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Science
Slate
- Slate V: Pictures of a Vanished Country
- A taxonomy of left-liberal opposition to the health care reform bill.
- President Obama's small masterpiece of a speech at Fort Hood.
- Can a prisoner request anything for his last meal?
- Advertisement:
- Photographs of the places where the D.C. shooters struck.
- What's behind Rupert Murdoch's trash-talking of Google?
El Clarín
- La presencia de Madonna desató una redada en las favelas de Río
- Una minifalda roja provocó un escándalo en Brasil
- Debate intenso y acusaciones entre candidatos en Chile
- Buques de las dos Corea se enfrentan a cañonazos
- Interpelan 8 horas a dos ministros por el arsenal hallado en Uruguay
- Bolivia teme una invasión militar de EE.UU.
- Obama: homenaje a las víctimas de la base en Fort Hood
NYTimes Most Emailed
- Basics: Pigs Prove to Be Smart, if Not Vain
- Op-Ed Contributor: The Short Life of a Diagnosis
- Mind: A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain
- Op-Ed Columnist: The Rush to Therapy
- Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash
- Who Is a Jew? Court Ruling in Britain Raises Question
- Op-Ed Columnist: A Word, Mr. President
Le Monde Europe
- La Suède convoque un sommet extraordinaire de l'UE pour le 19 novembre
- Sarkozy plaide pour une association plus étroite avec l'Allemagne
- 11-Novembre franco-allemand : de l'armistice à l'amitié
- Le Sud, première victime du réchauffement climatique
- France-Allemagne : au-delà des symboles, un couple avec peu de projets communs
- Mme Merkel veut soutenir la croissance, "quelles que soient les résistances"
- Angela Merkel et Nicolas Sarkozy tentent de réchauffer le couple franco-allemand
The Washington Post
- Dodd's reform plan takes aim at the Fed
- Investigators' possible missteps in Fort Hood case debated
- Washington Sketch: Globe may not be big enough for One World Government
- Bill Clinton urges Senate Democrats to quickly pass health-care reform
- Obama picks agriculture expert Rajiv Shah to lead USAID
- Tammy Duckworth on her job at Veterans Affairs
- China proves to be an aggressive foe in cyberspace
Reuters AlertNet
- FACTBOX-Ships held by Somali pirates
- CAMBODIA: Coming to terms with a violent past
- Expulsions hit Darfur rape victims: Aid groups
- Ethiopia opposition says food aid kept from members
- Afghan president to be sworn in Nov 19 - ministry
- Book Talk: Shallow Hollywood drove comedy writer to war zone
- INTERVIEW-Tainted food surprisingly deadly in adults - WHO
Bookforum
- THE DAILY REVIEW: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith, from Time Out New York
- OMNIVORE: The age of ecology
- OMNIVORE: None of your business
- OMNIVORE: 1989
- OMNIVORE: The mystery of music
- THE DAILY REVIEW: Evening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder by Zachary Lazar
- OMNIVORE: No one likes armed missionaries
