for president in 2012?
- Support for legalizing marijuana gaining ground rapidly
Reuters AlertNet
- Eight charged in U.S. for Somali war recruiting
- Peacekeepers should prepare to leave Darfur-Sudan
- Vioxx risks could have been detected earlier-study
- FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 23
- Obama to meet advisers on Afghanistan
- US to bring emissions cut target to Copenhagen talks
- Palestinian president sees no new intifada
Bookforum
- OMNIVORE: Figures of postwar philosophy
- OMNIVORE: The verdict is in
- OMNIVORE: What makes great art
- THE DAILY REVIEW: Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell, from The Atlantic
- OMNIVORE: Age of the classics
- OMNIVORE: Nodes of content
- OMNIVORE: Professionalism and national security
